Tim MacLachlan

Senior developer role converting windows forms application for the Insurance industry to React website

I have been a key lead member of a team responsible for architecting, and developing a .NET Core solution to manage a complete training solution for the commercial aviation training academy business. My main responsibility was to design and engineer a robust custom solution for managing the complex business requirements which were currently manual, and automating the enrolment process for bringing the cadet airline pilots from selection through to day-one training. The solution was workflow driven, allowing modification of the business process through a graphical web interface and managing the tasks, documentation requirements of the business. Recently I have been replacing the legacy simulator fault reporting system with a .NET Core with VUE.JS / REACT.JS front end I built from the ground up a high-performance custom workflow engine, as Microsoft Windows Workflow was too cumbersome for our needs. In addition, I was key to building a passport OCR solution to read the MRZ zone of a passport to read the details of passports automatically upon upload. As well as development responsibilities, I took on business analyst responsibilities in gathering requirements from the business users, producing specifications and user stories. I also trained the users and performed workshops and demos of the software to the end users. I developed a neural network library to predict the number of cadet pilots that would pass selection for a given month based on historical data. In addition, I used Linear Regression, and TimeSeries prediction using Pearson’s Correlation to predict future business demand. I also used SON (Self optimising networks) to calculate the most cost-effective strategy to spend marketing budget to maximise highest quality leads.

In this role, I was in a team developing the software system responsible for management of Legal Entities for HSBC Bank. Technologies in this role includes C# (Windows Forms and WCF), Windows Workflow rule configuration, Microsoft SQL, Oracle, MSTest and Specflow, GIT and VSTFS