Dave Brewster
Consultant at Forest City Software
Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolDave Brewster is a seasoned technology consultant and former IT executive with 11+ years of hands-on experience and a long history of leading large-scale IT, operations and logistics initiatives. After a career managing multi-million dollar budgets and teams of 250+, he has returned to software development and is actively seeking development roles, focusing on .NET/C# back-end work. He combines deep operational discipline—disaster recovery, business continuity and process design—with practical product delivery experience across defense, telecom, hospitality and manufacturing clients. An active contributor to the HTBox/allReady open-source disaster-preparedness project, he brings pragmatic refactors and notification/task improvements to production systems. Known for turning complex organizational challenges into streamlined, measurable outcomes, he blends mentoring and hands-on coding to lift both teams and systems. Based in Ontario, Canada, he offers a rare mix of enterprise leadership and current developer fluency.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Business Information Systems, Business Information Systems at Fanshawe College
Github Skills (9)
task-management10
asp-net-core10
csharp10
debug9
unit-testing9
debugging9
incident-response8
disaster-recovery8
first-responder8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
HTBox/allReady
Dec 2016 - Jan 2017
This repo contains the code for allReady, an open-source solution focused on increasing awareness, efficiency and impact of preparedness campaigns as they are delivered by humanitarian and disaster response organizations in local communities.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 6 PRs, 6 comments in 25 days
Contributions summary:Dave primarily focused on back-end development, modifying C# code within the AllReady application. Their commits involved refactoring code, renaming variables, and modifying several handlers for tasks. They also changed the UI to resolve an issue. These changes suggest a focus on improving task management and notification functionality within the .NET Core application.
awarenesspreparednesscampaignsc-sharporganizations
dcbrewster/xaml
Dec 2015 - Jan 2016
Contributions:8 releases, 4 pushes, 3 branches in 1 month
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