Brendan Howley Email & Phone Number

founder. technologist. trust networks. at lacunae.co

Us + Canada

April 2014: guest speaker at Faculty of Information summit, iSchool, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto. On libraries, human networks, storytelling and measuring social capital ROIOctober 2014: opening keynote speaker. Internet Librarian 2014 summit. Monterey, California. On libraries, value networks, media hubs, and community-led media. Led select VIP group of US/Canadian library CEOs/CIOs in outcomes-driven full-day strategy sessions.February 2015: iSchool, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto. Closing keynote. Future Tech Strategies for Libraries. Spoke to integration of media with makerspaces, ibeacon proximity storytelling and prospects for community data/development.October 2016: opening keynote speaker. Internet Librarian 2014 summit. Monterey, California. Topic: "THE STORY OF TELLING: OpenMediaDesk and the future of community media." Co-led half-day workshop on social media metrics and effective brand story design.February 2017: Ontario Library Association SuperConference. Speak and workshop on community-centric storytelling, data interpretation and meaning-rich media.April 2018: Keynote Internet Librarian Digital Summit. Washington DC. Closing keynote to ~800 library digital specialists from all over USA and Canada.March 2020: Keynote Computers in Libraries Global Summit, Washington DC. Closing keynote to over 1200 public librarians, archivists, digital media marketers and data specialists from around the world.

Stratford Ontario

Key wins include design and execution of $51,000 community provincial grant to design, co-produce and execute groundbreaking community engagement/qualitative data solutions program for Stratford Public Library, an extension of smash hit 2010 microfinance/digital content marketing which raised $400,000 in fresh capital for local microdairy. Branded advocacy work saved three rural libraries from budget cuts. National library branded content/digital media strategy underway.

Stratford Ontario Canada

Winner 2010 $18,000 Harold Greenberg Award for screenplay work. A former freelance CBC investigative reporter/researcher at THE FIFTH ESTATE; at present myself and my co-writer, actor/producer Sheila McCarthy, co-star of CBCTV's «Little Mosque on the Prairie», a global success for Westwind Pictures, are developing a new play, about the trials and tribulations of hair, entitled (not surprisingly) HAIRPIECE. Together with ace writer Noah Dylan Davis, we're collaborating on a new TV series, DEPARTURE LOUNGE and are working with producer Bill Marks on our feature film, LUCYLIGHT. A second series, JUICE, a six-hour short-form black comedy set in the world of fragrance marketing, co-written with multi-awardwinning actor/producer/writer Susan Coyne («Slings and Arrows»), is in development with Take5 Productions (THE BORGIAS, THE TUDORS) for cable pick/up. Am participating writer in third series, also with Susan Coyne and playwright Adam Pettle, ORCHESTRA, in development with Oscar-nominated producer Barbara Willis Sweete of Rhombus Media. Developing CAMALÉON, a TV detective series set in contemporary Havana, with producer Diane Boehme of Breakthrough Entertainment. Susan Coyne and I are developing LOOTED, a TV series about the art trade for White Pine Pictures (Peter Raymont/Steve Ord/Lesley Grant) for production in the UK.

Award-winning researcher-reporter and freelance story consultant for multiple stories in print and for CBC TV's the fifth estate. Freelance researcher for Pulitzer Prize nominee Gerald Posner (2006). Gerald's latest, GOD'S BANKERS (Simon & Schuster, 2015), features my research on the Vatican Bank for the project, focusing on the years 1929-45. GOD'S BANKERS is a NYTimes bestseller; Gerald has appeared on huffpo.tv and THE DAILY SHOW with John Stewart (February 2015) to share the book's genesis.Author of three Random House crime novels: THE WITNESS TREE (2007); JUMP/CUT (1995) and THE STALKING HORSE (1988), nominated as Best First Crime Novel by the Crime Writers of Canada.

Stratford, Ontario Canada

HUME.worksMaking Data Make SenseHow do you make sense of the tsunami of fragmented retrospective data your SaaS platforms drive through your organization hourly?HUME.works gives that data a clear, actionable human story. Stories your network shares and acts upon because they want to.We operate at the intersection of story technologies, human intelligence and rich, robust emotional and cultural data. We unearth the values, language and story patterns that are the building blocks of scaled impact via trust—whatever your ambition.HUME.worksHuman understanding. Made emergent.

A boutique media strategy company: we build digital newsrooms that hit media out of the park for progressive for-good and for-profit companies alike. And our agile process works beautifully to advance culture change in your marketing and/or communications team. Did we say folks like working with us? Folks like working with us: we're as passionate as we are technically good. And fun. That, too.

Edmonton, Canada Area

A whole new idea in social action: build a great organic beer and use its brand values to incite customer participation in marketing/promoting a new kind of Canada. (Yes, we're entirely Canadian-owned and operated. No gigantic offshore corporations, thank you.)A team of Fortune 500/agency creatives, designers, strategists and hackers with international experience come home to create a clean new beer that changes the game for creatives in Canada. I collaborated with co-founders Don Eglinski(@eglinski), creative director John James (@hausofjohn), Andrew Williams (@andrew_NVS), Matt Knight (@mattaknight) and Josh Steffen (@jas0sh) to get this project airborne and in stores across northern Alberta.

Mississauga Ontario

Branded content design and communications strategy for Canada's largest privately held marketing/sales affinity services company. Data journalism and media metrics. Financial markets analysis and competitive intelligence. Media planning from print to mobile. Thought leadership across brand publishing spectrum. Superb creative.

Stratford, Ontario Canada

Together with my partners Zac Gribble and Laura Lukasik, I'm at work future-proofing libraries in the US, UK and Canada by assuring their digital relevance in an age of disruption. We build media reporting systems which enable winning brand storytelling for libraries across all platforms: social media, live events, and internal culture change—the whole spectrum of library user experience.We love libraries. And we want to make libraries the coolest experience in your town—relevantly, compellingly, and with a social return on investment that's transparent to everyone.

Toronto, Canada Area

Together with www.dot-3.net CEO Doug Thompson, I designed the content architecture, navigation and media for the first iBeacons/iPhone experience in a major botanical garden, at the world-famous Kew Gardens in Central London (UK). The highly successful application made the NYTimes (http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/16/technology/personaltech/businesses-are-turning-to-beacons-and-its-going-to-be-ok.html). We've also prototyped proximity storytelling beacons at Hamilton Public Library, for a November 2014 live concert quiz experience in conjunction with a community data capture—end result? First layer of an interactive cultural history of the Hamilton music scene.

Hamilton, Ontario

Create media ecosystem across 23-branch metropolitan/rural library system: co-design makerspace in Central branch, design/build/executive producer community news service for mobile/web in Central branch makerspace; co-produce media for live events (pop concerts, including Blackie and the Rodeo Kings 14.11.14) including full-length documentaries; mentor staff on branded media strategies/implementation, including integrating media production w/social media; complete redesign newsletter (design, content architecture, production best practices); responsible for ongoing internal 'community mapping' project (SOUNDINGS) as key element in culture change for staff as library evolves into participatory culture hub. Report directly to CEO/director of marketing/communications.

La/Toronto

Funded by $115,000 in Industry Canada seed capital/entrepreneurship grants, prototyped a collective intelligence/discovery engine in partnership with Gunther Sonnenfeld and Sasha Grujicic as new metalayer on the internet.

Toronto, Canada Area

I played the evil cult leader in the Tom Pepper (dir)/James Schultz (writer) thriller short, Milk and Honey. This calling-card film won Best Canadian Short in Nov 2014 at the Grand River Film Festival. My performance won a rave review from the GRFF judge and a backhanded compliment from my co-writer Susan Coyne (who's a *real* actor): "I saw you—and I didn't blink." About the most fun you can have with your clothes on.

Richmond Hill Ontario

Communications, strategy and content design for Canada's biggest healthcare union. Manage team of eight; manage all facets of strategic and crisis communications in fast-paced, high-pressure environment, all digital channels and media, and brand storytelling across all media, including branded live events. Responsible for development of mobile/web integration; headmanning design/build/implementation of groundbreaking "hiring hall" mobile app project. Focus on integrating digital media, data, story design to meet brand, political and social justice objectives. Mentor. Thought leader. Team builder.

Principal and founding partner in developing episodic web properties for Johnson & Johnson, ConAgra and the feature film Stag, written and directed by Brett Heard and exec produced by Rob Tait

Multiple award-winning content strategist for print and digital. Anchor client Acura (USA). Other Fortune 500 clients included Sotheby's International Real Estate (US/UK) and FritoLay (USA). Co-led and executed new business creative for company's pitch team. Designed groundbreaking 'pocket documentary' digital film series for Acura. Headmanned in-house learning series for creatives.

Education record

Biochemistry, English, Art History