Brian Calhoun Email & Phone Number

Wellington, NZ

Be More Human is about making sure we, as humans, retain and strengthen our individual identity when dealing with the modern technology-driven world. We do this our Charitable Trust and open source project, bemorehuman, at https://github.com/BeMoreHumanOrg/bemorehuman

Los Angeles, California, US

Performed Chief Operating Officer duties for cryptocurrency and future-of-work startup Cashless, Inc. in Los Angeles. Involved in creation of business model, internal tool/process setup and adoption, and overall financial model, business, and technical diligence. Wrote and gained consensus for Employee Handbook.

Los Angeles, California, US

Berlin, Berlin, DE

- Established Project Management Office within development organization, particularly to deal with complex cross-dev team internal and external (client-facing) initiatives. - Project management procedures I implemented are based on Kanban, LeSS, and SCRUM. - Led the development group’s “people and process” portion of company-wide industrialization (company.

Berlin, DE

- Designed and Implemented virtual actors which are software agents (bots) that behave as humans might within the system. The purpose is to simulate user behavior. - Drove and implemented several software development initiatives including static analysis tools, continuous delivery, continuous integration, and helped to shepherd unit testing.- Initiated and.

- Created CFK Productions which made custom recommendations technology solutions for companies who want to recommend things to their customers ( http://rosebud.io ).- Created the unique technology using modern techniques, based on original ideas from 1996. Uniqueness extends from focus on eclecticism of individuals.- Commercial product, Rosebud, is a.

- Co-founded and co-led NZRise, an organisation set up to promote the interests of New Zealand IT firms ( http://nzrise.org.nz ).- Engaged with New Zealand ministries MED, DIA, NZTE, ministers, and MPs regarding two primary issues (software patents and Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement) and general areas of interest to New Zealand IT firms.- Engaged with.

Wellington, New Zealand, NZ

- For four and half years, was SilverStripe’s CEO ( http://silverstripe.com )- As CEO, took the company from $450k annual revenue to $4.2M.- As CEO, grew number of staff from 6 to 40.- Devised and championed innovative business model based on BSD open source licensing which proved to be a resounding success compared to the GPL model in use by some.

- Led project, architected, and designed networking infrastructure for Department of Labour’s flaghip Expat effort, New Zealand Now. Site garnered up to 1 million hits per day and has received significant press coverage globally. Site address: http://newzealandnow.info has since been brought under.govt.nz umbrella and made significantly less compelling.

US

Bachelor'S Degree, Computer Software Engineering

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