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 scaling) effort. - Initiated implementation of management structure within dev organization. This helps the group move to a more stable and scalable org structure with clear reporting lines and job functions.

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 drove Agile project management and tools within organization, across 4 geographical regions (California, Seattle, Berlin, and Hungary). - Technologies Used: C, Java, PHP, Postgres, CI/CD (GoCD), Protocol Buffers, Biomimicry techniques

- 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 recommendations engine that fully incorporates machine learning and operates on big data.- Commercially engaged with New Zealand ecommerce providers and retail entities.- All backend code architected and written by me in C with some maintenance scripting written in PHP.- Front-end movie recommendation iPhone app Rosebuddy designed and architected by me, with initial coding done by Paperkite in Wellington.- iPhone app Rosebuddy includes novel interaction model of two iPhones communicating directly with one another in close proximity (via Apple’s Bluetooth gaming API).- Core statistical algorithms are a combination of original work and common statistical techniques. In some cases, original work proven to have better accuracy than 3rd party “reference” commercial libraries.- Speed of resulting recommendations conservatively in tens of milliseconds range.- Technologies Used: C, PHP, bash, Postgres, Machine Learning

- 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 leaders from NZ Beef & Lamb, NZ dairy industry, and web business regarding their interest in issues related to TPP, mostly in the area of the leaked IP chapter.- Grew membership from none to 20 New Zealand IT firms. Size of firms ranges from one to hundreds of employees.- Created web site, logo, marketing materials.

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 competitors.- Envisioned, devised, oversaw, and brought to market Dawn®, an innovative web environment monitoring tool: http://archive.org...silverstripe.com/dawn- Brought in professional Agile project management, quality assurance, support, and management capability to the company.- Drove effort to bring in external board members.- Provided strategic, technical, and management leadership and mentoring for staff and managers.- Client project work: Managed a few client projects and wrote some code in PHP and bash in the early part of time at SilverStripe. As part of this work, introduced team to concepts such as recursion and functional testing- Tech Used: PHP, C, Lua, Postgres, MySQL

- 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 than it was when I launched it.- Architected website redesign technical solution for Ministry for the Environment’s Quality Planning site which involved PHP, PostgreSQL, 3rd-party search, and Debian. Site address: http://qp.org.nz- Led project for site redesign of Internet New Zealand site ( http://internetnz.net.nz ). Project involves careful business process analysis and conversion to web-based process and Plone- Member of management team- Provided technical and management leadership for staff including overall ownership of intranet and extranets.- Provided business analysis assistance for multiple projects within 3months.com.- Tech Used: PHP, Postgres

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Bachelor'S Degree, Computer Software Engineering

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