Brian Jackson Email & Phone Number

New York, Ny, Us

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Overseeing the platforms that run Lucasfilm and Industrial Light & Magic around the globe.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

I also manage a team at ILM!

Burbank, Ca, Us

Held various technology leadership positions across multiple business segments within The Walt Disney Company.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Leading a distributed team of automation engineers responsible for the productivity, quality, infrastructure and backend engineering for the Advanced Development Group and ILMxLAB, Lucasfilm’s immersive entertainment division.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Leading a distributed team responsible for the build, release and deployment pipeline for ILMxLAB, Lucasfilm’s immersive entertainment division. Delivered projects:- The Mandalorian — the premier series on Disney+- Tales from the Galaxy's Edge - visit the Star Wars planet of Batuu from the comfort of your home.- Vader Immortal — the top-selling, three episode launch title for Facebook’s Oculus Quest VR headset- Millenium Falcon: Smuggler’s Run — Walt Disney Imagineering attraction at Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge at The Disneyland Resort and Walt Disney World- Ralph Breaks VR & Avengers: Damage Control — location-based virtual reality experiences at The VOID

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Automating the build and release pipeline for Lucasfilm's ADG and ILMxLAB, units dedicated to real-time innovation and immersive entertainment for film, home, location-based and theme park attractions. Using Jenkins to automate continuous delivery of Unreal Engine (UE4) projects and Terraform and Ansible to automate cloud-native infrastructure on AWS.ProjectsTransformers: The Last Knight VR - An IMAX VR experience from Michael Bay.Carne y Arena - The Academy Award winning virtual reality movie by Alejandro González Iñárritu, Legendary Pictures and ILMxLABStar Wars: Secrets of the Empire - The location-based hyper-reality attraction from The VOID and ILMxLAB.Droid Repair Bay - Step into The Last Jedi and repair BB-8 and his friends in virtual reality. Available on Steam, Oculus Store and Viveport

Cupertino, California, Us

Architect and implement a continuous delivery infrastructure for Apple Pay with an emphasis on developer self-service and infrastructure-as-code philosophy.Brian was pivotal in launching Apple Pay infrastructure in China, including automating the configuration of hardware security modules, Netscaler load balancers, application virtual machines, network access control lists, and DNS with collaboration from all stakeholders.

Bristol, Ct, Us

Ensure the quality of consumer products at ESPN through automated delivery pipeline with an emphasis on automated testing.

Bristol, Ct, Us

Fantasy Games Engineering for ESPN.com. I specialize in shared scalable systems, infrastructure as well as build process management.* Built a central notification delivery system for SMS, iPhone, Android, and RIM alerts in less than 3 months to deliver real-time alerts for millions of fans.* Redesigning the centralized profile system for Fantasy fans including the storage and synchronization of fan data across all ESPN.com Fantasy products along with service-oriented access to data for back-end systems and user-facing artifacts.* Re-architected ESPN.com's build infrastructure to improve maintainability and portability of builds using Maven.* Introduced Continuous Integration and release management of Java artifacts using TeamCity.* Built several internal libraries, ex. a retrofit dependency injection framework and data introspection web utility

Zurich, Ch

* Implemented AJAX web interface for corporate action election worksheet mitigating annual risk exposure by $3.5 million using Google Web Toolkit to reduce time to market to less than 3 months.* Architected and implemented message-driven application to process corporate action announcements with rich workflow modeling and exception handling.* Effectuated MDA process to cut implementation cost of common domain model by over 80%.* Realized initial production release of a common transactional framework library.* Documented client requirements and designed system specs for the Corporate Actions clients.

Monroe, New York, Us

Zedak Corporation was a small firm specializing in custom applications for the world’s largest financial institutions including Morgan Stanley, UBS, Smith Barney, Citigroup, and Lehman Brothers.* Designed software architecture and implementation of enterprise-scale J2EE applications using an MVC architecture for Fortune 100 financial institutions.* Communicated with clients daily for project status and managed team of eight developers.* Worked extensively with business owner and the client’s technical team.* Mentored junior developers for design and development of system.* Developed asset optimizer web service employing stochastic modeling and a genetic algorithm.* Implemented system to convert Macromedia Flash files to XML and vice versa.* Actualized new GUI routines to improve the performance of a WYSIWYG editor by over 1200%.* Designed and implemented several in-house libraries including, but not limited to, a J2EE Model 2 framework, a messaging framework with i18n support, and an investment time-series analytic engine.* Standardized company policies for project source code organization, build procedures, and deployment using Apache Ant and company’s revision control system.* Led company-wide revision control system migration from Microsoft Visual SourceSafe to Subversion.* Directed internal project to reorganize, sort and decouple the various sub-projects that had become tightly coupled.* Established policy of implementing code using test-first programming techniques with JUnit.Additional Responsibilities* Administered and maintained Windows, Mac, and Linux network including services such as DHCP, DNS, WINS, PPTP(VPN), LDAP, routing tables, Linux 2.0-2.4 firewalls, Samba, NT Domain, Active Directory, WebDAV, Apache, IIS, Tomcat, WebSphere.* Designed an extensive and structured interview process for candidates from the receipt of resume through to job offer

Hartford, Ct, Us

* Led team of thirty-five student employees at the computer support help desk for the college community.* Managed help-line for collegiate computer and network support.* Assisted students with networking, hardware, and software issues for Macintosh and Windows machines.* Designed a training camp for consultants.* Proposed, led and completed several internal projects for the Computing Center.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

* Participated in Quality Assurance for versions 3.1.2 and 4.0 of Product Advisor for Net.Commerce.* Tested product using XML batch files to automate the building of store catalogs.* Reported defects, proofread documentation and checked installation procedures for problems.

Lake Buena Vista, Florida, Us

* Engaged in a living, learning and working experience at the Walt Disney World Resort.* Learned and applied business, accounting and marketing skills as pertains to a Fortune 100 company.* Participated in seminars on effective customer/coworker communication, coping with stress, and other related topics.

B.Sc., Computer Science

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