Bryan Harris Email & Phone Number

Cary, NC, US

Cary, NC, US

Cary, NC, US

Cary, NC, US

Columbia, MD, US

• Managed all product research and development across commercial and federal business units, while also managing IT operations and budgeting for ADG Creative’s 28,000-square-foot headquarters.
• Performed capabilities presentations to commercial and Department of Defense executives in support of business development activities.
• Established and enforced technology/development standards across the organization to include the use of JIRA, Confluence, Subversion and build automation via Jenkins. Technical innovation was directly attributed to a.
• Developed an advanced visualization and reporting workflow platform for counter terrorism intelligence analysts and executive decision makers.

• Led a team of engineers focused on the development of advanced analytic solutions leveraging SAS technology and innovative systems engineering that addressed information overload within the intelligence community.
• Served as a Big Data/Big Analytics expert at SAS and VSTI, and performed many internal and public facing presentations to include the SAS Government Leadership Summit, Premier Business Leadership Series (PBLS), and.
• Developed key software components in analytic solutions to include generalized service layers, query federation, Spring security integration, JavaScript UI components, and link analysis services.
• Pioneered the requirements and development of a Data Generator that enables SAS/VSTI to test the scalability of Big Data architectures.
• Performed extensive research and development into unique integrations of HTML5, JavaScript, and server-side algorithms that can support large-scale data visualization.

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• Responsible for driving and aligning VSTI’s technical vision and technologies with engineering best practices to deliver innovative and cost effective solutions to VSTI customers.
• Performed ongoing research into intelligence community problem domains such as real-time analysis, federated query architectures, information discovery, indexing technologies, collaboration, etc.
• Identified emerging open source/COTS technologies relevant to the problem space, and established deep integration partnerships with commercial technology vendors to deliver scalable, extensible, and cost effective.
• Established an internal VSTI collaboration effort called Mindshare that enabled employees to share problem solutions, software development artifacts and overall lessons learned as related to various technology.

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• Served as Senior Software Engineer and Consultant for the transfer and integration of a GOTS (Government Off-The-Shelf) federated query architecture between two intelligence agencies.
• Performed impact analysis of existing systems, identified critical risks, and provided risk mitigation strategies.
• Defined the standard development environment and processes (JBuilder, BEA WebLogic, and CVS) to support concurrent development for the entire development team.
• Trained development staff on BEA WebLogic, Struts and JBuilder.
• Developed a security plug-in that enabled the transferred software architecture to support the destination agency’s existing security infrastructure.
• Encapsulated the federated query architecture as a set of finite services accessible as a stateless session bean in WebLogic.

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• Designed and implemented a custom federated query framework that enables analysts to invoke target-based federated queries across disparate databases including Oracle 8i-9i, TeraText (SGML-based Text Retrieval System).
• In support of this effort, designed and implemented a robust Java API and XML configuration model which enables other developers to quickly assemble complex data fusion services derived from fifty or more simultaneous.