James Brown Email & Phone Number

Orem, Ut, Us

Provo, Ut, Us

Research and development; innovation consulting; solution ideation; technology and product vision; project management; technology consulting; software architecture, design, and development; embedded systems; robotics; distributed computing; cloud computing; SaaS, IaaS, PaaS; mentoring, teaching, and training; course development; technical writing; computer forensics; videography; photography; live event production.

Orem, Ut, Us

In cooperation with the UVU Entrepreneurship Institute I designed and developed a 3 part lecture series teaching the principles of prototyping. Each semester I present lecture series at the Entrepreneurship Institute. Several have been recorded and are available online from the UVU YouTube channel.In the last session of the series I invite in several industry partners to share their resources in design, development, manufacturing, marketing, etc. with the students.

Serving as the chairman of the Merit Badge Coordinator subcommittee of the Council Advancement Committee.

Flag Etiquette consultant to Stadium of Fire and other eventsPrevious: Chair of the Flag Retirement Ceremony

Salt Lake City, Ut, Us

Principal software engineer on the Code Signing product team. Created an architecture wiki including instructions for teams on how to document their part of the product and maintain that going forward. Worked with customers on the critical response team to resolve problems in the shipping product. Contributed code to the open source API for Venafi systems.Technologies: C, C++, C#, Java

San Jose, Ca, Us

Senior researcher on the Research and Architecture team for the Adobe Cloud Platform. Finding and improving inefficiencies in existing products and infrastructure. Creating new technologies to solve future problems. Creating innovative proof-of-concept (POC) implementations. Evaluating technologies for other teams.Accomplishments:* Found and mitigated a network design flaw that added multiple seconds to every page load on customer facing web application* Primary researcher on a project that reduced recurring operations costs by $7-10M per year* Multiple patent submissions* Involved with several internal organizations supporting community outreach* Primary researcher for NoSQL technology evaluation for various internal teams* Primary researcher & developer of multiple demos for Summit customer show* Initiated the In Store Experience project* Manager of 30 node research machine clusterTechnologies: C, C++, Perl, PHP, JS, SQL, AWS, MS Azure, Node.js, Docker containers, MEAN, LAMP, WAMP, micro services

Orem, Ut, Us

Teaching on an as-needed basis in the IS&T program at UVSC/UVU. Responsible for classroom instruction, homework, tests, grading, etc. I also independently developed a course teaching the Perl programming language, convinced the administration to offer the course, and successfully taught the course.

Salt Lake City, Ut, Us

Core services team / backend system development primarily in Java on Windows and Ubuntu Linux. Also worked in C and Perl. Experience with Hadoop / Hive, Play Framework, Git version control, MySQL, Nginx, JSON, REST, and Kettle / Pentaho Data Integration.

Helped to design and develop web based components for the UNPC website. Assisted in decision making for council technology choices.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Columnist for Perl Tech Tips submitting 10 articles per month. Also did some freelance articles for CNet.Responsible for subject selection, content creation, editing, etc.

Architected the over all GeoDiscovery product, GeoDiscovery backend infrastructure, Palm OS based client, and web based client. Built the original demonstration / prototype of the Palm OS client application and web based map server. Developed and presented technology road map and GeoDiscovery architecture to potential clients and Fortune 500 partners. Designed and developed back end components, map viewers, spatial processing code, distributed computing engine, CGI scripts, web database access components, e-commerce integration, map generation, electronic software distribution and security components.

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Developed disk imaging software and drivers. Developed and proposed the concept for the RapidInstall product. Architected, designed and developed a storage file system used in RapidInstall and other products. Implemented new revision of software security code.

Novonyx was a joint venture between Novell and Netscape. The core business of the company was to produce a version of the Netscape SuiteSpot products for the NetWare platform. Ported and developed new code for the Netscape web server on NetWare platform. Team lead for proxy server port. Worked with most facets of the Netscape server source code.

Provo, Ut, Us

Core NetWare product design, development, debug and maintenance from the ground up. Integral part of development efforts to revolutionize NetWare several times (from NetWare to Advanced NetWare to NetWare 386/3.x to NetWare 4.x). · Managed on-time development of embedable NetWare server for NEST (Novell Embedded Systems Technology). · Designed and developed the smart home proof-of-concept hardware and software for Novell's 1995 COMDEX keynote presentation by company president Bob Frankenberg. · Designed and developed both operating system and workstation components including LAN drivers, packet burst, compression, encryption, and LAN protocols. · Founding member of internal Security Task Force. Directly responsible for discrete investigation and resolution of network security issues for Novell and Fortune 500 major accounts. · Championed technologies as an invited speaker at BrainShare, Novell's annual developer's conference.