Bryan Taylor's Resume (Last updated May 6th 2008)

Ruby, Rails, Merb, XHTML, HTML, Java, OOP, XML, vi, UNIX, Linux, CSS, XSLT, XSD, MySQL, SQL, Ajax, Javascript, C, Wiki, PERL, Forth, XML-RPC, Facebook, FBML, FQL

English, Spanish, Russian, French, Esperanto

RingJam (Emotive Communications) - Emotive has been my client since May 2007. I work with a great team as the Lead Developer for this innovative company. Their product is a great mobile application called RingJam. I am currently redesigning the backend with multiple Ruby on Rails application servers, and XML, XHTML, MySQL, NginX and lots of other technologies. Currently supports millions of users, upcoming version will support many more with a vastly increased concurrency capacity and dramatically reduced overhead.

Sundance Channel Island and NBC Hockey (Electric Sheep Company) - Working with the Electric Sheep Company in Second Life, I developed all interactive components on Sundance Channel Island via the Electric Sheep Company. I also developed NBC Island's Hockey game.

Early Dot-Com Period Projects:
Beginning in 1994 I became self-employed at age 17 in SoHo, NYC. I designed numerous websites for high-profile clients, developed custom software in Perl, Smalltalk, Java and C, and administered Linux and Unix systems, all under the now-obsolete title of "Webmaster"

Highlights

"Embrace the Chaos" - Developed this early online game in Lingo, produced as a promotion for Jim Taylor and Watts Wacker's book The 500 Year Delta

• NetPress Co. Website
  

• David Strom's Web Informant Website
  

• Dia Center for the Arts Website
  

• Environmental Defense Fund Website
  

• T3 Media Website
  

• Digital's AltaVista Search Engine Website
  

• Cyberspaced / COOL by Pirani Website
  

• The Really Useful Company Website
  

• Sunset Boulevard National Tour Website
  

• Nutrition Warehouse Website
  

• The Tony Awards Website
  

• Dessy Creations Website
  

• Internet Broadcasting Network Website
  

• Oven Digital Media Website
  

2005-2006 Consecutive multiple recipient of Individual Performer Recognition Award, Enterprise Program Management. (January 2005, July 2005, January 2006)

2003 Joint Service Commendation Award, for outstanding tour of duty

2002 Joint Service Achievement Medal, June 2002, for actions performed in the intelligence branch of the SIGINT section during operational exercise

2001 Military Performer of the Year, Office of Russia, National Security Agency

2000 Goodfellow AFB Cryptologic Training Center Honor Graduate

1999 Defense Language Institute Commandant's Award, 1st in class

1997 Technical Editor - How to Program CGI in Perl 5.0, Stephen Lines. Ziff-Davis Press. ISBN 1562764608

Ongoing: rubyisbeautiful.com, api.rubyisbeautiful.com

Linden Lab, International Coordinator, Telecommute (January 2007 - May 2007)
Coordinated international projects, including foreign language translations, and internationalization (il8n) using XML/XUL, RT, JIRA
Managed team of 5 international specialists

L-3 Communications, Sr. Software Engineer, Annapolis Junction, MD (August 2006 - Present)
Developed large-scale financial portal for government customer using Ruby on Rails, XML, XSL, XSD, SVG, Ajax, and Javascript
Designed high-level system architectures, designed and built custom hardware appliances
Coordinated worldwide system deployments

United States Marine Corps, Cryptologic Linguist, Ft. Meade, MD (October 1998 - October 2003)
Developed software for intelligence analysis

Ruby on Rails, Merb, HTML, Java, OOP, XML, Ruby, programming, vim, XHTML, HTML, UNIX, Linux, system admin, CSS, XSL, Web 2.0, XSD, MySQL, SQL, Ajax, javascript, C, Wiki, PERL, Forth, XML-RPC, REST, PHP, XMLHttpRequest, Facebook, FBML, FQL, English, Spanish, Russian, French, Esperanto, Korean