Revised Sunday, November 12, 2006 @ 12:19pm

Contact

Danny Brian
55 East Broad Hollow Drive
Woodland Hills UT 84653
801-787-8943
danny@brians.org

Noteworthy

• Author of The Definitive Guide to Berkeley DB XML, available August 2006 from Apress.
• Founder/CEO of Conceptuary, Inc., an online entertainment startup.
• Sr. Analyst at NTT/Verio, responsible for strategic positioning of Verio's shared hosting products.
• Application architect for Verio's next-generation web hosting platform, based on XML and XSLT; includes the first wholesale webmail system ever deployed in Japan, with emphasis on brandable/translatable content distribution and integrated web services
• Co-author of Games, Diversions & Perl Culture, and Web, Graphics & Perl TK article collections published by O'Reilly in 2003
• Columnist for CMP's The Perl Journal and Sys Admin magazines, contributor to the O'Reilly Network
• Speaker and tutorial presenter at the O'Reilly Open Source Conferences, 2000-2002, on XML, Web Services, wireless technology, and application development topics
• Winner of the 2001 "Damian Conway Award for Technical Excellence" (Best of Show @ ORA Convention) for two papers on Natural Language Processing and web application design

Technical Skills and Experience

• Member of the ACM and IEEE
• Basic and Assembly programming, first on Apple ][, and later on DOS
• UNIX programming, networking, security, capacity planning
• Perl, C, Python, and Tcl/Tk
• Apache module development; mod_perl and C API
• C++ & Java (J2EE) on Unix and Win32 Operating Systems
• C# development for .NET on Win32 and Unix (Mono)
• Strong Flash/ActionScript 2.0/3.0 (Flex) experience, component development, custom server-side integration
• Language design, syntactical usage analysis for interpreted scripting and markup
• OO software design and planning, knowledge of design patterns and UML
• Natural Language Processing programming and parser/analysis implementation
• Strong XML knowledge, XSLT development, .NET, SOAP and XML-RPC for web services (and precursors), XQuery
• Advanced system administration with Sun Enterprise hardware (Ex000, A5000)
• g11n/i18n/I10n, Unicode and multi-encoding systems; localization issues
• LDAP, SQL, RDBM databases (Sybase, MySQL) & related service implementations
• Strong protocol knowledge in web, web services, and messaging technologies.

Other Skills and Experience

• Fluent in Spanish
• Small business management and marketing
• Professional teaching experience in technical (Unix, Perl, and XML) and language (Spanish) subjects
• Design, development, support and documentation of large (40+ developers) software projects
• Formal education in music theory and composition, piano studies; multiple commissioned choral and orchestral pieces

Employment

• 2005-present: CEO, Conceptuary, Inc.
• 2004-present: NTT/Verio, Inc., Sr. Software Engineer
• 2003-2004: NTT/Verio, Inc., Sr. Business Analyst
• 1999-2003: NTT/Verio, Inc., Sr. Software Engineer
• 1998-1999: Ciceron Interactive, Sr. Software Developer
• 1997-1998: Norwest Mortgage, Inc., Technical Engineer III
• 1993-1998: Clockwork Internet, Inc., President and programmer; company sold in two parts to Verio, Inc. (customer base) and Ciceron Interactive (software projects) 1998
• 1993-1994: Larson Davis, Inc., Network Engineer
• pre-1993: Assorted employment as a Spanish teacher, restaurant manager, piano teacher, software salesman, pianist, mylar balloon assembler, and grocery bag-boy

Contact Info, References and Education available upon request.