Peter T. Brown
I have over 10 years of experience passionately working on all aspects of innovative Internet technology, from concept to rapid prototyping, architecture to development, deployment to operations, and branding to promotion.
Professional Experience
Pathable, Inc. :: (spun out Waggle Labs). 2006-present. Chief Technology Officer. Developed Web 2.0, event-based social networking system. Manage developers, and organize technology infrastructure for the company.
SuperOyster, Inc. :: Director Of Web Development (2006) Working in a small team, we developed and patented software that allowed people to “turn time into money” by facilitating the buying and selling of positions within waiting lists. The application was developed with a Ruby front-end, C#/.Net back-end, and used Microsoft SQL. A demo of this product is available, upon request.
Headless Hunter, Inc. :: Founder (2004 – 2006) Using social network models, I developed a unique referral-recruiting tool designed to aid companies in soliciting employee networks for highly qualified candidates. We raised seed capitol while building a product that entered beta trials with a dozen Seattle-area companies. The intellectual property is presently in the process of being purchased by a Canadian recruiting tools company. The application was written using Java, WebWork, Hibernate and PostgreSQL. A demo of this product is available, upon request.
Wide Mile, Inc. :: Director of Technology (2001 – 2003) Working as the development team manager and lead programmer at this web marketing company, I developed a sophisticated online marketing tool that managed email deployment, media tracking, and ad usage analysis. Our service deployed millions of emails, often daily, and was used by such companies as Compaq, Newline Cinema, Match.com, Napster, Stanford University, Nintendo, and Levi Strauss. Our tools used Java, Microsoft SQL, Microsoft Analytics, PostgreSQL, and other commercial data mining products.
Messenger9.com, Inc. :: Founder (1999 – 2001) Based on research I began at a Tohoku University in Japan, this company offered the world’s first and only web-based instant messaging product. This free consumer destination reached over 45,000 registered users. Wide Mile, Inc. acquired the business in 2001. The application was written using PHP and PostgreSQL.
Internet Advantage, LLC :: Lead Programmer and Founder (1996 – 1998) I developed an online publishing and e-commerce system that allowed small business owners to self-publish their own websites as well as manage inventory and sell items online. The system was used by thousands of active, paying customers (in 1996)!
Independent Projects
Reality All Starz :: Creator (2006 – Present) This project, which is currently available online, allows people to challenge themselves and their friends to go on unusual and interesting adventures. Employing a unique multi-tiered rating system, friends can compete for points to become a top Reality All Star among their peers or within the entire community of players. A demo of this is available upon request.
Immedi.at :: Creator (2005 – 2006) This project allows people to receive updates on any instant message client whenever specific RSS feeds are updated. My first Ruby project, this service was profiled in dozens of notable blogs including Life Hacker, LockerGnome, Weblogs Inc., and Mashable, and was listed as one of the top ten most linked sites on del.icio.us.
Technologies and Languages
Servers: Tomcat, Apache, Mongrel, Webrick, Orion; including strong experience with many aspects of server clustering
Web UI: Javascript, AJAX; including strong API integration experience (i.e. Flickr, YouTube, Google Maps)
Ruby: Ruby, Ruby On Rails, RJS, Capistrano, daemons
Java: Java, Webwork, XWork, Veloctiy, JUnit, JGraph
XML Technologies: XML, XSLT, SOAP, CSS, XMPP, RDF, AJAX
Operations: Subversion, CVS, Linux (Redhat/CentOS), OS X
Databases: MySQL, PostgreSQL
Education
University of Washington :: Software Engineering & Japanese ( 1996 – 2000 ) Left during my final year in 2000 to start Messenger9.com, Inc.
Tohoku University, Sendai Japan :: Software Engineering ( 1998 – 1999 )
Languages: Japanese, Engrish
