Chris Brant

Technology Director

chris@chrisbrant.com · (415) 609-5904

Profile

12 years of interactive development experience in agency, startup and corporate environments as developer, architect and development director. Comprehensive experience designing technical solutions and building collaborative engineering teams in creative environments to develop and deploy award winning interactive products.

Technical

  • PHP, JAVA, C#, .NET
  • LINUX, UNIX, WINDOWS
  • BASH, PERL, PYTHON
  • SOAP, REST, OAUTH
  • ACTIONSCRIPT, AMF
  • APACHE, NGINIX, IIS
  • J2EE, TOMCAT, JBOSS
  • SUBVERSION, GIT, CVS
  • CSS, HTML, JAVASCRIPT, AJAX
  • MYSQL, ORACLE, SQLSERVER
  • OOP, TDD, AGILE
  • ANT, JUNIT, CRUISECONTROL

Experience

Mekanism

Technology Director — San Francisco, CA

2007-Present


Olympic Challenge · IOC — Tech Director of the Asp.NET MVC based contest site with Papervision interface, mid tier REST API, caching layer, YouTube Contest API integration, CMS, and Omniture tracking. The project used HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Flash, .NET, C#, IIS and SQL Server.
FWA Site of the Day, 2009

Star Wars in Concert · Lucas, Another Planet — Tech Director, Lead Developer & SysAdmin of the CodeIgniter based marketing site with Flash interface, CMS, and Omniture tracking. The project used HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Flash, AMF, PHP, Apache and MySQL.

Army of Two: 40 Day · EA — Tech Director of the Alfresco based video game marketing site with a Flash / AJAX hybrid interface and Omniture tracking. The project used HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Flash, Java, and JSP.

Brutal Legend · EA — Tech Director of the video game promotional site with a Flash / AJAX hybrid interface featuring live video from the E3 conference and Q&A with game designer facilitated via Twitter API. Development was executed by an external build partner.

TakePart · Participant Media — Tech Director of the Drupal based editorial site for social causes with AJAX interface, predictive engine, UGC, Google Search Appliance, Brightcove integration, Twitter integration, and Omniture tracking. Long term engagement managing 10 developers using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Flash, PHP, Apache, and MySQL.

Spore · EA — Tech Director, Lead Developer & SysAdmin of the CodeIgniter based social media contest site with a Flash interface, CMS, YouTube integration and Omniture tracking. The project used HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Flash, AMF, PHP, Apache, and MySQL.
Addy National Gold, 2009

Need for Speed 09 · EA — Tech Director & Lead Developer of the Alfresco based product marketing site with Papervision interface and Omniture tracking. The project used HTML, CSS, JavaScript, AJAX, Flash, JSP, and Java.
Addy National Gold, 2009

MTV Skate · MTV, Viacom — Tech Director & SysAdmin of the Django based social network for skaters with Flash interface, UGC, geo mapping, and Omniture tracking. The project used HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Flash, Python, Apache, and MySQL.

Grand Theft Auto IV · Rockstar Games — Lead Developer of the XBox Live Web Services Abstraction & Caching Layer which provides real-time gamer data to the video game's social network. The project used C#, SQL Server, and SOAP Web Services.

RockBand · Harmonix, MTV — Lead Developer of the Drupal based social network featuring XBox Live and Playstation Network integration with Omniture tracking. The project used HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Flash, PHP, APC, Apache, and MySQL.
Webby Award Nominee, 2008

Pixus Media

Technical Architect — San Francisco, CA

2005-2007

Network General

Software Developer — San Jose, CA

2005-2005

CafePress.com

Software Developer — Fremont, CA

2004-2005

InFocus Corporation

Web Application Developer — Portland, OR

2001-2004

Grey Group

Web Developer — Melbourne, VIC

1999-2000

Education

University of Oregon

Computer and Information Science

Training

Sun Microsystems — Java Programming Language

Red Hat — Enterprise Linux System Administration

Industrial Logic — Design Patterns · Testing and Refactoring

Publications

Go Beyond Keywords! Perform a Visual Image Search.

Use Java image matching technology to query datastores of images to find similarities in shape, patterns, colors and textures. DevX.com, Jupitermedia — October 2002

(415) 609-5904 · chris@chrisbrant.com