Brian Alvey

Current

• CEO, founder at Crowd Fusion
• Chairman at ComicMix

Past

• VP at AOL
• Co-Founder at Weblogs, Inc. & Blogsmith
• Engineering Cog at Happy Cog

• Creator & Host at Meet The Makers
• CTO at VentureReporter, Silicon Alley Reporter
• Consultant at BusinessWeek
• Web Development Manager at InfoTech
• Partner, Creative Director at Tech-Engine
• Web Designer at TV Guide

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Education

• Texas Christian University

Recommended

3 people have recommended Brian

Connections

500+ connections

Industry

Internet

Websites

• My Blog
• Crowd Fusion
• ComicMix

Brian Alvey’s Summary

An Internet architect with experience scaling social applications on the Web and beyond.

Brian Alvey’s Specialties:

Branding, design, development, team-building, architecture, scaling, puns

Brian Alvey’s Experience

• CEO, founder

  Crowd Fusion

  (Internet industry)

  June 2007 — Present (2 years 6 months)

  Crowd Fusion is a publishing company focused on verticals, communities and collaborative databases. Crowd Fusion's first site Obsessable covers the consumer electronics space. Our second site Super Eco covers green/environmental news.

• Chairman

  ComicMix

  (Partnership; 1-10 employees; Publishing industry)

  August 2006 — Present (3 years 4 months)

  ComicMix is a comic book publishing company -- online and in print.

• VP

  AOL

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; TWX; Internet industry)

  November 2005 — May 2007 (1 year 7 months)

  VP running Blogsmith and Weblogs at AOL. Was also the Chief Architect of Netscape and led the team that rebuilt Netscape as a social news site.

• Co-Founder

  Weblogs, Inc. & Blogsmith

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

  October 2003 — October 2005 (2 years 1 month)

  President and Co-founder of Weblogs, Inc. with Jason Calacanis.
  
  http://www.weblogsinc.com/
  http://www.engadget.com/
  http://www.autoblog.com/
  http://www.tvsquad.com/
  http://www.slashfood.com/
  http://www.joystiq.com/
  and about 50 more leading blogs in 5 languages.
  
  Weblogs, Inc. was acquired by AOL in October 2005. Our enterprise blogging platform Blogsmith was acquired by AOL in November 2006 and powers 8 of the Technorati top 100 blogs including TMZ.com.

• Engineering Cog

  Happy Cog

  (Internet industry)

  2003 — 2004 (1 year )

  I worked on several large web projects with Jeffrey including publishing systems for Capgemini, the Kansas City Chiefs, Marine Center and A List Apart.

• Creator & Host

  Meet The Makers

  (Internet industry)

  2002 — 2003 (1 year )

  Meet The Makers was an event series where I interviewed creators of top web sites and web technologies like the creator and co-founder of DoubleClick, engineering VPs from Monster, the CTO of MapBlast and popular web designers including Jeffrey Zeldman, Hillman Curtis, Joshua Davis, Eric Meyer and Doug Bowman.
  
  Sponsors included Adobe, Macromedia, Microsoft, IBM, Atomz, LogicWorks and netomat.
  
  After 3 live events in NYC and SF in 2002, MTM featured a series of long-form online interviews.

• CTO

  VentureReporter, Silicon Alley Reporter

  (Internet industry)

  2000 — 2002 (2 years )

• Consultant

  BusinessWeek

  (Public Company; Publishing industry)

  1994 — 2001 (7 years )

  I did network engineering, database work and eventually built over a dozen database-driven dynamic web apps including ones for conferences, education and b-schools. I was a senior technologist on the teams that built Maven.com and BusinessWeek.com.

• Web Development Manager

  InfoTech

  (Internet industry)

  2000 — 2000 (less than a year)

• Partner, Creative Director

  Tech-Engine

  (Partnership; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

  1997 — 2000 (3 years )

  We built a skinnable, white label online career center which was used to power the job boards of more than 200 companies. It was eventually sold to a company in Canada.

• Web Designer

  TV Guide

  (Public Company; GMST; Publishing industry)

  September 1995 — September 1995 (1 month)

  I designed the first ever TV Guide web site, their 1995 Fall Preview.

Brian Alvey’s Education

• Texas Christian University

  BS , Physics and Astronomy , 1987 — 1991

  Minors in both Mathematics and Fine Art

Additional Information

Brian Alvey’s Websites:

• My Blog
• Crowd Fusion
• ComicMix

Brian Alvey’s Groups:

•    New York Venture Community
•    Red Squirrel

Brian Alvey’s Contact Settings

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