CEO, founder of Crowd Fusion
Greater New York City Area
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- CEO, founder at Crowd Fusion
- Chairman at ComicMix
- Past
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- 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
- Partner, Creative Director at Tech-Engine
- Web Development Manager at InfoTech
- Education
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- Texas Christian University
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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
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CEO, founder
Crowd Fusion
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)
June 2007 — Present (1 year 5 months)
Crowd Fusion is a publishing company focused on verticals, communities and collaborative databases.
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Chairman
ComicMix
(Partnership; 1-10 employees; Publishing industry)
August 2006 — Present (2 years 3 months)
ComicMix is a comic book publishing company -- online and in print.
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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.
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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.
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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)
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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.
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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.
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Web Development Manager
InfoTech
(Internet industry)
2000 — 2000 (less than a year)
Brian Alvey’s Education
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Texas Christian University
BS, Physics and Astronomy, 1987 — 1991
Minors in both Mathematics and Fine Art
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