Knight Foundation Scholar at Medill School of Journalism and Software Architect
Greater Chicago Area
- Current
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- Founder, Consultant at Praseos
- Past
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- Founder, Architect at Daixo
- Director of Product Development, Sr. Software Architect at SAVO Group
- Architect at kCura
- Consultant at Lante
- Education
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- Northwestern University
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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- Industry
- Computer Software
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Brian Boyer’s Summary
I am one of the first two "journalist-programmers" to be admitted to the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University on a Knight News Challenge scholarship. I'll be studying alongside other journalism students, and will apply my technical skills in creating new forms of online media. Or something like that. It's slightly fuzzy, but I'm sure that it'll be very interesting. Rich Gordon's blog at pbs.org has lots more on the program: http://www.pbs.org/idealab/rich_gordon/
I'm also a software architect, entrepreneur, and consultant who is interested in the process of making software. Including, but certainly not limited to architecture, team construction, development processes (TDD, Agile, Pragmatic Programming, etc), product management, project management, design process, usability, accessibility, web standards, etc.
(And it turns out that I'm pretty damn good programmer too; languages available on request.)
Brian Boyer’s Specialties:
Software architecture, team construction, development processes (TDD, Agile, Pragmatic Programming, etc), product management, project management, design process, usability, accessibility, web standards, etc.
Also, writing.
And taste. See http://www.paulgraham.com/taste.html
Brian Boyer’s Experience
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Founder, Consultant
Praseos
(Privately Held; Myself Only; Internet industry)
June 2007 — Present (1 year 4 months)
Consultancy specializing in how to make software: architecture, agile development, team construction, development methodologies, product management, project management, design processes, usability, web standards, etc.
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Founder, Architect
Daixo
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)
October 2006 — September 2007 (1 year)
Daixo is building the first friendly electronic medical records system ever designed for private practice. I was a founding member of Daixo, and led software development as well as marketing until leaving to pursue my master's degree.
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Director of Product Development, Sr. Software Architect
SAVO Group
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)
February 2005 — October 2006 (1 year 9 months)
I led all aspects of the product development group at SAVO. Technically, this included architecture, APIs and interoperability, and automated testing, as well as creation of coding standards and best practices. Organizationally, I led the creation and implementation of new practices in project management, hiring, and knowledge sharing.
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Architect
kCura
(Computer Software industry)
2001 — 2005 (4 years)
At kCura, I learned the trade of software development, creating desktop, server, and web applications and working in both consulting and product development. We were early adopters in many technologies and processes, including advanced source control and automated testing procedures, WebDAV and AJAX (before it had a snappy acromyn), and Agile development methodologies.
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Consultant
Lante
(Public Company; Computer Software industry)
2000 — 2001 (1 year)
Lante built dot-com businesses before the dot-com bust. I worked on what was then considered bleeding-edge web software. We used words like paradigm and e-commerce without irony.
Brian Boyer’s Education
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Northwestern University
MS, Journalism, 2008 — 2008
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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
BS, Computer Science, 1996 — 2000
- Activities and Societies:
- Technology and Management, Starcourse, James Scholar
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