Brian Kirsten

Current

• Senior Developer at NameMedia
• Owner at Brain Scan Studios

Past

• Director of Technology at Travelatro.com LLC
• Senior Developer at Interactive Media
• ASP Programmer/Analyst at Financialweb.com

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Education

• University of Central Florida
• Leadership Conference

Recommended

2 people have recommended Brian

Connections

98 connections

Industry

Publishing

Websites

• My Website
• My Company
• My RSS feed

Brian Kirsten’s Summary

I am an Information Technology professional with over 12 years of experience leading the design, configuration, and building of enterprise applications for large global companies in a variety of industries. I have excellent communication and problem solving skills that enable fellow team members to adhere to project time lines and budgets. Known generally as a team member who wears "many hats", I am comfortable with IT functions with a large range of complexity including, software setup for non-technical users, database design and theory, object engineering, and server/network configuration.

Brian Kirsten’s Specialties:

PHP, MySQL, LAMP, SSH, Sendmail, Bind, VNC, Java, J2EE, AJAX, CSS, XML, REST, XML-RPC, SOAP, web standards, SEO and web security, Oracle, Apache, Sun Solaris, Windows Desktop/Server, Linux, Mac OSX

Brian Kirsten’s Experience

• Senior Developer

  NameMedia

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)

  June 2008 — Present (1 year 2 months)

• Owner

  Brain Scan Studios

  (Publishing industry)

  January 2000 — Present (9 years 7 months)

  Brain Scan Studios is an independent comic book publisher based in Boston, Masschusetts. Founded in 1999 by myself, it's focus is one-shots, mini-series and graphic novels.
  
  Brain Scan's first published material was the three issue mini-series Touch of Death, followed by Civil Wardrobe from Rich Johnston, the horror one-shot Fiendish Fables and the six issues series One Last Song. Brain Scan has also released several books in purely digital format: Humpday, Serial and Revolution of the Mask.

• Director of Technology

  Travelatro.com LLC

  (Internet industry)

  May 2001 — June 2008 (7 years 2 months)

  Manage a small team of Software Developers and Designers for Client software development. Originally joined Travelatro as primary Java/ASP/Oracle developer, now maintain relationships with Travelatro's software development clients, which include Starwood Vacation Ownership and Avatar Homes. Responsiblities include: Project Management, Technical Documentation, Software development (PHP/MySQL/Oracle/Java), System Configuration/Setup/Administration (which includes IBM Websphere, Oracle, Apache, MySQL, Linux, Solaris, Windows 2000 and a large variety of open source tools for internal processes), and Network troubleshooting.

• Senior Developer

  Interactive Media

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  January 2001 — May 2001 (5 months)

  Worked alongside a team of developers to complete an XML based E-Learning system implemented in ASP, JavaScript and MS SQL Server.

• ASP Programmer/Analyst

  Financialweb.com

  (Public Company; 11-50 employees; FWEB; Internet industry)

  March 1998 — May 1999 (1 year 3 months)

  Active Server Pages programming
  SQL Server 6.5 database programming
  Visual Basic 6.0, Java Programming
  Designed in-house ad banner system, website Logging analysis system, real-time and delayed Quotes system
  Designed systems for data content (satellite feed system for
  Streaming sports data, applications for weather and mutual fund content)
  Extensive financial knowledge (mutual funds, stocks, bonds, Options, etc.)

Brian Kirsten’s Education

• University of Central Florida

  1995 — 2000

• Leadership Conference

Additional Information

Brian Kirsten’s Websites:

• My Website
• My Company
• My RSS feed

Brian Kirsten’s Interests:

Food, Movies, Comics, Art

Brian Kirsten’s Groups:

•    Boston Young Entrepreneurs
•    Las Vegas Travellers
•    Php developers
•    Open Source
•    Web Standards
•    Linux Users
•    Travel Technology Experts
•    Tweeple
•    Just US Java Consultants
•    Comic Book Business for Creators and Creations
•    WordPress
•    Networking in Orlando
•    Luxury Fractional Group
•    BuyDomains.com
•    Orlando Java Community
•    Twitter Twittegy
•    AfternicDLS

Brian Kirsten’s Honors:

ARDA (AMERICAN RESORT DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION,
http://www.arda.org/) GOLD AWARD FOR WEBSITE OF THE YEAR 1999
for Sunterra Resorts website (http://www.sunterra.com)

Brian Kirsten’s Contact Settings

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• career opportunities
• consulting offers
• new ventures
• job inquiries
• expertise requests
• business deals
• reference requests
• getting back in touch