Brian Rice

Current

Software Engineer at Rentrak
Owner at LOGOS Research and Development
Leader / Designer at Slate programming language

Contributor at Squeak Open-Source Community

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Past

Software Development Consultant at 211 LA County
Software Developer at Synapse Product Development
Lead Software Developer at Activated Content Corporation

Firmware Software Developer at Coastal Environmental Systems, Inc.
Systems Engineer at Microsoft, Inc.
Nuclear Technician, Electrician's Mate at US Navy

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Education

Texas A&M University

Connections

123 connections

Industry

Computer Software

Websites

Brian Rice’s Summary

Creative software developer focussing on language-based solutions to complex problems. I have experience with data warehousing, embedded systems development, web applications development, and knowledge-based and meta-data focussed systems. I also have experience designing user interface and runtime architectures.

Brian Rice’s Specialties:

systems software design, programming languages, software re-architecting, data-warehousing, artificial intelligence, embedded systems programming, scripting languages, Smalltalk, Common Lisp, Perl, Python, database programming

Brian Rice’s Experience

Software Engineer

Rentrak

(Public Company; RENT; Entertainment industry)

July 2009 — Present (5 months)

Working on the company's terabyte-scale data analytics products for media/advertising companies.
Owner

LOGOS Research and Development

(Privately Held; Myself Only; Computer Software industry)

May 2002 — Present (7 years 7 months)

This encompasses my research work in dynamic software environments.
Leader / Designer

Slate programming language

(Non-Profit; Myself Only; Computer Software industry)

January 2001 — Present (8 years 11 months)

See http://slate.tunes.org/
Contributor

Squeak Open-Source Community

(Computer Software industry)

1998 — Present (11 years )
Software Development Consultant

211 LA County

(Computer Software industry)

March 2007 — September 2008 (1 year 7 months)

Worked on an application upgrade for Los Angeles County's 211 hotline call center as an intranet web application using PHP5/XSLT/Postgres/Scriptaculous.
Software Developer

Synapse Product Development

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Hardware industry)

January 2007 — February 2007 (2 months)

Embedded Software Engineer
Lead Software Developer

Activated Content Corporation

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)

April 2006 — August 2006 (5 months)

Developing/extending digital media watermark products for both forensic tracking and to give more value to the listener/user of music/video/other media.
Firmware Software Developer

Coastal Environmental Systems, Inc.

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing industry)

July 2005 — October 2005 (4 months)

Maintained and extended embedded, soft-realtime firmware for remote weather sensing station products.
Systems Engineer

Microsoft, Inc.

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MSFT; Computer Software industry)

February 2004 — February 2005 (1 year 1 month)

MSN DataWarehousing project to grow MSN Search into (what would become) adCenter. I ran ETL systems and some OLAP cubes and refactored and consolidated infrastructure code to support the scale-up issues.
Nuclear Technician, Electrician's Mate

US Navy

(Government Agency; 10,001 or more employees; USN; Military industry)

1996 — 2002 (6 years )

Brian Rice’s Education

Texas A&M University

Mathematics, Aerospace Engineering 1995 — 1996

Activities and Societies:

William Lowell Putnam Exam, ran Maple mathematics engineering labs, Mathematics & Computer Science tutoring

Additional Information

Brian Rice’s Websites:

Brian Rice’s Interests:

programming languages, artificial intelligence, operating systems, structured knowledge representation, motorcycles, sailing, touring

Brian Rice’s Groups:

Smalltalk Industry Council, Association of Lisp Users, TUNES Project, Seattle Mind Camp organizers, SeaFunc users group, Seattle XCoders, LispSea users group, Saturday House, Saturday House, 2008 Seattle Startup Weekend, Six Hour Startup