Founder at Rilli
San Francisco Bay Area
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- Founder at Rilli
- President/Founder/Engineer at MixedContent LLC
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- Project Manager at Bryght
- Software Engineer at DeepRockDrive
- Software Developer at Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design
- Founder at Xaia
- Web Application Developer at Simon Fraser University
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- Simon Fraser University
- British Columbia Institute of Technology
- VCC
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Colin Brumelle’s Summary
Brumelle is a founder and lead developer at Rilli (http://rilli.com), an exciting web application that will change people's relationship with their city, their friends, and the way they see them both. In one sentence - "You, your friends and good times - on a map".
Brumelle also writes about the intersection of music and technology at his blog, MixedContent (http://mixedcontent.com) and has spots available for select freelance consulting and web development work.
Previously as a Partner and Product Manager at Bryght (http://bryght.com), a Vancouver, BC startup, Brumelle focused on several music-related web projects. He was (and continues to be!) heavily involved in the Drupal Open Source project, contributing several modules back to the community.
Before joining Bryght in 2005, Brumelle led a double life: programmer by day, musician by night. As a professional guitarist for over 10 years, he managed and played guitar with his band Greenroom, a 7-piece jazz/funk ensemble. Brumelle has recorded numerous CD's and has toured extensively across North America in barely road-worthy vehicles. At the same time, he also a developed a courseware application at the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design and built content publishing tools tools for researchers at Simon Fraser University.
As a musician and a technologist, Colin also is a passionate speaker at various music and technology conferences. Recent speaking engagements include talks and panels at SF Music Tech, EuroOSCON, SXSW, Podcast Hotel, and Northern Voice.
As a "Jack of all trades" type, Brumelle is equally at home consulting on community strategy, coding genetic algorithms in Ruby, designing a intuitive interface for a web application, or discussing the sociological implications of Jimmy Hendrix's performance of the Star Spangled Banner.
Currently living in San Francisco with his wife, Brumelle enjoys rock climbing, biking, and double espressos.
Colin Brumelle’s Specialties:
PHP, MySQL, css, AJAX, web2.0, Ruby, RoR, rails, javascript, music, Drupal, OpenSource, business development, strategy, CMS, java, RSS, XML, webservices, REST, SOAP, community, online communities
Colin Brumelle’s Experience
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Founder
Rilli
(Information Technology and Services industry)
August 2007 — Present (1 year 2 months)
Rilli (http://rilli.com), an exciting web application that will change people's relationship with their city, their friends, and the way they see them both.
In one sentence - "You, your friends and good times - on a map" -
President/Founder/Engineer
MixedContent LLC
(Computer Software industry)
March 2007 — Present (1 year 7 months)
Founded MixedContent LLC, a company focused on developing compelling web properties and applications. Experience in developing community websites using technologies like Drupal and Ruby On Rails. Consultants on software architecture, community design, information architecture, engineering, and more. Passionate about developing web applications for clients in the music and record industries.
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Project Manager
Bryght
(Computer Software industry)
June 2005 — March 2007 (1 year 10 months)
Duties range from managing projects, to architecting and writing code, to creating and following up promising business leads. All of this work at Bryght is based on the popular open source content management system Drupal (http://drupal.org). As part of his role at Bryght, Colin has contributed the audio module, the playlist module, the yahoo maps module, and many bug fixes back to the Drupal project.
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Software Engineer
DeepRockDrive
(Computer Software industry)
2006 — 2007 (1 year)
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Software Developer
Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design
(Educational Institution; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)
November 2003 — June 2005 (1 year 8 months)
Developed a cutting edge learning management system (LMS) that matched ECIAD’s non-traditional teaching style. The learning platform is flexible enough to meet the needs of a diverse set of course offerings, while still being quick to set up. It was built using Open Source projects such as MySQL, PHP, Smarty and PEAR as well as CSS, XHTML and JavaScript.
Customized and deployed a school wide community site that quickly gained popularity. As of last count, over 25,000 posts had been made by students and faculty.
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Founder
Xaia
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)
January 1999 — November 2003 (4 years 11 months)
Created a company that offers web-based solutions to a wide variety of clients in industries ranging from education to entertainment to financial services. Tasks involve analysis, design and implementation of web applications using open source technologies (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP), Java, and XML.
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Web Application Developer
Simon Fraser University
(Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Research industry)
October 2001 — November 2002 (1 year 2 months)
Developed a content management system (CMS) for research groups at Simon Fraser University using MySQL/PHP on Unix. Duties included meeting with internal clients to do requirements analysis, database design, and implementation of the new system. The CMS enabled administrators, students, and teachers to effectively manage research groups’ websites, freeing up valuable resources.
Colin Brumelle’s Education
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Simon Fraser University
Computer Science 2003 — 2005
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British Columbia Institute of Technology
CST, Multimedia Software Development, 1998 — 2001
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VCC
Music, Performance in Jazz Guitar, 1993 — 1995
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Colin Brumelle’s Interests:
PHP, Complexity, Rock Climbing, Java, Drupal, Social Software, Snow Boardin
Colin Brumelle’s Groups:
CitizenSpace
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Music Industry Forum
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