Pete Brown

Pete Brown

Project Manager, UX Architect, Silverlight Lead at AIS

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Current

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Past
  • EM / Silverlight SME through AIS at Skoots
  • Consultant through AIS / Microsoft at ITT JSC
  • Consultant through AIS and Microsoft at Conservation International
  • Consultant through AIS at InPhonic
  • Consultant through AIS at GEICO
  • Consultant through AIS at VarsityBooks.com
  • Consultant through AIS at NASD
  • Consultant through AIS at Dominion Power
  • Consultant through AIS at Maxim Healthcare
  • Consultant through AIS at ARFAB - Dijon FR
  • Consultant through AIS at Avendra
  • Consultant through AIS at Marriott Host
  • Consultant through AIS at PEPCO
  • Consultant through AIS at NEBF
  • Consultant / VB6 Developer at All States Medicaid
  • Consultant through AIS at FDLE
  • Consultant through AIS at La Voix du Nord (Lille, FR)
  • Consultant through AIS at Carnival Cruise Lines
  • Computer Services Coordinator at Medical Bureau of Economics / MBI / Later ROI

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Education
  • Worcester State College
  • University of Massachusetts at Lowell
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Pete Brown’s Summary

Pete Brown is a Software Architect and Project / Engagement Manager and Client Technologies Evangelist with significant experience leading teams in developing solutions using Microsoft products and technologies. Pete has also been a trainer in the US and abroad and a public speaker in both large and small venues. Since 2007, Pete's primary focus has been in Silverlight.

Pete's technical passions include smart client software development (including Silverlight and WPF), user interface/experience (UX) design, and development of large scale eCommerce sites.

In his spare time, Pete enjoys building furniture in his woodworking workshop, and railroading models with his CNC-equipped scale model workshop.

Originally from Massachusetts, Pete now lives with his wife and son near Annapolis, MD.

In January 2008, Pete was awarded the MVP award from Microsoft for his work in Silverlight.

Pete Brown’s Specialties:

User Interface / UX design, scalable architecture, eCommerce, .NET

Pete Brown’s Experience

  • Silverlight / UX Consultant through AIS

    Chemonics International

    (Privately Held; International Trade and Development industry)

    May 2009 — Present (3 months)

    Interactive design, wireframing, and analysis for silverlight applications on a MOSS 2007 intranet.

  • Silverlight / UX Designer through AIS

    GEICO

    (Privately Held; Insurance industry)

    May 2009 — Present (3 months)

    Create interesting Silverlight proofs of concept for GEICO

  • Engagement Manager through AIS

    Enterprise Community Investment, Inc.

    (Privately Held; Financial Services industry)

    March 2009 — Present (5 months)

    Engagement Manager on a Biztalk 2009 project.

  • Consultant through AIS

    Aptify

    (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

    September 2008 — Present (11 months)

    RIA Consultant at Aptify

  • Project Manager / Lead Architect

    Applied Information Sciences, Inc

    (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

    June 1996 — Present (13 years 2 months)

    Applied Information Sciences, Inc is a leader in application development in the greater Washington, DC area.

    I specialize in managing and architecting medium-sized full-lifecycle eCommerce projects where time to market is a key concern. The larger individual projects (or strings of contiguous projects at a client) are listed separately.

  • Engagement Manager

    NGP Software

    (Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

    March 2009 — May 2009 (3 months)

    Engagement manager on a database analysis project

  • Consultant through AIS

    Hanesbrands

    (Public Company; HBI; Apparel & Fashion industry)

    January 2007 — February 2009 (2 years 2 months)

    Client Engagement Manager for a MOSS + K2.NET workflow project.

  • Consultant through AIS

    Nortel Government Solutions

    (Public Company; Computer Networking industry)

    August 2007 — March 2008 (8 months)

    Engagement manager for a K2.NET project at Nortel

  • EM / Silverlight SME through AIS

    Skoots

    (Computer Software industry)

    2008 — 2008 (less than a year)

  • Consultant through AIS / Microsoft

    ITT JSC

    (Defense & Space industry)

    October 2007 — June 2008 (9 months)

    Consultant through Microsoft Consulting Services vendor (v-) Orange Badge Program

  • Consultant through AIS and Microsoft

    Conservation International

    (Non-Profit; 501-1000 employees; Renewables & Environment industry)

    April 2007 — October 2007 (7 months)

    Design and develop Silverlight and Virtual Earth version of the Carbon Offset Calculator.

  • Consultant through AIS

    InPhonic

    (Public Company; INPC; Wireless industry)

    July 2005 — February 2007 (1 year 8 months)

    Primarily a PM. Architected and managed several projects, the largest and most visible being the Best Buy Mobile store on which I directly managed eight AIS consultants and coordinated with a large number of InPhonic employees.

  • Consultant through AIS

    GEICO

    (Insurance industry)

    2003 — 2007 (4 years)

    PM and User Interface Designer. PM'd several small to medium projects and also created the full user interface for (and managed the project which implemented) the .NET smart client-based Glass Claims System. My relationship with GEICO is on-going.

  • Consultant through AIS

    VarsityBooks.com

    (Consumer Goods industry)

    May 2004 — July 2004 (3 months)

  • Consultant through AIS

    NASD

    (Investment Management industry)

    September 2003 — December 2003 (4 months)

  • Consultant through AIS

    Dominion Power

    (Public Company; Utilities industry)

    June 2003 — September 2003 (4 months)

    Microsoft-funded. I wrote the proof of concept and provided the .NET training

  • Consultant through AIS

    Maxim Healthcare

    (Health, Wellness and Fitness industry)

    May 2002 — October 2002 (6 months)

  • Consultant through AIS

    ARFAB - Dijon FR

    (Telecommunications industry)

    April 2002 — April 2002 (1 month)

    Taught .NET in france in French to Visual Basic 6 programmers

  • Consultant through AIS

    Avendra

    (Hospitality industry)

    June 2001 — April 2002 (11 months)

  • Consultant through AIS

    Marriott Host

    (Hospitality industry)

    January 2001 — July 2001 (7 months)

  • Consultant through AIS

    PEPCO

    (Public Company; Utilities industry)

    February 2001 — June 2001 (5 months)

  • Consultant through AIS

    NEBF

    (Investment Management industry)

    May 1998 — March 2001 (2 years 11 months)

  • Consultant / VB6 Developer

    All States Medicaid

    (Accounting industry)

    January 1998 — January 2001 (3 years 1 month)

    (Dates approximate). Wrote some custom VB6 applications for John Coffey. John and I used to work together at MBE. I wrote a medicaid UB92 forms application and the start of an accounting app.

  • Consultant through AIS

    FDLE

    (Law Enforcement industry)

    October 1996 — March 1998 (1 year 6 months)

    Florida Department of Law Enforcement

  • Consultant through AIS

    La Voix du Nord (Lille, FR)

    (Publishing industry)

    December 1996 — December 1996 (1 month)

    Taught Visual Basic 6 in France in French to mainframe programmers

  • Consultant through AIS

    Carnival Cruise Lines

    (Public Company; Hospitality industry)

    June 1996 — October 1996 (5 months)

  • Computer Services Coordinator

    Medical Bureau of Economics / MBI / Later ROI

    (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Medical Practice industry)

    August 1992 — May 1996 (3 years 10 months)

Pete Brown’s Education

  • Worcester State College

    BSCS , Computer Science , 1993 — 1996

  • University of Massachusetts at Lowell

    Computer Science 1990 — 1991

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Pete Brown’s Interests:

woodworking, photography, emerging technology, model railroading

Pete Brown’s Honors:

Microsoft MVP, INETA Speakers Bureau North America, Microsoft IT Heroes (former MCSD, MCAD)

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