Dallas/Fort Worth Area
- Current
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- Co-Founder at Big in Japan
- Past
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- Software Developer at Veritix
- Consultant at Software Architects, Inc
- Intern and Co-op at Hewlett-Packard
- Student at Texas A&M University
- Personal Projects at Free Time
- Education
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- Texas A&M University
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Rylan Barnes’s Experience
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Co-Founder
Big in Japan
(Computer Software industry)
August 2008 — Present (1 year 4 months)
Big in Japan builds cool applications for mobile devices, including Apple’s award winning iPhone and Google’s open source Android platform, think of us as the mobile idea factory. Our latest application ShopSavvy™ (formerly known as GoCart), is a finalist in Google’s Android Developer Challenge. Big in Japan is not just a development shop, we manage and support our applications for millions of users for major brands including FX Network and LEGO.
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Software Developer
Veritix
(Information Technology and Services industry)
September 2006 — August 2008 (2 years )
Primary developer on our high-volume web optimization project. Since our company sells tickets for large events, we usually see massive surges in traffic once popular events go on sale. Work included fine tuning algorithms, object caching and resource caching throughout all corners of our web application and object layer.
Primary developer for a Web 2.0 project that allows customers to buy tickets for an event from an interactive map. Technologies included AJAX and a custom framework to keep the library size as minimal as possible. This feature needed to be capable and compelling but also support a large amount of traffic.
Primary developer for building a touch screen kiosk application used to sell tickets to sporting events and concerts. Work included extensive use of GDI+ for creating custom controls appropriate for a touch screen user interface. Development also included rigid security requirements to prevent access to the kiosk machine. -
Consultant
Software Architects, Inc
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Computer Software industry)
January 2006 — September 2006 (9 months)
Southwest Corporate Federal Credit Union – Designed and built an application responsible for reconciling and releasing branch capture share drafts that have been cleared to member credit unions. Used technologies included .NET 2.0 with C# and SQL Server 2005. Database grew an average of one million new records each day.
Horizon Service Group – Maintained several different .NET web applications responsible for tracking the status and locations of different types of equipment. -
Intern and Co-op
Hewlett-Packard
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Computer Software industry)
January 2004 — December 2005 (2 years )
Team technical lead in development of Sizers for ProLiant Servers, web accessible tools that support sales teams and enterprise customers by estimating the server hardware necessary to support enterprise software solutions.
Work included integration with a framework maintained by an offshore team in India.
Team technical lead for porting each Sizer project to .NET.
Primary developer for a project management tool used to inventory equipment, manage interns' schedules and log hours for work billed to customers.
Technical participant in the development of a tool for validating the hardware configuration of ProLiant Servers.
Applied for two patents for technical involvement developing a generic, XML-based questionnaire framework designed to speed the development of wizard-based websites. -
Student
Texas A&M University
(Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Computer Software industry)
September 2000 — November 2005 (5 years 3 months)
Designed and built a mechanical chess board. Pieces included an acrylic board, a basic circuit board, an electromagnet and two stepper motors to control vertical and horizontal movement. The computer was programmed to move pieces via the parallel port. Game play was interfaced with an artificially intelligent chess engine and the WinBoard protocol.
Developed a 3D Tic-Tac-Toe game engine with an artificial intelligent agent that implemented genetic algorithms to determine the next best move. -
Personal Projects
Free Time
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)
November 2001 — October 2005 (4 years )
Designed and developed Textbook-Trader.com, a website for students to buy and sell used textbooks directly with each other.
Rylan Barnes’s Education
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Texas A&M University
2000 — 2005
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Rylan Barnes’s Honors:
MCPD - Microsoft Certified Professional Developer
