Anders Brownworth

http://www.anders.com/resume/

(516) 383-3848 - (Boston based)



Summary:
With a broad technical background and a creative entrepreneurial mindset, Anders quickly takes technology from genesis all the way into profit generating production.


Experience:
Bandwidth.com, Cary, NC
2005 - 2009: Vice President of Research and Development
  • Designed a Hadoop-based distributed high volume log analysis system to process company-wide call detail records.
  • Created and deployed Phonebooth, an SMB focused hosted VoIP phone system based on Freeswitch.

    Phonebooth Video

  • Designed and deployed a VoIP call transaction system based on open technologies enabling Bandwidth.com to offer high volume origination / termination services to enterprise accounts.
  • Engineered the server farm architecture (from the network layer through the application layer) and deployed it in multiple server farms throughout the United States.
Bandwidth.com, Cary, NC
2002 - 2005: Chief Technology Officer
  • As employee number 14 at a $600,000 annual revenue company, instituted the technical direction necessary to grow the company to 60+ employees and over $11M annual revenue.
  • Designed and built from scratch the core computing platform driving the business including:
    • Hardened name servers, mail servers, routers, firewalls, a dynamic web serving environment and a distributed pricing environment.
    • Instituted "sandbox" style development environments and code repository for developers.
    • Code design and implementation of Java / JSP sites running Bandwidth.com's website and internal / customer / carrier / partner extranets and branded partner sites for clients.
    • Conceived of and created key products used to differentiate Bandwidth.com including one of the Internet's most popular Speed Tests.
    • Integrated a custom distributed pricing system with Dell's internal sales systems and external customer facing systems which demanded stringent uptime guarantees and high loads.
  • Served as point person for strategic relationships between Bandwidth.com and partners such as Dell and CNet
  • Reported directly to the President of the company.
Imagine Media, Brisbane, CA
1999 - 2001: Webmaster / Architect / Developer / Manager / Systems Administrator
  • Right-hand man in starting an Internet department for Imagine Media, eventually bringing them global and public.
  • Built a staging and publishing system used by all Imagine properties.
  • Built a Linux based server farm delivering well over 300 million hits per month of both static and dynamic content.
  • Integral in leading the design and coding of the Future Content Management System, an in-house content system based on Oracle, Java / JSP and Linux.
  • Worked overseas while deploying the content system in the European offices.
  • Managed a core team of webmasters and systems administrators
Evantide Ltd., New York
1995 - 1999: Webmaster / Developer / System Administrator
  • On site installation, administration and maintenance of Silicon Graphics infrastructure for Dow Jones.
  • Other clients included the US Air Force, the Pentagon and several mutual funds.
Dow Jones (WBIS), New York
1997: Systems Administrator / Animator / Programmer
  • Programmed Java, Perl and SQL for custom real-time market data acquisition system.
  • Built and ran a real-time 3D rendering system for Dow Jones television displaying up to the second market averages for daily live TV broadcasts. 3D models were injected with real-time elements from live market feeds and rendered on SGI hardware for live television.


Technologies:
  • iPhone / iPod Touch App Development
  • VoIP (SIP, FreeSWITCH, Asterisk, OpenSIPs)
  • Ruby on Rails, Java
  • PostgreSQL, MySQL
  • MacOS X, Linux, Apache, djbdns
  • IPSec, NAT, ipvs


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