Nonprofits suffer from three things: 1) constant distractions, 2) a tangled mess of data and tools that hold them back, and 3) really big ideas on the backburner. Impact Upgrade is a technology and operations consulting company, solely focused on closing these gaps. We upgrade your impact and get you back to your mission!

https://www.impactupgrade.com

Founder & Consultant

Servant leader of the software engineering teams responsible for Twilio's MMS, WhatsApp, Verified SMS, RCS/RBM, Apple Business Chat, Facebook Messenger, and LINE messaging channels. Also work closely with and serve the product, operations, and support teams.

Engineering Manager

- Software engineering
- Fully-managed web, database, and app hosting
- Virtual CTO
- Open source development and consulting
- In-house products and investing

Owner & Technical Director

- Hibernate ORM: committer and core developer - Apache Camel: camel-twitter (original author), camel-github (original author), camel-jira (original author), camel-jpa - Apache Camel Extras: camel-hibernate (committer) - Infinispan Data Grid: contributor (OSGi focus) - Artificer (JBoss S-RAMP): former lead - JBoss Overlord (Design Time Governance, Runtime Governance): committer - OASIS S-RAMP Specification Technical Committee: co-chair - Aesh (shell/CLI development framework): contributor - Various libs in the nonprofit tech space: https://github.com/3RiverDevelopment/ - 2X Speaker @ DevNexus (Hibernate ORM) - 3X Speaker @ IndyJUG (Hibernate ORM, Artificer, Effective Open Source Communities) - Speaker & published author in ISCA's CATA-2011 (TwitterReporter: Breaking News Detection and Visualization through the Geo-Tagged Twitter Network)

Open Source Developer & Speaker

Architect, develop, and oversee the backend systems for Movies Anywhere (moviesanywhere.com).  MA is a new digital locker for movies you've bought and own, either from a physical disc or from any supported digital retailer (Google, iTunes, Amazon, VUDU, etc.). This replaced the legacy Disney Movies Anywhere ecosystem and is now a partnership of six major movie studios (Disney, Sony, Fox, Universal, Touchstone, Warner Bros) with almost 8000 titles.  MA provides an ecosystem of client apps to manage and watch all content, as well as automatically sync entitlements across all supported retailers.

Our backend microservices/APIs provide all data, business logic, auth, user management, and dynamic layouts for nearly a dozen different client applications.  We're also in charge of a large suite of internal tools: metadata/asset/image/layout management, reporting/auditing, etc.

Fast-paced, distributed, entrepreneurial team acting as a startup spin-off.

Lead Backend Software Engineer

- Middleware and systems integration practice lead, focused on SOA, web services, OSGi, messaging, data, and open source. - Focuses: Apache SOA (Apache Camel, Apache ActiveMQ, Apache CXF, Apache Karaf, and Apache Aries), Spring, Java EE, and general enterprise middleware. - Hire and manage a large team of architects, lead engineers, and consultants -- serve, coach, and develop team members. - Architect, develop, and deliver enterprise software solutions, working closely with a wide range of customers. - Responsible for building the business from the ground up and proving Apparatus/Virtusa middleware capabilities. Build relationships, research/develop new business opportunities, generate proposals, facilitate contract and transition negotiations. - Manage consulting and product contracts generating over $9m.

Software Engineering Manager

- Open source R&D & upstream project lead - Hibernate ORM: Core developer & project committer - Responsible for maintaining Hibernate within all Red Hat JBoss Middleware Products - Hibernate engineering escalation point for Red Hat Global Support Services, Red Hat Consulting, and Quality Engineering - Artificer (JBoss S-RAMP): Project Lead - JBoss Overlord: committer - Infinispan: Contributor

Senior Software Engineer

- Solely responsible for the design, development, testing, integration, and fielding of SOA and UI products utilized for remotely managing renewable energy hardware. - Led the development of multiple, key areas on large-scale situational awareness systems. Focuses on battlespace management, mediation, geospatial visualization, multi-user collaboration, and "software as services". - Led the development and integration of an on-board Navy ship training software system that emulates all capabilities. Utilized for individual, ship, and fleet training exercises. - Java, Perl - SOA/OSGi: Apache Camel, Apache ServiceMix/Karaf/Felix, Apache CXF, Eclipse RCP, CORBA - Adobe Flex - GIS: Google Earth/Maps, ESRI ArcGIS, OpenScales

Web Applications Contractor

engineering manager/tech lead/engineer @ Twilio Programmable Messaging (manage the teams responsible for MMS, WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, and emerging platforms)

Hibernate ORM project core developer and committer

Personal details

Brett M.

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