About Brandon
I am Brandon Werner, a software engineer in Seattle, WA. I am a firm believer that the spread of economic and social freedom around the world will lead to unequaled prosperity for all; even when our personal interest tempt us to wound it. I do not believe that business or technology need be zero sum games. I love good friends, good coffee and good ideas shared around a room. I have a strong German Catholic heritage from Cincinnati, OH, my hometown, and I miss Goetta and good beer at Hofbräuhaus.
I work for Microsoft as a Program Manager in their BPOS Engineering Core (R&D) division helping design the next generation of business cloud computing solutions for corporations around the world. I am a member of the ACM and believe in its mission to advance computer science as a science and profession.
Contact
If you’d like to contact me, LinkedIn is probably the best way for professionals. The distant second is emailing me at brandonwerner@acm.org. You can reach my cell at +01.425.922.7952.
Biography
In 2001, with the European Union switching to one currency called the Euro, I worked with France Telecom, living in Paris, France, to develop the first international money transfer service, Minutepay.fr, before PayPal could enter the marketplace.
In 2002 I started The Planning Studio Inc., a startup focused on developing web-based networked collaboration technologies for urban planning and community
development corporations to help them in their mission to serve the community, since many non-profits lack the resources to build their own infrastructure. It starred Sean Bender from University of Cincinnati, Susan Winterberg from Harvard University and myself.
In three years we built a firm that boasted clients such as 3CDC, University of Cincinnati, Allen & O’Hara, UHCURC and others as well as built broad partnerships with the University of Cincinnati and Hamilton County in sharing GIS spatial database information to help improve the overall value of all economic prediction systems. It also expanded to Ohio, Kentucky and Tennessee. During this time, we worked at the board level with such personalities as Mr. Joseph Pichler, Chairman of Kroger Co. and John Boorn, founder of Madison Marquette to help achieve business growth goals and economic revitalization for Over The Rhine and other areas in the Cincinnati region.
In 2006 I helped Munich Re on their 75 million dollar transformation of their entire enterprise architecture, including their first steps in to SOA and introducing a new B2B platform that drove partnerships with eSurance, Harley-Davidson and others. In 2007, I did the same for Safeco Insurance.
Other Interest
I started the JavaCast podcast with Google guy Dick Wall, which later became the JavaPosse, and did some research with Lisp and the Semantic Web writing a collection of RDF/OWL extraction and relationship parsing macros in Common Lisp. I have contributed to the Eclipse EODM project which seeks to implement the Ontology Definition Metamodel (ODM) and the Apache Tuscany project which is their open source SDO/SCA stack.
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