BRYAN WILLS

Overview

Creative visionary and team leader with over 2 decades of design & development experience including 15 years of interactive media/ web application development and 7 years of mobile and social app development. A dynamic problem solver with the unique ability to combine visually stunning user-centered design with a high level of proficiency in full lifecycle software development. Extensive real world experience in various business sectors including financial services, entertainment, healthcare, and telecommunications.

Able to deliver superior quality under the aggressive timelines and speed to market objectives of today's forward thinking digital brands. Exceptional technical skills and an unwavering attention to detail. Driven by a passion to build innovative multi-screen interactive experiences for professional business users.

Experience

Bryton Interactive
2007 - present
Founder/CEO/Chief Nerd
Rapid prototyping and full lifecycle development for desktop, tablet, and mobile applications. Brand Development, User-Centered Design, User Experience, SEO & Data Visualization. Responsive design and front-end development for web-based applications. Augmented reality applications. Location-aware way-finding and mapping applications.
clients included Akon, AT&T, B96 Radio (Chicago), BMW, The Black Crowes, Bellsouth, Cartoon Network, Cbeyond, ChupaChups Lollipops, CNN, GE, Pfizer, GSK, Intercontinental Hotel Group, Cousins Properties, University of West Georgia, The Grammys, Pioneer, DARP, House of Blues, M&M/Mars, Spa Sydell, Guess? Clothing, Mix Connection Multimedia, Playboy, Skyy Vodka, Scott Russell Racing, Sony Music, and Universal Records
Think Interactive
05.2007 - 12.2008
Director of Technical Innovation / R&D Lab
Led prototyping, experience design, and development of Enterprise level rich interactive applications (RIA) using Flex, Flash, AJAX, and Adobe AIR, for web & desktop deployment. Directed the design and development of mobile applications including iPhone, WAP, WEP Blackberry, and Android. Architected a platform agnostic framework for ecommerce & marketing within a social network deployable via desktop, browser, and mobile devices.
clients included AllTel, Coca-Cola, Vitamin Water, Sears, Orkin, Cox Communications, WindStream, The Weather Channel, AT&T, Purina, and TBS.
Bellsouth/AT&T
10.2005 - 05.2007
Senior Software Engineer – Lead Front-End Architect
Conceived and developed next-generation Enterprise Voice over Network (EvoN) applications suite for the Bellsouth Converged Services team. Developed a real-time messaging solution for inter-application data exchange using local connection object and Jabber server. Created software attendant console and call manager with SIP phone integration for office call monitoring and routing. Built front-end user interface to consume Broadsoft web services for account creation and management.
World Financial Group (Aegon USA)
11.2001 – 09.2005
Lead Interactive Developer
Worked directly with CIO to Implement best practices for rich media application design, coding standards, improved interactive experiences and reusability. Defined, developed, and implemented robust, enterprise-wide data-driven applications using Flash MX, server side scripting, Flash Remoting, and Flash Communication Server. Mentored team members in object-oriented rapid application development, advanced Actionscript techniques, and user-focused interface design. Developed a dashboard style executive information system with real-time charting, integrated email, and archiving capabilities. Developed style guides and provided creative direction to production team. Constructed mockups and rapid prototypes of UI designs, capturing the flow, page layout and navigation. Designed and developed a dynamic Flash application for online business card ordering that used complex business logic and database integration to meet NASD regulations.
XOR Inc/Seurat
08.1998 - 10.2001
Sr. Web Developer/ Art Director (SE region)
Worked directly with Creative Director in client management and led creative development for all regional engagements. Provided corporate identity/branding, website design, web application development, user interface design, and information architecture. Concepted and developed a dynamic presentation application with database integration using Flash5/actionscript. Received promotion for exceptional creative vision and results oriented project focus. Atlanta office closed in October 2001.
clients included Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield, Extra Touch Florists (formerly FTD), KB-kids, Lexington Partners, and NexxtHealth

Education

Atlanta College of Art & Design
Fine Arts
1989

Skills

Branding
Data Visualization
Front-End Dev
Graphic Design
Human Computer Interaction
Mobile Dev
Motion Graphics
Responsive Design
SEO
Software Development
User Interface Design
UX
Rookie
Pro
Pro
Expert
Jedi

NERD STUFF

Abelton Live
Actionscript
After Effects
Agile
AIR
Android
Angular.js
Ant
Appcelerator
AWS
Backbone.js
Bootstrap
Bower
Cordova
CSS
D3.js
Express.js
Flash
Flex
FontAwesome
Git
Grunt
Handlebars.js
HTML5
Illustrator
Ionic
iOS
Jenkins
Jira
JQuery
JSON
Keynote
Laravel
LESS
Logic Studio
Meteor.js
MongoDB
Motion
MySQL
Node.js
Objective-C
Phonegap
Photoshop
PHP
Raphael.js
Scrum
SVG
VirtualBox
X-Code

Other Interests

Wife
Kids
Family
Dogs
Little League
Painting
Illustration
Typography
Djing
Drum Machines
Music Production
Brian Eno
Mötorhead
Miles Davis
Buck Owens