Brian Alvey, Lead Developer
Brian Alvey has specialized in electronic publishing for more than a decade and web application development for nearly as long. He is the creator and host of the successful Meet The Makers conference, a series of talk show-style events “for creative people in a technical world.”
Alvey designed the first TV Guide website in 1995 and was the senior technical member of the in-house team that built the first BusinessWeek site later that year. For Business Week, Alvey designed and developed more than a dozen database-driven web applications including their MBA Search and Comparator and Executive MBA Search and Comparator tools; the Business Week Education Resource Center; Business Week Executive Programs (conferences); applications for advertising and classified posting; and the Business Week Online Reprint Order Tracker.
His Tech-Engine code powers over 200 online career centers including XML.com, the Computer User, O’Reilly & Associates Network, DevShed, and the Cold Fusion Developer’s Journal.
Alvey has built web applications for Intel, J.D. Edwards, Deloitte & Touche, and The McGraw-Hill Companies and has been a consultant to Paine Webber’s Transportation Group, Barter.com, IPCounselors.com, Ramblers.com, and Maven.com. He has also been the art director of three print magazines.
Before joining Happy Cog, Alvey served as the Chief Technology Officer of Rising Tide Studios where he personally developed the Venture Reporter Network, a feature-rich Windows 2000 Intranet application and high-powered Linux- and Perl-based newsletter system that generates and delivers a quarter of a million HTML and text email messages daily.
At Happy Cog Alvey supervises the development of content management, publishing, shopping cart, and mail applications created exclusively for our clientele; advises on creative and technical issues; and provides consulting services to our clients who perform their own backend and database work.
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