Ryan Brown's Curriculum Vitae

Ryan Brown is currently the President and CEO of Base 16 Consulting, Inc., which he co-founded in 2003, and the Principal at his law firm, Ryan A. Brown, PLLC which he founded in 2007.

To contact Ryan, please email ryan@catalina.org. Please do not send unsolicited advertisements for products or services.

CAREER OBJECTIVE

My current goals are to continue working with small and medium sized businesses, as well as start up companies which are working to acquire venture capital, to provide both technical and legal expertise.

BAR AFFILIATIONS
Virginia State Bar, Admitted April 26, 2007.
Supreme Court of Virginia, Admitted June 4, 2007.
Arlington County Bar Association, June, 2007.
Fairfax County Bar Association, June, 2007.

EDUCATION

GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW, ARLINGTON, VA (8/2003 - 12/2006)

• Juris Doctorate, Magna Cum Laude, December, 2006
• GPA: 3.56
• Class Rank: Top 10%
• Concentrations in: Small Business Law, Taxation, Intellectual Property, Trusts & Estate Planning

THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY, BALTIMORE, MD (9/1996 - 05/2002)

• 2002 Masters of Science and Engineering in Computer Science
• 2000 Bachelor of Science in Computer Science with departmental and school of Engineering honors, GPA 3.71 / 3.90 in Computer Science
• 2000 Bachelor of Arts in Spanish
• Dean's List Spring 1997, Fall 1997, Spring 1998, Fall 1998, Spring 1999, Fall 1999, Spring 2000, Spring 2001
• Tau Beta Pi, Inducted Fall 1998
• Upsilon Pi Epsilon, Inducted Spring 2000
• Member, Association for Computing Machinery

LAGUNA BLANCA SCHOOL, SANTA BARBARA, CA (2/94 - 6/96)

• Graduated Cum Laude, June 1996
• GPA 4.67
• Headmaster's Honor Roll 1994, 1995, 1996

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA BARBARA, CA (Summer '95, '96, '97)

• GPA 3.90

WORK EXPERIENCE

RYAN A. BROWN, PLLC, ARLINGTON, VA (6/2007 - present)
Attorney at Law

• Practice Areas:Start up and Venture Business Law; Small Business Planning; Computer and Internet Law; Computer Crimes; Tax Planning; Wills, Trusts & Estate Planning.
• Web Site: http://www.rabpllc.com

BASE 16 CONSULTING, INC., ARLINGTON, VA (6/2003 - present)
President & CEO

• I co-founded Base 16 Consulting in 2003 with two of my colleagues from the Graduate School of Computer Science at Johns Hopkins University. Our main focus is providing custom web based applications and consulting in web, search engine and information retrieval technologies. Please see http://www.base16consulting.com for more information.

ROANOKE TECHNOLOGY CORP, ROANOKE RAPIDS, NC (6/1999 - 6/2003)
Chief Technology Officer

• I began working with David Smith, the CEO and Founder of RTC in 1995, and was hired full time as the Chief Technology Officer in 1999.
• During my tenure, I lead the development of a number of products and services for over 8,000 clients, including:
  • Top-10 Promotions: Web site marketing software and service
  • RTC Hosting: Web hosting and e-commerce system
  • RFQ Hosting: Web-based business procurement software
• RTC is traded on the NASDAQ OTCBB under the symbol RNKE.

TERAGRAM CORPORATION, BOSTON, MA (6/98 - 8/98)
Software Engineer

• Program Design & Implementation
  • Design & Implementation of Natural Language Systems, and Information Storage, Retrieval & Gathering Systems.
    The project I worked on while employed as an intern at Teragram Corporation was PicoSearch. If you need a search engine for your web site, there is nothing better or easier.

    My duties included the implementation of the first version of the software, design of original business model and marketing strategies, and drafting the first version of the patent (now US Patent# 6,336,116).

CATALINA CONSULTING, SANTA BARBARA, CA (7/93 - present)
President & Systems Consultant

• I founded this business when I was 14. For information on some of my recent projects, click here.

DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE, JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY, BALTIMORE, MD (9/1997 - 5/2002)
Teaching Assistant

• Intro. to Java (600.107) Fall '97
• Data Structures in Java (600.226) Spring '98
• Database Systems (600.315/600/415) Fall '98, Fall '99, Fall '00, Fall '01
• Information Retrieval, Text Understanding & Web Agents (600.466) Spring '99, Spring '00, Spring '01, Spring '02

AUTOMATED TRANSACTION SERVICES LOS ANGELES, CA (5/97 - 8/97)
UNIX Systems Administrator

• Technical Support for UNIX
• Design & Implementation of Online Commerce & Security Software

MERCURY MAIL, a division of COMPUVISION, SANTA BARBARA, CA (5/95 - 1/99)
Partner, Technical Coordinator

• Duties: Mercury Mail provides a gateway of Internet e-mail to the Microsoft Mail & Microsoft Exchange mail platform. We provide mail service to dozens of businesses in Santa Barbara, California, eliminating the need for a leased internet line at each site, and integrating their existing network e-mail systems with the Internet.

VOLUNTEER WORK

CHRIST CHURCH OF ARLINGTON, ARLINGTON, VA (9/2002 - 5/2003)
ESL Teacher

• I was in charge of teaching English to beginning level students through the church's English as a Second Language outreach program.

FAITH CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP CHURCH, BALTIMORE, MD (1/2001 - 7/2002)
Computer and Network Consulting

• I donated networking equipment, my time, and a DSL line to the Church. I set up a network in the church office, with plans to extend it to the Church School in the future.

BALTIMORE RADIO AMATEUR TELEVISION SOCIETY, BALTIMORE, MD (10/96 - present)
Net Control for the Computer Net

• Duties: I run a weekly computer question & answer 'net' on the local repeater, an also help with community service events from time to time.

JHU AMATEUR RADIO CLUB (WA3EPT), BALTIMORE, MD (10/96 - present)
Secretary & Treasurer, Co-Founder

• My friend Ben Kram (KC2CIB) and I re-started the JHU Amateur Radio Club. We are working on helping new people get involved in Amateur Radio, working on some innovative projects like wireless digital communications, and getting ready to help with emergency communications in the event of a natural disaster.

COASTAL CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP, SANTA BARBARA, CA (8/95 - 8/96) Monthly Newsletter Publisher

• Duties: Graphic design, layout & printing of the monthly newsletter.

THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY, BALTIMORE, MD (2/95 - present)

• Blue Key Society (2/97 - 5/2000)
  • sponsored by the Office of Admissions
  • responsible for campus tours and information sessions
• Admissions Representative Program (9/99 - 5/2000)
  • sponsored by the Office of Admissions
  • responsible for on-campus interviews of prospective students, participation in student panels during Admissions events

SPECIAL SKILLS:

• Legal expertise in small business and corporate governance, taxation, intellectual property, trust and estate planning.
• Extensive expertise in Information Retrieval, Natural Language Processing, Information Extraction, and Artificial Intelligence techniques for language processing, understanding and acquisition.
• Expertise in Computer and Network Security including digital payment systems, digital cash systems, computer privacy and network and software systems security analysis.
• Proficiency in Spanish for business and personal communications
• Superior abilities in oral and written communications, including thinking on my feet, public speaking, and speech and presentation writing
• Database Creation, Management & Administration expertise with Oracle, mSQL, PostgreSQL & miniSQL, using SQL, QBE, embedded Perl, C & Java
• Programming experience: ANSI C, C++, Objective C, Pascal, BASIC, PERL, PHP, Java, X-Windows programming (Motif), SQL, ML & MIPS Assembly
• Extensive Linux Systems Administration Experience
• Excellent mathematics and computer skills
• Great desire to help and teach others
• Eager to learn anything, especially languages, computers and mathematics

COURSE WORK SINCE SUMMER 1996:

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Last updated November 19, 2007.