Kelly M. Brant                                     650.387.2576 | Palo Alto, CA
                                                   kelly.miller.brant@gmail.com

## Engineering Director | Systems & Software
Lead teams that consistently deliver on their commitments

Seasoned executive with expertise managing product development from inception
through launch.

  • Technology Leadership    • Project Management    • Startup Operations
  • Systems Engineering      • Budget Management     • Business Planning

## Experience

Veredus, Seaside CA
  Sr. Java Developer, Application Development	                   May 2013 – Now
    Provide contract java development services to the Department of Defense.
    Work with product owners to convert business rules into business logic.
    Refactor legacy code and develop new code on a standard java stack
    (Oracle 11g, WebLogic, Spring) and in a standard java development
    environment (eclipse, jUnit, maven).

LearnFind Online, Redwood City CA
  Consultant, System Refactoring                            Nov 2012 – Apr 2013
    Review LearnFind's current backend data importer and recommend system
    updates that use current tools (stable, supported). Install and
    configure Hadoop to run Map/Reduce functions that (i) process large data
    feeds and (ii) serialize results for further consumption by a key:value
    store. Refactor language processing to extend service features.

Swarmin, Palo Alto CA
  Consultant, Outsource Methodology                                    Nov 2012
    Assessed Swarmin’s current engineering efforts and recommended an
    appropriate methodology. Presented a brief overview of Scrum and
    Kanban.

Iron Dragonfly, Palo Alto CA
  Coach, Professional Performance                                    2011 – Now
    Coach individuals on issues related to job performance and personal
    effectiveness.

Sofia University, Palo Alto CA
  Graduate Student, Masters Program - Psychology                    2010 – 2012
    Began graduate studies part time, moving to full time at the end of
    SonicSwap's acquisition by Raditaz. My primary area of interest was the
    individual’s impact on group performance and visa-versa.

SonicSwap, Palo Alto CA
  Vice President, Product Development                               2005 – 2011
    Managed all java, php software development projects. Analyzed web
    application  systems, synthesized architectures, contributed to and
    managed engineering of architectures that reduce cost (60%), improved
    uptime (from crashes per day to crash-free months), and improved web
    performance (50x.) Managed domestic and offshore (India) engineering.
    Refactored application: i18n, decoupled XML processing and moved to
    AWS, decoupled metadata processing and moved to Flex, and migrated 95%
    of MySQL data to key:value store. Managed technology transfer and
    integration during company acquisition (Raditaz.)

XINC Media Engines, Palo Alto CA
  President                                                         2001 – 2005
    Developed prototype for multi-car synchronized audio playback and
    light show. Collaborated with a partner company (KeyUp) on R&D for a
    home jukebox (hard drive).

PortalPlayer, Santa Clara CA
  Technical Marketing Director, Embedded Systems                    2000 – 2001
    Managed three groups: pre-sales engineering support, publications, and
    application engineering. Created and delivered distributor training
    (Asia-Pacific) for new embedded system products. Advised customers
    during the pilot-project manufacturing phase.

C Level Design, San Jose CA
  Technical Marketing Manager, Design Methodology                   1998 – 2000
    Managed issue tracking, feature requests and product backlog priority.
    Delivered technical sales training (worldwide) for the company's
    compiler and its associated C-based hardware modeling methodology.

Niwa, Palo Alto CA
  Vice President, Operations                                        1997 – 1998
    Managed engineers (Hong Kong) to complete die procurement, industrial
    design, microcontroller firmware and PCB for health and fitness
    personal monitoring devices.

National Semiconductor, Santa Clara CA
  Technical Marketing Manager, PC Products                          1995 – 1997
    Researched industry developments and recommend product strategy for
    personal computer ICs. Created and delivered sales training for new
    products (IC).

  Marketing Engineer, Federal Contracts                             1993 – 1995
    Managed proposal process for joint public/private R&D projects in the
    areas of radiation tolerant commercial VLSI processes, smart sensing
    munitions and information security.

  Applications Engineer, Graphics Products                          1990 – 1993
    Designed and fabricated graphics cards (PCB) for new graphics ICs,
    including marketing collateral: documentation, software, hardware
    kits, and tutorials. Wrote a compiler (C) to compile device driver
    routines (x86 assembly) into simulation test vectors (Verilog.)

Biomedical Data Systems, Arlington TX
  Software Engineer, Digital Image Processing                       1988 – 1989
    Ported application from proprietary frame work (Pascal) to Windows
    (C). Built high performance image processing routines (x86 assembly.)
    Refactored motion detection and measurement subsystem to meet
    performance requirements (100x improvement).

## Education

BS Electrical Engineering                                                  1988
University of Texas at Arlington
(ΤΒΠ/Tau Beta Pi; ΗΚΝ/Eta Kappa Nu)

Continuing Studies                                                  2007 – 2009
Stanford University
(Intro to Heidegger; Mandarin 1,2,3)

Master of Transpersonal Psychology                                         2012
Sofia University, Palo Alto

## Certification

Certified Scrum Master (CSM)                                               2011
Scrum Alliance

## Service

United States Army                                                  1978 – 1982
Sergeant, Infantry