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Ideas and Things


This is where I collect ideas and things that I want to share. There is some stuff that I only share with members. 


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Data and distributed systems architect 


Architect at Datastax where I assist developers and enterprises in making the most of their data




Election Technologist


Experienced in design, security and deployment of voting systems. Experienced in voter registration, pollbook, tabulation, and electronic voting systems.




Societal Technology


Money is a societal technology, so are elections. The nation-state is a societal technology. What life changing societal technologies are being developed and adopted right now?




Theology and Philosophy


Without meaning nothing is worth doing. The best way to get things done is to have a reason to do the things.




Brian helps people become more free by using:  

architecturedesignphilosophytheologyphilosophydata 


With liberty of the human spirit as a guiding principal; I use architecture, design and philosophy to build systems that further human freedom.





Some of Brian’s Experience


Brian has a braod base of experience that includes many different technologies across a wide variety of enterprises




Cloud architect


Brian currently architects and deploys real-time data architectures for the worlds best enterprises using Datastax Astra.




election systems


Brian is experienced in pollbook, voter registration systems, vote-by-mail / remote voting systems and technologies. This experience was gained by a decade of field work with several election companies. 




enterprise strategy


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product management


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