brainBio = md`# Brian Hafer
_G.S.D. (Get St*ff Done)_
## about
Brian has 20 years of international experience stretching from Silicon
Valley to Milan to Paris helping companies grow and transform in the
digital domain. Whether it is pursuing venture funding, recruiting a
team and establishing a development process, or launching a new
initiative, Brian is there to tie together technical strategy, software
methodology, and business goals while placing utmost importance on
producing results through a high "do-to-say ratio." As a veteran
architect, Brian has built products in core technologies including
mobile, web, and cloud, online video, and machine learning.
Brian has been on the forefront of major technology trends of the 21st
century. Whether creating cutting edge online capabilities for an award
winning ecommerce company in San Francisco that eventually led to a
Nasdaq IPO. Or bringing video games online in the era of the MMOGs
(Massive Multiplayer Online Games). Or speaking at San Francisco's
Moscone Center on the migration of data centers to the cloud. Or
obtaining a patent for online video measurement technology.
Brian is ready to provide plug-and-play expertise to organizations for
initiatives around myriad topics such as scalability, offshoring,
technical and security architecture, financing and acquisition, or
digital value strategy.
## highlights, projects and companies
- Geoxell, CTO - omnichannel services startup at the intersection of
mobile, geolocation, bluetooth beacons, web2.0, social, and online
- TubeMogul.com, VP of Technology - online video distribution system and
real-time video ad buying platform had a Nasdaq IPO and acquired by Adobe
- Emergent Game Technologies, Director - in the era of World of
Warcraft, built business intelligence and data mining tools for scaling
MMOGs (massively multiplayer online games)
- RedEnvelope, Manager - led the team building award-winning ecommerce
applications, from company launch through successful Nasdaq IPO
## interests:
gamification, fashion and retail, distributed systems and
crypto/blockchain, sweet sweet pow!
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