Ben Morss's Email & Phone Number

💼 Past Experience

Experience:Developer Advocate and MusicianRock musician and web developer with experience in both back-end and front-end programming.Designer at New York Times percussion player/songwriter and full-stack developer at AOL. Freelance web developer at Self-Employed helping make New York Times.com happen!Assistant Professor at Concordia College designing and secure funding for new courses in music documentary development, automated speech recognition and more.SingularPTS created and won faculty approval for new courses in music documentary development, automated speech recognition and more.

🎓 Education

Ben Morss received his PhD in Music Composition from University of California Davis in 2016. His research focused on developing a new music notation system that uses Supplementary Data Formats (SDF), an open standard for file encoding and communication of music data.Since completing his doctoral studies, Morss has been working as a composer and music computer scientist for multiple startups and canonical music publishers. He has 12 years of experience as a composer and music computer scientist,10 of which were spent at two startups. He is currently subscribed to the Ocaml programming language and theothalamus project.Background: Ben Morss is currently a composer and music computer scientist. He received his PhD in Music Composition from University of California Davis in 2016. Morss's research focused on developing a new music notation system that uses Supplementary Data Formats (SDF), an open standard for file encoding and communication of music data. In his previous work, Morss focused on developing a music notation system for use with openAL and the GIMP.

💡 Technical & Interpersonal Skills

Ben Morss holds a B.S. in Music from Joe Peek University (2007). While at Joe Peek University, he was a web developer for a company providing web services for schools. After leaving that company, he worked for a software development company that included a few projects in the areas of web development and marketing. He then spent one year working for AOL, where he did software development and user support work. From there, he went to work at New York Times as a software developer, working on various site projects. After a year there, he moved to Plum Voice as a web developer, working on various projects related to automated telephony and web interfaces. In December of 2011, he left Plum Voice to become a self-employed web developer. In March of 2012, he started a new course at Concordia College in Bronxville, New York, titled "MusicMetrics: Making Sense of the Music Industry." This course was originally designed to teach students about music industry data and metrics, but it has since morphed into a course about creating music. In July of 2013, he started a security course for Concordia College. In September of 2015, he started a course on music notation. In January of 2016, he started a course on composing music. In March of 2016, he started a course on telephone-based applications for banking and healthcare clients. In July of 2016, he started a course on web architecture. In December of 2016, he started a course on web developer management.One of the main things that Ben Morss has mastered is his interpersonal skills. He is often able to get along with people well, and is very good at problem solving. Additionally, he is also a great teacher, able to teach others how to code and how to design websites.