Taurus who enjoys hanging out with his wife, long walks on the beach, learning new things, and building software that makes people's lives easier.

Chief Architect & Technical Co-founder @ At TaskRabbit, we help people get things done. I built and launched the current site, building it from the ground up with Ruby on Rails. I am still coding, in addition to drawing architectural diagrams, as we continue to turn our learnings into a better experience for our users. From December 2009 to Present (6 years 1 month) Software Engineer @ Cakewalk give parents (and other caregivers) ideas for easy-to-implement games, projects and activities for young children — because even supermoms and dads need an assist sometimes. I built the iPhone app for parents to look through the ideas as well as the Rails backend that the team uses to curate the content. From April 2014 to Present (1 year 9 months) Software Engineer @ I've created a few iPhone applications that help people navigate transit (subway, bus, rail) systems in Boston, Austin, Houston, and Dallas. The first one was "to a T" which helps the good people of Boston stay out of the cold for a few minutes longer because they know the closest stop. From August 2009 to Present (6 years 5 months) Software Engineer @ The Lotus Notes client is used by 100 million + people. While at IBM, I was part of the large team that made a leap forward in the user experience and competitiveness of the product, as we transitioned the client into an Eclipse-based platform. I was responsible for design and leadership in large functional areas including search, application development, text analysis, and simple things that turn out to be hard like opening up mail documents. The most rewarding accomplishments were those where I worked with others. I led the team that created APIs to enable business partners to extend the product. I bridged the gap between advanced research and the market by creating the Live Text framework. I worked with Google to build the plugin that allows Google Desktop Enterprise to search Notes content. From August 2004 to November 2009 (5 years 4 months) Extreme Blue Program @ At Extreme Blue, I worked with a small team to develop management and job-scheduling techniques for the emerging grid ecosystem. We developed patent-pending techniques for organizations to add workloads to their latent and transient computing resources and still maintain some semblance of control and predictability. From January 2004 to April 2004 (4 months) Information Architect @ The team wanted to move the applications created by the Corporate Quality Networks group within Intel to a consolidated data warehouse for increased stability and reduced redundancy. I designed and implemented a metadata management system to assist the application developers in this normalization. I also formulated the data standards, cleansing techniques and business processes to ensure data integrity before and after the transition. From January 2002 to May 2002 (5 months) Response Support Team @ The ICN team supports telephone switch installers in the field. At Siemens, I created and managed intranet tools used daily in that role. Notably, I made a searchable documentation application for quickly responding to needs and a task logging system necessary for ISO 9001 compliance. From January 2001 to May 2001 (5 months)

MBA, High Tech Program @ D'Amore-McKim School of Business at Northeastern University From 2006 to 2008 BS, Computer Engineering @ Clemson University From 1999 to 2003 Brian Leonard is skilled in: MySQL, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, Software Development, Agile Methodologies, Databases, Software Engineering, Scalability, C++, Objective-C, iOS development, Java, Android Development, Eclipse