About
Taken on the same day as the Digg Dubb "Groove is in the heart"
Brian is a software technology executive, passionate technologist and creative, lateral thinker who loves building things. With over 17 years working in technology and consulting, he was most recently the technology executive for Digg.com, driving the growth in the company from 200 thousand to 3.5 million users and to over 35 million unique visitors a month, making it one of the most highly trafficked websites in the world.
At Digg, Brian led the engineering team and grew it from 3 to 20 developers and became an expert in adapting process changes for a rapidly evolving technical team. He crafted a custom Agile/Scrum software methodology that scales both the work and the organization itself going forward. Additionally, Brian established and built the QA and R&D teams; creating test-driven processes to integrate QA into the software lifecycle; and building an R&D team that is actively involved in the product roadmap, contributing complex algorithms and prototyping exploratory features that become part of Digg.
Prior to Digg, Brian spent most of his career at Cambridge Technology Partners where he delivered over 20 full life-cycle custom software development projects. His experience includes architectural leadership, project and program management and five years in client delivery management where he was ultimately responsible for all of the projects and accounts in the Midwest.
Brian is now CEO for Toobla.com, an early stage Internet startup in Columbus, Ohio. Toobla has raised $1.2MM in funding and is reinventing the bookmarking space with an easy to use, visual tool that automatically collects your favorite web content and lets you collect, enjoy and share your videos, images, documents, widgets and websites as if it were the iTunes for the web. This is the only tool of its kind on the Internet that lets you pull together and share collections of web content. Toobla lets users collect, enjoy and share anything and everything they find online.
