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May 9, 2008
 



Brice Dunwoodie - President

Brice is the President and co-founder of Cylogy, Inc. Brice has been instrumental in forming Cylogy's consulting services departments and Cylogy's primary lines of business.

Brice has spent the previous nine years at such companies as Oracle Corporation, Andromedia, Inc., and Macromedia, Inc. During his time at Oracle Brice led the global readiness and deployment of customer service for the Oracle Video Server product and worked with such prestigious clients as British Telecom, New Brunswick Telephone, Sky Television, and SingTel.

While at Macromedia, Brice consulted with a number of Macromedia's top-tier clients and contributed numerous white papers on topics such as Advanced Personalization Techniques, Integrating Dynamic Personalization with J2EE Applications, and Distributed Web Applications. His Macromedia client engagements included Chase Manhattan Bank, Checkout.com, BroadbandSports.com, Blockbuster Video, IBM Global Services, and Union Bank of Switzerland.

Brice has been an active entrepreneur and small, information technology business owner for over ten years. He has been a contributing member to Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility, is a member of the Asilomar Institute for Information Architecture, and maintains the CMSWire web magazine, an online resource for content management industry professionals. Brice received his B.S. degree in Psychology and Computer Science from California State University, San Luis Obispo.



Ryan Bennett - Director, Principal Architect
Ryan is director of Technology, Principal Architect, and a co-founder of Cylogy, Inc. Prior to forming Cylogy, Ryan was a Principal Consultant in Macromedia's e-Business Solutions Group. While at Macromedia Ryan architected and deployed numerous enterprise data management systems related to e-commerce and personalization and provided a variety of application development consulting services to both start-ups and Fortune 1000 customers.

Previous to Macromedia, Ryan spent over 4 years at Oracle Corporation were he undertook a number of responsibilities from supporting top-tier RDBMS customers such as AT&T and the US Department of Defense to his role as Senior Project Manager for the Oracle Application Server and Oracle Message Broker products. In his position as Senior Project Manager Ryan led global support rollouts of new products, led inter-organization product readiness initiatives, and served as technical lead for pre-release product acceptance testing.

Ryan obtained degrees in both Computer Science and Economics from Stetson University in Deland, Florida.



Tom Wills - Director
Tom Wills is an e-business strategist, marketer, and entrepreneur who for 20 years has taken innovative information products and services from concept to reality. His career spans established global brands such as HP and Visa – as well as startups such as CommerceNet and Globe ID. Tom is a recognized thought leader in the fields of Internet payments and digital identity.

Tom's role with Cylogy is to ensure that each customer’s business needs remain front and center in crafting and implementing Cylogy’s technology solutions.

Prior to joining Cylogy, as a founding partner at LIFT-OFF, Tom provided strategic international business development and marketing consulting to numerous emerging technology and e-business ventures.
At HP and GlobeID, he forged strategic alliances and mergers, managed pilots, and led standards efforts involving e-business technology companies and other players in the Internet commerce value chain: financial institutions, payment processors, certificate authorities, major merchants, and others.

While at Visa Tom played a central role in the conception, development, and management of several key credit card fraud control services which remain in operation today.

Tom is a contributing writer for the Digital ID World web magazine, and has spoken in the press and at industry forums around the world on such topics as “how to secure payments over the Internet”, “putting revenue before presence in global market expansion,” and “the American system of venture capital”.



Brian Yamanaka - Director
As a director in the Cylogy team, Brian contributes to the best practices and technical direction of Cylogy's consulting teams. Brian has twelve years of engineering and project management experience. He is an expert in C++ and has an excellent understanding of Java, JSP's, Java Beans, and J2EE Portal and Application servers. Prior to joining Cylogy, Brian was a founding member of BigTribe Corporation. As the lead engineer for BigTribe's mobile location based service platform, he developed EJB's while managing a diverse development team.

Previous to BigTribe, Brian was the Sr. Project Manager for Macromedia's product integration team. In this role he provided guidance, engineering skills, and training materials to ensure the success of LikeMinds Personalization Server integration with IBM's WebSphere product line. Additionally, while at Macromedia Brian managed numerous large-scale web application integration efforts for enterprise level customers such as Checkout.com, NetFlix, and Z-Gravity.

As a founding engineer at Sentius, Brian completed the architecture and developed a CD-ROM and Internet multi-player game using Macromedia's Director and Java for Macintosh and Windows platforms. He received a patent for his work at Sentius where he developed a method for quickly assessing dense multimedia hyperlinks.

Brian also received a patent for his work at Sony Corporation where he developed a new human interface for media control which received a corporate award. Brian graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a B.S. degree in Computer Engineering.

 
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