# Bryant McGill Resume [bryantmcgill.com](https://bryantmcgill.com/) · [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/bryantmcgill/) · Austin/Dallas, Texas · Remote and global travel ### Founder / Global Influence Operations Systems Architect — Simple Reminders / McGill Media — circa 2009–present - Built and operated a software-assisted global influence architecture integrating authored language, content atomization, publishing automation, programmable distribution, visual communication, audience analytics, and cybernetic feedback; see [[projects/Simple Reminders - Global Influence Operations and Information Warfare|Global Influence Operations and Information Warfare]]. - Designed the semantic layer and transmission system that converted canonical source writing into structured linguistic objects, separately addressable quotations and passages, public pages, graphics, feeds, search surfaces, social publications, recurring distribution objects, books, and later publishing forms while preserving source identity and provenance. - Developed automated transformation and distribution infrastructure across websites, RSS, visual publishing, social platforms, books, and related channels; the evolving architecture later included [[projects/XDO - Executable Markdown and Portable Workflows|XDO]] and [[projects/AutoSites - Folder-Native Publishing and Distribution|AutoSites]]. - Operated the communication system as a cybernetic loop—compose, encode, transform, distribute, observe, interpret, adapt, and redistribute—using behavioral response as an instrument without treating engagement as truth. - Applied computational linguistics, natural-language processing, information retrieval, automation, message iteration, audience observation, and systems analysis to narrative propagation and population-scale response. - Extended the work into strategic communications, influence operations, narrative intelligence, cognitive security, adversarial narrative analysis, provenance, channel integrity, and information-warfare applications, with architectural continuity into contemporary AI-mediated communication systems without recasting the earlier deterministic systems as language models. - Built an organically developed network exceeding 12 million direct subscribers; preserved native Facebook analytics record [[about/statistics|50.1 billion impressions and 1.2 billion engagements]] across the represented network. - Produced individual publications at exceptional scale, including a May 2014 publication that reached 26,370,048 people and recorded 584,066 shares. - Converted network-scale influence into conventional publishing outcomes: *Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life* reached number two on a Nielsen BookScan-based *Wall Street Journal* nonfiction e-book list and number 46 on *USA Today*'s national Top 150 in 2015. **Selected contemporary records:** [[sources/bryant-mcgill__facebook__network-analytics__circa-2016__50-billion-impressions-1-billion-engagements.png|ᴘɴɢ]] · [[sources/bryant-mcgill__sprout-social__group-analytics__2014-2018__52-billion-impressions-233-million-link-clicks.png|ᴘɴɢ]] · [[sources/bryant-mcgill__facebook__viral-post-analytics__2014-05-25__26-million-reach-584-thousand-shares.png|ᴘɴɢ]] · [[sources/bryant-mcgill__wall-street-journal__bestseller-list__2015-05-28__simple-reminders-number-2-nonfiction-ebooks.png|ᴘɴɢ]] · [[sources/bryant-mcgill__usa-today__bestseller-list__2015-05-28__simple-reminders-number-46.png|ᴘɴɢ]] [[sources/bryant-mcgill__usa-today__bestseller-list__2015-05-28__simple-reminders-number-46.pdf|ᴘᴅꜰ]] ### President & Chief Research Scientist — Computational Scientific Laboratories — beginning in 2001 ![[resources/images/computational-scientific-laboratories-banner.png]] - Our goal was to apply data science practices to information, communications, automation, publishing, and data reusability / abstraction in SaaS systems. - Led an operational computational and scientific research organization financed through reusable software intellectual property, hosted application systems, commercial deployments, licensing, hosting, and vertical information systems. - Directed historically supported research and development in computational linguistics and natural-language processing, artificial intelligence adjacent NLP, learning-machine work, bioinformatics, search and information retrieval, advanced data modeling, compression, parallel computing, communications, networking, and complex simulations. - Directed the Web Application Server Platform (WASP) as the reusable application, commercialization, and delivery substrate for dynamic database-backed systems with shared runtime services, account context, configurable presentation, and reusable navigation. - Productized reusable software including `pro.pm`, `keydb.pm`, `ip2location.pm`, `fusionchart.pm`, Component-Based Theme Builder, and PageBuilder Pro with embedded-distribution, deployment, licensing, and source-retention models. - Developed and delivered systems spanning content management, customer service, intranets, inventory, e-commerce, project management, search and retrieval, and other business and institutional applications. - Led government, university, educational, nonprofit, automotive, and commercial deployments for organizations including Kootenai County, the City of Liberty Lake, Coeur d'Alene Airport, YMCA Spokane, Wendle Motors, and Gonzaga University. - Absorbed Webiness clients, personnel, software and intellectual property, hosting operations, and technical assets into CSL, moving customer sites to CSL head-end servers while expanding the operation beyond Web design and hosting. - Integrated multimillion dollar compute estate that included high-end RAID storage, Compaq rack systems, and components of parallel-compute infrastructure. **Selected contemporary records:** [[sources/spokane-journal-of-business-webiness-ceases-web-design-hosting-services-undated.png|ᴘɴɢ]] [[sources/spokane-journal-of-business-webiness-ceases-web-design-hosting-services-undated.pdf|ᴘᴅꜰ]] · [[sources/webiness-csl-02-csl-about-2001-12-09.png|ᴘɴɢ]] [[sources/webiness-csl-02-csl-about-2001-12-09.pdf|ᴘᴅꜰ]] · [[sources/csl-executive-staff-bryant-mcgill-2001-12-09.png|ᴘɴɢ]] [[sources/webiness-csl-03-csl-executive-staff-2001-12-09.pdf|ᴘᴅꜰ]] · [[sources/webiness-csl-04-csl-clients-2001-12-09.png|ᴘɴɢ]] [[sources/webiness-csl-04-csl-clients-2001-12-09.pdf|ᴘᴅꜰ]] · [[sources/webiness-csl-05-csl-products-2001-10-26.png|ᴘɴɢ]] [[sources/webiness-csl-05-csl-products-2001-10-26.pdf|ᴘᴅꜰ]] · [[sources/csl-wasp-homepage-corporate-overview-undated.png|ᴘɴɢ]] · [[sources/computational-scientific-laboratories-logo-source.png|ᴘɴɢ]] ### Chief Technology Officer; later Owner / Operator — Webiness — 2000–2001 - Served first as Chief Technology Officer after leaving Artesian Direct, overseeing Web development, hosting infrastructure, software systems, technical personnel, client services, budgets, profitability assessment, product planning, and delivery. - Directed operational Web systems for automotive inventory and financing, employment and applicant management, real-estate listing ingestion, utilities, commerce, education, and community organizations. - Built high-availability server-side and enterprise systems using Perl, mod_perl, Apache, Delphi/Pascal, JavaScript, PHP, and related Web technologies. - Subsequently took over Webiness as owner/operator and absorbed its customer relationships, infrastructure, personnel, hosting operation, and software base into Computational Scientific Laboratories. **Selected contemporary records:** [[sources/spokane-journal-of-business-webiness-ceases-web-design-hosting-services-undated.png|ᴘɴɢ]] [[sources/spokane-journal-of-business-webiness-ceases-web-design-hosting-services-undated.pdf|ᴘᴅꜰ]] · [[sources/spokane-journal-of-business-daines-buys-building-for-startups-undated.png|ᴘɴɢ]] [[sources/spokane-journal-of-business-daines-buys-building-for-startups-undated.pdf|ᴘᴅꜰ]] · [[sources/webiness-csl-07-webiness-company-2001-02-15.png|ᴘɴɢ]] [[sources/webiness-csl-07-webiness-company-2001-02-15.pdf|ᴘᴅꜰ]] · [[sources/webiness-csl-08-webiness-portfolio-2001-02-06.png|ᴘɴɢ]] [[sources/webiness-csl-08-webiness-portfolio-2001-02-06.pdf|ᴘᴅꜰ]] · [[sources/webiness-csl-01-webiness-homepage-2003-02-03.png|ᴘɴɢ]] [[sources/webiness-csl-01-webiness-homepage-2003-02-03.pdf|ᴘᴅꜰ]] · [[sources/webiness-website-navigation-splash-2000-10-18.png|ᴘɴɢ]] ### Chief Technology Officer — Artesian Direct — 2000 - Served as Chief Technology Officer during Artesian Direct's development as a broadband, Internet-appliance, multimedia, and technology-commercialization company. - Worked within a nine-member executive and board environment described in archived company materials as representing more than 150 years of cumulative technology-industry experience and $5.25 billion in combined technology sales. - Worked alongside industry figures including Bernard Daines, cofounder of Grand Junction Networks and founder of Packet Engines; Gerry Sumner of Delta Marketing; President and COO Cristopher G. Hollingsworth; and corporate/legal executive Robert Van Siclen. - Directed technology architecture, engineering evaluation, product-development planning, and technical strategy across broadband networking, distributed computing, Internet appliances, server-side systems, multimedia delivery, and emerging fiber-access applications. - Applied parallel-computing infrastructure to video-over-IP appliances and supporting systems associated with Grant County Public Utility District's Zipp fiber-optic network. - Developed printer drivers and head-end systems supporting automated supply replenishment and worked in the Liberty Lake technology environment surrounding World Wide Packets, Gigabit Ethernet, optical-access networking, set-top systems, and broadband application infrastructure. - Participated in technical-personnel management, engineering integration, budgets, profitability analysis, acquisition evaluation, and executive-level technology decisions before leaving within the first several months of 2000. **Selected contemporary records:** [[sources/artesian-direct-management-team-2001-02-14|ᴍᴅ]] ### Developer Support Engineer / Executive Technology Consultant — Borland / Inprise — April 1998 – 1999 - Served as President of the Delphi Developer's Guild and held a visible position within the Borland/Delphi developer ecosystem. - Entered through the formal Developer Support Engineer role, supporting Delphi developers, investigating difficult technical issues, reproducing failures, interpreting documentation, and guiding escalation or repair. - Consulted regularly with two sitting Borland chief executives and the Vice President of Business Development on technical and developer-community business strategy; “Executive Technology Consultant”; functional assignment rather than the original HR title. - Worked directly with developer-community leaders, engineers, technical authors, and senior Borland personnel while routine support obligations were substantially reduced during the executive-consulting assignment. - Continued developing VersePerfect and the larger [[projects/Ten Years Building a Symbolic Language Engine|Symbolic Language Engine]] as active computational-linguistics, natural-language-processing, symbolic-AI, corpus-engineering, and information-retrieval work. - Pursued technical interests in linguistics, artificial intelligence adjacent NLP, compression, neural networks and pattern recognition, self-improving code, learning machines, complex systems, cybernetics. ### Founder / Owner — McGill Engineering / Lionheart — approximately 1990–2001 - Owned and operated an engineering, software-development, and Internet-systems practice providing custom software, computer systems, networking, Internet infrastructure, consulting, training, hardware, connectivity, databases, and information systems. - Began with business-computing engagements: specified and assembled custom PCs, installed office networks, built shared multi-user databases for law firms and other companies using FoxPro and Claris FileMaker Pro, deployed shared ACT! systems, maintained systems under contract, and trained users. - Operated McGill Engineering and its Lionheart company structure from the Triad Center while performing the Intelenet and U.S. Senate-facing work as a major concurrent engagement. - Developed Internet and TCP/IP systems, Linux and Perl infrastructure, content-management and information-retrieval tools, software applications, and technical services that continued through Webiness and CSL. - Continued Linux, Perl, search, retrieval, and WebGlimpse experimentation with Trevor Gillette Smith in Spring City during 1996 after the Triad operation ended. - Intensively developed the language-processing architecture begun in 1994 into VersePerfect and the larger [[projects/Ten Years Building a Symbolic Language Engine|Symbolic Language Engine]], spanning computational linguistics, NLP, information retrieval, symbolic AI, knowledge representation, corpus engineering, and specialized retrieval. - Delivered executive Internet-adoption seminars and client consulting, including work with Covey Leadership Center and Franklin Quest while the organizations were coming together, helping the emerging group establish itself on the Web before the formal 1997 FranklinCovey merger. - Built reusable low-dependency software and portable server infrastructure that continued into later systems, including [[projects/Shazam - A Portable Perl Capability Library|Shazam]]. ### Technical Architect — Triad Center engagement; later Intelenet Inc. — approximately 1993–early June 1996 - Architected and integrated the [[projects/U.S. Senate Global Media Intelligence and Retrieval System|U.S. Senate Global Media Intelligence and Retrieval System]] within a Senate-facing institutional information environment. - Connected more than 200 international television channels and live broadcast/satellite feeds to closed-caption extraction, multilingual text processing, source/time association, continuous indexing, and rapid search and retrieval. - Used Perl on a custom Red Hat Linux build as the principal implementation and integration environment across heterogeneous text, file, database, broadcast, and retrieval systems. - Integrated a retrieval toolchain including dtSearch, Glimpse, Folio Views / Infobase, and Symantec Q&A. - Worked in a heterogeneous technical environment involving satellite feeds, telecommunications infrastructure, NeXT and Silicon Graphics systems, early Internet connectivity, search, compression, and experimental Linux deployments. - Built and presented early demonstrations while John “Fred” Adamson originated the Senate engagement and managed institutional relationships. - Performed the engagement while operating McGill Engineering/Lionheart from the same Triad Center environment. ### Data Processing Technician — U.S. Navy — beginning circa 1989 - Completed Data Processing Technician Class “A” School in San Diego in December 1989. - Worked as a government-certified data-systems specialist for the Commander, U.S. Pacific Fleet in the CINCPAC/COMPACFLT Headquarters building on Makalapa Hill, Hawaii. - Developed ancillary systems for the Department of Defense's Worldwide Military Command and Control System. - Operated Honeywell DPS6 H6000 mainframe systems inside the high-security computer compartment and worked with cryptologists, tape-library systems, microfiche film, and input/output operations. - Delivered computer-produced and physical messages through the headquarters complex to command recipients supporting COMPACFLT flag officers. - Applied controlled-access, reliability, communications-discipline, and operational-continuity practices in a consequential institutional environment. - Operated a Hawaii bulletin-board network remembered as serving approximately 3,000 members. - Discharged under honorable conditions. ### Sales Associate — RadioShack / Tandy — approximately December 1985–November 1986 - Hired at sixteen after the store obtained a corporate exception to RadioShack's eighteen-year minimum-age policy; became the youngest person the company had hired. - Explained personal computers to customers and helped them select systems and components suited to what they wanted to build or learn. - Assisted electronics hobbyists in finding capacitors, breadboards, and other project components and explained their functions and use. - Translated customers' practical goals into understandable technical choices at the point of purchase.