Brian K. Holman
2255 W. 390 N.
Provo, Utah 84601
Phone: (801)812-3172
E-mail: me@brianholman.com
Brian Holman is currently Vice President and Chief Information Officer at WebMiles, Inc. Brian is a seasoned information systems professional, computer scientist, author and leader. He has designed, built and deployed commercial information technology solutions for more than 16 years. He has worked with multimedia Internet technologies almost since their inception, and has seven years of mission-critical Internet systems architecture and development experience.
Brian has both a strong management skill set and technical skill set—He is as comfortable in a budget review as a code review. He knows how to navigate the Board Room as well as the Data Center. Brian is as capable in designing a software system as he is a technology business strategy. He is not afraid to role up his sleeves and work side-by-side with his team to accomplish critical goals and has a proven track record for delivering quality results. He has a unique management style that motivates his team to excel. Brian values diversity in thought and background in building productive teams.
Brian remains very hands-on with the latest technologies. He has a very strong background in Enterprise Java (J2EE) development and deployment. Brian has a strong knowledge of XML including data sharing and transformation using XML and related standards such as XSL. He has an extensive background in low-level OS development in UNIX, Linux, and NetWare. Brian also has the experience in managing and deploy enterprise software systems from Oracle, Siebel, and PeopleSoft (Annuncio).
Brian enjoys writing and has co-authored a pioneering book on web application development called Instant JavaScript for Prentice Hall Publishers and has written on Internet-related topics for Visual C++ Developers Journal. He holds a bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Brigham Young University. Brian is also a member of the Business Advisory Council for the Department of Information Systems and Technologies at Weber State University.
- WebMiles, Inc.,
May 2000 - Present
As a member of the executive team for WebMiles, Brian is critical in driving the success of the company through the powerful and focused use of information technology. WebMiles offers a customer loyalty program that is without peer in its industry. The company develops networks that use the most effective long-term loyalty tool—travel—to create value for partners. The WebMiles program is a frequent-buyer program (not a frequent-flier program) that functions within a merchant network of offline and online partners. This program has the look and feel of traditional airline miles programs, but manufactures and resells its own proprietary miles that can be redeemed for unrestricted travel on any world airline. Program members earn miles from program merchants for making everyday purchases and redeem their miles for discounts on airline travel or for free round-trip flights, on any airline, at any time, with no blackout dates or seating restrictions.
Brian and the team he built have developed a patent-pending technology infrastructure that allows for collection of customer demographic, psychographic, and transactional data across a wide range of merchant categories. This data allows WebMiles to develop sharp customer behavior profiles that are utilized to develop unique customer relationship management (CRM) strategies and direct marketing programs with merchant Partners. Ultimately, the WebMiles program allows it to eclipse the capabilities of traditional airline miles programs in richness of data and the ability to target specific data profiles with intelligent one-to-one direct marketing solutions for our partners.
- Novell, Inc., October 1996
- May 2000
Brian was the corporate e-business architect for Novell, Inc. Novell is one of the largest independent software companies with annual revenues of more than one billion dollars. Under Brian's direction, Novell migrated from a monolithic web architecture to an n-tier architecture that allows Novell's corporate web sites to support an average of 1.7 million hits a day. This design was necessary for the successful deployment of Novell's corporate websites and online store on pre-release versions of the NetWare platform.
Brian worked very closely with various software engineering teams within the company to architect and Internet-enable Novell's core operating system platform, directory, and application server to meet the needs of an enterprise-class eBusiness.
Brian also drove the transition of Novell's intranet from a collection of static Web pages to a mission-critical business system at the center of the everyday work experience for Novell's global workforce. This site received the 1999 CIO WebBusiness 50/50 Award and as such is recognized as one of the top 50 corporate intranets.
- Brigham
Young University Libraries, April 1992 - October 1996
For the majority of his time employed by BYU, Brian was a full-time Programmer/Systems Analyst in the Library Information Systems Department. It was during these years that the modern-day Internet and World Wide Web began to emerge as a replacement for the more rudimentary Gopher electronic document delivery system. Brian was very involved with all of these technologies before their commercial popularity. In fact, Brian developed one of the first web-based prototypes to access a library collection. He wrote this as CGI application that used the Z39.50 protocol to access data on an IBM mainframe. He was the creator of the library's first web site in January 1994. Brian also trained the librarians on this new technology and its application to their profession including the online preservation and viewing of special collections.
- Owner, Holman
Software Development, Prior to April 1992 for 7 years
Designed customized business database applications for such companies as auto dealerships, retail stores, non-profit organizations, financial organizations, and so forth.
- Department Manager/Computer Specialist, Radio Shack Franchise, 1986 - 1988
- Author/Column Contributer, Visual C++ Developers Journal,
published by Fawcette Technical Publications
Visual C++ Developers Journal is a Microsoft sanctioned publication for developers using the C++ language with the Microsoft Visual C++ environment. My contribution has focused on XML development in C++.
- Author, Instant
JavaScript, co-authored with William Lund, published by Prentice
Hall's PTR Division, © 1997 , 400 pages
Instant JavaScript's primary focus is to teach Webmasters and application developers how to leverage the strengths of client-side JavaScript, server-side JavaScript, and Java to create dynamic and interactive Web-based applications.