BRIAN MORIARTY Fort Lee, NJ 07024 | 917-548-6650 | btmoriarty@gmail.com | www.linkedin/in/btmoriarty INNOVATION | INTELLIGENT SOLUTIONS | DATA VISUALIZATION | VISUAL DESIGN Ø Versatile open source developer with unique expertise that includes international project management for a top research institution and thought leadership in gesture/interface/adaptive learning technology. Ø Expertise spans financial engineering, STEM educational technology, animation and integrated, inter-disciplinary, data- centric research and application. Ø Excels in a hands-on leadership role; adapts to evolving requirements, and simultaneously motivates and mobilizes research/development teams to accelerates productivity throughout critical milestone project phases. Ø PhD candidate in Systems Engineering and formal professional photographer with clients including Fortune and Wired magazines and placement in the permanent collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum, Parsons School of Design, and the Duke University Center for Documentary Studies. Ski l l s & Exper t i s e Product Management Educational Content Platforms Quantitative Analysis & Modeling Research Design & Execution User Experience (UX) Research 2D/3D Imaging & Animation Next-Gen Technology Infrastructure Data Visualization Career Mile s tones » Leading personalized learning product transformation and intellectual property development at Pearson, building adaptive learning solutions supported by learner data analytics, algorithmic recommendations and alignment to learning content. » Designed graduate-level coursework in data visualization theory/practice, and provided strategic and tactical guidance to students in all aspects of GUI engineering and UX optimization. » Invited to manage implementation teams at Stevens, Deloitte and the University of Zurich on ACTUS, an open- source financial engineering initiative to create an automated trading platform for financial contracts. » Exponentially increased research capacity at Stevens Institute of Technology through leadership of cross-departmental initiative to fund, build and support research infrastructure; increased capacity to over 1000 users and a dozen active studies. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE PEARSON SEPTEMBER 2014- PRESENT Senior Software Product Manager, Personalized Learning and Analytics Perform product and market research on next generation personalized learning experiences to drive the adaptive product development roadmap across an array of disciplines in the product portfolio; Drive development of products through the full product lifecycle from POC research to scalable product integration. Key Contributions » Developing adaptive learning technologies that integrate into the higher education product pipeline, aligning market requirements with the long-term vision for the organization. » Collaborating with Product Strategy team on build, buy, and partnership development and market research efforts. » Partnering with Pearson’s Advanced Computing and Data Science Laboratory to develop future personalized learning products based on learner analytics. » Delivering best in class natively designed and integrated scaled products globally with engineering partners. » Providing guidance to executive management on product strategy and implementation based on detailed market research and competitor analyses. JOHN R. WILEY AND SONS PUBLISHING MARCH – SEPTEMBER 2014 Product Designer, Higher Education Editorial Work with strategic partners across the organization to develop effective digital learning solutions; Manage design efforts for complete product lifecycle for digital courses in adaptive learning platforms. BRIAN MORIARTY | PAGE 2 Fort Lee, NJ 07024 | 917-548-6650 | btmoriarty@gmail.com | www.linkedin/in/btmoriarty Key Contributions » Provide recommendations to strategic acquisitions team on build, buy, and partnership opportunities for higher education learning platforms. » Develop model for integration of adaptive learning technologies into learning platforms across an array of disciplines. » Conduct product research to deliver the most efficient and cost effective implementation methods for adaptive learning products. STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, Hoboken, NJ 2010 - PRESENT Adjunct Professor, School of Systems and Enterprises – Financial Engineering (2012-Present) Teaching Assistant Professor, College of Arts & Lectures (2010 – 2014 Perform advanced educational technology and gamification research and serve as faculty advisor for Stevens’ Center for Healthcare Innovation, and Hanlon Financial Systems Laboratory. Develop course materials in data visualization, digital imaging, animation, and financial engineering and participate in setting the strategic vision for the College and the department. Key Contributions » Tapped to lead multi-site ACTUS project with concurrent phases on three continents, and managed integration, milestone reporting and presentation for Phase II that successfully secured funding for next steps. Java/OpenGamma platform provides risk analysis and automated processing of equity/fixed income transactions. » Secured a $50,000 grant to develop Stevens’ motion capture laboratory; worked closely with Leap Motion executives and Microsoft partners in enhancement and utilization of gesture/interface technology. » Advised systems architecture as part of collaborative development effort with Lockheed Martin for Systems Engineering Research Center and the Smart Cities project. » Created Stereo 3D certification program with Panasonic, as well as web programming courses in HTML 5, CSS 3, Javascript, MySQL and PHP, and a summer research program for Visual Arts and Technology at Stevens. » Course development highlights include: Fundamentals of Information Visualization, Interactive Web Programming, Digital Imaging 1/2/3, Video 1/2 Animation 1/2/3, Principles of 2D Design, 3D Form and Design, Interactive Installations, Data Visualization Applications, Data Visualization Programming for Financial Applications, Data Product Development (in progress). STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, Hoboken, NJ Systems Manager (2008 – 2011) • Adjunct Professor, College of Arts and Letters (2009 – 2010) Stepped in during transitional period for the College and provided administrative and curriculum leadership as Acting Director; accountable for systems management and extensive needs analysis/infrastructure planning efforts with leaders institution-wide. Key Contributions » Designed and deployed a high-density computation system for the High Accuracy Computational Chemistry Group and created a flexible, responsible system architecture for Systems Engineering Visualization, Modeling, and Computation Group. » Renovated and innovated the Visual Arts & Technology Curriculum to align student focus with industry opportunities; initiated a paradigm shift towards comprehensive business/technical acumen, interdisciplinary research, corporate partnerships, and entrepreneurship. » Consulted with colleagues at various stages of research planning to recommend infrastructure, technology, and strategic sourcing options as best-fit options to meet complex current-state and projected needs. System Administrator (2001 – 2008) Recruited in an Assistant capacity and rapidly assumed leadership of a campus-wise initiative to increase capacity, availability and responsiveness of the research infrastructure. Key Contributions » Expanded the program from two to 60 researchers users and from only one active lab to 12 sites in multiple academic disciplines. » Led grant writing and fund allocation that paved the way for significant network and server upgrades including a cluster-based server architecture and 60 TB of SAN storage. BRIAN MORIARTY | PAGE 2 Fort Lee, NJ 07024 | 917-548-6650 | btmoriarty@gmail.com | www.linkedin/in/btmoriarty » Initiated and secured executive sanction/sponsorship for Stevens’ first true researched-based IT group to sustain and expand funded research. BRIAN MORIARTY | PAGE 3 Fort Lee, NJ 07024 | 917-548-6650 | btmoriarty@gmail.com | www.linkedin/in/btmoriarty BRIAN MORIARTY, LLC, Fort Lee, NJ 1998 – Present Owner Provide imaging and project management advisory to companies in the public and private sectors, with business strategy clients that include Genesis Biopharma and the U.S. Department of Defense Research. EDUCATION STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, Hoboken, NJ – School of Systems and Enterprises Ph.D. Candidate, Systems Engineering YALE UNIVERSITY, New Haven, CT – School of Art and Architecture (1996) M.F.A., Photography NEW YORK UNIVERSITY, New York, NY – Tisch School of the Arts (1994) B.F.A., Photography RECENT PUBLICATION & PRESENTATIONS Lennon E.; Moriarty B.; and Zivkovic M.; “Taking It to the Next Interface Level: Advancing Game Design for Higher Education STEM Applications,” Frontiers in Education (FIE) 2014 IEEE Conference Proceedings Madrid, Spain Oct. (2014) http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/FIE.2014.7044061 Moriarty, B.; Lennon, E. Development of Natural-Gesture, Game-Based Environments for Mathematics and STEM Education, World Engineering Education Forum, Cartagena, Colombia, 2013 Moriarty, B.; Lennon, E.; DiCola, F.; Buzby, K.; Manzella, M.; Hromada, E. Utilizing Depth Based Sensors and Customizable Software Frameworks for Experiential Application, Complex Adaptive Systems, Washington, D.C., 2012 Moriarty, B.; Amaba, C.; Moy, Z. Utilizing Explorable Visual Environments for Experiential Applications, Conference on Systems Engineering Research, St. Louis, MO, 2012 TECHNICAL PROFILE IT SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE: Apache, LDAP + Kerberos, Solaris OS + zfs, Unix/Linux/Mac OS, Jira VIDEO: Non-Linear Editing including Final Cut Pro, Grass Valley Edius; S3D including Panasonic 3D cameras VISUALIZATION: Curricular development, Processing Development Environment, d3.js, Gephi, ArcGIS, R Programming, Tableau Desktop WEB PROGRAMMING: Curricular development, HTML5, CSS 3, Javascript, jQuery, JSON