Bryan Buschmann

" I take pride in developing solutions. These are always efficient, accessible, and functional. Combining personal brilliance with this pride I will storm the interactive entertainment industry and become a legend. "

Contact Information:

E-mail:

designer@torchdragon.com

Social Networks:

LinkedIn

Twitter

Academic Accomplishments

A.A.S: Digital Design - Computer Graphics - 2006

2-year degree from Montgomery County Community College. Curriculum consists of traditional art skills with a focus on development of assets for output in both digital and print mediums.

Certification: A+ - 2001

Knowledge certification covering a wide variety of basic hardware troubleshooting and repair tasks for desktop, laptop, and printer hardware.

Employment History

Programmer / Analyst - TVG, Inc. ( February 2008 to Present )

Software creation, integration, and maintenance. Projects focus on task and workflow automation, meaningful data collection, and data analysis. Recently assumed responsibilites of previous Systems Administrator and I.T. Director in addition to programming tasks.

Website: http://www.tvg-inc.com

Administrator / Developer - Adams-Bickel Associates, Inc. ( August 2005 to February 2008 )

Systems administration and application development for a General Contractor. Responsible for infrastructure uptime, systems maintenance, and development of new applications to facilitate day to day tasks.

Website: http://www.adamsbickel.com

Help Desk Administrator - Franklin Electronic Publishers, Inc. ( May 2004 to March 2005 )

Front line help desk administration for an international small electronics manufacturer. Provided end user support, hardware upgrade planning and deployment, and server side administration.

Website: http://www.franklin.com

ProjectsLanguage - Database

FEST ManagerPersonal - 2010

CSS - HTML 4.01 - JavaScript - PHP - MySQL

Manage and track attendence of LAN Party participants and vote for desired games at each event. A PHP/MySQL web application designed to ease tracking of individuals attending bi-annual LAN gaming events that I've organized since 1998. The application features an interface that allows attendees to self-manage their votes, attendence, and personal information.

Link: http://www.torchdragon.com/fest

Nexus Estimating ToolTVG, Inc. - 2010

ASP.NET - C# - MS SQL

Replace TVG Inc's Excel spreadsheet estimating process with a web application (Nexus) that allows for cross-project data collection, multi-user data entry, and automated addition of project information into the company's Dynamics SL financial database.

Nexus SRSS ReportingTVG, Inc. - 2010

MS SQL Reporting Services - MS SQL

Deploy reporting environment and generate custom reports for project, time, and summary information. Publish reports via web interface to allow employees better access to company metrics and project data.

Windows Systems AdministrationTVG, Inc. - 2010

PowerShell - Visual Basic

Automate several common Windows Administration tasks such as desktop icon creation, drive mapping, and application configuration via Active Directory and WMI queries.

Project: GRABPersonal - 2009

AJAX - CSS 2 - JavaScript / jQuery - PHP - XHTML 1.1 - MySQL

A web game centered around humans and muntant lichen zombies in a post apocalypse world with each side attempting to gain resources needed to survive.

Cirriculum Vitae in XSLPersonal - 2008

CSS - XSLT - XML

An excercise in XSL Transforms and a reconstruction of my personal resume. This new format allows for easy content expansion and updating.

Link: http://www.torchdragon.com/hireme/

Codename: EasybakePersonal - 2008

PHP - MySQL - XML

A backend daemon process for a persistent state web game. EasyBake is designed to translate an XML database of objects, merge them with live state XML objects, expose the compiled objects to game logic, and control updating and disk writing for long term storage. EasyBake is part of a larger, yet to be announced web game.

ABA BidroomAdams-Bickel Associates, Inc. - 2008

CSS - HTML 4.01 - PHP - MySQL

Automate the upload and organisation of architectural drawings for download by sub-contractors. Track site usage and file downloading for reporting purposes. Management for the entire application is through a parallel web interface.

Link: http://www.adamsbickel.com/bidroom

Rocket Jockey 2004Personal - 2006

UnrealScript

A mod for Unreal Tournament 2004 that set out to recreate the gameplay experiences of the classic PC game Rocket Jockey by SegaSoft. The mod consisted of custom vehicle, player, and environment code to recreate the fast action 3rd person gameplay of the original.

ABA Benefits StatementAdams-Bickel Associates, Inc. - 2006

Visual Basic - MS Excel - MySQL - ProvideX

Automate the generation of employee benefits statements by removing the need for manual data organisation, calculation, and formatting for print. Data is imported from several company sources, normalized, and processed for output.

ABA Human Resources DatabaseAdams-Bickel Associates, Inc. - 2005

Visual Basic - MS Access - MySQL

Migrate Access 2000 database to a multi-user environment and expose the information contained in the database to reporting and other company applications

ABA Phone DirectoryAdams-Bickel Associates, Inc. - 2005

CSS - HTML 4.01 - Visual Basic - MySQL

Retreive and display employee information within ABA's company intranet. Information is processed in real-time from the proprietary HR database backend.

Professional Skills

Languages

Databases

Software

Os

Personal Interests / Hobbies

Computers

Table-top

Physical