Bryan Housel
Staff Engineer - on assignment at Meta at Kaart- Claim this Profile
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Experience
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Kaart
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United States
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Professional Services
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1 - 100 Employee
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Staff Engineer - on assignment at Meta
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Mar 2020 - Present
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Mapbox
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United States
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Software Development
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400 - 500 Employee
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Staff Engineer
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Sep 2015 - Mar 2020
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OpenStreetMap US
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United States
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Software Development
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1 - 100 Employee
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Board Member 🕴
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Feb 2018 - Feb 2019
United States
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Consultant 👔
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Aug 2006 - Aug 2015
Worked with Port Authority of NY/NJ and Law Department of NYC on various projects involving their Law Manager systems. • Time Entry Notebook - Built new Time Entry Notebook within Law Manager to store and search millions of time entry records. The notebook is used by over 2000 users, and allows time to be entered manually or automatically from existing Matter Events. Conducted design sessions, produced statement of work, and performed all development tasks. Wrote script to convert… Show more Worked with Port Authority of NY/NJ and Law Department of NYC on various projects involving their Law Manager systems. • Time Entry Notebook - Built new Time Entry Notebook within Law Manager to store and search millions of time entry records. The notebook is used by over 2000 users, and allows time to be entered manually or automatically from existing Matter Events. Conducted design sessions, produced statement of work, and performed all development tasks. Wrote script to convert over 2 million rows of existing time entry data into Law Manager. Built interface to send monthly time entry data extract to legacy time reporting system. Project was completed early and under budget. • Disposition Entry and Reporting Redesign - Created innovative solution to improve Disposition Entry by reducing the complexity of the disposition screens. Disposition amounts are calculated and automatically summarized on the case header, allowing administrators to perform powerful cost reporting and searching. • Juvenile Crimes Notebook Enhancements - Performed a comprehensive overhaul of existing Law Manager Juvenile Crimes Notebook resulting in dramatic speed and usability improvements. Reduced the complexity of business logic scripts. Rewrote many EvLa scripts in VBScript for 10x speed improvement. Show less
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Consultant 👔
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Jan 2005 - Aug 2015
Worked with Citigroup on various projects involving their Law Manager systems: • Law Manager.Pro Rollout - Brought onto the Law Manager implementation team after continued deadline slipping, cost overruns, and personnel turnover threatened the project. Given 3 months, rebuilt all major components of the Law Manager system, reengineered scripts, completed aggressive UAT schedule, and was able to successfully bring system into production for 90 legal staff across North… Show more Worked with Citigroup on various projects involving their Law Manager systems: • Law Manager.Pro Rollout - Brought onto the Law Manager implementation team after continued deadline slipping, cost overruns, and personnel turnover threatened the project. Given 3 months, rebuilt all major components of the Law Manager system, reengineered scripts, completed aggressive UAT schedule, and was able to successfully bring system into production for 90 legal staff across North America. • Law Manager.Web Upgrade - Performed conversion of existing Law Manager.Pro installation to run under Law Manager.Web. Tasks included upgrading the Law Manager Notebooks Designer module, modifying over 500 business scripts, and installing and configuring LawManager.Server and IIS. • Invoice Notebook Enhancements - Consulted with legal billing staff to redesign, enhance, and automate the basic out-of-the-box Law Manager Invoice Notebook. The new Invoice Notebook features full support for foreign currencies, displaying USD and foreign amounts side-by-side, and allowing for real-time lookup of exchange rates via a web service provider. The Invoice Notebook is currently used to process several million dollars of legal invoices per month. Invoices are entered both manually by staff and electronically via the DataCert AIMS product. Payments are sent electronically through a nightly feed to Citigroup’s internal P2P system. • Law Manager 98 Enhancements - Performed support and maintenance of legacy Law Manager 98 system. Several projects included: automatic timekeeper rate adjustment based on approved rate table, e-mail integration, duplicate Entity and Address consolidation utility, and export and handoff of data to MetLife, Inc. due to sale of Travelers Life and Annuity division. Show less
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Tech Lead, Systems Architect 👨💻
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Aug 2002 - Dec 2004
Worked with various clients, both on-site and remotely, to design, develop, test, and maintain Law Manager systems. Coordinated the tasks and issues of small teams of developers.
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Education
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Drexel University
Dual B.S., Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering