Over the years I have developed and managed the development of a number of software products.  These ranged from simple small programs on the early computers such as the Commodore 64 to complex programs on Windows, Macintosh and embedded systems projects. In the early days I programmer in assembler (6502 and 68K) and began programming in C in the 1985.  These days I program in C++ and have also worked with a variety of scripting languages for web development.

In 1988 I helped a fledgling company called Maxis with their Amiga version of a game named "Metropolis."  The name was later changed to "SimCity" and became a legend in the game world.  Later I was invited to be the Technical Director for the company, a position I held for 3 years and was then made Director of Sim Titles.

Tired of the corporate world I left Maxis in 1997 and have since been involved in contract projects and in developing my own software which I sell through it's own site: www.jyotishtools.com  These titles deal with the field of classical Indian astrology called jyotish have been developed for Windows, the Palm and Pocket PC platform.  I have also worked on some yet to be released versions for Linux and Macintosh.  I also ported the game Myst to the ill-fated Nuon DVD and game console chipset.

The first part of my life was spent as a professional musician playing a wide range of music including jazz, rock and classical music.  Though drums are my performance instrument I am also a keyboardist and have written and arranged many musical pieces.  While at Maxis I even wrote some of the music for their games as well as developing an algorithmic music engine.

Another related interest has been video production.  My first hands-on experience with television equipment came at the of 12 when I created title cards for the local TV station (yes, I am an artist too).  In recent years I have created and edited my own videos.  I was an early adopter of the consumer DVD burner out of necessity for the development of the Myst Nuon product.  I was also an early adopter to HDTV and even use the JVC HD camcorder for video production.

Please feel free to contact me at: brian@brianconrad.com if you feel that this background might be of use for any future projects.

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