The People Behind Bright Ring Software LLC
Bright Ring Software LLC is chartered in the state of New York as a member-managed limited liability company. Practically speaking, it is a virtual company. Bright Ring's founder, Tom Snee, lives and works in Manhattan, while the rest of the "staff" operate out of other boroughs of New York City and even other states.
Now, "virtual" does not mean "faceless": Mr. Snee is the public face of the company. He meets all clients in person and manages every project himself. There is no bait and switch with Bright Ring. When necessary, he is even available for on-site work during normal business hours. Other times, he coordinates the efforts of specialists in other fields, for instance, database administration and GUI design and implementation. Customers never need to worry about dealing with the complexities of managing a distributed team that grows and shrinks at a moment's notice. Because Mr. Snee reviews all work done by the staff, his personal guarantee accompanies everything Bright Ring delivers, and he serves as the single point-of-contact from the beginning through the end of every project.
Tom Snee
Tom Snee founded Bright Ring Software in 2002 after leaving Random Walk Computing, Inc., where he was Senior Consultant in the firm's capital markets practice. Prior to that, he had been Principal Application Developer at AOL Time Warner's Time Inc. New Media division. It was with two AOL Time Warner colleagues that Mr. Snee wrote his first book, The Developer's Guide to the Java Web Server: Building Effective and Scalable Server-Side Applications, for Addison Wesley. The book appeared in 1999 and went on to three printings. During his career in information technology, he has programmed in Java, Perl, C++, C, SQL, PostScript, and the UNIX shell languages. He has installed and maintained hardware from Data General minicomputers with tape cabinets to rack-mounted Sun servers with optical storage arrays to desktop PCs.
Mr. Snee was a National Merit Scholar at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he received a degree in Mathematics with a specialization in Computer Science. His high school education came from the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics, the nation's first residential high school devoted to excellence in science and technology. He has been programming computers since 1980 and administered his first UNIX minicomputer in 1988.
The Virtual Staff
Most of our staff members are connected with other companies and do not publicize their work with Bright Ring. They join projects as their special skills are needed and stop billing as soon as their contributions are complete. None of them apply to work for Bright Ring; staff members join by invitation only. This ensures that Bright Ring's work is done by the most skilled people in fields like data modeling, database installation, GUI design and development, and WWW technology.