What's in a name?

The Internet has become an essential medium for communicating with your clients, your market, and even your co-workers. It is a powerful marketing and sales tool, a key channel for entertainment and media distribution, and a new way to socialize and communicate with friends and family.

Base 16 is a numbering system that computers use. It is also called hexadecimal or just hex. It is a convenient way for programmers to represent computer data when they don't want to look at tons of 1's and 0's.

Do you need to know this? No.

You know what you want to do. We know how to make it happen.

Who We Are

• Ryan A. Brown                         (Curriculum Vitae: PDF or HTML or ASCII)
  President & Chief Executive Officer

  Ryan A. Brown was born in Kansas City and raised in California. His first job in the computer industry began at the age of eleven, building and repairing personal computers for a local store in Santa Barbara, California. In 1993 he began a computer and Internet consulting firm and started the first Internet Service Provider (ISP) in Santa Barbara.

  Ryan went on to attend Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, where he received a BS in Computer Science with departmental and school honors and a BA in Spanish in 2000. Ryan is a member of Tau Beta Pi, Upsilon Pi Epsilon and the ACM, and won awards for undergraduate research and teaching. Continuing at Johns Hopkins, he received a Masters of Science and Engineering in Computer Science from Johns Hopkins in May of 2002.

  After completing his Computer Science studies, Ryan went on to earn a Juris Doctorate Magna Cum Laude in December of 2006 from George Mason University School of Law in Arlington, Virginia.

  Ryan spent four years leading technology development as the Chief Technology Officer of Roanoke Technology Corp. of Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina. In June of 2003, Ryan, together with Benjamin, founded Base 16 Consulting, Inc. to further develop their technical and business interests.

  In addition to serving as President and Chief Technology Officer at Base 16 Consulting, Inc., Ryan provides legal services to small business and individuals through his law firm, Ryan A. Brown, PLLC.

• Jacob King
  Consultant

  Jacob King is an expert in embedded systems and has worked both in the USA and Germany on highly efficient systems. Jacob earned a Bachelors of Science in Electrical Engineering from University of Texas at Austin (UT) and spent a year at the Technische Universität München in Munich, Germany.

  In addition to his Electrical Engineering and Software Development work, Jacob has conducted trainings for clients from around the world. Jacob is also a security fanatic with extensive PGP/GPG experience on a variety of operating systems.

• John Shiles                         (Curriculum Vitae: HTML)
  Consultant

  John Shiles is responsible for development and maintenance of web based applications and back-end database systems. He also has Linux systems administration duties for several of our clients.

  John graduated from Johns Hopkins University with a degree in Computer Science in 2001. John is skilled in PERL, user interface development, and all things database. He enjoys experimenting with new programming languages and new hardware. He also enjoys baseball and as many rounds of golf a week as he can get away with.

  After completing his Computer Science studies, John earned an Executive MBA from the New Jersey Institute of Technology School of Management in May of 2007.

• Benjamin H. Kram                         (Curriculum Vitae: HTML)
  Consultant

  Benjamin received his BA in Cognitive Science in 2000, and his Masters of Science in Engineering in Computer Science from Johns Hopkins University in 2001. His background includes both Psycholinguistics sentence processing and Natural Language Processing research.

  His responsibilities include consulting, software design and implementation, UNIX systems administration, systems automation and tool design, and systems integration.

  Benjamin has been a Linux systems administrator since 1995. He has 12 years of system and network security experience, and takes a special joy in particularly novel systems integration projects and intelligent human interface design.

  When not sitting at his computer, you will most likely find him playing his banjo, or working on metal sculpture. His personal website is http://http.modulo.org/.

Our Partners

• Liz Manicatide

We are proud to partner with Liz Manicatide, a designer and user interface expert with over 10 years experience in the software industry. To see her portfolio and learn more about her company, Emphasis Creative, visit her web site - http://www.emphasiscreative.com.