About Bright Apps LLC Artificial Intelligence company in Walnut Creek, United States
Bright Apps LLC has decades of combined team experience in creating innovative technology that helps companies rise to new heights. Our team brings an unprecedented level of expertise in helping organizations overcome barriers by providing innovative tech
Our mission at Bright Apps LLC is to develop innovative custom end-to-end global technology solutions while providing world class concierge service.
Our vision is to create systems that change the way the world does business through expertise and innovation.
Bright Apps LLC has decades of combined experience creating innovative technology to help companies rise to new heights in their industries. Our teams deep expertise helping organizations knock down barriers to innovative technological solutions solves the toughest operational challenges.
We develop custom end-to-end software solutions for clients. We work with Fortune 500 companies startups and the U. S. government while we continue to search for innovative partnerships.
Our teams wide variety of skills brings together the latest in innovation and technology to create superior mobile apps blockchain applications artificial intelligence-aided assistants or web tools for your company.
With a group of highly skilled engineers we can work in just about any discipline you can imagine.
Greg McGregor CEO / Owner
Greg McGregor – Principal Investigator
For over thirty years Greg has been sought out for his expertise in innovation and technology. He has architected designed and implemented not only large Content Delivery Networks and Back End Servers but also satellite networks with Laurel Space Systems and iBeam broadcasting. The inventor of Pre-Paid wireless mobile technology and large multi-protocol Internet distributed networking infrastructure systems resulted in an over 20 million subscribers mobile application. His innovations have opened new doors into many cutting-edge futuristic technologies that are currently being deployed into various marketplaces including biometric technology intelligent video augmented reality and artificial intelligence. With a reputation of being ahead of the curve with the technology innovations and implementation he has built a team under the Bright Apps Brand and under his leadership continue to create and grow technologies that help to produce efficient streamlined process that move companies forward into the future. Following his visionary leadership the Bright Apps team has been able to create digitized process that have increased revenue decreased cost and pushed companies into the next level of service.
Greg McGregor is leading a team of expert engineers into the future of Quantum Entropy security systems with the development of the QCloud. He is on the forefront for the open blockchain artificial intelligence wireless and big data technology and a strategist with the innate ability to visualize and develop next generation technologies. His expertise has positioned him in developing sustainable and secure digital foundation for blockchain.
Education: UC Davis BS Computer Science amp; Mathematics
Skills: Cloud Architectures AWS Narrow AI amp; ML Cyber Security: Encryption Networking Protocols amp; Policies Topologies Blockchain Programming: Python C# JAVA C and others Quantum Technologies: QRNG QKD Cloud AI/ML Blockchain focus for innovation transformations of fortune 500 companies; AWS TensorFlow Python Innovation Solutions Patent experience Concept to international release Cybersecurity AFCEA Shark Tank Winner Distributed Networking Encryption Multiple international patents in networks wireless and innovative solutions.
Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/greg-mcgregor/
Bob Stevens
Bob Stevens – Software Engineer
Bob Stevens is a top-level developer and application/system architect with over 20 years of experience. Bob has primarily built custom enterprise systems for fortune 500 companies. In the last 6 years Bob has focused on solving previously impossible problems with AI/Machine Learning and integrating those solutions into business software systems. Primarily now focused on building systems in cloud-based environments (AWS Google Cloud). Recently he was a principal developer on a Distributed Ledger/Blockchain platform along with a few other members of Bright Apps. Bob is driven by the challenges of emerging technologies and has a big-picture understanding of how to leverage new technologies to solve or improve existing solutions to difficult technical problems. His many years as a consultant to engineers managers and executives have exposed him to a broad range of industries and technologies helping him be a highly adaptable engineer.
Education: College of Charleston BS Computer Science
Skills: Cloud Architectures Micro Service architecture Distributed systems Blockchain AWS Google Cloud Narrow AI amp; ML TensorFlow Keras. Data: Elasticsearch NoSQL RDBMS Cyber Security: Encryption Networking Protocols Programming: Java Go Python and others Quantum Technologies: QRNG QKD focus for innovation and building large scale end to end systems for fortune 500 companies;
Canming Huang
Canming is an AI specialist with over 15 years experience doing data science machine learning and image processing. With a Masters degree in computer Vision from York University in Toronto he designs and trains a deep learning network to help create industry leading intelligent systems. He is also an open source developer of image processing library that has seen more than a million downloads over the years.
Education: Master of Science specialized in Computer Vision / AI
Skills: Machine Learning Libraries: Tensorflow Keras Emgu TF Image Processing Libraries: Open CV Emgu CV Programming Languages: Python C C++ and C# NLP amp; AI models: word2vec BERT ngram LSTM Search amp; Analytics: Elasticsearch and My SQL.
Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/canming-huang-8bbbab6/
Carolyn Trinta
Carolyn Trinta is a high-powered innovative and skilled professional whose focus is in leading the company development toward fulfillment of its target goals. Carolyn has worked in several industries and business sectors including technology talent management self-development finance/accounting investor relations offshore administration operations management strategic planning and marketing where she held positions such as Assistant Controller Controller VP Operations Investor Relations Manager VP Business Development Media Host and Head of Marketing. Carolyn has been part of several startup ventures as well as has worked for such notable companies as Development Dimensions International Citi Group and Bisys. She has most recently worked with companies in JV networking social media SEO digital marketing and strategic planning with the main focus in overall strategic marketing.
Christopher McGregor is a full stack engineer that has been working with new innovative technologies for over 15 years. He has conceptualized and developed multiple technologies including BT Cellnets (O2) original distributed Pay amp; Go QoS / QoE solutions for 3G / 4G LTE mobile mobile authentication for the U.S. Federal Government the first pre-production prototypes of the worlds first ISO biometric powered card (now being offered by MasterCard internationally) and Trumpets SMB Social Commerce Platform.
Chris Weiss
Chris Weiss is a full-stack software developer with the ability to design and develop solutions from concept to product. Over the past 20+ years he has worked on numerous solutions ranging from: a web social media platform numerous mobile application solutions on platforms ranging from iOS to Android various internal facing IT solutions from HR to logistics and worked on a reporting front-end for a large scale content delivery network. He has technical expertise and skills with UI/UX/GUI design/development NodeJS JavaScript JSON jQuery HTML5 CSS SQL/NOSQL PHP C# Java MVC Oracle MYSQL Xamarin iOS development.
David Hutchings
David has spent more than 25 years building Internet solutions. He started with basic websites but quickly progressed to building fully featured applications – expanding his knowledge to cover databases middle tier solutions build and testing tools architecture for a major gamification solution and many of the other areas that build the foundations of Internet solutions. All throughout he has worked closely with both development teams and product managers. This dual-view of projects has resulted in him serving as de-facto ’Scrum Master’ in the past which has now turned into his major responsibility at several of Bright Apps clients. In addition to all things Internet David is also a trained chef a certified Dive Master and a snowboard instructor.
Ernest Shaffer
Ernest Shaffer is DevOps Engineer and Systems Administrator with over 20 years experience. A passion for Linux and OpenSource projects with contributions to projects such as Racktables and others. Creating automation and repeatability are key factors that he brings to the table. He has experience working across multiple industries which include turnkey manufacturing banking health care advertising online dating and internet communications with Yahoo.
George Lund
George Lund has worked for 20 years as professional software developer. His experience spans from tiny embedded microprocessors to large scale server clusters and everything in between – he has written software for just about every type of computer system there is. His extensive knowledge has given him the ability to see the entire system giving him the ability to architect and build best in class solutions. He is highly skilled in debugging hard to solve problems and optimizing complex systems for best performance which has made him the go-to guy for fixing complex projects and problems.
Jean-Marc Beaujour
Jean-Marc Beaujour
Jean-Marc is a physicist with a passion for solving complex problems. After 15 years working in fast-paced Ramp;D environments for startups as well as for a Fortune 500 company in Computer Hardware he has transitioned to the exciting field of Machine Learning / Deep Learning. With an interest in designing and building ML applications to solve real-world problems. He joins the team with skills including a PhD in Physics Python Machine Learning Sci-kit Learn MySQL MatLab Deep Learning Keras OpenCV Mathematica and Tensorflow.
Education: PhD in Physics
Skills: Machine Learning Deep Learning Computer Vision Data Analysis Statistics Probability Linear Algebra Object detection Image classification Semantic Segmentation Python Mathematica PyTorch/Tensorflow/Keras
Jeff Lund
Jeff has a strong background in graphic design UI design and front-end web development; he has worked on numerous projects ranging from refining existing designs creating corporate identities to building complete websites and apps from scratch. Past projects include: Just Like You Megafone Vlogo M2 Matric and Trumpet among others. Jeff is highly skilled in HTML CSS amp; Typescript UI/UX design and creating custom graphics. Jeff received a BA in Fine Art from San Francisco State University.
Jeremy Elliott
Jeremy is an inventive developer and architect with a track record of building over 30 significant successful systems. He has built systems as diverse as: a portfolio management system for drug discovery for Eli Lilly (Alto/Bass); the IT HelpDesk system for E*Trade (E*HELP); a system and set of techniques to block piracy of songs on the Peer-2-Peer networks (for Macrovision for which he shares a Patent Pending). He is driven by solving real customer problems by applying technology correctly.
His current focus since joining the BrightApps team is in building systems in the AWS Cloud to solve data-related customer needs. He loves learning new technology and holds two AWS Associate Cloud Certifications and has been ’into’ AWS for over 10 years.
Jo McGregor
Jo McGregor joins the Bright Apps team while in her fourth year at University of New Mexico. While she is pursuing her B.S. Degree in Mechanical engineering her passions are biomechanics robotics and computational physics. She has completed courses in C++ Matlab and Arduino software which has allowed her to pick up learning some JavaScript Go and now Python. While in the start of her career she has done some front-end testing as well as some unit and regression testing. Since starting at Bright Apps she has been working to gain a deeper learning of Quantum Security BlockChain and AI work including Neural networks (LSTM CNN FNN) clustering word2vec.
Education: Pending B.S. Degree in Mechanical Engineering program at University of New Mexico.
Skills: Python C++ Matlab and others Quantum Security BlockChain Neural Networks: Image/sound classification (CNN) and data modeling (LSTM amp; FNN) Clustering Analysis Word2Vec TensorFlows Embedding Projector
Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jo-mcgregor-0a4610175/
Peter Halicki
He is an expert solution architect. He integrated and designed enterprise level systems especially in the banking industry. He has a width knowledge about emerging technologies always hunger for new experience. He started with database and data warehouse systems followed by multiple integration projects with core banking systems and applications facing the final customer. One of his major advantages is to understand not only the technical needs like migration old solutions to the cloud building mobile applications or implement machine learning/ai algorithms but also to understand the customer business that needs those changes to grow even further.
Valorie Robles
Valorie Robles has over 15 years of experience as a polished highly ethical and articulate executive support and project management professional. Having worked in several industries from non-profit to concierge services she is an articulate communicator skilled in building functional and productive relationships with colleagues executives senior managers and vendors. She is a master of the ability to focus on organizational goals and deliver and exceed expectations. Valorie is an accomplished mentor trainer and leader exceptionally adept at serving as the ’right hand’ to executives as well as analyzing and improving critical processes to increase efficiency and productivity.
Dan Manning FirePower Concepts Founder/Owner
Dan Manning is a facilitator author speaker and creative thinker combining a career of military problem solving with the latest scientific research to unlock the power of applied creativity. His wide-ranging career in the United States Air Force provided a rich well of experiences around the world. Whether serving as an A-10 fighter pilot warrior-diplomat in Central Asia lead negotiator with Russian operational forces in Syria or leading the air campaign against terrorists in the Middle East Dan found creative thinking to be the answer to many of Americas toughest problems. Today he helps businesses non-profits and governments apply creativity to their own hard problems. Dan earned his undergraduate degree from Samford University in Birmingham Alabama and his Masters degree in International Relations from the University of Oklahoma. Before deciding to turn to the pursuit of creativity full-time he was an International Development PhD candidate at the University of Southern Mississippi. Dan is the author of Stuck on Stuck Street: Unstick your creativity for a better business and a better life.
Jateen Bhakta Ninja Pandas Founder/Owner
Jateen Bhakta is a consultant developer and educator. He is a founding partner of Ninja Pandas an educational technology company and is currently developing and managing the Code Stack Academy a full time nine-month software engineering program for adults through the San Joaquin Department of Education.
He holds both a Bachelors in Multi Media from California State University Sacramento and Masters in Multi Media from California State University East Bay.
Bright Apps helps start-ups and enterprises with a seamless end-to-end process that takes the work off your plate.
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We develop custom, end-to-end software solutions for clients, we have worked with fortune 500 companies, startups, the U. S. government as well as continue to seek out innovative partnerships.
