N. Taylor Brockman

Director of Information Technology

Taylor likes to invent usable software products and win offshore sailboat races. He is currently solving multi-dimensional data puzzles for fun and profit.

His 2025 professional role is the Directory of Information Technology at Brain Power Software, an Employee Communications and Data Exchange firm in Mount Pleasant, SC. Taylor's vision at Brain Power Software is to promote financial education for millions of employees by delivering high-quality Total Rewards Statements and other information services that help them plan for their families and retirement.

With the assistance of North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics Physics professors and work service students, Taylor maintains Interactive Web Physics, an open-source physics animation software package. Each academic year, the Bowman-Brockman Endowment at NCSSM awards student teams direct funding for entrepreneurship and advanced research projects.

Taylor started serving on the NCSSM Foundation Board in 2018 and actively gives back to NCSSM with time and resources.

Profile Photo

Taylor Brockman Profile Photo 2021 Dec

Corporate Ventures

Brain Power Software

Personal Adventures

Taylor Fun Offshore 2019

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Garmin InReach Map Share - Friends and Family track our progress here! PASSWORD = illyria (lower case illyria)

Self Published Books

Illyria 2018 Crusing and Racing (Available at cost on Lulu.com)
Join the crew of Illyria as they adventure from Daytona Beach, Florida to Block Island, Rhode Island during the Summer of 2018! Written from the navigators perspective with notes from the skipper, this book is full of photos and personal stories from the voyage. Paperback, 104 Pages.

Bitcoin Pay-to

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Social

LinkedIn: TaylorBrockman

Open Source

https://github.com/ntbrock/iwphys

https://github.com/ntbrock/bobino

https://github.com/ntbrock/seatop-console

https://github.com/ntbrock/seatop-ios

Favorite Tools

Lightbend Stack, Scala, Play Framework, Akka, Java 1.8

NoSQL, Mongo, Redis, Cassandra, Tableau

J2EE, EJB 3, MIDP, Swing/JFC, Servlet, JSP, JSTL

WS-*, WS-Security, SOAP, REST, JSON, Xml-Rpc

MySQL, Oracle, DB2, PostgreSQL; Clustering

Node.js, Ruby, Rails, gem; PHP; Perl; K+R ANSI C/++/#, STL, Boost

ESXi, Ubuntu, CentOS, RHEL; git, subversion; SSL, PKI, Single Sign-on, X.509

Apache, Tomcat, Jboss, Mule, BEA Weblogic, IBM Websphere, PingFederate

HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, JQuery, Prototype, Ajax, SVG

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