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As a child of Star Wars, Cody originally dreamed of becoming a filmmaker and worked as a Production Assistant in the Dallas/Fort Worth Film and Video industry. After a couple of years of grunt work, he was recognized as being an "artsy" type and provided more specialized services to a small handful of Art Directors. He founded his first company, Scenic Wonders, in 1992. Scenic Wonders provided classic scenic design, construction, and special effects services for almost two years when Mr. Burleson turned his attention to computer technology. In those days, digital visual effects were revolutionizing the motion picture industry. At the same time, a phenomenon called the Internet was just beginning to capture the world's imagination.
Not long after, Mr. Burleson had established a new media division within a software development firm where he delivered 3D models and animations to support marketing and sales of software for the glass manufacturing industry. In addition, he personally designed and developed custom media-management software and in-store kiosk games for CEC Entertainment (Chuck E. Cheese's). |
By 1998, the popularity of digital media and the Internet had escalated and Mr. Burleson became both Creative Director and CTO for Studio Interactive (SIA), an Interactive Media company. At SIA, Mr. Burleson led a team of designers and developers and provided Web and new media services for a variety of projects in a variety of industries. While managing overall production, he helped develop and refine the firm's methodology for design through delivery. Studio Interactive was then acquired by PricewaterHouseCoopers (PwC) consulting, who sought to fill a gap in the growing demand for Human-to-Computer Interaction (HCI) design services.
At PwC, Mr. Burleson worked on several enterprise portal projects for Fortune 500 clients. It was there that he began to learn about the challenges and opportunities inherent with big companies and enterprise-class solutions. With a desire to solve the problems that these organizations had, Mr. Burleson began to focus more and more on information technology and business integration. Mr. Burleson's knowledge in user experience design was then balanced by a growing need to master software architecture, information architecture, and information technology.
By the time PwC was acquired by IBM in 2002, Cody Burleson had achieved an impressive balance of knowledge and experience to bridge users, business, and technology. At IBM, Cody Burleson helped manage the complexity of large enterprise integration projects. He designed and developed a variety of innovative solutions for the Pharmaceutical, Financial, Parcel Distribution, and Automobile Manufacturing industries (among others). At IBM, Mr. Burleson gained a deep knowledge on a variety of IBM's leading platforms such as WebSphere Portal (WPS) and Workplace Web Content Management (WCM).
Mr. Burleson founded Burleson Technology Group, LLC (BTG) in September of 2007 with a desire to provide innovative products and services that both leverage and extend leading platforms. Mr. Burleson hopes to grow BTG as a trusted I.T. partner to medium and large organizations worldwide.
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