Jordan Mendler leverages his years of engineering experience and his extremely diverse professional background as Founding Principal & Chief Scientist of Briarmont. Jordan provides leadership and direction to Briarmont across our broad set of projects, while shaping the innovative nature of the Briarmont culture.

A lifelong technologist and entrepreneur, Jordan began working in technology at age 13 and founded his first business, JDM enterprises, at the age of 15. After JDM, Jordan led the computing team at UCLA's Genetic Sequencing Core where he designed and built computational clusters with thousands of processors and thousands of hard drives and wrote genetics processing pipelines to revolutionize the handling of large-scale datasets for Next-Gen Sequencing. Jordan simultaneously consulted on big data and high-performance computing at the UCLA School of Medicine, the Laboratory of Neuroimaging, and several other academic and research departments at UCLA, Stanford, USC, City of Hope and Cedars Sinai. Jordan served as Chief Technology Officer of TinyTube Networks, helping pioneer mobile streaming platforms while building their server farms for highly available web serving and distributed video encoding.

After TinyTube, Jordan went on to start several companies, including Briarmont, where he applies his engineering background to industries that are behind in technology. Jordan continues to head acquisitions and development for Briarmont, driving both real estate strategy and new projects. Jordan began teaching technology at UCLA at age 24, where he taught the intricacies of Linux, cloud and cluster computing to fellow engineers and executives. Jordan is now a Lecturer at UCLA in the areas of Computational Real Estate, Applied Statistics, and Quantitative Economics, where he is also a member of the Board.

Jordan is a graduate of UCLA, where his undergraduate studies emphasized Physiological Psychology, Psychopharmacology and Neuroscience. Jordan pursued a Masters in Computer Science at UCLA with an emphasis in Data Mining and Computer Architecture, becoming one of the few to hold simultaneous titles of professor, systems architect, consultant and graduate student all within the same university. While at UCLA, Jordan became a patent holder and authored numerous academic papers. Passionate about tackling new topics and hobbies, Jordan is a self-described handyman, car racer, beer brewer, builder, surfer, world traveler, cigar smoker, tree feller and blacksmith.