Clarity

Is there an existing view where the resource names are in the top navigation, rather than all stacked together under each individual task, such as the Excel example below?

There is no such existing view.

Looks like you have resource initials as column labels and that suggest you would have some filter to get data for a specific resource only in the column which would mean different filters for different columns.

Any filter in an OWB view would work for all the data and you could not have difference filters for different columns.