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Brandon Cole

Business Analyst
Portland,OR

Summary

Well-rounded, ethical employee, gifted with capturing requirements and breaking down said project, while gaining consensus from multiple parties. Excels in stakeholder relations, increasing platform trust to above 90%. Seeking a role to match my expertise, while supporting OHSU's legacy of medical excellence and ethical significance.

Overview

14
14
years of professional experience
6
6
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Product Owner/Software Engineer

Nike, Inc
Beaverton, OR
09.2017 - Current


  • Act as a central point for stakeholders to define data access and infrastructure requirements, translating these to technical specifications, and coordinates with SMEs to ensure needs are met
  • Gains consensus between customer, privacy and security, engineering, and architecture to deliver the best possible solution for the stakeholder
  • Diagnoses provisioning problems and develops a plan for correction, working with the development team to prioritize and schedule fixes
  • Partners with other teams to create concise "how-to" documentation for customers and other engineers to eliminate tribal knowledge
  • Manages the DevOps squad projects, communicating timelines, status, risks, and blockers
  • Oversees the DevOps projects, from definition through the development lifecycle, including testing and validation

Business Owner

Kraken Data Systems
Hillsboro, OR
03.2017 - 09.2022
  • Consulted with a brick-and-mortar table-top gaming business to assess needs and propose optimal solutions
  • Designed and built a specialized point-of-sale system based on customer requirements

Software Developer

Linbit
Beaverton, OR
08.2016 - 03.2017


  • Wrote utilities for high availability software
  • Documented processes for engineers

Linux Distribution Engineer

Intel
Hillsboro, OR
08.2014 - 08.2016
  • Managed an aggressive build cycle of 2x daily
  • Communicated component test failures to individual developers and published a general report to track regressions
  • Wrote and updated documentation to outline the technical design of entire project
  • Collaborated with an international team to roll-out functionality
  • Built CI/CD jobs and their tests within Jenkins, improving the build process by eliminating manual work

Application Developer

Trugreen / ServiceMaster
Memphis, TN
09.2012 - 08.2014
  • Contracted from Sep 2012 – Apr 2013 with Randstad
  • Trugreen split from ServiceMaster in Dec. 2013
  • Collaborated with stakeholders to capture requirements for enhancements to improve our sales system
  • Developed asynchronous processes and UI to create a complex reporting solution within Salesforce, beyond the out-of-the-box reporting capability
  • Managed short release cycles from requirements to roll-out, including all testing and UAT coordination
  • Managed data integrity and structure to prevent syncing issues and to improve accuracy
  • Educated the sales department through documentation and presentations

Education

Bachelor of Arts - Anthropology

SUNY University At Buffalo
East Amherst, NY
08.2005 - 02.2011

Skills

Project Definitions and Diagramming

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Accomplishments

  • Independently created clear documentation from customer issues with a new data security product, which significantly increased problem resolution from our vendors. Prompted a job offer from Nike.
  • Achieved greater quality in data provisioning by introducing a business-specific testing module for provisioning automation. The module is still used today and adopted by other teams.
  • Number 3 sender and top 10 receiver of acknowledgements within our department.

Timeline

Product Owner/Software Engineer

Nike, Inc
09.2017 - Current

Business Owner

Kraken Data Systems
03.2017 - 09.2022

Software Developer

Linbit
08.2016 - 03.2017

Linux Distribution Engineer

Intel
08.2014 - 08.2016

Application Developer

Trugreen / ServiceMaster
09.2012 - 08.2014

Bachelor of Arts - Anthropology

SUNY University At Buffalo
08.2005 - 02.2011
Brandon ColeBusiness Analyst