JOHN PAUL BRANDON
Wilson
Summary
Results-driven Software Manager with a proven track record of advancing from individual contributor to senior leadership. Experienced in leading cross-functional teams, delivering complex projects, and driving operational efficiency across diverse technical environments. Adept at bridging the gap between engineering and business objectives, with a focus on scalable solutions, team development, and high-efficiency operations.
Overview
2027
2027
years of professional experience
Work History
Logistics and Data Manager
Greenbelt Turf Management LLC.
Wilson, OK
2023 - Current
- ArcGIS developer for tracking Right of Way maintenance along all power lines within the Red River Valley Electric Association power grid.
- Responsible for bidding on all potential projects ranging from city municipalities through federal proposal requests (RFPs). This included tracking results to remain competitive and adaptive.
- Performed all HR duties for the company. This included hiring, onboarding, evaluations, terminations, payroll tracking, etc..
- Performed all office management duties. Handled all client communications, licensing requirements and legal documentation.
- Worked as both a field crew boss and an equipment operator when needed.
Lead Software Engineer – Associate Director – Vice President
FactSet Research Systems
Austin, TX
01.2012 - 01.2018
- Selected to start an engineering team at the satellite office in Austin, Texas. Myself and another engineer expanded into a 30-person engineering team who eventually owned, maintained, and enhanced the majority of the infrastructure code base for the Portfolio Analytics department .
- Built and released new client-data editor (Quick Returns).
- Migrated data read/write APIs and parsers from archaic proprietary file-based client data storage to modern architecture, facilitating scalability and efficiency in future.
- Migrated archaic serialized data structures to a standardized MSSQL format.
- Managed and maintained a highly performant, fully functioning team of 30 software developers with near-zero attrition over 5 years.
- Created a process for migrating client data-stores of a VMS platform to a distributed Linux platform.
- Redesigned client-data parsing infrastructure from inception to completion.
- Built the foundation for a proprietary Performance System.
- Built a new GUI interface to retire command-line access by support staff.
Senior Software Engineer
FactSet Research Systems
Norwalk, CT
01.2009 - 01.2012
- Joined Developer Services, whose mandate was to develop and maintain all internal processes required for daily software development duties. The team was responsible for code-building and release systems, source code control (Perforce) interfaces, and various utilities exercised by nearly all of FactSet engineering.
- Developed and maintained software for a build-promote-release paradigm to pipeline code; starting at source code control, through various stages of quality assurance, concluding as live-release mechanisms for client consumption.
- Bug-fixed and patched code at all cycles of the build-release process.
- Responsible for identifying compilation breaks and linkage errors, then assigning tickets to code owners for repair.
- Responsible for applying code patches at the given break point.
- Rewrote and modernized several antiquated build systems.
- Documented the process for releasing and installing code.
- Developed a production-level process that streamlines every stage of the build-release cycle.
- Became involved in training, recruiting and mentorships.
- Supervised an intern who built an array of Yahoo Widgets displaying system health information via an opaque GUI desktop application.
Software Engineer
FactSet Research Systems
Norwalk, CT
01.2005 - 01.2009
- Became a data-parsing engineer in the Commercial Content department. Enjoined to build, enhance, and maintain third-party content parse jobs for redistribution throughout the FactSet platform. This position demanded expertise with full-stack functions - from incoming SFTP feeds to scheduling and triggering mechanisms which initiated parsing execution and would eventually write to system-wide databases.
- Duties and Accomplishments:
- Developed executable software through internal scheduling and automation tools to provide and update third-party financial equity benchmark data.
- Rewrote and modernized various aging third-party benchmark and fundamental data feeds.
- Completed, maintained, and enhanced over 100 unique third-party vendor data feed end-of-day uploads.
Software Technician
National Instruments
Austin, TX
01.2002 - 01.2005
- Worked for the Verification and Validation department, which performed quality-assurance regression testing for new driver releases. No driver shipped without a 100% regression pass rate.
- Duties and Accomplishments:
- Executed existing quality assurance regression testing for supported versions of hardware drivers.
- Built a new version of an antiquated, non-scalable, and inefficient regression test suite for legacy virtual-instrumentation drivers.
- Activated simulations via a proprietary code-testing platform (TestStand), utilizing reasonable fault tolerances for quality assurance purposes.
Franchise Owner
Tekkeez Tech Repair
Cedar Park, TX
2019 - 2022
- Directed all franchise operations, implementing standards that enhanced customer satisfaction and loyalty.
- Cultivated a high-performing team through training and mentorship, fostering a culture of excellence.
- Oversaw financial management processes to optimize profitability and sustain long-term growth for the franchise.
- Executed marketing strategies that effectively increased brand visibility and attracted new customers to the location.
- Managed labor, inventory and overhead costs effectively to maintain business profitability.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
University of Texas
Austin, TX01-2005
Associate of Science - Computer Science
Austin Community College
Austin, TX01-2002
Skills
- C, C, Perl, XML, SQL, MSSQL, Word, Excel, PerForce, Python, ArcGIS
- Data quality assurance
- SQL proficiency
Timeline
Lead Software Engineer – Associate Director – Vice President
FactSet Research Systems
01.2012 - 01.2018
Senior Software Engineer
FactSet Research Systems
01.2009 - 01.2012
Software Engineer
FactSet Research Systems
01.2005 - 01.2009
Software Technician
National Instruments
01.2002 - 01.2005
Logistics and Data Manager
Greenbelt Turf Management LLC.
2023 - Current
Franchise Owner
Tekkeez Tech Repair
2019 - 2022
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
University of Texas
Associate of Science - Computer Science
Austin Community College