Brian Rabon

Current

Adjunct Instructor at UAB
President at Braintrust Software, LLC

Past

Program Director at XSP
Programming Team Leader at Infinity Insurance Companies
Senior Client/Server Programmer at Infinity Insurance Companies

Software Developer at Doozer Software
Systems Engineer at Capitol Vial
Co-op Student Engineer at Southern Company

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Education

University of Alabama at Birmingham
Auburn University
University of Alabama

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Recommended

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Connections

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

Brian Rabon’s Summary

Brian Rabon is an IT executive with a passion for delivering value to his organization and their customers. He takes a pragmatic approach to management, picking up the industry best practices and molding them to fit into his environment. As a lifelong learner Brian has devoted himself to staying abreast in the latest developments in his field. Brian shares the insights that he gains through his teaching and mentoring, on the job and throughout the community. Brian takes great pride in giving back through his volunteer work, most recently for TechBirmingham as the Event Chairmain for TechMixer University.

Brian is an avid author, writing for organizations such as the Alabama Information Technology Association, Birmingham Business Journal, and the University of Alabama at Birmingham, A sampling of his recent publications includes:

“All small business owners double as project managers”, Birmingham Business Journal, July 25, 2008
"Top Ten Reasons Why Software Projects Fail", PMI Birmingham’s PMInsights, Volume 2, Issue 1, January 2008
“IT Training not always hard, costly”, Birmingham Business Journal, October 6, 2006
“First step: IT staffers know product”, Birmingham Business Journal, September 8, 2006
“Requirements Gathering is Key to Successful Users”, Alabama Information Technology
Association, August 2006

Brian Rabon’s Specialties:

Customer Service, Enterprise Architectures, Leadership, Strategic Planning, Budgeting, Communication, KPI Measurement, Problem Solving, Coaching, HR Management, Mentoring, Recruiting/Interviewing, Enterprise Software Development, IT Governance, IT Operations, Project Management, BPI/BPR, Network Architecture, SDLC, Software Engineering

Brian Rabon’s Experience

Adjunct Instructor

UAB

(Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

August 2007 — Present (2 years 4 months)

EE606 - Technical Project Management - The purpose of this course is to evangelize project management as a practice to ensure success when tackling business projects in order to achieve an ROI. This goal is accomplished by teaching the fundamentals of technical project management. The nine knowledge areas of the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) serve as the framework of the course. In addition the course looks at the latest developments from the world of agile project management.

EE615 - Business Process Modeling - The purpose of this course it to demonstrate the necessity of aligning business processes with IT solutions in order to achieve the strategic goals of a company. It teaches you how to recognize inefficient business processes and revamp them utilizing the latest IT technologies and management techniques.

* EE 606 - Fall 2007
* EE 606 - Fall 2008
* EE 615 - Spring 2009
President

Braintrust Software, LLC

(Information Technology and Services industry)

May 2006 — Present (3 years 7 months)

Braintrust Software, LLC specializes in helping companies gain efficiencies in their software development process, through the pragmatic application of best practices, in the fields of project management and software development lifecycles. Unlike other companies we listen to our customers and take the time to understand their specific history and culture. With this knowledge we are able to tailor a methodology to their environment instead of tailoring their environment to a methodology.
Program Director

XSP

(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

January 2008 — February 2009 (1 year 2 months)

• Director of Project Management over a project based IT organization, with thirty-one internal employees, including seven project managers, and an additional ten offshore contract software engineers
• Provide portfolio oversight for all company IT projects with a total annual budget of over three million dollars, including measurement and tracking of key performance indicators
• Responsible for the strategic formation and tactical operations of the companies’ project management office, including; budgeting, setting policies and procedures, and staffing
• Work with the companies’ senior executives to strategically plan new projects based on ROI projections and alignment with the companies core values and long term strategy
Programming Team Leader

Infinity Insurance Companies

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; IPCC; Insurance industry)

2005 — January 2008 (3 years )
Senior Client/Server Programmer

Infinity Insurance Companies

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; IPCC; Insurance industry)

January 2004 — 2005 (1 year )
Software Developer

Doozer Software

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

January 2001 — December 2003 (3 years )
Systems Engineer

Capitol Vial

(Public Company; Packaging and Containers industry)

1999 — January 2001 (2 years )
Co-op Student Engineer

Southern Company

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; SO; Utilities industry)

May 1996 — 1999 (3 years )

Brian Rabon’s Education

University of Alabama at Birmingham

MSEE , Information Engineering and Management , 2004 — 2006

The IEM program is a 21-month master’s degree that focuses on using a mixture of technical and business skills to produce the desired goals of an organization. Course work is a constant mixture of technical and management issues as would be seen from upper level technical executives, such as CIO’s or CTO’s. The program was developed in partnership with CIO’s, CTO’s, and CEO's from several organizations in the United States.
Auburn University

BS , Computer Science , 1999 — 2000

Concentration in Management

Activities and Societies:

ACM/IEEE Computer Society, ASM, Golden Key, Tau Beta Pi, Tau Sigma, Upsilon Pi Epsilon
University of Alabama

Computer Science 1995 — 1998

Cooperative Education Student

Activities and Societies:

ACM/IEEE Computer Society, Gamma Beta Phi

Additional Information

Brian Rabon’s Interests:

education, fine dining, gardening, golf, investing, kayaking, learning, management, project management, reading, real estate, running, skiing, software engineering, taekwondo, weightlifting

Brian Rabon’s Groups:

Board of Directors, TechBirmingham, 2009
Event Chairman, TechBirmingham's TechMixer University, 2008-2009
Mentor, Alabama Launchpad Business Plan Competition, 2008-2009
Project Management Institute, National and Birmingham Chapter
Speaker Coordinator, Project Management Institute, Birmingham Chapter, 2009
ScrumAlliance, 2009
Internet Professionals Society of Alabama
Hoover Chamber of Commerce Ambassador, 2001-2002
UAB IEM Newsletter Editor