Todd Brillon

Current

Application Product Manager at TaskDriver
Application Product Manager at Perot Systems

Past

Web Developer at Sabre Holdings
Surveillance Specialist at US Army

Education

Genesys Labs
Genesys Labs
Global Knowledge

HOTT
HOTT
ManageOne

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

Websites

TaskDriver.com

Todd Brillon’s Summary

10 years of open source application development and management within corporate IT environments. My current position places me at the head of a 3 high profile application development projects.

My responsibilities within this role include:

* Manages the software development activities including - overseeing the design, development, troubleshooting, debugging and modification of software for web applications and databases.

* Managing a team of developers which includes setting goals and developing team members.
* Writing, review and revise product/service requirements and specifications.
* Define solutions and tasks required for delivery.
* My team delivers solutions to clients and provides necessary technical support of those software solutions.

In regards to quality assurance - I develop quality standards for company products, oversee the development and execution of software test plans, and analysis of test results. I also Provide guidance to subordinates to achieve goals in accordance with established policies. The work is reviewed and measured based on meeting objectives and schedules. Interactions normally involve matters between functional areas, other company divisions or units, or customers and the company.

Todd Brillon’s Specialties:

1. Thorough knowledge of knowledge management systems, document versioning, version history.

2. Application design/planning, development, testing and execution.

3. Project Management (Software development)

4. Management of PHP and MySQL environments on Linux and Windows Servers.

5. Zend Studio and Zend Framework environments.

6. Documentation management of applications (user guides, version releases, change logs etc.)

Todd Brillon’s Experience

Application Product Manager

TaskDriver

(Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

September 2005 — Present (3 years 11 months)

Planned and developed a small open source application called TaskDriver - This application was created entirely in PHP and MySQL. Its distribution is free and has received some positive attention from users worldwide.

Responsibilities:

* Leads the planning, design, development, support, and implementation of the Task Management Tool called TaskDriver.

* Effective management of 3 open source programmers.

* Marketing and PR.
Application Product Manager

Perot Systems

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; PER; Information Technology and Services industry)

April 1998 — Present (11 years 4 months)

Responsibilities:

* Leads the planning, design, development, support, and implementation of various web applications for Perot Systems corporation and its clients.

* Effectively manages a team of 5 dedicated open source programmers.

* Creation and modification of product documentation (user guides, version releases, change logs etc.)

* Actively interfacing with user base for support of application.

Projects Planned, Managed and Deployed:

* KnowledgeBase System with built-in auto-versioning (iso 9000 compliant) - Supports over 1000 users to date.

* Self service portals supporting various clients with self help tools - Implemented and maintained for 10 client companies.

* Ticketing Interface created to access Remedy/BMC backend allows users to search and create tickets online directly from their customer self service portal.
Web Developer

Sabre Holdings

(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Leisure, Travel & Tourism industry)

February 1999 — March 2000 (1 year 2 months)

Contract work. I helped them to develop their internal site. I was in a team of 6 developers and this project lasted a full year.
Surveillance Specialist

US Army

(Government Agency; 10,001 or more employees; Military industry)

October 1993 — April 1998 (4 years 7 months)

Placement and monitoring of surveillance equipment. I was trained to detect enemy movement using electronic devices. I was deployed to Korea and Bosnia.

Todd Brillon’s Education

Genesys Labs

Certification , Genesys Framework Overview , 2006 — 2006
Genesys Labs

Certification , Framework Installation , 2006 — 2006
Global Knowledge

Certificate , Mastering Web Databases , 2005 — 2005

Attended and completed classroom training for this field of study
HOTT

Certificate , PHP , 2002 — 2002

Attended and completed classroom training for this field of study
HOTT

Certificate , SQl , 2002 — 2002

Attended and completed classroom training for this field of study
ManageOne

Foundation Certificate , IT Service Management , 2002 — 2002

Attended and completed classroom training for this field of study - This is an ITIL certification