Brandon is a versatile and passionate engineer that uses design thinking
and web technologies for creative problem-solving. He is currently working as
the Director of Software at SXSW and teaching Web Design at FIDM.
I bought a skateboard because I thought it would be nice to bounce around my one square mile in downtown Los Angeles. But to take on all the traffic and the cracks and curbs of the sidewalks, I have to get better. Getting better means falling.
There are many ways to contribute to a cause, but the main ways are donating your time, money, or both. Volunteering is very rewarding, and you can add a lot of value to a cause or organization by using your professional skills to help. As a technologist and web developer, I have had several opportunities to help by doing things like building a simple website for a cause I believe...
A year ago today, I officially started a career in management. I accepted a role as the Head of Software at South by Southwest (SXSW), a company I have worked with for the past several years. It was a tremendous accomplishment for me, and something I had joked about in years prior, so to have it come to be felt extremely rewarding. That being said, I didn’t know what a...
A chameleon, or social chameleon, is someone who fits in and generally gets along with all kinds of folks. They were able to bounce around to different cliques in High School, getting along great with the freaks and the geeks, and they were able to parlay that ability into adult life, college, and business.
Aligning logic refers to the process by which I complete a task, get feedback from my colleagues or supervisor, then incorporate that feedback into the original task. The time it takes to successfully complete this loop will shrink over time as I learn to anticipate my colleague’s feedback and generally get better at the process.
I watched Mark Yegge’s TEDxUF Talk called Executing Your Ideas for graduate school. In the video, he talks about the importance of sharing your ideas. Mark Yegge said: “If you’re not going to tell anyone your idea, then there is no way you can ever really implement it.”