Michael Brittlebank

Resume

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

Oscar Wilde

Technology leader who empathetically drives culture and systematically delivers value. Skilled in managing remote & hybrid multidisciplinary teams and guiding organizations to more efficiently develop software products. Lifelong mentor, teacher, and coach committed to people development and raising others up holistically. Personally invested in a continuous learning mindset focusing on business and technology, breadth and depth. Current professional interests are Team of Teams agility, Agile@Scale operations, and Digital Transformation & Innovation.

Effective communicator, project manager, and product owner experienced in workflow process improvement, organizational change management, and workforce planning who is able to influence, promote, and implement transformative technologies and processes. Agile evangelist incorporating the best of Scrum, Kanban, Lean, SAFe, Six Sigma, and other frameworks to meet deliverables. Doggedly focused on outcomes rather than outputs in order to deliver iterative, future-proof solutions which satisfy stakeholders across the organization.

Strong background as a SOLID, DRY business solutions architect and software engineer with a wide range of experience building bespoke websites, RESTful APIs, cross-platform mobile apps, and cloud DevOps solutions. Advocate for test-driven development (TDD) and accustomed to context switching between a variety of projects, languages, and frameworks.

Experience  (Selected)

Senior Manager, Software Engineering

2023Present Capital One. McLean, VA, USA

Technology Solution Delivery Manager

20202023 American Family Insurance. Madison, WI, USA

Senior Software Developer

20192020 Blain Supply. Janesville, WI, USA

Senior Front-End Software Developer

20182019 Propeller Health. Madison, WI, USA

Senior Web Developer

20172018 RecommenderX. Dublin, Ireland

Lead Web Developer

20132017 Ellefson Technology. Toronto, ON, Canada

Project Manager & Web Developer

20122013 University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

Database Engineer

2012 Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA

Education

MMGT, Corporate Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Expected 2027 The Pennsylvania State University. State College, PA, USA

Higher Diploma in Science, Computing

2017 Technical University Dublin. Dublin, Ireland

MA, Renaissance Literature 1500-1700

2013 University of York. York, England

BS, English Language & Literature

2011 University of Wisconsin-Madison. Madison, WI, USA

Professional Development  (Selected)

2025 Graduate Certificate in Business Architecture - The Pennsylvania State University

2024 Graduate Certificate in Strategic Leadership - The Pennsylvania State University

2023 Amazon Web Services Solutions Architect - Associate

2023 Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO)

2022 Certified Lean Six Sigma Black Belt (CSSC)

2022 Google Cloud Certified – Associate Cloud Engineer

2021 Leading SAFe, Certified SAFe 5 Agilist

2020 AWS Certified Developer – Associate

Find Me:

Freelancing  (Selected)