Brian Ford
President at FacetTrak
Peoria, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrian Ford is a veteran technology executive and entrepreneur with 35+ years in computer networking and IT leadership, currently president of Facet Technologies and founder of service-focused software ventures FacetTrak and Provoptix. He blends strategic business acumen (MBA in Business & Information Technology) with hands-on product development for MSPs and service industries, creating monitoring and client-tracking tools that emphasize security and operational visibility. A long-time regional leader, Brian has served on multiple nonprofit and corporate boards—bringing practical governance experience from community banks to cybersecurity advisory roles at Bradley University. Not obvious from job titles: he pairs deep enterprise IT roots (former IS manager at Caterpillar) with a persistent startup mindset, launching niche products while guiding organizations through growth and risk-aware innovation.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Environmental Biology, BS, Environmental Biology at Eastern Illinois UniversityMBA, Business and Information Technology, MBA, Business and Information Technology at Bradley University
Github Skills (30)
intellij-plugin10
intellij-idea9
java9
spring9
spring-boot9
minecraft8
sonarqube8
docker-image7
forge7
probot7
markdown6
react5
gradle5
continuous-integration5
docker5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
FacetsTechnologies/loghound
Oct 2014 - Nov 2014
Contributions:15 commits in 23 days
loggerjavascriptloggingstandalonenodejs
FacetsTechnologies/nanotech
Aug 2022 - Sep 2022
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 9 days
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