Summary
Brian Wightman is an Enterprise Application Analyst with 14 years of experience designing and governing PLM/PDM systems across education, finance, and manufacturing environments. He combines deep technical skills—Windchill PLM, Oracle SQL, Unix, Perl, ETL pipelines, and DevOps—with a pragmatic focus on process simplification, data quality, and disaster recovery. Brian has led large-scale migrations (500K objects, multiple TBs) and driven measurable business outcomes like dramatically shortened change cycles and reduced component counts through global data standards. He is a hands-on mentor and community builder who established data governance, led cross-functional libraries, and ran communities of practice to surface systemic gaps. Notably, he blends low-level system administration experience with BI and API development to make engineering data both reliable and consumable. Based in Wisconsin, he’s known for turning complex legacy landscapes into single-source-of-truth platforms that accelerate time-to-market.
14 years of coding experience
29 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science Mathematics, BS Computer Science Mathematics at University of Wisconsin Oshkosh
Lakeside Lutheran HS