David Brenner
Director Of Product Management at Grainger
Greater Chicago Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Brenner is a product leader with 20+ years of experience designing and launching embedded and enterprise software products, currently directing Grainger’s e-commerce and mobile product portfolio. He blends deep technical roots from early engineering and sound synthesis work at Motorola with strategic product management skills developed leading global teams at HARMAN and Grainger. Known for instituting Agile front-end planning and Jira-driven requirements processes, he consistently reduces rework and increases cross-team transparency. He has driven consumer-facing mobile launches, platform integrations with partners like Google, and holds a rare intersection of music-technology training (Northwestern MM) and a CS degree from UIUC. Colleagues rely on him to translate complex hardware/software trade-offs into clear roadmaps and IP-ready features that scale globally.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Masters of Music Music Technology, Masters of Music Music Technology at Northwestern UniversityBS Computer Science School of Engineering, BS Computer Science School of Engineering at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Github Skills (41)
libjpeg-turbo10
splitter9
mls9
lz49
usb9
software-defined-radio9
turbo9
configurations9
rtl-sdr9
libjpeg9
compression9
compression-algorithm8
testing8
virtualbox7
gimp6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
DavidBrenner3/VMUB
Feb 2016 - Jul 2018
A tool for testing boot configurations on USB drives
Contributions:7 releases, 138 commits, 1 PR in 2 years 4 months
testingusbusb-drivesconfigurations
DavidBrenner3/Ajpeg
May 2016 - Jul 2016
Contributions:35 pushes, 3 branches in 1 month
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