Summary
Bob Brandt is a seasoned technology leader and founder who currently serves as Director of SMB Systems, a Dublin-based company delivering professional consulting and email/web hosting services to small and medium-sized businesses. He blends hands-on expertise with strategic leadership across heterogeneous environments, including Novell Netware, SuSE Linux, GroupWise, virtualization, SANs, and cross-platform integration. Since 2008, he has steered SMB Systems from a startup to a focused provider of collaboration and hosting solutions, while maintaining a strong customer-focused engineering mindset. His prior roles—IT/System Administrator at the Office of Public Works and Networks Supervisor/Novell Expert at Galileo International—demonstrate a track record of managing large-scale, multi-network infrastructures and complex integrations. He holds a BSEE in Computer Engineering from IIT and an MS in Computer Science from the University of Illinois Chicago, underpinned by studies in Japanese at the University of Maryland Global Campus. Based in Dublin, he combines technical depth with practical entrepreneurship and a global perspective.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Japanese, Japanese Studies, Japanese, Japanese Studies at University of Maryland Global Campus
Masters in Computer Science, Masters in Computer Science at University of Illinois Chicago
BSEE, Computer Engineering, BSEE, Computer Engineering at Illinois Institute of Technology