Mike Brandt
Sales Manager at HMB Solutions | Sales & Marketing | Company & Contact Database | Market Research | Lead Generation
Madison, Wisconsin, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMike Brandt is a seasoned sales leader and engineer with over 12 years of experience driving profitable growth across manufacturing, life sciences, energy, and utilities. He combines hands-on technical expertise in process equipment with strategic sales, marketing, and business development, backed by a BS in Biochemistry and Mechanical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin–Madison and an MBA. As founder of HMB Solutions and in leadership roles at OTC Industrial Technologies and AD Process Equipment, he has a track record of building high-performance teams, expanding market share, and delivering customer-centric solutions—including a rebranding campaign that boosted web traffic by 400%. His work spans OEM relationships, cross-functional collaboration, and data-driven sales analytics to forecast and win complex deals. He also contributes to open-source energy modeling projects like NREL's System Advisor Model as a backend developer, adding release notes and refining the solar field optimization and CSP system modeling. Based in Madison, he leverages broad industry exposure to turn intricate technical requirements into practical, scalable business outcomes.
13 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Engineering & Biochemistry, Bachelor's Degree Engineering & Biochemistry at University of Wisconsin-Madison
English, Spanish
Github Skills (3)
system-configuration9
software-update8
algorithms7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
NREL/SAM
Oct 2014 - Dec 2019
System Advisor Model (SAM)
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:132 commits, 1 push, 2 branches in 5 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Mike primarily contributed to the System Advisor Model (SAM) project by modifying and updating the deploy/runtime/versions.lk file. These updates involved changes to the solar field optimization algorithm and the restructuring of the Generic CSP System model. The commits also include the addition of release notes, indicating the user was involved in informing users about these changes and their potential impact.
samadvisormodelicapower-systems
NREL/SolTrace
Jun 2017 - Jan 2023
SolTrace
Contributions:1 review, 64 commits, 23 PRs in 5 years 7 months
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