| A Day in the Life - Brett Procek - Product Development
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Brett Procek -
Product Developer
 What is your main responsibility?
As a product developer, I set goals in the morning for my product development tasks, coordinate with fellow team members to ensure functional integration, and mark off my daily accomplishments by logging my work and following up with the project manager. I read over the specs delivered by our functional architect and begin to carve up the ‘bigger picture’ into bite-sized development pieces that I take ownership of. It’s my responsibility to estimate, design, and construct the various functional moving parts that go into each software release, and I take pride in the quality of my contributions.
How do you start your day?
I sit down with a freshly brewed cup of coffee and a breakfast bagel, and begin checking email to find out the status of our offshore QA Testing team. Their testing effort yields software defects or other concerns that need addressing. After sending off a couple of overseas emails, I get ready for our morning status meeting by recapping yesterday’s accomplishments and setting goals for the coming day.
What do yo talk to yout supporting leader about?
He shares with me the sales of our product, along with things like customer reception and forward looking plans. I’m reassured of my role with the company and the value of my contributions.
What type of interactions do you have with other team members?
A team member beckons me to his desk to ask about a technical problem he’s encountering with an AJAX invocation. As we begin to debug the problem, another team member overhears and joins our undertaking to solve this problem. We reason through a number of problem causes and possible solutions, and eventually solve it; another fire put out.
What have you done with team members after work?
After work, a few teammates and I meet at a local athletic club to duke it out. We go from keyboards and mice to ping-pong paddles in our thirst for personal excellence. Looks can be deceiving, however. That quiet programmer in the corner with his head down turns into a table tennis champion by evening. The next day it’s evident that our working relationships have broadened and team cohesion has strengthened.
Why did you choose to work at Infogix and what makes it a great place to work?
Infogix is, first and foremost, an agile software company oriented toward delivering solutions that meet the needs of highly estimable corporations. We are not a company that just happens to have an IT department with a bunch of software products to maintain. I choose to work for Infogix because they design innovative solutions using industry leading software technologies and best of breed engineers. Furthermore, the company culture feels like a small outfit in that everyone feels the effect of his or her contributions. On the other hand, I also have worked in much larger companies, and I’ve been impressed to find that the employee benefits at Infogix are commensurate.
What accomplishment are you proud of?
Given prior experience, I was initiated the important responsibility and effort to migrate our product teams to a new Issue Management system based upon JIRA. This was a large undertaking and required a lot of expertise and careful planning among several team members. Existing data and processes needed to be mapped to JIRA’s new web-based environment. The end result was successful in that each product team at Infogix is now benefiting from a streamlined workflow-based issue management process.
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