Bryan Friel

Bryan Friel has worked in a variety of roles in the technology sector since 2007. From 2007 to 2010, they were an Instructional Designer at Virginia Tech, where they managed schedules, workloads, and training schedules for a 10-person core team. Bryan also designed, developed, and maintained the FDI website. From 2009 to 2011, they were a Technical Analyst at thinkorswim, where they supported development and testing of trading applications and provided internal and external technical support. From 2011 to 2017, they were an IT Analyst at The College Board, where they managed large-scale enterprise projects, business development, system administration, and information architecture. From 2017 to 2018, they were a Systems Engineer at Ellucian, where they managed the organizational suite of ALM tools. Finally, from 2018 to 2020, they were a Senior Technical Consultant at Blackstone Technology Group. Bryan is currently a Senior Atlassian Tools Engineer at Trundl.com - Atlassian Platinum Solution Partner.

Bryan Friel holds four Bachelor's Degrees from Virginia Tech in English, English Literature, Language, and Culture, Creative Writing, and Technical Theatre/Theatre Design and Technology. Bryan also holds a Master's Degree in English from Virginia Tech. Additionally, Friel holds various certifications, including a GEDI Certificate from Virginia Tech (2009), an ABP-CSA from Atlassian (2021), an ACP-JCA from Atlassian (2021), an APB-CSA from Atlassian (2021), an Atlassian Certified Expert from Atlassian (2021), an ACP-JA from Atlassian (2021), an ACP-JPA from Atlassian (2021), an ACP-MJCP from Atlassian (2021), a Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) from the Scrum Alliance (2016), a Project Management Professional (PMP) from the Project Management Institute (2016), and an ITIL Foundations v3 from Learning Tree International.