Brett Gregor

About

Hands-on architect/executive who built a virtual sales platform from scratch with real-time video delivery and autoscaling global video nodes, while also operating at the stakeholder/roadmap level. Previously scaled IT as Arbonne grew from ~$11M to $1B in annual sales and led large digital transformation efforts including a 70-person team for princesshouse.com; also advises startups (e.g., SocialBud) on product expansion and roadmaps.

Experience

Education

Key Strengths

• Architected a novel virtual sales platform from scratch (real-time webcam + static assets to shopping cart fulfillment)
• Hands-on technical leader who also oversees end-to-end engineering and delivery architecture
• Scaled IT/engineering organizations through hypergrowth (Arbonne from ~$11M to $180M to $1B annual sales)
• Built large cross-functional delivery teams (70-person design/dev/infrastructure team for princesshouse.com digital transformation)
• Strong SDLC/process orientation with emphasis on a thorough design phase
• Customer-centric, works backwards from user experience to drive quality and reduce technical shortcuts
• Led scalability architecture decisions (global video node distribution and load-based on-demand node provisioning)
• Built and launched a virtual “living room” sales engagement platform (up to 15 guests) that helped sustain the business during COVID
• Deep end-to-end IT experience across software lifecycle and infrastructure (from small environments to full datacenters)
• Cross-functional operator with understanding of how major departments run (legal, sales, marketing, supply chain, accounting, IT)
• Strong scope management and stakeholder communication under time/resource constraints
• Collaborative leadership style: educates stakeholders on trade-offs/options rather than blocking