David Bradford, a long-time member of the FACTS Development Team, has recently been promoted to Software Engineer Principal.
David originally joined Infor as a member of the Professional Services Group where he was tasked with creating FACTS custom modifications. After a few years doing this, and learning the ins and outs of FACTS, he moved over to become a member of the FACTS Development team – where he has been for over 10 years now.
David’s experience and expertise with the FACTS architecture has been a great asset to the FACTS Development team including his ability to dive into data problems/issues and untangle them as well as architecting and implementing some of our more recent (and soon to come) FACTS enhancements.
A fairly recent, difficult project, that proved without a doubt that David was ready for this promotion was the FACTS SideBar feature. David (picking up with the scaffolding past FACTS guru and architect Tim Plotner erected before his departure) implemented this feature within FACTS (and only in the SO module, delivered in v9.2) which was heavily code dependent. Then, after v9.2 was delivered, David tackled the extremely difficult task of converting the heavy use of code for SideBar’s implementation to the FACTS MetaData/Driver-based system (even coining a phrase during the project; meta-izing). This allows Sidebar areas to be much more easily implemented, using configurable metadata and having a smaller code footprint; so much more easy that Sidebar areas should be making new appearances in a few more modules (PO and IC) when FACTS v9.3 goes GA.
I know all of you will join me in congratulating David on this well deserved promotion.
About David Bradford:
David has been programming for about two decades, in a variety of languages, both for fun as well as career path. His small circle of non-developer friends can relate how tirelessly he talks with them about his custom "Minesweeper" variation, in Java, and his currently in progress tic-tac-toe variation, in HTML5/Javascript. Just prior to Infor, David was a software engineer for a payroll company. One of the projects he remembers accomplishing during his tenure there was creating a method for the payroll company (coded using printer scripting for HP printers) to 'draw/create' tax forms as well as additional coding allowing the company to print a number of different bar codes. This allowed the payroll company to lower costs due to no longer needing to acquire preprinted forms and barcoding software.
Prior to the payroll company David was custom coding web sites and shopping carts, which was when he realized he could make a career out of “this coding gig” as he puts it! With that in mind David worked towards this goal taking coursework and eventually completing his master’s degree in computer science at Georgia's Southern Polytechnic State University.
