Brian Painter

Brian Painter is Director of Industrial & Systems Engineering for Tindall Corporation and Founding Engineer of Sharpen. He developed the MVP for Resiliency Technologies / Sharpen mobile application in 2017 and has worked with Robyn and Tim over the past five years on various projects. They first collaborated on the award-winning public art installation, Video Village, funded through Bloomberg Philanthropies. For this project Brian coordinated the synchronized playing of videos within the 52 windows of an abandoned housing development. Not having access to the screen/projector/computer once they were installed meant that custom software had to be written to allow for remote access and management of the devices, along with synchronization of the individual videos across multiple windows to provide the desired artistic effect. The installation ran for six months and two weeks and achieved the desired goals of the public safety initiative. After Video Village, Robyn, Tim and Brian teamed up again to develop the MVP for the Sharpen platform. Brian took Robyn’s vision and turned that into a tangible application that could be demonstrated to clients.

The MVP was then developed to the 1.0 stage, and was deployed to several thousand end-users across multiple customers. Brian has stayed heavily involved, not only in development of the application, but also in the analysis of the data being collected, and how that might be used to tell the story of Sharpen. Sharpen is now a full-fledged platform for mental wellness with multiple developers implementing Robyn and Tim's original vision. Brian stays involved from a high-level system architecture level, continuing to help bring Robyn and Tim grow the company to its full potential.

Brian holds an MBA in Business Analytics from Clemson University, a B.S. in Industrial and Systems Engineering, Minor: Business from Virginia Tech and Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt Certification.