Mark Brudos

Husband, Father and Data Management Professional

Viroqua, Wisconsin

Hi! My name is Mark…

…and I’m an IT pro who lives in Viroqua, Wisconsin. I live with an awesome wife, some cool kids and an assortment of cute critters.

Currently I’m the Integration ETL Architect (Data Integration Architect) at Organic Valley, where I’m responsible for the movement of data between 20+ enterprise software applications. I also have a passion for Linux and web hosting, so I run a small webhosting company: Viroqua Hosting Co.

When I’m not in front of a screen I enjoy getting out into the woods (on my feet or a bike), working on home improvement projects and helping out with a great school that the kids attend.

Interests

Data, Data, Data
Mountain Biking
Webhosting and Linux
Deep Work; Biohacking

Education

BSc in Computer Science, 2002

University of Wisconsin Platteville
BSc in Business Administration, 2002

University of Wisconsin Platteville

Recent Posts

July 24, 2020

Another boring website update I pity anyone that stumbles upon this website! I’m having tons of fun putting it together, but from the outside this would appear awfully boring to most.

July 24, 2020 3 min read

Now - July 2020

Now is a periodic update of where I’m at on some bigger projects: what have I accomplished since last time and what’s next? Click the now tag below or in the menu above to see all of these types of posts.

July 20, 2020 2 min read

July 20, 2020

Website Update I finally sorted out a formatting/style issue - I think the problem was with Cloudflare caching. Hopefully I won’t be making many more significant stylesheet changes, so I won’t run into this problem again.

July 20, 2020 1 min read

July 17, 2020

Images and Galleries, Part 2 OK, so yesterday I tried and failed to get images and galleries working reasonably well with the 2nd theme that I have deployed. I’m afraid that I’m just not much of an HTML and CSS wiz, so it was time for a new strategy: find a more full-featured theme.

July 17, 2020 2 min read

July 16, 2020

My mission for today is to build a post using “page bundles” and figure out some image processing stuff. Update: Yay! I got the page bundles part working. Next up is trying out some image stuff.

July 16, 2020 2 min read

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Projects

SAP Data Services - Data Integrity Check

Functions for SAP Data Services to perform basic data integrity checks at the beginning and end of a data load.

60 Second Budget

Why Can’t I (we) Stick To A Budget? Budgeting is kind of like weight loss: we all know we need to do it and have a lot of success for a little while, but no matter how hard we try, the problem keeps coming back!

Experience

Recent Professional Experience

Integration ETL Architect

Organic Valley/CROPP Cooperative

Jan 2014 – Present Cashton, WI USA

Responsible for:

Monitoring and operating the data integration application landscape to ensure the business can operate 24/7
Researching and implementing best practices for data integration to support 20+ enterprise applications
Leading design, development and testing efforts for integrating new software systems into our landscape
Maintaining standards for application phase management, change control processes and a code review checklist

Owner

Viroqua Hosting, Co.

Jan 2012 – Present Viroqua, WI USA

Small webhosting shop with a focus on high-performance WordPress hosting

Programmer Analyst II, Database Analyst/Administrator, and Business Intelligence Analyst