Jim Brandt works as a programmer in the Administrative Computing department at the University at Buffalo. He helps design and maintain the distributed web-serving and database architecture for many of the University's key IT systems. Within the department, Jim also helps to design the development environment, set programming standards, and makes everyone write tests. At times he still writes code too, and he has been involved with several web projects such as UB's ePayment system and web-based registration. He has recently been working on a University-wide electronic workflow and procurement system.

In Summer 2004, Jim was conference coordinator for Yet Another Perl Conference which was hosted at UB. He's still recovering, but has enough energy to serve on the Perl Foundation's conferences committee. He's also a member of the Buffalo Perl Mongers and occasionally makes the drive up to Toronto to visit with the Toronto Perl Mongers.