Brad Paton Promoted to VP of Operations

Brad Paton promoted to VP of Operations- Brad has been a key contributor since his arrival in 2013 and has served as our Director of IT until he recently moved into the role of VP of Operations. In that role, Brad is responsible for the overall warehousing and fulfillment operation, and he will directly supervise the great group of departmental Team Leaders who assure that your products are quickly and accurately received and promptly picked, packed and shipped to your customers.

Brad joined BoxInBoxOut in 2013 as IT Director, with primary responsibilities of keeping systems and servers up and running, along with ensuring successful and accurate data flows, both within BoxInBoxOut’s internal systems as well as to and from our clients’ diverse range of information systems. Brad is fluent in HTML, PHP, SQL, and XML, and has a working familiarity with JSON, MongoDB, and CSS. Prior to joining BoxInBoxOut, Brad was the Senior Content Manager for the U.S. Postal Service’s online storefront since 2007, following a seven-year stint as a MySQL/PHP consultant for a variety of publishing and ecommerce groups, and five years as the lead systems and operations manager for a publisher in Charlottesville, VA. Brad studied Magazine Writing & Editing at the University of Missouri’s School of Journalism, and has enjoyed using his love of soccer and music, nurtured as a young man in suburban St. Louis, MO, to help feel at home where-ever work took him. His 20 years of experience has included two stops each now in New York City and Charlottesville, along with intermediate stations in Paris, France, and Washington, DC. He and his wife, Julie, and their two boys call Charlottesville home.