Brian Vaughn is the manager of the North American Applications team at IPG and has been in the role since 2021. IPG is a global provider of marketing solutions. With approximately 56,000 employees in all major world markets, it specializes in advertising, digital marketing, communications planning, media, public relations, and specialty marketing.

The North American Applications team is responsible for 15+ corporate applications including Control-M. Among the responsibilities of these applications is performance, software upgrades, patching, vulnerabilities, and code release. When it comes to Control-M, his team acts as the administrators and schedulers.

Brian started at IPG in 2013 as the Control-M administrator and scheduler. During that time, he was responsible for all the servers, infrastructure, configuration, upgrades, and patching for Control-M, as well as working with internal customers to create and update Control-M jobs and schedules and remove depreciated jobs.

Brian has appreciated being in IT for more than 30 years working with a variety of different hardware and software solution. With its ever-changing landscape, IT is a field in which you