Brandon Santypal

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Brandon Santypal is a metal fabrication shop manager, small farmer, and former New York high fashion professional.

Brandon Santypal is presently working two jobs in the Pennsylvania area: tending to his third-generation family farm, and serving as the manager of a local metal fabrication shop. The farm raises chickens and sells eggs to the local community in addition to cultivating the famous Santypal zucchini that makes up the most important ingredient in their renowned zucchini bread, a Pennsylvania hit. At the metal fabrication shop, Brandon employs a rare sense of creativity and his unique design eye to help the shop attain unprecedented levels of productivity and craftsmanship. While his family farm is going strong through the hard work and diligent efforts of the Santypal family, it is unfortunately among the last of its kind in the area.

On the surface, the present story of Brandon Santypal is the same tale of hard work and dedication that many Americans share. To look past the superficial, however, is to peer into a lifetime of business expertise and adaptability: prior to taking on the role of a more traditional working man, Brandon Santypal served in some of the most prestigious positions that the New York high fashion world has to offer.

His present work ethic is informed by both generations of family grit and firsthand experience in the cutthroat world of NYC business. His management skills and innovative capabilities at the metalworking shop come from both natural talent and years among some of the most capable fashion minds in a highly creative industry. Always proud to be a hard worker, Brandon brings an impressive wealth of experience to whatever company is lucky enough to have him.

Considering his history of adaptability and change, it’s no surprise that Brandon Santypal’s degree demanded rigorous coursework designed not just to highlight business essentials, but also a wide range of interdisciplinary study and application. Grove City College in Grove City, PA, awarded him a degree in business management, but not before a host of challenges that would eventually help him in his path to becoming a successful businessman in a variety of fields.

The business core of the degree melded economics, accounting, math, and leadership classes to give him an in-depth look at the world of entrepreneurship, human resources, organizational behavior, and communication fundamentals necessary for any young businessman trying to absorb the basics necessary for success in the professional world. Perhaps more importantly, the interdisciplinary aspect included courses that covered subjects like political science, religion, sociology, and global economics—a wide scope of disciplines that would augment his already diverse skill set.

After earning this challenging degree, Brandon Santypal moved from western Pennsylvania to the bright lights and opportunity that New York presented. Taking his first job with MPE Model Management, he worked as an executive assistant—a position that some may deem unglamorous, but one that also allows unparalleled access to the highest echelons in the industry. Working for MPE, he managed to gain valuable skills with major industry programs like SQL, Server, Microsoft Office, and Adobe. While they were basic office programs that many entry-level professionals need to learn, he threw himself into studying their intricacies with uncommon fervor. Additionally, he received hands-on fashion training in the form of work with textiles, clothing design and cut, pattern-making, and even the under-appreciated art of draping.

While many graduates of the current generation would have been satisfied to stay in a position this enriching for years, Brandon instead took what he had learned and used it as leverage to gain a position at The Hudson Group. Here, he learned how to train other employees in critical positions through writing, formatting, and constructing new hire training manuals, a leadership skill that would come back to benefit him later in life. Not only did he manage all major responsibilities that came with nine retail stores, but he actually created a new hiring program for the HMR Group through a thorough analysis of the employee levels, corporate operations, and individual responsibility chain.

These skills and experiences only continued to fuel Brandon’s incredible climb up the corporate ladder. Only a year later, Brandon Santypal was the training director at the BC International Group, Inc. The company was based in New Jersey, and with the change of scene came a shift in his responsibilities and duties. To many this sudden shift in his daily tasks may have been debilitating, but for Brandon, it was the norm in his ever-evolving life. As training director, he worked with over 1,000 associates and executives at more than 100 locations to impress upon them the intricacies of maintaining professional business standards. In addition to his hands-on training, he also edited the company policy and procedure manual, reporting to the most senior management on his training methods and performance review standards.

It was a position in which he could hone his training and business capabilities through both the incredible responsibilities placed upon him, and also through the freedom to develop his own training guidelines that BC International Group offered. Demonstrating both work ethic and loyalty over five years with BC International, he then moved on in his endless business pursuits to Christian Dior, who took him on as a training specialist.

While working remotely, he utilized his adaptability and rare instinct for innovation to develop in-store training programs that could impart his rigorous standards even while he was away. He also investigated the Christian Dior France training packet, breaking down the educational material and contents to maximize the tools he would use to completely revolutionize the overall training experience. Working with examples provided by the flagship company, he managed to walk a delicate line in balancing the needs of a functional retail environment with the strict style and creative directives dictated by the Christian Dior headquarters.

It may be hard for anyone who has not experienced the high-pressure life of New York and the worldwide fashion industry to understand what it takes to develop a training program that can groom thousands of people in the rigorous standards that a company line like Christian Dior demands. Once many professionals have attained this level of brand awareness, marketing savvy, and general business capability, they cede any career ambition to the rare opportunity they have been given.

As a testament to his incredible versatility and ambition, however, Brandon Santypal bucked this clearly paved road into even greater fashion possibilities in order to preserve his family heritage.

When a close family member fell ill, Brandon Santypal forsook his life and career in New York to make sure that his third-generation family farm managed to stay in existence. Instead of perfumes and wedding dresses, he was now tending to chickens and zucchini. While the sacrifice is acute, the rationale is clear: not only does the entire region love the Santypal zucchini bread, but the farm is also one of the last of its kind operating in the region. Demonstrating rare personal fortitude and adaptability, Brandon didn’t stop at taking over the operations of his farm; he also became manager of a local metalsmithing shop.

Instead of dwelling on the drastic change, Brandon Santypal prefers to see the shift in his career as a new opportunity: having already summited the peaks of one field at such a young age, the future can only now hold even more ambitious climbs to mount.

After his abandonment of the exciting, high pressure, and ultimately rewarding field of New York fashion in order to tend to his family farm when one of his kin fell ill, it would be useless to predict where Brandon Santypal will end up next. While still young, he has demonstrated the basic tools necessary for success in a variety of fields—firm work ethic, unyielding standards of quality, and the capacity to teach—clearly through his current and turbulent work history. The unorthodox polymath has proven his chops when it comes to adapting to any situation; where he next takes his talents is entirely up to him.

His interests and hobbies outside of his successful, if unusual, business career might provide a clue. He has always been interested in fashion, and is an avid collector of vintage clothing, particularly from the period between 1940 and 1960. Additionally, while some might stereotype fashion enthusiasts in a variety of ways, he defies many preconceived notions of city people both with his present work and with his love of the outdoors: Brandon Santypal loves to travel to various locations to hike and rock climb, two of his favorite activities.

While many people of his generation wallow and desperately try to find steady employment, Brandon has been successful in every field he has chosen to pursue. It takes a rare bravery to tackle the fashion world, and an even more audacious one to walk away from it in order to pursue farming. Brandon has proven through his career that he is capable of taking on any challenge, and whatever the future holds, he has the tools to rise to it.