resume.json

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  "basics": {
    "name": "Brian Roach",
    "label": "Senior Technical Product Manager + Engineer",
    "summary": "Experienced Senior Product Manager with a decade of success in driving product growth from concept to launch. Unique background product management with strong technical foundation. I can code, design, and lead cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality products. Intersted in building products that empower creators and communities. Currently exploring MIR and audio-ML for audico and video production.",
    "email": "brian@itsbrex.dev",
    "phone": "",
    "image": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/itsbrex/my-links/main/profile-picture.png",
    "website": "https://links.dev/itsbrex",
    "location": {
      "location": "San Diego",
      "region": "California",
      "countryCode": "USA"
    },
    "profiles": [
      {
        "network": "LinkedIn",
        "username": "itsbrex",
        "url": "https://linkedin.com/in/itsbrex"
      },
      {
        "network": "GitHub",
        "username": "itsbrex",
        "url": "https://github.com/itsbrex"
      }
    ]
  },
  "work": [
    {
      "website": "https://www.bigo.tv",
      "company": "Bigo Live",
      "position": "Technical Product Manager, User Growth & Engagement",
      "startDate": "2021-11-01",
      "endDate": "2022-12-31",
      "location": "Los Angeles",
      "countryCode": "USA",
      "summary": "My core focus was on driving user-growth strategies for our influencer segment (50k+ users). By innovating new user entry points and utilizing machine learning for personalized content, I facilitated collaboration among data science, partner management, marketing, and engineering teams for seamless collaboration.",
      "highlights": [
        "Developed AI chatbot to handle 1,500+ daily support inquiries from influencer/brand accounts, improving product design + UX by reducing response times from 2 days to under 90 seconds; blueprint adapted to internal bot now serving 400 million users.",
        "Developed and maintained ETL/ELT pipelines between Hive and GCP + implemented ML models for personalized content recommendations, increasing user engagement 2x.",
        "Led the cross-department strategy for tech PRDs, aligning technology and business goals to enhance decision-making and risk management.",
        "Launched 3 end-to-end React apps (2 Next.js, 1 Redwood), fueling a 20% YoY growth in user base and a 25% increase in daily revenue from in-app purchases."
      ]
    },
    {
      "website": "https://klientboost.com",
      "company": "KlientBoost",
      "position": "Technical Growth Manager",
      "startDate": "2020-12-01",
      "endDate": "2021-11-30",
      "location": "Costa Mesa",
      "countryCode": "USA",
      "highlights": [
        "Achieved a 2x increase in yearly revenue by optimizing team performance through automated business processes using Zapier, Slack webhooks and Salesforce APIs."
      ]
    },
    {
      "company": "BREX Media Group",
      "position": "Project Manager, Event Production Systems",
      "startDate": "2019-01-01",
      "endDate": "2020-12-31",
      "location": "Los Angeles",
      "countryCode": "USA",
      "highlights": [
        "Managed A/V projects for touring bands playing venues with up to 20k attendees, achieving a and average 50% reduction in equipment deployment times from 6 hours to 3 hours and a 20% decrease in production costs via Python-driven software integrations and equipment consolidation."
      ]
    },
    {
      "website": "https://karmaship.io",
      "company": "Karmaship",
      "position": "Product Manager, Blockchain Payments",
      "startDate": "2017-01-01",
      "endDate": "2018-12-31",
      "location": "Los Angeles",
      "countryCode": "USA",
      "highlights": [
        "Led product roadmap and successful launch of Karmaship web-wallet, a cryptocurrency micro-payments solution targeting rural communities.",
        "Leveraged community feedback and user analytics post-launch to optimize onboarding process, effectively reducing drop-off rates by 50% for future events."
      ]
    },
    {
      "company": "Roach Design & Consulting",
      "position": "Product Manager & Web Dev Consultant",
      "startDate": "2015-04-01",
      "endDate": "2017-01-31",
      "location": "Los Angeles",
      "countryCode": "USA",
      "highlights": [
        "Founded a consultancy, implementing digital growth strategy for SMBs and coding front-end web development for effective business growth."
      ]
    },
    {
      "website": "https://blend.io",
      "company": "Blend.io",
      "position": "Product Manager",
      "startDate": "2013-10-01",
      "endDate": "2015-03-31",
      "location": "Los Angeles",
      "countryCode": "USA",
      "highlights": [
        "Transitioned from MBA intern to Product Manager at Blend, a betaworks-backed startup, demonstrating adaptability in a dynamic environment.",
        "Designed and implemented growth strategies, achieving over 150,000 MAU and company acquisition by ROLI in 2015.",
        "Collaborated with cross-functional teams to launch influential features and engaged with A-list artists including Moby and Wu-Tang Clan."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "education": [
    {
      "institution": "UCSD - Rady School of Management",
      "area": "Business",
      "studyType": "MBA",
      "startDate": "2012-08-01",
      "endDate": "2014-06-15",
      "location": "San Diego",
      "countryCode": "USA",
      "courses": []
    },
    {
      "institution": "University of Southern California",
      "area": "Political Science",
      "studyType": "B.A.",
      "startDate": "2009-08-01",
      "endDate": "2011-06-15",
      "location": "Los Angeles",
      "countryCode": "USA",
      "courses": []
    },
    {
      "institution": "University of California, Berkeley",
      "area": "Business",
      "studyType": "Undeclared",
      "startDate": "2007-08-01",
      "endDate": "2009-06-15",
      "location": "Berkeley",
      "countryCode": "USA",
      "courses": []
    }
  ],
  "skills": [
    {
      "name": "Frontend",
      "level": "Hacker",
      "keywords": ["HTML / JSX", "React / Next", "JavaScript / Typescript", "REST / GraphQL"]
    },
    {
      "name": "Backend",
      "level": "Hacker",
      "keywords": [
        "Node",
        "Python",
        "Prisma",
        "PostgreSQL",
        "SQLite",
        "Pinecone"      
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Devops",
      "level": "Hacker",
      "keywords": ["Vercel", "Google Cloud", "AWS"]
    }
  ],
  "interests": [
    { "name": "Computer Music", "keywords": ["Ableton", "Web-Audio", "Tone.js", "Max MSP", "Pure Data"] },
    {
      "name": "LLM Optimization",
      "keywords": ["Schema Engineering", "TypeChat", "ChatXML", "ReLLM", "WebGPU"]
    },
    {
      "name": "Audio-ML",
      "keywords": ["Tensorflow", "PyTorch", "Librosa", "Music21", "Scikit-Learn"]
    }
  ]
}