My name is Brad Hubbard. Thank you for taking a moment to look at my resume.
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Summary of Qualifications
Experienced Technology Product Manager with Software Development Background
- Product Manager for 7 years, worked with hardware and software product lines with cross functional teams ranging from 3 to 12 members.
- Successfully launched SaaS, Mobile (Android and iOS), and data products
- Industry experience includes streaming (social) data, telecommunications, and enterprise software consulting at companies from seed-stage startups through publicly traded enterprises
- Solutions Architect for 2 years, determined technical requirements and business model validation for dozens of web and mobile products and clients
- Full-stack engineer for Ruby on Rails web applications running in customer facing, revenue-generating production environments
Management Experience
Product Manager (2014-Present)
DataSift
- Managed development and delivery of products with UK-based engineering team
- Researched and productized new partner data sources through close integration with business development organization
- Produced sales training materials on new product releases
- Developed revised pricing model to increase adoption of lowest performing data sources
- Interviewed and discussed roadmap with customers to gain feedback on product direction
- Built developer community and ran developer outreach events in New York and San Francisco
Solutions Architect and Partner Advocate (2011-2013)
Burnside Digital
- Primary technical resource to Business Development organization
- Scoped web and mobile development projects
- Developed initial architecture, milestones, and timeline
- Worked closely with CTO on technology and approach recommendations
- Authored technical response for numerous government and private RFPs
- Managed Agile project teams of up to eight engineers on projects ranging from two to 12 months
- Maintained relationships with high-priority clients, set project expectations, establish contract terms
- As Partner Advocate, managed corporate partner relationships around promotional programs
- Burnside Partners include Heroku, Amazon AWS, EngineYard, Salesforce, and others
Product Line Manager (2007-2011)
Occam Networks
- Managed two independent product lines
- Optical components and Network Management Software
- Combined total ~12% of Occam's annual revenues
- Increased optical component margins by ~45% while lowering prices
- Received highest employee recognition for development and implementation of company-wide information sharing system (Dashboard)
- Presented quarterly financial results to executive team
- Managed multiple consultant and vendor relationships
- Produced numerous product and market requirement documents
- Managed engineering teams to successful release of software and hardware products
- Traveled with sales team to customer sites and presented current and forward-looking product information
- Attended tradeshows and presented at Occam’s annual user's group conference (ONUG) on corporate and industry technology direction
Project/Relationship Manager (2005 – 2007)
Bitscribe, Inc
- Managed consulting projects ranging from $15k- $750k
- Developed enterprise Ruby on Rails applications
- Managed teams of two to five software developers and interacted with outside contractors
- Worked closely with clients to establish requirements and set internal and external expectations, while maintaining regular contact with client stakeholders
- Managed Agile workflow, including setting client expectations for rapid iteration and minimum viable product definition
Sales & Marketing (2006 – 2007)
Accsense, Inc
- Responsible for majority of online presence
- Google AdWords Advertising
- Coded and managed commercial website
- Marketed promotional programs
- Managed inventory control system
- Tuned Google AdWords account and tripled web traffic while decreasing costs
- Conducted face-to-face sales with commercial customers
- Traveled to trade shows and generated viable, well-qualified leads
- Defined documentation system and product documentation
Engineering Experience
Developer, Founder (2013-Present)
PracticumFit
- Sole developer for online matching system for graduate psychology students
- Authored proposal for multi-school consortium and displaced legacy system and industry leader
- Implemented a variant of the Gale-Shapley algorithm for preferential rank matching optimization
- Resulted in >90% qualified students matching to open positions
- Built team of employees and contractors to deliver on-time, under-budget and with a high level of customer satisfaction
Lead Rails and jQuery Engineer (2013-2014)
ProductPlan
- Primary developer of web-based product roadmap application
- Program and architect multi-user collaboration roadmap planning suite
- Implement and maintain automated test suite using Selenium and Capybara
- Participate in frequent customer usability tests
- Hired as sole developer at new startup from inception through launch
- Extensive rich UI development with jQuery
- Work closely with founders, visual designer, and UI engineer
Ruby on Rails Developer (2007 – 2011)
Private Consultant
- Developed numerous public facing Ruby on Rails applications
- Worked with geographically diverse graphics and UX teams
- Development responsibilities:
- System architecture design (including Heroku, AWS S3, and private Rails host interaction)
- Ruby on Rails development and troubleshooting
- CSS-based layout and UI implementation, and cross-platform testing
Education
B.A. University of California, Santa Barbara (2002-2006)
- Major: Philosophy
- Minor: Writing, with an emphasis in Technical Communication
- Technology Entrepreneurship Certificate from the College of Engineering
- Two-time finalist of Technology Management Program Business Plan Competition (2004, 2006)