Bryan Morgan

Engineering Manager + ML Engineer

About Me

My complementary skill sets and well-rounded perspective set me apart from those who define their leadership styles exclusively by technical or product acumen. I will always apply a critical mindset and ask unconventional questions to understand which problems are worth solving before jumping to solutions, to ensure I am delivering for my customers. I thrive in roles where I can help engineers and data scientists understand key business drivers and translate technical details to senior business leaders, acting as a bridge between organizations. In order to do this, as a servant leader, it is critical to demonstrate open communication and develop trust. Building trust among my team members requires setting clear and realistic expectations, defending their attention from unnecessary distractions, and enforcing accountability among all stakeholders.

Experience

Amazon

Oct 2020 -- Present

LEAD FOR DATA APPLICATION -- SR. TPM

Leader for Data Application at Amazon Air Business Intelligence. Lead the design and implementation of a new organization-wide decision support platform, on a native AWS stack. Prior to Air, I was Sr. TPM for Amazon Business, I led 6 cross functional teams to develop an enterprise procurement platform with integrated business logic, tax, and legal solutions, processing $400M in the first 6m.

Expanded team from 1 to 6, establishing best practices for the organization
Designed + managed critical business review platform, improving NPS by 30%

PlayStation

Jan 2018 -- Oct 2020

DATA SCIENCE MANAGER -- DATA SCIENTIST

Data Science Manager for product data science, managing the collaboration between product, business and data science. Main responsibilities involved problem development, exploratory data analysis and experimentation design + analysis. Prior to that, data scientist and product owner for application performance, working across all client engineering teams. I led the development of the new PlayStation 5 engineering analytics platform, ranging from on-console middleware supporting data consistency to new datawarehousing solutions. Additionally, I developed predictive analytics models to analize the impact of updates prior to release. My models were required to deploy complex new systems while maintaining excellent performance.

Established lab environment, allowing multiple builds to be tested in development
Develped performance models accurate to within 200ms for 75th percentile

PlayStation

July 2016 -- Jan 2018

SR. TPM -- PRODUCT OWNER

Initially, TPM before transitioning to product owner (PO) for PS Music on console, driving solutions across geographies and companies. PS Music is a system level integration with Spotify, requiring collaboration between Spotify, PlayStation Network in SF and PlayStation OS in Tokyo. Working with a diverse group of stakeholders, I lead the development of new and innovative features that seamlessly integrated music with gaming experiences. Additionally, as Sr. TPM for social applications I lead the integration of PS Music features more deeply into key touch points such as the Newsfeed, Live Details, and User Profile.

Lead development of a new social application for PS Music, growing to hundres of thousands of users
Improved release processes using ML to validate phased releases, allowing for CD of high profile apps

UC Berkeley

January 2016 -- December 2016

GRADUATE STUDENT INSTRUCTOR

While completing my Master of Information Management and Systems, I was the graduate student instructor for Haas's Product Development course. The course was focused on leading a concept from conception, through refinement and testing, to a working prototype. This fast pased course allowed students to experience the full product development process in a short period of time.

Joint program between Haas and I-School, that was originally developed at Wharton
Students met with and pitched to VCs, gaining insight and fostering collaboration

Workday

May 2015 -- Aug 2015

PRODUCT MANAGEMENT INTERN

As the Mobile Product Manager Intern, I was responsible for working with a diverse group of stakeholders to ensure new releases of the Workday application met both our high user-experience (UX) standards as well as shipped on time. Drawing from my wide range of skills I was able to quickly get up to speed and understand the critical path to deliver for customers.

Owned 3 main areas for mobile, focusing on supporting global financial expansion
Acting product manager within 1 month of joining, delivered all features for Workday Rising

Center for the Collaborative Classroom

Jan 2014 -- Jan 2015

E-LEARNING DEVELOPER

This is going to be some super awesome copy about how we sold a ton of product to someone

This is going to be a better approach!
And I hope this works

International Computer Science Center

Mar 2013 -- Aug 2015

FRONT-END DEVELOPER

Collaborated with educators and researchers to create web products that demonstrated digital privacy concepts to high school students. Products ranged from web applications to Facebook integrated behavioral analysis using Python.

This is going to be a better approach!
And I hope this works

Be'Chol Lashon

Oct 2011 -- Mar 2013

WEB MASTER / DBA

This was an interesting experience

This is going to be a better approach!
And I hope this works

Education

UC Berkeley -- Master of Information and Data Science

Aug 2018 -- Dec 2020

This program emphasized hands on technical development. Classes ranging from Experimental Design & Causal Inference to Machine Learning at Scale offed an opportunity to sharpen data science skills outside of my daily work.

UC Berkeley -- Master of Information Management and Systems

Aug 2014 -- May 2016

Full-Stack Developer, December 2017 - February 2020

College for Creative Studies -- Continuing Education (Multimedia)

December 2010 -- May 2011

Full-Stack Developer, May 2015 - December 2017

U of M Ann Arbor -- Bachelor of Fine Arts

August 2005 -- May 2009