Hi! I'm Samuel.

I am a Product Manager
that always asks, Why? moves fast is data driven iterates and improves

Experience


Flow

June 2025 - Present


Product Manager

New York, NY

Valon

January 2022 - February 2025


Product Manager

New York, NY

Microsoft

Fall 2019 - December 2021


Product Manager

Seattle, WA

Bloomberg LP

Summer 2018


Software Engineering Intern

New York, NY

Developed an automated pipeline for translating Earnings/Economic Data into a tabular format under the Bloomberg News Automation Team

Validated MVP w/ customers by through multiple demos and feedback sessions

Full-stack application developed in JavaScript (R+), Python (BAS), and SQL (Comdb2)

PlayStation

Summer 2017


Software Engineering Intern

San Jose, CA

Planned, developed, tested, and launched major/minor features for the PlayStation Store team on the PS4 console (PS Store Search 2.0, Credit Card validation)

Front-end development concentrated on scalability (60 million users) and framerate (60fps), developed in XML/CSS, Web GL, and a custom JavaScript framework

USC Institute for Creative Technologies

Fall 2017 - Spring 2018


Student Researcher

Playa Vista, CA

Developed and built an "Alexa for mentorship" research funded project for potential STEM high school students, mentorpal.org

Developed data-processing pipeline capturing the life experiences of STEM mentors

Helped implement, train, and reduce an NLP model to provide a more immersive and streamlined experience (Q/A improved from 47% to 61% perfect match accuracy; Google's Word corpus reduced by 70% due to memory limits)

Education


University of Southern California, Viterbi School of Engineering


Bachelor of Science in Computer Science
September 2015 – May 2019

Los Angeles, CA

Saratoga High School

June 2015

Saratoga, CA

Graduated with Honors

Skills & Interests




C++ and Java (Android)

HTML/CSS/JavaScript

JQuery/Web GL/Backbone/ReactJS/NodeJS

MondoDB

Python



SEL in Education

Philosophy

Los Angeles

Soccer

Violin



English

Chinese

Projects


Publications

Kaimakis, N.J., Davis, D.M., Breck, S. & Nye, B.D. (2018). "Domain-Specific Reduction of Language Model Databases: Overcoming Chatbot Implementation Obstacles". In the Proceedings of the ModSim World Conference, Norfolk, Virginia.

Breck, S., Carr, K., Davis, D. M., Nordhagen, J. N., and Nye, B. D. (2018). "Virtual Mentors in a Real STEM Fair: Experiences, Challenges, and Opportunities". In Third International Workshop on Intelligent Mentoring Systems (IMS 2018) Proceedings.

Technical Projects

Boxi

April 2020 - Present


Developed new landing page to increase online/organic sales for truck advertising company, boxi.co. PO of online dashboard so clients can track their routes, impressions, and miles driven.

Duet

January 2019 - May 2019


Developed donate, checkout, and inventory process for non-profit organization, giveduet.org as part of senior capstone project. Duet is a website to help people provide direct support to resettled refugees.

Tommy Bot

September 2016 - January 2018


Messenger chatbot for all things related to USC (building location/hours, menus, events, etc.). 50,000 total interactions since launch in Jan 2017, $10,000 in funding from USC Iovine and Young pitch competition. Part of LavaLab's F16 cohort, USC's highly selective student run incubator.

eYak

April 2017


This project was first incepted during LAHacks2017 and completed for the Scope USC Demo night. eYak is a way for students to ask questions during a classroom session anonymously. Think of it as a combination of the functionality of Piazza and the interface of Yik Yak.

Scal.tech

November - December 2016


This interactive calendar application was built for my CS 201 Principles of Software Devleopment class. The web application contains many of the same features as Google calendar including creating events and sharing them with others. We decided to add increased functionality by allowing for a user to import their USC-specific classes, recieve real-time study notifications, import events from an ICS reader, and recieve study recommendations.

Split

November 2016


This project was a Cal Hacks 3.0 project along with 4 other USC students and my first time using Swift and XCode. Swift is an easy to use receipt parsing iOS app using Microsoft Computer Vision API to parse text/relative position in image. In addition to the Computer Visiion API, we used imgur to post and host images using an HTTP POST request to their API.

Transit Priority

July 2016


Developed a vehicle interface through an android application to demonstrate the possible applications of DSRC technology with Transit Vehicles. Application gives priority to a Transit Vehicle at an intersection via V2R communication through modification of the standard protocol BSM broadcasted by the DSRC OBU and modification of traffic control logic to optimize traffic flow.

Other Projects

Harold Robinson Foundation

September 2016 - December 2016


As Team Leader, I managed this team to help the Harold Robinson Foundation (HRF) develop impact metrics to measure their program impact. HRF came to LACI in order to start measuring different data points of their youth development programming. We managed to identify these different data points and provide a preliminary measurement for HRF. In addition, we built a impact metrics database in order to provide HRF with the tools to keep track of the data they collect as well as illustrate, condense, and evaluate the measured data.

Beat the Streets Los Angeles

January 2016 - May 2016


BTSLA approached LACI with the idea of making their programs more holistic and impactful through the addition of a program that would be supplementary to their current wrestling instruction. In order to develop the necessary recommendation for what to teach, how to teach, and how to implement the supplementary program, we conducted intensive research from the following methodologies: online research, numerous phone and in-person interviews, USC professors and academic papers.

Monkey Business Cafe

September 2015 - December 2015


In order to help Monkey Business Cafe to achieve its goal as a social enterprise serving at-risk youth through its workforce development program, we sought to increase revenue by addressing a couple of key needs. Monkey Business Cafe came to LACI hoping to market for recently opened evening hours and strengthen the newly streamlined catering business. Our project tackles these needs through intensive market research and strategic planning to address Monkey Business Cafe's most important needs.

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