
Bruce Brownlee
Principal
Charleston, South Carolina
Over an expansive career in technology, Bruce has honed his skills as an analytics product manager and data scientist with broad experience. The breadth of his experience includes marketing, product management, data science, mathematical modelling, applied mathematics, operations research, financial modelling, and software development.
ABOUT BRUCE
Prior to joining Blackstone + Cullen as a Product Manager, Bruce was part of the team at Avoxi. During his time at Avoxi, Bruce led the marketing team as the Director of Digital Marketing and later moved on to undertake product management, and most recently, excel as a data scientist where he was the recipient of two Innovation Week contests for delivering “best concept and implementation” of a prototype during weeklong innovation hackathons.
Bruce excels in the area of implementation. With a highly developed skillset, he built an unlimited inbound extensions product for the US and Canada and an unlimited outbound extension for Smart Queue virtual call center product whilst at Avoxi.
Experience in research, defence electronics, nuclear, telecommunications, broadcast media, digital marketing, manufacturing, state government, using a broad mathematics, statistics, optimization, operations research, and computer science background.
PROFESSIONAL AND INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE
- CallForwarding.com: Led hackathons and shopper contests to develop requirements for a new shopping cart for CallForwarding.com implemented in 2015.
- AVOXI: Built unlimited inbound extension products for US and Canada, and unlimited outbound extensions for Smart Queue virtual call center product. Built classification and regression solutions. Worked time series analysis and forecasting problems. In-depth data cleaning, EDA, and feature-engineering experience.
FUNCTION AND SPECIALIZATION
- High Level Product Management
- Information Technology
EDUCATION, LICENSES, CERTIFICATIONS, & MEMBERSHIPS
Georgia Institute of Technology
Studied for PhD (Industrial & Systems Engineering)
Ohio University
Master of Science, Industrial and Systems Engineering
Ohio University
Bachelor of Science, Combined degree: math, electrical engineering, and computer science
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
Functional/Operational
- Product Management
- Project Management
- Data Analytics
- System and Infrastructure
- Process Restructuring & Implementation
- Strategy Development
- Budget Management
- Product Design