Available for Work
Based in Plano, TX
Sam McBroom
Product Manager with 5 years of experience driving the growth and success of SaaS and data products.
Proven track record in strategic planning, coordinating cross-functional teams, and leveraging analytics to enhance product functionality and user experience.
About
I'm lucky enough to have found a career that nurtures my interests and my sense of purpose. Product management is my primary outlet for generating impact in the world.
The aspects that initially drew me to product were UX and product strategy. As I gained experience in different industries and stages of the product life cycle, I built my skills in, and appreciation for, the numerous elements of managing products.
What I believe sets me apart most is my persistence in solving problems and my ability to influence change. You will see in my experience how these have benefitted the organizations I have been a part of.
Outside of work, I enjoy going camping, tinkering with electronics, playing piano or trombone, analyzing weather events, and talking to people around the world through ham radio.
Projects
Godzilla Recommender
AI-Powered Recommendation App
Recommends the best Godzilla movies for you to watch based on your preferences.
Purpose:
To learn NLP machine learning by processing real-world data and creating a functional app from the results.
Resources:
Rotten Tomatoes movies and critic reviews dataset
Python and Jupyter Lab
spaCy v3 (NLP pipeline)
v0 and Vercel (write rec. algorithm, create and deploy app)
Using Python in Jupyter Lab, I processed a dataset of critic reviews from Rotten Tomatoes. These were filtered to the relevant films, combined for each respective film, then processed using a spaCy v3 NLP pipeline. This returned a list of tags and phrases that describe each Godzilla film. Minimal tuning was needed to get the desired results. The benefit of this vs. typical descriptions of the films is that it considers people's opinions on the films in addition to the metadata that is already available.
I then prompted v0 to write a web app that would ask the user about their film preferences and use a hybrid recommendation algorithm to suggest which Godzilla films they would likely enjoy. After a few iterations, I had v0 deploy the app on Vercel.
Experience
Crain Communications
Product Manager
Jul 2022 - Nov 2024
Managed a portfolio of products, each offering industry data to subscribers through a web interface. Collaborated across organizations and disciplines to implement a product management framework and modernize product analytics, resulting in a sustained turnaround in subscriber growth.
Skills I built onto include: strategic planning, stakeholder management, vendor management, negotiations, and advanced product analytics.
CoreLogic
Product Analyst
Jan 2020 - Jul 2022
Oversaw the rollout of a new user interface on a multimillion-dollar SaaS product, coordinated roadmap development across the product org and assembled product/API documentation.
Skills I built onto include: agile, business analysis, navigating matrix organizations, and UI design.
CoreLogic
Product Management Intern
Jun 2019 - Aug 2019
Initiated user insights to guide product strategy, built product mockup resources to streamline prototyping and collaborated with global UX and development teams.
Skills I built onto include: product mockups, data analysis, cross-functional collaboration, and qualitative feedback analysis.
Education
The University of Texas at Dallas
Full-Time MBA
2019
Stephen F. Austin State University
Bachelor of Music
2016
Professional Development
Supervised Machine Learning
DeepLearning.AI
2024
Pragmatic Training
Pragmatic Institute
2021
Agile Development Specialization
University of Virginia, via Coursera
2021
Skills
Organizational Tools:
Technical:
Data Analysis:
Creative: