Brian Jennings Email & Phone Number

Tampa, Florida, US

I'm currently leading the Design Department at Rise8 and helping grow our UX designers through coaching and mentoring. I'm also involved in a project called Pathway to bring Agile Product Management training to the Space Force by creating intensive bootcamps and asynchronous video learning content.

I launched a company that provides consulting services to early-stage startups, advising them on engineering, design, business operations and product strategy.

San Francisco, California, US

I continued to help scale design consulting services at Tanzu Labs by helping train, grow and coach our designers in the organization. I led a project that created a design playbook for Tanzu Labs that trained consultants how to facilitate "Discovery & Framing" workshops and bring Lean UX practices into the early stages of product development. I continued.

San Francisco, California, US

I guided leadership teams through their organization’s journey to become more lean, agile and user focused. As a Design Practice Lead, I taught organizations how to cultivate environments that build strong communities of practice and allow practitioners to grow in their craft. As a Design Portfolio Lead, I coached leadership teams how to align portfolios.

San Francisco, California, US

I worked alongside product and leadership teams in the US Public Sector to transform their approach to building software. I helped our clients grow their organization from a single product team to a dozen teams across three portfolios that were focused on delivering user outcomes.

San Francisco, California, US

After helping teams ship a dozens of well engineered products that didn't resonate with users, I shifted my focus to ensure user feedback was incorporated into a team's software development practices. I taught clients how to use generative and evaluative research methods to de-risk their products and drive engineering backlogs.

San Francisco, California, US

In addition to my software engineering duties, I helped grow the Pivotal Labs business. I led sales, staffing and education initiatives that scaled the office from 15 to 40 people in one year while keeping the culture strong. I managed half of the engineers in Santa Monica and guided them along their unique career trajectories as their mentor and coach.

San Francisco, California, US

I anchored client engineering teams, teaching them how to “move fast, forever” and to maintain a competitive edge by building software iteratively. I trained clients to mitigate risk and improve agility through test-driven development, pair programming and process automation practices.

I worked with a small team that created a white label platform which allowed high profile clients (GRAMMYs, Super Bowl, Fox, NBCU) to customize and run various marketing promotions across their websites and social media pages.

US

I co-founded a music-tech startup and led an engineering team of 4 that built an artist loyalty platform where fans earned redeemable points by supporting their favorite bands.

Ann Arbor, Michigan, US

I worked on a grant funded research team where I designed and developed an online game to study the effectiveness of gaming in education. I co-authored and published two research papers on the findings.

B.S.E., Computer Science

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