Rez GodarzvandChegini

Technical Product Manager

Markham, Ontario, Canada

+1-647-***-****

adxvsq@r.postjobfree.com

EXPERIENCE

Unity Technologies — Operate & Grow Solutions, Ads Technical Product Manager (Part-Time) SEP 2022 - Present Product Discovery: Advanced a delivery by two quarters, by redefining the requirements of a reporting dashboard—estimated to increase annual revenue by +$1M and also support a sales initiative driving $12M revenue

● Conducted +30 interviews with stakeholders and translated user pain points into manageable work for two engineering teams; this work that shaped various teams’ short-term and long-term plans User Advocacy: Saved $6M in annual costs without compromising user value

● Mitigated potential user value risks resulting from company-wide cost-cutting measures by introducing weighted-sampling on our data Project Migration: Decreased reporting dashboard latency from 3 hrs to 20 min and development cycles for new features from weeks to hours Data Quality: Improved our mean-time-to-resolve from days to hours

● Set quality checks to preempt users notifying us of data issues

● Defined our alerting strategy by standardizing our notifications to be actionable, snoozeable, demoteable to warnings, traceable to the source of error, and subscribable for other teams

Senior Machine Learning Engineer JAN 2021 - Present Data Analysis: Exploited +10 external data sources to build a cohort analysis dashboard and a product scorecard for the finance department that improved the productivity of the dashboard users one hour every day

● Substituted a host of stopgap reporting dashboards for cohort analyses with a single dashboard with a simple interface receiving more pageviews per user per month than previous ones combined Platform Support: Improved integration documentation by analyzing users’ codes and inquiries which reduced hands-on support tickets by 25% The Globe and Mail — Sophi Analytics, Data Science Machine Learning Engineer JAN 2020 - DEC 2020

Product Iterations: Saved +$30k dollars/year in server costs per customer

● Proposed, feasibility-tested, developed, and presented +4 cost-saving optimizations, e.g., deploying an RNN model in a 6MB storage within AWS lambda

QUALIFICATIONS

● Experienced at full product life cycles from discovery to end-of-life

● Full-stack competence across Databases, Machine Learning, Cloud, DevOps, and Business Intelligence

LEADERSHIP EXPERIENCE

Murphy Foundation Uganda

DEC 2022 - Present

● Conducted a user research to find

the most relevant business skills for

the entrepreneurs in Uganda

Councilor & VP Academics at McGill

Computer Science Graduate Society

DEC 2018 - AUG 2019

● Debated and proposed +5 motions

regarding the grad students’ affairs

● Organized and secured a $800 grant

for a weekly seminar series on

computer engineering topics

VP Academic & Sociocultural at

Yarigaran Sharif Student Club

MAY 2015 - MAR 2016

● Reestablished four partnerships that

had become strained

● Led 18 member coordinators

planning volunteering activities

● Organized over 20 trips/events

● Tutored recitation classes for

underprivileged children

EDUCATION

McGill University — M.Sc. Computer

Science — Distributed Systems Lab

SEP 2017 - MAY 2020

CERTIFICATES AND AWARDS

Effective Communication & Leadership:

McGill Executive Institute

FRQNT: Québec’s National Scholarship

for Graduate and Postgraduate Students

National Informatics Olympiad: Bronze

medal

National Math Olympiad: Gold medal

PRODUCT DISCOVERY TOOLS

Wireframing: Balsamiq

Low-Code: Google Apps Script, IFTTT

Tech: AWS, GCP, Airflow, SQL, Looker,

Kubernetes, Python, Chrome DevTools

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