I'm a business professional with strong information technology skills.
I have 15 years of experience working for media and technology companies. I started my career in finance and business development. Post-Grad, I switched to marketing and did growth-oriented marketing for startups. My focuses were user acquisition and conversion optimization.
The technical side of marketing inspired me to study design and web development. In mid-2015, I started teaching myself UX design, UI Design, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript after work. A few months later, I decided to become a frontend developer.
To speed up my transition, I took a sabbatical for most of 2016 to study design and web technology full-time. Besides teaching myself, I completed a full-time web development boot camp. That October I started applying for frontend development jobs. A month later I landed my first frontend job at IBM iX.
After ~5 years in frontend engineering, I made a lateral move into product management to focus my energy on aligning people and driving business outcomes. I still code on the side to keep my technical skills sharp.
Currently, I'm a senior product manager at Staffbase, which is a leading communications platform for businesses. My group is building Staffbase's external communications solution. Specifically, my team is responsible for the external content publishing component of the overall external communications offer.
I earned an MBA from EDHEC Business School in France. I also hold a B.S. in Business Administration, with an emphasis on finance, from California State University, Los Angeles. And I'm a Project Management Institute Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)®) certificate holder.
🤝 - I work full-time for Staffbase.
🛠️ - I know HTML, CSS, JavaScript, React, TypeScript, and basic SQL
🔭 - I'm shopping around for a new programming side project 🤓.
🌱 - I’m learning more React, more TypeScript, algorithmic layout, CSS Grid, fundamental data structures and algorithms
🛣️ - My technical learning roadmap includes a full-stack JavaScript framework (e.g. Blitz, Remix, Sails), full-stack application architecture, AWS via CDK, PostgreSQL, web animation, data visualization (via D3), and a few GoF design patterns
📝 - In 2020, I published Level Up and Launch, a limited series of articles about my experience leveling up my technical skills full-time to get my first React job.
✍🏾 - I created a blog named Diaminding, but I haven't started publishing yet
🌐 - My personal website is georgebullock.dev
📫 - You can follow me On Twitter @george_bullock
⚡ - Other Fun facts
- I'm an occasional Unsplash contributor. Check out my photos here 📷.
- I briefly worked in theatrical marketing for Lionsgate. I met a handful of celebs and literally got paid to watch movies 🎬.
- Before moving to Germany 🇩🇪 I lived in France 🇫🇷 and Mexico 🇲🇽 for one year each. But, I don't speak French or Spanish 🤷🏾♂️.
- I love Deep House 🎛️, Synthwave 🦄, 90s Hip Hop 🎤, crime dramas 🔫 (especially Heat and Collateral), sci-fi 🛸, BBQ 🍖, and Asian food 🥡
- My favorite restaurant: It's a tie between Doyum Restaurant 🇹🇷 and Good Friends 🇨🇳.
- My favorite baked good: Oatmeal raisin cookies 🍪.
- Pineapple on pizza? Nope 🙅🏾♂️.
- My coffee order: Americano with a bit of whole milk 🐮.
- I mastered the art of making American-style pancakes from scratch 🥞.