BRIAN BLOOMER

bloomer.brian@gmail.com | 847.917.7226 | 1801A Spruce St, Berkeley, CA 94709 EDUCATION University of California, Berkeley | Masters of Information Management and Systems Expected 2015 Led team to first place in the >play2013 hackathon with a proof-of-concept mobile remittances solution that utilized the Bitcoin network for faster, cheaper currency conversion & transmission. Co-chair of Berkeley-Haas >play2014 conference, North Americas premier student-led tech conference; overseeing Hackathon and Startup Alley committees; organizing Future of Money panel. Founder of the Bitcoin Association of Berkeley; leading the School of Information Bitcoin Project Group. Built with a team of engineers a multi-device Bitcoin hardware wallet for Security, Privacy, and Cryptography course. Built with a team a link shortening web app with user profiles, social graph, & tagging for Web Architecture course. Independent Education: MOOCS September 2011-Present Coursera: Internet History & Technology; Social Network Analysis; Computing for Data Analysis; Startup Engineering Stanford Online Learning: Intro to Machine Learning, Intro to Databases, Introduction to AI Washington University in St. Louis | Bachelor of Arts: Major in History, Minor in General Business 2010 GPA: 3.67/4.0, Deans List (All Semesters) WORK EXPERIENCE Yellow Tractor | Social Enterprise Startup June 2012-June 2013 Vice President of Operations Planned and executed Yellow Tractor & Kellogg School of Management Community Impact Day: 600 MBA students worked at five different sites to build forty gardens and accompanying auxiliary systems including composting, rainwater collection, trellises, and hoop housing. Responsibilities included identifying viable community organizations with reliable management, designing the layout of each build site, creating custom programming for each organization, securing sponsorship funding, managing communications with all relevant parties, handling supply logistics, and recruiting and training volunteer coordinators. Obama for America 2012 March-June 2012 Coordinated the actions of multiple departments First Lady, various regional teams for successful execution of campaign messaging calls between the First Lady and other political figures and grassroots volunteers. theAudience | Social Media Management Startup May-August 2011 Created content for fifty+ celebrities and brands. Designed and implemented posting strategies optimized for maximum virality. Researched social media strategies of future clients and crafted documents integral to client acquisition process. Developed, maintained, and integrated an asset database of thousands of files for content team. Screenwriter and Independent Filmmaker May 2010-December 2011 Created compelling stories and narratives, and handled production coordination for web series & student films. The Meritas Family of Schools | For-Profit International Private Schools Summer 2009 Strategy and Business Acceleration Performed competitor research and financial calculations. Coordinated with twelve school headmasters to create and deploy customer satisfaction survey for all Meritas schools, and created the process for responding to urgent customer requests. Sterling Partners | Private Equity Firm Summer 2008 Office of VP Southeast Asia Analyzed Southeast Asia for-profit education sector, met with government officials and CEOs in Hong Kong, Singapore, China, and Malaysia, and recommended businesses for potential acquisition. SKILLS AND INTERESTS Programming & Computer Skills: Python, Java, R, HTML, CSS, Javascript, Tableau, Adobe Photoshop Interests: Leadership, Business Development & Strategy, Bitcoin, Commerce, Social Commerce, Markets, Management, Product Design, Infosec, Online Education, Entrepreneurship, Information Systems, Writing, Travel, Media

-Continued from page 1RELEVANT COURSEWORK MIMS DEGREE Spring 2014 Agile Engineering Information Law and Policy Information Visualization Social and Organization Issues of Information Fall 2014 Information Organization and Retrieval Distributed Computing Applications and Infrastructure Privacy, Security, and Cryptography Web Architecture Social Data Revolution

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