Benjamin Bressler

Experience

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  VGH Computer Services

  Jan 2008 - Jan 2010

  Senior Technician

  As a VGH Computer Services technician I performed a variety of technology related tasks for local businesses and branches of the local government in house and onsite. Responsibilities included:• Server and database management• Hardware and software troubleshooting• System upgrades and migrations• Data recovery

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  AdReady (CPXi)

  Oct 2010 - Oct 2012

  As the Director of Infrastructure at AdReady I owned all IT decisions for our internal systems and external production environment, maintained critical systems, worked closely with the development team to make sure their environment needs were met and was the primary DBM for our MySql database. Responsibilities included:• Helping determine strategic focus as a member of the Leadership Team.• Heading our strategic technology partnerships.• Working with AMEX and their OPEN network to integrate our platform with theirs – specifically to ensure compatibility with PII requirements.• Migration of the platform from internally hosted servers to AWS.• Migration of local systems (such as Active Directory and Outlook servers) to cloud based services. Show less

  • Director, IT & Infrastructure

    May 2012 - Oct 2012

  • Sr. Systems Engineer

    Oct 2010 - Apr 2012
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  Blab, Predictive Social Intelligence

  Oct 2012 - Jul 2017

  Director of Product Management

  As Director of Product at Blab I drove product strategy and execution from the founding of the company through it’s acquisition by Deloitte. Blab’s predictive analytics platform utilized proprietary technology to ingest, classify, and predict on over 100 million posts per day across news, blogs and social networks in real time to create actionable intelligence for programmatic media buys and content creation. As a core founding member of Blab I frequently assumed many diverse responsibilities; including:• Initial product design and subsequent translation of key differentiators into actionable development tasks through the ownership of sprint planning and prioritization. • UX redesign to ensure usability as feature set expanded from original scope.• Support of Grapeshot to enable success of GS Predicts – the publication of contextually relevant, automated, audience targeting segments on various buying platforms utilizing our predictive technology combined with Grapeshot’s URL contextualization process.• Support of special projects such as the successful testing of our proprietary discovery and prediction technology on tokenized Chinese language posts in conjunction Blue Focus.• Success of major clients through hands on training and support for major agencies and publishers.• Conducting key product demos for major client pitches and fundraising.• Evaluating the competitive marketplace to determine Blab’s precise fit in the ever growing ad tech ecosystem.• Oversight and troubleshooting of various backend components hosted on AWS. Show less

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  Deloitte

  Jul 2017 - now

  Pushing our AI and ML strategy forward across the Hybrid Operate technology asset portfolio. Overseeing the implementation of real time, predictive, big data analytics solutions to arm clients with early warnings of reputational events.

  • AVP, Product Management

    Jun 2021 - now

  • Product Manager

    Jul 2017 - May 2021