Co-Founder
- Tillies NFT Marketplace
- Full-Time
- San Francisco, California, United States
- Dec 2021 - Dec 2023
Startup Founder and Backend Engineer of Tillies NFT Marketplace built on the Flow blockchain.
Merissa Bridgeman
Skill Scoreⓘ
Novice (1/6)
85
Industries
Information Technology
Bay Area Black Software Engineer/Product Manager
Junior Product Manager from the Bay Area ?.
Currently attending an accelerated program through Dominican university of California. My major is applied computer science with a specialization in mobile development. During my time here I’ve practiced the agile development cycle, being a SCRUM leader, Product manager, and UX designer on various projects. While attending school I am also on a startup team and is acting as the project manager.
I value collaboration with teams and think deeply about the interaction between users and the product. My goal is to design products that are engaging, accessible, and fun.
During my free time I’be taken up landscape photography, spending time with loved ones, and binge watching Disney shows.
Skills
Evaluated for Product Manager and
Technical PM role archetypeⓘ
Performance by Category
Communication
Strategy
Design
Technology
Execution
Go-to-market
Top Skills
Skill Progression
Experience
Technical Specialist
- Apple
- Full-Time
- Dec 2021 - Dec 2023
Specialist
- Apple
- Full-Time
- Sep 2021 - Dec 2021
Guide customers on a journey into becoming an apple product owner
Understand the customers’ needs and pain points to provide a personalized solution
Summer challenge project – UX Designer
- Microsoft
- Full-Time
- Remote
- Jun 2021 - Jul 2021
– Designed, developed, and tested iOS application to tackle the objective in decreasing national food waste.
– Coordinated with Microsoft Engineering Mentor to report updates and maintenance of the application.
– Achieved user testing for usability validation with user integration.
– Presented findings and product analysis to upper management for end-of-term demonstration.
Student Ambassador
- Make School
- Full-Time
- San Francisco Bay Area
- Oct 2020 - Apr 2021
– Attended weekly meetings
– student outreach
-support for admit students and applicants.
Google Computer Science Summer Institute
- Full-Time
- Mountain View, California, United States
- Jul 2020 -
This program was a 4 week intensive course where we went through daily code alongs and learned JavaScript. We then planned and built a program during the last week for a final presentation.
Shift Supervisor
- Starbucks
- Full-Time
- May 2019 - Jul 2020
Barista
- Starbucks
- Full-Time
- Lakeshore, California
- Feb 2019 - May 2019
Co-Founder
- BuzzTrek
- Full-Time
- Aug 2018 - Dec 2023
– Used key findings from user interviews to increase user acquisition by 150% by our second iteration.
– By producing a product requirements doc I was able to achieve cross team communication and increase productivity by 20%.
Fellow
- Code2040
- Full-Time
- Portland, Oregon, United States
- Jun 2018 - Aug 2018
Attended weekly cohort workshops that covered professional development. Built a community with fellow poc and networked with companies around Oregon.
Web Developer Internship
- Intel Corporation
- Full-Time
- Hillsboro, Oregon
- May 2018 - Aug 2018
Developed web resource for new hires.
Math tutor
- College of Alameda
- Full-Time
- Alameda, CA
- Feb 2018 - Jun 2018
Web Developer Internship
- Code510
- Full-Time
- Berkeley, California
- Jun 2014 - Dec 2016
Worked on developing my web skills including: HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Deliverable was a fully developed single page site of our choice.
Degree Programs
Bachelor’s degree, Applied computer science
- Dominican University of California
- 2020 - May 2022
Bachelor’s degree, Computer Science
- Make School
- 2020 - 2022
Computer Science
- College of Alameda
- 2017 - 2019
Licenses and Certifications
No Licenses or Certifications Found.