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Hi, I'm Zach

Zachary Bullard

Product Manager - Global Content at BOLD

I’m a skilled product manager, an organized and systematic thinker with a high attention to detail. I enjoy using my strengths in math and language and interest in programming and learning new things to solve problems.

Python
React
Russian Language (C2)
Agile
Product Management
Hard-working

Skills

Work Experience

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Product Manager - Global Content
BOLD

Apr 2024 - Present, Remote

BOLD is a global leader in career development technology, serving over 50M job seekers across 200+ countries. The company provides AI-powered resume and cover letter builders, job search sites, networking platforms, and career productivity tools to help people maximize their career potential.

Responsibilities:
  • Lead product strategy for BOLD’s global content initiatives
  • Manage and improve educational content across multiple platforms
  • Design and implement content management systems
  • Coordinate with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality educational experiences
  • Analyze user engagement metrics to drive content improvements

TripleTen

Feb 2020 - Feb 2024, Belgrade, Serbia

TripleTen offers online, self-paced bootcamps in data analysis, data science, quality assurance and software development.

Product Manager - Data Programs

Feb 2022 - Feb 2024

  • Lead a product team of 25 people.
  • Reduce drop/refund rates consistently quarter-on-quarter.
  • Design, develop, and evaluate data-driven solutions to challenges for the product.
  • Own agile sprint cycle for the team.
  • Organize quarterly project planning.
  • Coordinate with Development, Guidance, and Analytics teams to achieve business goals.
Data Programs Content Lead

Dec 2020 - Feb 2022

  • Lead a content team of 15 people.
  • Maintain and improve educational content.
  • Design, develop and manage a content knowledge base that allows students to review topics and broaden their learning experience.
  • Design and develop videos to supplement lessons.
  • Design interactives to boost student engagement.
  • Monitor, analyze, and report on metrics for user engagement and students’ educational success.
Lead Data Editor

Feb 2020 - Dec 2020

  • Edit course content for the Data Science track.
  • Edit marketing materials, including ads, banners, and blog posts.
  • Create and maintain company-wide style guide for educational materials and external communication.
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Lead English Instructor
Moscow Lyceum Stupeni

Aug 2015 - Dec 2020, Moscow, Russia

Lyceum Stupeni is a private school (1-11 grade), positioned as an alternative to state schools with a focus on language, science and art programs.

Responsibilities:
  • Design and lead lessons for students of the 2nd to 11th grades.
  • Create the English language curricula.
  • Prepare students for international English exams (Cambridge, IELTS, TOEFL)
  • Plan and lead weekly theater lessons, organize annual performances.
  • Organize and prepare students for an annunal interscholastic Lincoln-Douglas debate tournament / create an automated tabulation system for results.
  • Create and maintain an electronic database of teaching materials for the foreign languages staff.

English Instructor
The American Home

Aug 2012 - Jul 2015, Vladimir, Russia

The American Home has been providing English courses to people of all ages since 1992.

Responsibilities:
  • Design and lead lessons to students from beginner to advanced.
  • Organize weekly cultural events and lectures.
  • Edit and author course books.
  • Create an automated system for recording grades and assigning/tracking homework.
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Projects

Student Reports

I conducted pipeline for automating weekly student report generation. After analyzing data about learning performance and platform activity, the results are sent to this React-based site for rendering, and links are automatically sent to students. All user data is anonymized on site and never is exposed.

LLM-based Chatbot

I built a chatbot for TripleTen’s student Discord space based on Llama2. The bot is complete with a vectorized database of our content so that students can get accurate and specific help with their program tasks in real-time.

Content Knowledge Base

We created a site for reviewing course materials connected with each of the units of our program. Students can also find other additional information such as how to set up local environments, tools that we recommend to aid the learning process, and extra reading.

Discord Bot

I created a bot for managing student interactions in the discord server for Practicum’s programs. Features include: saving marked messages, leaving anonymous posts/questions, tracking open questions for monitoring SLA, matching students with similar progress for group work. Additionally, wrote, maintained, and analyzed student behavioral data and server ‘health’ based on the Discord API.

Interactives

We design interactive widgets meant to enrich the student learning experience and help turn online learning into something you can touch.

Educational Videos

Videos designed to accompany the text-based lesson material in the form of project guides, extra material, and alternatives to reading.

Wordle Clone

I created a wordle clone with a few extra features: a tracker for average number of attempts and a ’low power’ mode which renders one column useless (for a little extra challenge)

Skills Graph

I created a site/management system for recording, storing, and presenting student scores on tests of soft and hard skills.

School 🙃

I built a prototype of a platform for learning new information. This platform features learning paths, user account pages, personal and population analytics, quizzes, popovers, and more.

Personality Test

We created a site for conducting personality tests based on the Big 5 framework. The goals of the project were to get more insights into students to help retention, tailor the learning experience to their needs, and also to provide them with a fun project in analyzing the results.

Congressional speech analysis

This project contains a preliminary analysis of Congressional floor speeches given by the members of congress. Among the results of the analysis, I found that speech patterns could predict relative age well. Additionally, there were differences in the emotional valence of speeches given by Democrats vs those given by Republicans.

Education

Bachelors in Psychology, Bachelors in Russian Language and Culture
GPA: 3.65 out of 4
Extracurricular Activities
  • Assistant Manager of Building Operations at the Commons Center
  • Tutor at the Student Athlete Center
  • Developed and led physics lessons at the Vanderbilt Kennedy Center for students with disabilities
  • Volunteered at Vanderbilt University Theatre, Tech Department
  • Hosted a weekly radio program at WRVU
St. Andrew's Episcopal School
2004-2008
Secondary School Certificate
GPA: 4.18 out of 4

Accomplishments

The Joy of React
Courses by Josh Comeau Jan - Apr 2023

This course is designed to cover web development with React – from the basic nuts and bolts, to creating complex components and custom hooks, to implementing all of this through the NextJS framework.