{"id":2,"date":"2022-06-22T13:09:27","date_gmt":"2022-06-22T13:09:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/box5861\/cgi\/addon_GT.cgi?s=GT::WP::Install::EIG+%28buildmh8%29+-+10.0.87.10+%5BWordpress%3b+\/var\/hp\/common\/lib\/Wordpress.pm%3b+543%3b+Hosting::gap_call%5D\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2026-03-05T14:53:48","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T14:53:48","slug":"about-me","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/buildcuriously.com\/?page_id=2","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m Brian."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/buildcuriously.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/us.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-489\" style=\"width:277px;height:277px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/buildcuriously.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/us.png 400w, https:\/\/buildcuriously.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/us-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/buildcuriously.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/us-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The quietest place I&#8217;ve ever been, <br>Mt. Haleakala<br><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li class=\"\">I was born and raised in Florida.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\">I moved to Charlotte in 2018, and that&#8217;s where I live now.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\">I have an amazing wife, 2 of the most charming kids I&#8217;ve ever met, and a perpetually hungry golden retriever.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\">I played a lot of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Legend_of_Zelda:_Ocarina_of_Time\">video games<\/a> growing up. Less now, but I still love them.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\">I played a lot of Soccer growing up. Less now, but I still love it.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\">I&#8217;m an amateur chef, and make the best scratch pasta my mom&#8217;s ever had.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\">I&#8217;m an amateur woodworker, and can make a mean cutting board.  <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\">Growing up I always wanted to be an Architect. Somewhere I got off course, but designing and building things has always been a passion.  <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\">I started my career in 2012, building websites and doing digital marketing for a medium size healthcare company.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\">During that time I built my first ever software product, an online scheduling platform to connect patients to providers.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\">In 2014 I moved to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.adventhealth.com\/\">AdventHealth<\/a>, and dedicated all of my time to product development, building new patient portal integrations and healthcare navigation tools.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\">In 2018 I started on <a href=\"http:\/\/kroger.com\/\">Kroger&#8217;s<\/a> eCommerce Innovation team, building and scaling net new products to try and identify new areas of opportunity for Kroger.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\">I wasn&#8217;t bad at that, and was promoted to Kroger&#8217;s Core team where I helped optimize and improve Kroger&#8217;s $11 billion dollar eCommerce experiences.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\">In 2022, I joined <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shipt.com\/\">Shipt<\/a> as a Principle Product Manager responsible for creating new growth opportunities by building strategic partnerships and products.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\">A year later I was promoted to Director of Product over Partner Integrations. That role evolves constantly, but for now I run roughly 6 teams responsible for the enterprise services and tools that power Shipt. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"\">Be curious, not judgmental. <\/p>\n<cite>Ted Lasso<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Be curious, not judgmental. 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