Nick Brown
Vice President Of Strategy & Innovation
Athens-Clarke County Unified Government, Georgia, United States
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Top SchoolNick Brown is a product and strategy leader with 12 years at VitalSource, now serving as Vice President of Strategy & Innovation to steer growth, M&A, and AI-driven opportunities in education. He combines hands-on prototyping and machine learning experience with a background in UX and learning science to build products that measurably improve student outcomes. Nick progressed from engineering and production roles into senior product leadership, launching major redesigns of Bookshelf and driving 50–70% year-over-year growth in user engagement. He uniquely blends technical craft (from Perl and Javascript tools to ML models) with deal-level strategic judgment and post-acquisition integration planning. A frequent industry speaker on AI in education, he keeps one foot in rapid experimentation while shaping company-wide strategy. Based in Athens, Georgia, he brings an unusual mix of audio engineering roots, Dartmouth training in engineering and music, and a relentless prototype-first philosophy.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Engineering and Music, Bachelor's Degree, Engineering and Music at Dartmouth College
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Github Skills (53)
visualization10
postgresql10
mysql10
clojure10
slack10
database10
dashboard9
analytics9
ide9
metabase9
data-analysis9
data-visualization9
asciimath8
business-intelligence8
nodejs8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
uptownnickbrown/epub2vec
Mar 2016 - Mar 2016
Contributions:39 commits, 12 pushes, 1 branch in 6 days
uptownnickbrown/priority-matrix
Apr 2014 - Nov 2017
Contributions:53 commits, 2 PRs, 3 pushes in 3 years 8 months
eisenhowermatrixpriority
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