Sam Morrison
Captain Fun at Cozey
Paris, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolSam Morrison is a cross-disciplinary innovation leader and people-first manager with nine years of experience building teams that ship meaningful product and tech change. Formerly leading Futures Innovation at lululemon, Sam translated speculative ideas into tangible proofs-of-concept, managed seven-figure budgets, filed patents, and delivered AI-enabled customer experiences that influenced company roadmaps. He pairs hands-on technical chops—contributing full-stack fixes and UX/back-end improvements to the popular Obsidian Templater plugin—with strong program and product management experience from roles at The New York Times and Formidable. Known for creating environments where hard, collaborative work feels joyful, Sam scales teams and processes to produce measurable business outcomes like multi-million-dollar cost avoidance and major platform replatforms. He’s an advocate and community builder—having chaired an LGBTQ2IA+ employee network and founded a regional theatre company—which informs his inclusive approach to leadership and product design. Based in Paris, Ontario, Sam blends creative roots in theatre with rigorous IP and innovation training to turn ambitious futures into shipped reality.
9 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
altMBA39 Ogre cohort, Seth Godin's Akimbo Workshops, altMBA39 Ogre cohort, Seth Godin's Akimbo Workshops at altMBATheatre Performance Diploma, Theatre/Theater, Theatre Performance Diploma, Theatre/Theater at Humber CollegeUnderstanding Patents, Intellectual Property Law, Understanding Patents, Intellectual Property Law at McGill University School of Continuing Studies
English, French
Github Skills (7)
typescript10
error-handling10
javascript10
typescripts10
typescript-types10
plugin10
api-design9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
SilentVoid13/Templater
Jan 2022 - Nov 2022
A template plugin for obsidian
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:25 reviews, 73 commits, 80 PRs in 9 months
Contributions summary:Sam primarily contributed to bug fixes and feature enhancements for the Templater plugin. They modified both the front-end (UI) components and back-end logic of the plugin, as seen in the changes to the PromptModal, InternalModuleWeb, and Templater core files. These updates included improvements to web request handling, fixing modal behavior, and ensuring the smooth operation of the plugin within the Obsidian environment. They also made improvements related to the plugins core functions to support a better user experience.
obsidianobsidian-mdobsidian-plugin
shabegom/roam42
Dec 2020 - Feb 2021
Extension features for Roam by Roam Research
Contributions:20 PRs, 93 pushes, 3 branches in 2 months
roam-researchroam
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