# Brian Glueck > project manager | data analyst | musician | cyclist + trail advocate Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/brianglueck I am a creative thinker attracted to both logical and artistic pursuits. I supplemented my academic training in mathematics and computer science with technical training in apparel patternmaking and sewing and turned that into a career managing technical development teams to create beautiful, functional, innovative and profitable apparel products. I am a champion for continuous improvements to processes, organizational structures and project plans. I am skilled at getting as much data as possible out of the available tools and then creating new tools to identify and visualize patterns in the data and derive business insights for productivity, organization, communication and metrics. Does that sound like something that could benefit a project you're working on or a problem you're trying to solve? I enjoy meeting new people and hearing new perspectives. Reach out if you want to talk to me about solving problems informed by data, project management challenges, gravel cycling, or music. ## Work Experience ### Music Teacher @ Private students + Mountain Music + Starland School of Music Jan 2019 – Present | Oakland, California, United States Teach one-on-one music lessons, mostly in-person but sometimes remotely, for students ranging in age from 4 to 82 to learn to play bowed stringed instruments (cello and violin), fretted stringed instruments (mandolin, guitar, bass and banjo), fretless stringed instruments (dobro, lap steel and pedal steel) and piano - Develop individualized curriculums based on each student’s musical interests, technical skills, and knowledge of music theory - Teach a process of analyzing songs to identify structure and chord progressions as a framework for developing improvisational skills - Private students: March 2019 - present, Mountain Music (Oakland): September 2024 - present, Starland School of Music (Alameda): July 2025 - present ### Product Development Manager - Apparel and Headwear @ Mountain Hardwear Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | Richmond, California, United States Managed teams of technical designers and fit engineers to create seasonal collections of technical outerwear and sportswear products, responsible for garment fit and construction, bill of materials, technical sketches, and costing - Established metrics for evaluating workload, fit iterations per style, and other aspects of the product development cycle to measure process efficiency using data from PLM systems and Power BI reports - Developed men's and women's outerwear products for alpine climbing, snowsports, and ski resort uniforms ### Product Development Manager - Apparel (Outerwear and Sportswear) @ Mountain Hardwear Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | Richmond, California, United States - Managed teams of product engineers and fit engineers for outerwear and sportswear - Revamped terminology used for describing the fit of Mountain Hardwear apparel products, including coordinating a multi-season audit of outerwear and sportswear styles to provide consistent fit descriptions for the Mountain Hardwear website - Developed men's and women's outerwear products snowsports, alpine climbing, and account-specific SMUs ### Product Development Manager - Outerwear @ Mountain Hardwear Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | Richmond, California, United States - Managed a team of 2 product engineers and 1 fit engineer for outerwear - Evolved process for booking fabrics for making prototype garments at global vendor partners - Analyzed MHW sales by season to come up with product lifecycle case studies for a cross-functional project about product lifecycle and roadmap strategy - Developed men's and women's outerwear products for snowsports and alpine climbing ### Technical Development Manager - Sportswear + Lifestyle Outerwear @ The North Face, a VF Company Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Alameda, CA - Managed a team of 7 sportswear developers and a team of 6 lifestyle outerwear developers - Facilitated company move from Alameda, CA, to Denver, CO, by training new and existing teams on business processes and best practices - Refined processes and calendars with VF Asia (Hong Kong) sourcing office prior to the company's move to Denver - Developed flatbed knit garments (Black Series, Flight Series) and outerwear collection (Brown Label) ### Product Development Manager - Sportswear @ The North Face, a VF Company Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | Alameda, CA - Managed a team of 4 performance developers and a team of 3 lifestyle developers - Developed 3 types of engineered knit garments: warp knits, circular knits and flatbed knits - Finalized product fit, construction and costing with vendors in Asia and Central America ### Product Development Manager - Performance, Logowear and Accessories @ The North Face, a VF Company Jan 2013 – Jan 2017 | Alameda, CA - Managed a team of 11 developers and welcomed the developers from Lucy Activewear to TNF - Wrote a web app for tracking prototypes, shortening our development calendar by 6 weeks - Developed many Flight Series styles, notably the HyperAir Jackets, which we designed, developed and delivered in just 4 months for the Gore-Tex SHAKEDRY fabric launch - Applied UX design thinking to performance apparel by connecting designers and developers with focus groups for interviews, generating insights and personas ### Product Development Manager - Outdoor Outerwear + Sportswear @ The North Face, a VF Company Jan 2005 – Jan 2013 | San Leandro, CA and Alameda, CA - Managed a team of 8 outerwear and 4 sportswear developers - Led technical development aspects of product lifecycle management (PLM) system selection (Enovia), user training, documentation, error tracking and feature requests - Applied UX design thinking to outdoor apparel by connecting designers and developers with athletes for interviews, generating insights and user personas - Wrote TNF outerwear construction standards manual, incorporating cross-category input ### Product Developer - Outerwear @ The North Face, a VF Company Jan 2005 – Jan 2005 | San Leandro, CA - Developed many Summit Series, Exploration and Lifestyle outerwear styles, including the Apex Free Line and Free Climb Jackets, the Prism Optimus Jackets, and the Flash Jackets - Analyzed garment costing, always from the perspective of maximizing marker efficiency and minimizing production time while preserving the design intent and construction quality ### Technical Designer @ Mervyns Jan 2004 – Jan 2005 - Developed private label garments for active sportswear (Ellemenno, Sideout), sportswear (French Laundry, Cascade Blues, Sprockets) and business wear (Hillard & Hanson) - Corrected and maintained the Mervyns grade rules for all garment categories - Booked fit models for fittings and managed invoices ### Head Patternmaker @ Michael Casey Couture Inc Jan 2001 – Jan 2004 | San Francisco, CA - Managed 3 patternmakers, including overseeing grading and marker marking - Made patterns for couture and ready-to-wear evening gowns, bridal gowns, dresses and suits - Performed custom fittings and alterations in our office, in showrooms, and at client estates - Supervised cutting, beading, sewing, and finishing of sample and production garments ### Patternmaker @ Michael Casey Couture Inc Jan 1999 – Jan 2001 | San Francisco, California, United States - Made patterns for couture and ready-to-wear evening gowns, bridal gowns, dresses and suits - Supervised cutting, beading, sewing, and finishing of sample and production garments ### Instructor, Apparel Design and Merchandising Department @ College of Alameda Jan 2001 – Jan 2002 | Alameda, CA Taught courses in fashion design, the apparel industry, textiles, garment costing, and proper proportions and poses for fashion sketching. ### Freelance Mathematical Typesetter @ Association For Symbolic Logic, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute Jan 1994 – Jan 2000 | Los Angeles, CA and Berkeley, CA Formatted articles including mathematical text, equations, tables and diagrams using TeX and LaTeX computer typesetting programs. ### Computer Programmer @ IBM Jan 1989 – Jan 1992 | Austin, TX Worked in development groups for the IBM AIX/UNIX operating system for the RISC System/6000 workstations during the summers: IBM PC simulator (1989), graPHIGS graphics library (1990), file transfer protocols between UNIX workstations and mainframes (1991), and maintenance of AIX/UNIX text editing programs vi, awk, sed, and ed (1992). ## Education ### Google Project Management Certificate in Project Management Coursera ### Nanodegree program in UX design Udacity ### Programming for Data Science with Python Nanodegree in Computer Programming Udacity ### Apparel Design and Merchandising courses in Fashion/Apparel Design College of Alameda ### Master of Science - MS and Candidate in Philosophy - CPhil in Mathematics UCLA ### Bachelor of Science - BS with Honors in Mathematics University of Chicago ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/brian-glueck --- Source: https://flows.cv/brianglueck JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/brianglueck/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-08