# Austin Humphrey

Sports analytics, applied AI, product strategy, strategic partnerships
Boerne, TX | (210) 273-5538 | humphrey.austin20@gmail.com
https://austinhumphrey.com | https://blazesportsintel.com | https://linkedin.com/in/ahump20 | https://github.com/ahump20

## Thesis

I help sports, media, and growth teams turn scattered information into clearer decisions, faster execution, and stronger relationships.

A commercially minded AI operator who can translate data, shape product direction, coordinate people, and make complex work easier for a hiring team to use.

## What Hiring Teams Get

- Translate data into decisions: Make messy inputs understandable enough for sales, product, and leadership teams to act on.
- Ship AI-aided work faster: Move from idea to usable artifact with modern AI tools, good taste, and practical constraints.
- Align teams and partners: Coordinate across planning, creative, analytics, clients, and stakeholders without losing the goal.
- Grow trust into revenue: Turn discovery, performance proof, and relationship care into next-step business conversations.

## Summary

- AI-native operator since 2023, using Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, Cursor, Gemini, Grok / xAI, and other agent-assisted workflows to turn ambiguous ideas into useful web, iOS, and business artifacts.
- Three years of data-informed advertising at Spectrum Reach across linear TV, OTT/CTV, streaming, and digital, translating campaign performance into clearer renewal, retention, and upsell conversations.
- Built and operate Blaze Sports Intel as an independent sports intelligence proof-of-work: a way to practice product judgment, sports analysis, AI-assisted execution, and commercial packaging in public.
- Top-decile production at Northwestern Mutual through the Power of 10 recognition, with experience moving prospects from trust-building discovery into structured financial decisions.
- B.A. International Relations & Global Studies from UT Austin; M.S. Entertainment Business - Sports Management from Full Sail University; enrolled in the UT Austin McCombs AI/ML postgraduate program.
- Targeting roles where sports, AI, product, partnerships, and business strategy converge.

## Experience

### Independent Builder & Operator - Blaze Sports Intel

Boerne, TX | 2023 - Present

- Use Blaze Sports Intel as a public proof-of-work for product judgment, sports analysis, AI-assisted execution, and commercial packaging across MLB, NFL, NBA, NCAA football, and college baseball.
- Translate fragmented sports data sources into scoreboards, standings, box-score views, and predictive surfaces that make the next question easier for fans, analysts, and partner-style users.
- Develop college-baseball sabermetrics and LLM-facing workflows around wOBA, wRC+, FIP, win probability, and Monte Carlo views so advanced baseball context can be queried and reused.
- Shape Pro and Enterprise-style packaging for API access, custom exports, and subscriber workflows as a practical exercise in audience segmentation and go-to-market thinking.

### Account Executive - Spectrum Reach

Austin, TX | Nov 2022 - Present

- Develop data-informed advertising strategies across linear TV, OTT/CTV, streaming, and digital, translating campaign performance into clearer renewal, retention, and strategic upsell conversations.
- Coordinate cross-functional teams across sales planning, traffic, creative services, and analytics for campaign scoping, launch, and post-campaign reporting.
- Build audience-first proposals using network reach, addressable inventory, and category-level performance benchmarks to pull local advertisers into multi-platform buys.

### Financial Representative - Northwestern Mutual

Austin, TX | Dec 2020 - Aug 2022

- Earned Power of 10 recognition for top 10% national production and won the firm's March Madness sales competition while converting an internship into a full-time role.
- Tripled personal referral pipeline through structured discovery, needs analysis, and referral-driven prospecting.
- Delivered financial planning, modeling, and product structuring for individual clients and small business owners.

## Toolkit

AI Stack: Claude, Claude Code, ChatGPT, OpenAI Codex, Cursor, Gemini, Grok / xAI, DeepSeek

Cloud: Cloudflare Workers, D1, KV, R2, Hono, Firebase Auth, App Check, GitHub

Languages: TypeScript, Swift, Python, SQL, Node.js, R, HTML, CSS

Platforms: iOS, macOS, Web, Xcode, Apple Developer, Next.js, React, Vite

## Education

- Postgraduate Program - AI / ML for Business - UT Austin McCombs School of Business; PGP-AIML-BA-Apr26-A; in progress
- M.S. Entertainment Business - Sports Management - Full Sail University; 2026; GPA 3.77
- B.A. International Relations & Global Studies - University of Texas at Austin; Minors: Economics, Government, European Studies

## Selected Builds

- Blaze Sports Intel - https://blazesportsintel.com - Production analytics homepage with live ticker, scoreboards, and predictive surfaces across five leagues.
- College Baseball Sabermetrics MCP - https://sabermetrics.blazesportsintel.com - JSON-RPC server exposing wOBA, wRC+, and FIP leaderboards to LLM agents.
- BSI Arcade - Sandlot Sluggers + Blaze Hotdog - https://blazecraft.app - Browser-native sports games and companion fan properties connected to the BSI world.
- Austin Humphrey Portfolio - https://austinhumphrey.com - Editorial portfolio and resume kit for sports, AI, product, and business roles.

## Honors

- Power of 10 - top 10% national producers, Northwestern Mutual.
- Multi-sport varsity athlete - baseball pitcher, football running back / long snapper, AAU track.
- Coached by Danny Graves (2x MLB All-Star) and Rocky Thompson (UT Austin).
- Rush Captain & Alumni Chair, Alpha Tau Omega - managed approximately $100K chapter budget.