Josh Brisebois

Operations leader and product builder · Vancouver, BC

Josh Brisebois

Runs operations end to end for ownership (P&L, labour, vendors, KPIs) and builds the systems that make results hold. Also designs and ships hardware and software products.

Among them: the Brisebois' Boards keyboards (their circuit boards, case and firmware) and the apps Grounders, ItsRadio, Offhand, Unslip, and Hub.

General Manager, Four Winds Brewing · since July 2025

Revenue, year over year
+11%
Food sales, year over year
+20%
Void rate, down from 4.9% of sales
3.6%
Tuesday sales, year over year
+48%
Breakfast & brunch sales, year over year
+123%

Operations dashboard

A custom application he created for Four Winds Brewing. Demo data, not real figures.

Sales
$3,898
Labour
27.9%
COGS
30.7%
Average check
$28.25
Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun

Sales, labour, cost of goods and forecasts on one board, updated daily from the business's own systems. Open the live demo

Brisebois' Boards

The Breeze, for sale now · CA$349 + shipping

Buy the Breeze

Products in the wild

Hardware and software shipped alongside the operations work. Each card opens the live product.

Resume

Operations leader and product builder. Vancouver, BC · josh@brisebois.xyz

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Experience

  1. Jul 2025 – present
    Delta, BC

    General Manager, Four Winds Brewing

    Runs all operations, reporting to ownership.

    • Revenue up 11% and food sales up 20% year over year.
    • Guests up 6.1% and spend per guest up 5.4% over the last 12 months.
    • Every month of 2026 beat the same month of 2025; June 2026 was the record month of 2025–26, up 26%.
    • Tuesday sales up 48% year over year with a taco program he designed (happy-hour tacos, then Taco Tuesdays).
    • Launched and grew brunch: breakfast and brunch sales more than doubled (+123%); dinner sales up 13%.
    • Draft beer sales up 17%, a new non-alcoholic beverage program, and the void rate cut from 4.9% to 3.6% of sales.
    • Created a custom application for the daily operations dashboard (sales and forecasts).
  2. Jul 2024 – Jun 2025
    Surrey, BC

    General Manager, Operations, Shack Shine

    • Live jobsite photos and direct messaging lifted reviews and satisfaction.
    • Automated the path from ad click to booked job to invoice.
    • Ran field service crews and fleet operations across the Lower Mainland.
  3. Jun 2022 – Jul 2024
    Vancouver

    Restaurant Manager, Earls

    • Introduced a combined accounting and inventory system that Earls adopted beyond his location.
    • Trained other locations on that system.
    • Led staff training and oversaw renovations and maintenance.
  4. Apr 2019 – Jun 2022
    Edmonton

    Operations Manager, Paneless Windows

    • High-risk height work, with zero injuries.
    • Fall protection, boom lift, and rope access training.
    • Safety audits.
  5. May 2018 – Apr 2019
    Edmonton

    Sales Consultant, Great West Chrysler

    • 3.3 cars a week, about $10K a week in gross profit.
    • Rookie of the Month.

Education

BA, Economics & Political Science

University of Alberta · 2018–2022

Macro modelling, central bank theory, Stata and Excel.

High school

Athol Murray College of Notre Dame · 2015–2018

Wilcox, SK. House Leader, hockey captain, honours.

Certifications

  • EWP
  • MEWP
  • Fall Protection

Credentials

  • Registered Apple Developer
  • Registered Google Play Developer
  • Full-stack web development course (Codecademy)
  • Rust

Skills

  • Operations and budget
  • Revenue growth
  • Digital inventory
  • Team leadership and training
  • Data analysis (Stata, Excel, SQL)
  • P&L
  • Forecasting
  • CRM
  • Negotiation
  • Safety and compliance

Awards

  • Heart of the Hound, Notre Dame
  • John Donnan leadership award, 2012
  • Remembrance Day speaker, Ottawa, 2017
  • Silver medal, high school golf provincials, 2018
  • Silver medal, water-ski nationals, 2014

Volunteer

  • Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, $30K Machu Picchu trek
  • Ronald McDonald House, volunteer cook since 2008
  • Water-ski coach, Shalom Park, AB, 2011–2016