Alan John Email & Phone Number

Kirkland, WA, US

Kirkland, WA, US

Beaverton, OR, US

As the Chief Data & AI Officer I am responsible for all things Data & AI at Nike.

New York City, New York, US

Patent-pending GenAI Based Individualization Platform: Elevate Your E-Commerce Experience👤 Conversational Shopping Assistant: Dive into an intuitive shopping journey individualized to your unique style and preferences.👗 AI-Generated Outfits/Bundles: Eliminate decision fatigue with outfits and bundles AI-curated just for you.🔍 Natural Language &.

Detroit, Michigan, US

• StockX is a global platform that offers unprecedented access to current culture. It employs a data-driven, bid-ask model to provide buyers with real-time visibility and fair pricing. Every purchase and product is.
• Led the development of decomposing legacy monolith into microservices, improving scalability, availability, and team productivity, resulting in over 20% increase in conversion.
• Initiated industry-first Computer Vision-based authentication for products, achieving 3X productivity gains.
• Implemented cutting-edge Hyper-localized Recommendations, doubling engagement and conversion.
• Grew annualized revenue by 32% through Personalized Search for global customers.Managed various payments, fraud, and finance systems.
• Oversaw the construction of an event-based data platform for Customer 360, data-driven supply chain, analytics, and AI/ML use cases.

Austin, Texas, US

• Directed product development for serverless Big Data and AI services. Grew team from 12 to 245 forming platform team, security team, and 3 full-stack product engineering teams, distributed globally across Seattle.
• Led creation of OCI Data Flow (1st cloud-native serverless PaaS Big Data and ML product) from ideation to pilot to GA in 12 months; oversaw deployment to more than 40 regions worldwide, including highly secure US and.
• Directed innovative design that simplified how enterprise customers ran Big Data and ML applications without running infrastructure or clusters at a fraction of competitors’ costs.
• Managed OCI Big Data Service, enabling customers to run semi-managed Hadoop/ Hive/ Spark/ Hbase clusters.
• Provided career development, coaching, and mentoring for ICs and leaders.Recruited and built world-class engineering teams.
• Motivated and led teams with strong vision and empathy, communicating with transparency throughout organization.

Seattle, Washington, US

• Drove digital transformation to modernize tech stack and build and built cloud, microservices, data platform, and AI/ML capabilities. Directed team of 328 to manage all distributed web services and eCommerce systems.
• Led the build for the core services including - catalog service, customer profile service and sales service.
• Directed creation and build of new service for next-generation engine of Product Recommendations for fashion with computer vision-based styles/outfits using deep neural networks; improved conversion rate by 12% on.
• Led creation and build of new search platform with leading-edge relevance ranking built with ML techniques; improved conversion rate by 8% ($80M).
• Optimized inbound/outbound supply chain services with ML; improved unit-E savings $90M.
• Introduced cutting-edge store video streaming data collection using computer-vision based techniques, performing in-store analytics, and using data for personalization.

Seoul, Seoul, KR

• Drove modernization and scaling of data services and built new data platform, machine learning, and AI to support product growth from a few million to 150+M products and customer growth from a few million to 25M. Led.
• Developed strategy, systems, and solutions to facilitate growth, including product recommendations, product search, product catalog, build-out of new platforms, and cutting-edge technologies for computer vision.
• Led teams to develop and deliver product recommendations algorithms and APIs, product search infrastructure, ranking algorithms, pipelines, and APIs.
• Led development of new product catalog systems and onboarded 150+M products.
• Directed setup of API platforms to support Kafka, Cassandra, and Kubernetes.
• Led build of new data platform, including data collection and processing of petabytes of data (Hadoop, Hive, Presto, Spark) with real-time analytics (Flink, ElasticSearch, Kibana).

Redmond, Washington, US

• Hired to build out Big Data platform for Office 365 to enable visibility and monetization of data. Built engineering team of 120. Recruited and built world-class engineering teams. Provided career development, coaching.
• Directed development one of largest ever data platforms for Big Data, collecting data from 1B active users of Office 365, processing ~1 PB of data/day and storing >200 PB of data for 18 months. Built real-time.
• Led Data Warehouse/BI team to produce business metrics from Big Data platform and other data sources. Collaborated with stakeholders: Marketing, Product Managers, Product Engineering, Finance, and Senior Leadership.
• Oversaw team to create and deploy Office 365 product usage reports (480+M users) for SMB and Enterprise customers globally.
• Directed ML and Data Science team to build Churn data sets using ML algorithms (e.g. Random Forest Ensemble methods) and SVM classification models and create Customer Segmentation to segment >1B global customers using.
• Motivated and led teams by communicating with transparency throughout the teams

Seattle, WA, US

• Hired to build out customer data platform, tax systems, and sales applications to establish foundation enabling growth of Amazon. Built and led a high-performing engineering team of 52 from ground up. Provided career.
• Directed project to develop the customer data platform from ground up using Clickstream and multiple internal and 3rd party source systems; pioneered use of Big Data technologies.
• Managed project to build tax data systems from nothing to establish compliance.
• Led full-stack application development to build and manage sales commissions systems and RFP/contracts systems.
• Developed original Amazon Reserved Instance tool to help customers select instance types to achieve cost savings.
• Led the development of USL (universal sub-ledger system) which processes and transforms over a billion transactions to financial events a month across all Amazon businesses.

Broomfield, Colorado, US

• Led a global team of 170, including software engineers, data engineers, project managers, architects, data analysts, along with enterprise data warehouse and business intelligence teams. Provided career development.
• Led global Engineering Data Warehouse (EDW) team of 20+ to provide insights and analytics support to whole company, including Sales, Marketing, Supplier, Product, Operations, Finance, and Services teams.
• Maintained a carrier cost-run rate of ~$1.8B/month by leading team of 20 software engineers to maintain and build enhancements to Carrier Billing System.
• Drove consolidation of Sales Order Entry Systems from 9 acquisitions. Built new systems; converted and migrated systems and data to Level 3.
• Directed team collaboration, getting results with clear prioritization.

Broomfield, Colorado, US

• Provided insights and analytics support for sales and marketing, leading globally distributed enterprise data warehouse and business intelligence team of 20+.
• Reduced costs by 30% and achieved carrier cost run rate of ~$1.8B/month by leading Carrier Billing Application project, managing team of 20 software engineers.

Greenwich, CT, US

• Engineering Manager/ Architect, LEVEL 3 COMMUNICATIONS, Broomfield, CO
• Senior Software Engineer, Consultant, AIC, Lakewood, CO
• Software Engineer, Consultant, DELOITTE, Boston, MA
• Software Engineer, ITC INFOTECH LIMITED, Bangalore, India