Brian Mount Email & Phone Number

Seattle, Wa, Us

I lead the Cart and Checkout organizations at Amazon Retail - the Purchase eXperience organization. Cart owns the experiences of items a customer intends to evaluate and/or purchase with the Cart page and Checkout owns the mission critical customer experiences (Buy Now and Proceed to Checkout) and the systems used by hundreds of engineers that power all physical goods orders on the site. We have massive impact to shoppers, all physical goods orders for our ecommerce business, and the availability for Amazon.com. We are committed to iteration in building an inclusive and supportive environment for people to do their best in service of our customers.Learn more about our broader organization and our open roles: https://www.amazon.jobs/en/teams/customer-journey

Seattle, Wa, Us

I lead the Cart and Checkout teams at Amazon Retail - the Consumer Purchase eXperience organization. Cart owns the experiences of items a customer intends to purchase with the Cart page and Checkout owns the mission critical customer experiences (Buy Now and Proceed to Checkout) and the systems used by hundreds of engineers that power all physical goods orders on the site. We have massive impact to shoppers, the business, and the availability for Amazon.com. We believe in building an inclusive and supportive environment for people to do their best in service of our customers.Learn more about our broader organization and our open roles: https://www.amazon.jobs/en/teams/customer-journey

Seattle, Wa, Us

Building a new team of talented engineers, designers, and innovators to create and ship a new Virtual Reality Shopping app. Our broader group - the Customer Experience Technology team - is dedicated to making Amazon the best shopping experience across desktop, tablet, and mobile apps and web. Our aim is to provide simple, fluid, and beautiful experiences from the home page to checkout while enabling customers to make informed buying decisions, and delighting them along the way.

Redmond, Washington, Us

• Development manager of an org of eighteen engineers and managers of the incubation and shared technology teams chartered with ideating, designing, prototyping, and demoing transformative new user experiences on new and evolving Microsoft hardware and software platforms• Led experiential prototyping and evaluation of several proposed and early-stage development hardware and software platforms - including a range of sensor technologies• Led broader organization efforts for college recruiting and the organization's intern program

• Shipped HoloStudio, RoboRaid, and 3D Viewer for HoloLens Launch on Unity 5• Development manager of the first experience team working on HoloLens• Led team in landing third person view film technology for holograms - used in on stage demos including HoloLens announce 1/2015, Holographic Minecraft at E3 6/2015, and several other events• Led creation of high value prototypes and demos using Unreal 3, Unity 4, and Unity 5• Staffed up development team from 4 to 20 awesome software engineers and managers, leading a strong hiring process and attracting and retaining top talent• Partnered with creative and production peers to build and maintain a strongly collaborative incubation environment that focuses on team success through individual excellence and shared responsibility

Redmond, Washington, Us

• Shipped Kinect Adventures based on Unreal Engine 3• Managed a team of five direct reports in developing gameplay, systems, and the Reflex Ridge minigame for Kinect Adventures - the Xbox 360 Kinect pack-in launch title - partnering on career success, providing timely and relevant feedback, and aligning individual goals and enthusiasm with project needs• Contributed individual code in C++, Unreal Script, and Flash for initial skeletal networking and avatar cloud import, networked gameplay features, audio features and integration, transitions between game levels and modes, and load time optimizations

Redmond, Washington, Us

• Shipped System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008, a V2 on-premise server management product• Led a team of four direct reports to build the full UI surface area for the product• Developed high quality features full-time in C# and Windows Forms• Instituted new development practices to improve the check-in quality of new UI components• Led product localization across development and test teams in partnership with central localization

Redmond, Washington, Us

• Shipped System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2007 - V1 on-premise server management product• Shipped System Center Data Protection Manager 2006 - V1 on-premise backup management product• Designed, implemented, and stabilized central VMM Job Manager component used by fifteen other developers in C#, T-SQL, and WCF• Investigated and addressed performance and scale issues across UI, remoting infrastructure, and the central engine service• Started with zero production development, managed code, or User Interface experience and ramped up to be the team subject-matter expert on UI development with Windows Forms

Master’S Degree, Computer Engineering

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