Michael Mason Email & Phone Number

San Diego, Ca, Us

London, England, Gb

Scottsdale , Us

San Diego, California, Us

➤ Continued to expand the role, and hired a new VP of Product, a VP of Engineering, and Senior Director of Analytics.➤ Owned the product and technology vision, setting standards and project processes, while maintaining overall P&L.➤ Developed a scalable release process to support 5 Product Development teams, and established Department hiring plans.➤ Led overall product strategy and priorities, as well as met with enterprise partners to build out new product offerings.➤ Directly oversaw and participated in the development and management of the company's data analytics infrastructure.➤ Developed a custom White Label product to allow enterprise retailers to power e-commerce offering under own brands.➤ Strategically introduced and implemented an initiative to rearchitect the system into microservices.➤ Successfully presented and contributed at Board meetings, as well as conducted due diligence for potential investors.➤ Proactively reviewed project estimates and assessed risk impact, and served as a senior escalation and resolution point.➤ Negotiated with vendors and suppliers, data partners, and other outsourcing agencies to scale engineering infrastructure.➤ Sought out improvements, finding efficiencies in new and existing business processes, dashboards, and monetization.➤ Developed solutions for business intelligence and machine learning, providing the highest value and rate of return.

San Diego, California, Us

➤ Moved to SD as the Head of Product, owning all product development output, and prioritizing entire product roadmap.➤ Developed a system to support 3rd party delivery courier integrations into core platform to power consumer deliveries.➤ Built out a suite of tools for the Implementation team to onboard partners, integrating with 150 custom POS systems.➤ Led a team of Engineers to execute on the roadmap, and aligned with other Departments to manage product requests.➤ Optimized product specifications and managed development of iOS/Android consumer mobile shopping applications.➤ Advanced to VP in January '19, growing the Product & Engineering team from 5 to over 50, including offshore teams.➤ Worked with Sales leadership to aggregate multiple data sources to build out CRM to support entire sales organization.➤ Led initiatives to build a consumer membership program, which was core to the company's continued growth strategy.➤ Directly oversaw multiple high-impact product enhancements, including a shopper mobile application for employees.➤ Maintained full uptime during COVID-19, leading organization through pandemic hypergrowth of 8000% in 3 weeks.➤ Successfully and strategically reduced the estimates provided by the overseas Engineering team by more than 50%.

San Diego, California, Us

➤ Co-founded this grocery delivery industry leader, and led development of the platform from inception to initial launch.➤ Established engineering codebase, technical infrastructure, deployment pipeline, building all backend administration.➤ Developed consumer promo/credit engine, and integrated email service provider to power a marketing email strategy.➤ Wrote unit and integration tests within automated environments to ensure code quality, and provided timely reporting.

Boston, Ma, Us

➤ Relocated Boston after the acquisition in August '12, owning infrastructure and deployment of product enhancements.➤ Successfully led critical technical integrations that helped drive company growth from $20M to $100M in revenue.➤ Designed and developed high-volume, high-performance, high-availability applications using proven frameworks.➤ Created reusable libraries and APIs for use across the enterprise, and contributed to best practices for development.➤ Aided in defining technical strategy and advised on product roadmaps and migration plans to achieve strategic goals.➤ Participated directly in the development of the textbook rental/sellback programs, core to the company growth strategy.➤ Contributed to managing a 3rd party logistics center that received textbooks from customers and shipped them to buyers.➤ Ensured functionality, scalability, and performance, and wrote concise, yet comprehensive technical documentation.