Michael Gillin Email & Phone Number

San Francisco, California, Us

Senior Customer Success Manager supporting Capella's strategic customers in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.

San Francisco, California, Us

Capella Space is an information services company that tracks global change as it occurs with small satellites. Using Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) technology, we can see through clouds and at night to help government and commercial customers make better decisions to improve our environment, economy and wellbeing.

Responsible for influencing new products across the entire Facebook family of apps to integrate preventative safety measures for highly severe abuses and creating a safer community through people-first prevention, detection, and support programming.• Established the organization as an essential stakeholder in new product launch processes by providing subject matter expertise in cross-company launch escalations, developing minimum pre-launch integrity requirements, improving product integrity risk assessments, and integrating with responsible innovation initiatives during the design phase.• Led in-depth risk assessments on two high profile products (real-time communications & short-form video) with a team of investigators, safety experts, and data scientists which outlined adversarial behavior and potential mitigations.• Developed new enrollment & measurement strategies for providing supportive messaging to victims of online harm.

Child safety project manager responsible for building and maintaining scalable solutions which prevent abuse and ensure user safety by working cross-functionally with policy, engineering, legal, and content moderation teams.• Led the team’s image matching program through multiple efficiency initiatives and technical improvements; resulting in the automated removal of exploitative content and reducing weekly contractor workload by 7%.• Partnered with market specialists, engineers, and investigators to create new policy and enforcement workstreams that provided key insights for strategic company priorities and increased escalations to law enforcement by 7%.• Chosen to represent the child safety team at internal events which included a presentation on the team’s operational and technical challenges at a computer vision summit and was prepared to testify in court on the company’s behalf.

Arlington, Virginia, Us

Led the fire support program for a 780-person armored reconnaissance squadron with five subordinate teams, 30-personnel, and $75m of equipment; enabling the detailed integration of fires, aviation, intelligence, and ground forces. • Rated as the #1 fire support officer and selected over 8 peers to serve as the interim fires program director for the 4,800-parent organization.• Graduated in the top 10% of peers and international officers during a six-month course covering project and program management, decision-making processes, and advanced tactics.• Planned and oversaw the transfer of over $400,000 worth of equipment to adjacent organizations; resulted in saving 7% of the organization’s annual budget and increased the efficiency of subordinate maintenance programs by 11%.

Arlington, Virginia, Us

Responsible for the management, maintenance, and training of a 24-person platoon with five radar systems, valued at over $45m, which directly supported the headquarters to a 20,000-soldier organization. • Recognized as a top 10% officer for demonstrating flexibility and technical understanding of complex projects and systems while the radar project manager. • Led six major exercises after developing a cohesive team created from two separate organizations by implementing multiple standardized systems and processes; increased individual crew qualification rate from 75% to 100%.• Optimized internal supply and accounting procedures of essential radar repair parts; improved the availability of $2.5m of on hand repair parts by 20% across four organizations and decreased RADAR maintenance time by 10%.

Arlington, Virginia, Us

Managed an eight-employee team tasked to calculate and analyze ballistic trajectory data in austere conditions while responsible for over $300,000 worth of associated equipment. • Ranked in the top 5% of 61 peers for leading the most efficient and accurate fire direction center. • Directed and taught a rigorous training program; resulted in all personnel exceeding qualification exam requirements and raising the team’s average from below 60% to over 90% in a four-week period.

Arlington, Virginia, Us

Third in command of a 107-person company. Responsible for the training readiness of two six-person teams, selected to serve as a senior advisor to the commander, and facilitated decision-making ability through timely intelligence. • Rated in the top 10% of fire support managers; selected to supervise the summer training of three West Point cadets. • Created technical reference materials resulting in its adoption across the larger 4,100-person parent organization. • Supervised the transfer of equipment of five teams, over $450,000 to an adjacent organization; resulted in the appointment as the company maintenance liaison to the headquarters and logistics unit.

Menlo Park, California, Us

BreakLine is an education and hiring initiative designed to prepare top veterans for careers in technology. The program combines intensive, graduate-level classroom instruction with hands-on workshops and professional networking.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Us

Integrated into multiple projects relating to in-flight image acquisition, image georectification, digital elevation model manipulation, image mosaicing, digital image processing, and flight mission planning. Conducted research on the correlation between Google Earth and Bing Map ground control points for aerial sensor calibration. Conducted quality control and quality assurance checks for USGS and USDA products.

Springfield, Va, Us

Attached to the US Army Geospatial Intelligence (GEOINT) Battalion. Internship focused on the collection and development of geospatial information in the Intelligence Community. Graduated NGA College's FalconView Course.

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Geographic Information Science And Cartography

Postbaccalaureate Certificate, Geographic Information Science And Cartography

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