Michael Cubbin Email & Phone Number

Palo Alto, California, US

Removing the role of geographical borders as a barrier to equal opportunities and freedom for everyoneBuilding a global social safety net for remote workers and teams

Seattle, WA, US

• End-to-end Product management from research and envisioning through to planning, design, implementation, and optimization. Full ownership of roadmap, feature prioritization, business requirements, functional.
• Collaborated with wide set of stakeholders including internal and external sales teams, operations, accounting, General Managers, audit, UX design and two separate engineering teams
• Established and executed strategic roadmap including delivery on multiple initiatives related to flexibility, security, optimization, and business scalability, averaging 7:1 ROI on features that focused on increasing.
• Key projects I led included a PoS launch to our market in Hawaii, new API connections, Merchant Processor RFP and execution, affiliate retail functionality, front end ecommerce functionality and a full Expedia audit
• Increased engineering productivity by 34% successfully renegotiating contract with a third party PoS
• Patched all high pri security and compliance issues identified by an internal audit within 6 months

Seattle, WA, US

Hired to launch PoS tool to Hawaii Local Expert Market

Paris, Île-de-France, FR

Project and operational based consulting deployed to clients needing help across the entire product development lifecycle from envisioning and research, to building and releasing, right through to running and optimization. Clients included:- Microsoft, Xbox LocalizationSenior Manager - Managed Service Lead- Puget Sound Energy Organizational Change Manager.

Dublin, Ireland, IE

• Managed a team of 14 international testers and became the ‘highest performing’ test team internally
• Launched internal tech-talks, pioneering a general transition from Waterfall to Agile
• Debugged issues to unblock daily builds, managed project schedules and coordinated project goals
• Applied DMAIC Six Sigma methodology with self-designed training materials optimizing test coverage, scalability, and cost

• Primarily a Business English teacher freelancing with educational and corporate clients with extended contracts in Shanghai, Tianjin and Sydney. Key projects included:
• Strategic consultancy for international recruiting efforts at an international retailer
• Business classes aimed at fine-tuning English and business communication skills in an Australian or British context allowing clients to assimilate into Australian or British business culture
• One-to-one and group teaching and mentoring of individual businessmen and students from diverse backgrounds
• Designed a curriculum for a University in Shanghai to prepare up to 5,000 students per year for work in English speaking countries

• Project Manager and researcher on investment bank organizational structures and structured interest rate derivative financial products in EMEA market
• Promoted from Analyst to Consultant after 6 months

Ma (Oxon)

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