Michael Merz Email & Phone Number

Bellevue, WA, US

Seattle, WA, US

Applied AI & ML AcceleratorFounding member, led technical product and program management. Our mission was to help organizations in Amazon WW Stores increase efficiency and re-envision business processes by accelerating the adoption of AI and ML technologies, in collaboration with AWS; focusing on applying technologies such as deep learning (DL), large.

Connection IntegrityWorked on improving the quality of the News Feed. We built mechanisms and ML models to classify harmful content along various dimensions, identify bad actors, and act on our classifications.

Seattle, WA, US

Last Mile TechnologyLed product team for Data Collection and Routing Intelligence, as part of Last Mile Technology. We built systems to collect data and ground truth to help Amazon understand how delivery routes are executed; we used that knowledge and ML and statistical models to improve and optimize future route execution plans for our delivery.

Chicago, IL, US

Computational marketingLed geographically distributed (US, Germany, Chile) product & engineering teams. Built global high-availability, low-latency services to analyze and influence online consumer behavior in real-time.

Redmond, Washington, US

Online Services Division (OSD)* Responsible for backend systems and demand side platform (DSP) and ad exchange strategy on Microsoft's Audience Intelligence team. Created and led virtual teams to deliver technology that streamlined campaign management across Microsoft's display advertising platforms and significantly reduced operational costs. Drove the.

US

First engineer in successful startup company to help get the product defined and started; shipped first couple of releases of new problem resolution management product to paying customers; helped growing both product and company.

US

Led engineering team of FTEs and contractors on web services projects (Workshop team). Contributed to JCP/JSR, Apache Software Foundation as committer.

Seattle, WA, US

Engineer on the Automated Advertising team; automated generation, management and (performance) analysis for Amazon's Internet ads on Google, Overture, etc.

Reported to VP of Advanced Technologies; worked on next generation device drivers, protocol stacks, embedded systems, multimedia transmission (VoIP, Video) and system management solutions.

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PhD student. Researcher on CoBrow project (joint-venture of U Lancaster, ETH Zurich, Uni Ulm), worked on telecollaboration and social networks. Published results at IEEE's SYBEN '98 conference.