Mike Ward Email & Phone Number

Seattle, Wa, Us

ThritfBooks is a high volume seller in the eCommerce space; in the top 5 of all 3rd party sellers on Amazon, top 3 of all sellers on eBay, and most importantly with 3M+ active customers of our own, selling more items directly on ThriftBooks.com than any other channel.ThriftBooks handles all its own fulfillment from 5 large, automated processing and fulfillment centers in the US. These sites use cutting edge technology and automated processes that serve to both save cost and achieve the scale we needed to ship millions of units annually.ThriftBooks constantly innovates and embraces the change and technology that allows us to be the worldwide market leader in used book sales and enables continued future growth.

Seattle, Wa, Us

Seattle, Wa, Us

Successfully grew the company by quadrupling revenue and expanding to over 900 employees, transforming the organization - particularly the executive suite - to keep pace with growth. Profitably evolved our team into a highly functional enterprise-caliber organization that is capable of continuing the astounding trajectory we have seen historically.ThritfBooks is a high volume seller in the eCommerce space; in the top 5 of all 3rd party sellers on Amazon, top 3 of all sellers on eBay, and most importantly with 3M+ active customers of our own, selling more items directly on ThriftBooks.com than any other channel.ThriftBooks handles all its own fulfillment from 5 large, automated processing and fulfillment centers in the US. These sites use cutting edge technology and automated processes that serve to both save cost and achieve the scale we needed to ship millions of units annually.ThriftBooks constantly innovates and embraces the change and technology that allows us to be the worldwide market leader in used book sales and enables continued future growth.President October, 2013 - December, 2015CEO December, 2015 - January, 2020President January, 2020 - March, 2022

Seattle, Wa, Us

Responsible for all IT resources including developing custom-built inventory management software, data management, and websites. Responsible for developing dynamic pricing engine for an extremely large data set of more than 7M SKUs updatable within minutes across dozens of marketplaces.Led technical innovation efforts and a large developer team as we built from scratch the technology tool-set we needed to succeed in the nascent third-party marketplaces like Amazon, eBay, etc. while building our brand and presence on Thriftbooks.com. Responsibilities included systems for product listing, inventory management, order fulfillment, dynamic pricing, targeted repricing, marketplace management (all 3rd party marketplaces), and our vertical channel at Thriftbooks.com.During this time I helped the company grow from annual revenues of less than $1M and about 10 employees to $60M in sales and over 300 employees.Oversaw a massive scale-up of IT and Developer resources as we expanded quickly into 10 states.

Salt Lake City, Ut, Us

Managed all web and development efforts including data warehousing, company websites, and custom internal applications.

Campbell, Ca, Us

Bass, guitar, vocals. 3 CDs, hundreds of shows, and a ton of fun.

Computer Science

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.)