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Kirkland, Wa, Us

Redmond, Washington, Us

Leading the Data Platform, Analytics, and Data Science team for Microsoft Teams. Enabling large-scale platforms, analytics, data capabilities, and data science to enable quicker product iteration and growth.Focuses include large-scale culture change, evolving the Product Data Science role at Microsoft, modernizing data tooling & experimentation platform for Teams/E+D, and ensuring the future data strategy aligns with evolving customer and end-user data residency and privacy needs.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Led a 40+ person Program Management, Engineering, and Product Data Science team in OneDrive and SharePoint to drive the data and growth strategy for a 3000+ organization. Integrated analytics and data services to enable data-driven decision-making and fuel growth and monetization in products like OneDrive, Syntex, Viva Connections, Viva Topics, and Microsoft Lists.Select Accomplishments:- Launched a premium data product targeting Fortune 500 companies, providing insights to maximize deployment successes and productivity across M365 applications, while significantly reducing operational costs.- Aligned the data strategy of OneDrive and SharePoint with Microsoft's EU Data Boundary commitments and customer promises, resulting in a new privacy-first architecture for first-party and third-party data.- Created a 16-person product data science team and redefined the Product Data Science role to meet the evolving business needs, incorporating industry trends and leveraging data science effectively.- Improved the understanding of the role of data engineering and implemented proper change management practices, leading to a significant increase in product velocity.- Passionately fostered a culture of growth, challenging individuals to excel and creating products that customers love.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Led a cross-discipline team focused on contextual product experiences, leveraging data and analytics across M365.Select Accomplishments:- Shipped V1 of a unified employee engagement feed with Viva Connections, collaborating with Teams, Yammer, Stream, SharePoint, and platform partners.- Leveraged the Microsoft Graph to deliver near real-time file intelligence experiences to 40+ million daily users, providing social analytics, document analytics, and recommending urgent file-based actions.- Delivered high-scale platform services for media transformations serving all of M365 such as thumbnails and tagging supporting 300+ file types and user notifications for 1st party developers across M365.- Led the adoption of hypothesis-driven experimentation in the product life cycle, resulting in a 300% increase in high-value experiments for OneDrive and SharePoint.- Expanded multi-petabyte usage data pipelines, focusing on quality and SLAs, and establishing core reporting, standards, and durable data assets across M365 for a comprehensive view of collaboration.

Seattle, Washington, Us

Led an 88 person cross-functional team responsible for foundational data engineering, business intelligence, and core services supporting personalization, marketing, advanced analytics, and supporting internal engineering teams.Several promotions with increased scope from Group Program Manager -> Director -> Senior Director in the first 12 months. SELECT ACCOMPLISHMENTS:- Combined eight legacy business definitions of a customer as a foundation for personalized customer experience across all channels. Increased customer satisfaction and enabled faster product development.- Led team creating a contextual customer profile service responsible for serving all CRUD operations for customer information providing dynamic rule-driven purchase history and personalization leveraging AWS PaaS offerings combined with Node, Java, and Mongo. This enabled other groups in business to test and update customer experiences quickly.- Migrated a $14B retail transaction pipeline, services, data assets, and reporting to AWS leveraging CICD pipelines, telemetry, real-time subscription capabilities, and 50% more available throughput across multi-channel operations.- Redefined approach and methodology for the teams responsible for business intelligence, analytics, master data management, and data warehousing needs related to key data topics: customer, sales, and clickstream into a sustainable product model. Resulted in ~30% realignment of engineering time. - Directed an initiative to shift data access patterns from legacy on-premise systems to right-time cloud based (AWS) solutions focusing on self-service through multiple data maturity patterns. [Kinesis, Redshift, EMR, and Open Source tools on top of S3]. Enabled multiple levels of self-service for consuming teams and rapid POC environments.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Responsible for executing the strategy and vision for the core big data and BI platform within the Windows and Xbox Live groups, including Xbox 360, Xbox One, Windows Phone, IOS, Android, and other key platforms. SELECT ACCOMPLISHMENTS:- Led effort moving from a SQL based business intelligence pipeline to a large scale map-reduce system utilizing more than 8PB data with ingress of 150+ TB/day with potential to scale to 10+ PB daily ingress allowing for large scale data-driven services.- Engaged with key customers across the marketing, engineering, product, finance, and data science teams refining core needs to align with new capabilities of the data platform, defined common company-wide measures, and delivered core analytics at scale. Resulted in aligned engineering resource utilization across the entire BI stack.- Led and grew a team of 7 full-time PMs and targeted full-stack vendor teams to deliver new insights into data-driven decisions.- Evangelism specialist for the adoption of the Windows 10 and Xbox data platform, including client tooling/libraries, global schema adoption, pipeline tools, and analytics across Windows, Phone and Live Services.

Burlingame, California, Us

G2 Web Services is the recognized leader in merchant web content compliance monitoring, fraud detection, and e-commerce risk analysis. G2 works with acquirers, ISOs, and other acquiring value chain members to identify, mitigate, and monitor the risk posed by their merchants. SELECT ACCOMPLISHMENTS:- Led a 40 person Engineering organization consisting of development, QA, operations, and architecture. Reorganized the team from functional units to full-stack product teams resulting in increased ownership, moral, and delivery throughput.- Responsible for driving the engineering efforts to support G2's core business while balancing the priorities between a complex, multi-year technical rearchitecture and new product engineering initiatives to meet stated company goals.- Addressed technology challenges, drove overall technical strategy, and implemented comprehensive product roadmaps supporting a successful launch of over seven major product launches.- Responsible for leading the design, development, and execution of the organization's product, IT, operations, and security infrastructure, including PCI-DSS compliance.

Gambit Media Inc was a technology startup responsible for creating on a variety of online marketing tools.SELECT ACCOMPLISHMENTS:- Provided vision, planning and execution for the initial and ongoing phases of a new technology startup. Managed projects to re-purpose the team and technology assets into a predictable and scalable SaaS business model. - Led a successful equity financing round.- Consolidated a technology platform using LAMP, Java, and Microsoft technologies offering a significant operations cost reduction. - Increased revenue by 100% in twelve months by optimizing production, reducing costs, and establishing several new key relationships.- Managed close and sale of assets resulting in a significant return to investors.

TotSites is an online baby book and keepsake for new and expecting parents to securely share and create memories with friends and family around the world.At TotSites Brian researched, planned, and executed all phases of a startup and continuing phases of a successful web service. - Product vision & startup execution- Developed core platform using open source technologies- Business development- Product marketing- Create and motivate team to support ongoing efforts

Dallas, Tx, Us