Michael Brown Email & Phone Number

San Francisco Bay Area

At Motimatic, we use motivation science and social media to help universities reach their enrollment goals. We do this by delivering targeted ads to students where they spend most of their time on social media. On the engineering front, here are some of the things we've accomplished so far. ** Strategy & Vision ** Changed the trajectory of the Motimatic platform by establishing a technology vision and strategy capable of guiding the company into the future. ** Building for the Future ** Re-architected and rebuilt of all 3 pillars of the Motimatic platform consisting of content publishing to social networks, automated content creation for Ads and data ingestion. ** Engineering Culture ** Established and fostered a team culture delivering repeatable results at high velocity. Skills: Leadership · Software Architecture · Amazon Web Services (AWS) · Django · python

Oakland, California, United States

Napa, California, United States

** Strategy & Vision ** Brought clarity to the organization by refining the strategy and vision for Pix. ** New Product ** Delivered a new product (Pix Biz) in record time at Pix. ** Solutions to Complex Problems ** Reduced total cost of ownership by rearchitecting the Pix Retailer Ingestion Feed utilizing AI for product consolidation. ** Product Management ** Created transparency around software delivery through product roadmaps and release planning.

Sacramento, California Area

Led the creation of the 4insite company and product. * Led the architecture of 4insite's SaaS product (any service, by any provider, anywhere). * Hands-on creation and development of 4insite's core components. * Built, led and mentored a team of engineers both on and offshore. * Scaled technology to support custodial staff at over 600 sites both domestic and international. * Led cloud infrastructure build on AWS. * Drove 4insite's company values empowering teams to work autonomously and still move as one

San Francisco Bay Area

** New Product ** Assembled a team of five to create a new product for the music industry named BandPass. ** Vision ** BandPass was a next-generation fan club that allowed fans to go backstage every day. This created a new revenue stream for bands, allowing them to monetize their super fans. ** Customer Collaboration ** Worked with an Emmy-nominated band to understand the trends in the music industry their needs and translate those needs into a SaaS product. ** Technology ** Django, Python, DRF, Postgres, REACT

San Francisco Bay Area

* Led the One Bank, One Client initiative breaking down silos across LOBs using business process automation and master data management. * Recruited, mentored and led a team of technical product managers. * Established a catalog of enterprise-level reusable components.

San Francisco Bay Area

* Delivered a cash-back hotel booking application that pulled inventory from Expedia APIs and allowed booking of rooms in line with the Rakuten business model.

Charlotte, North Carolina, United States

* Coordinated software design efforts across 5 teams on a $75M project. * Led Global Client Services through the adoption of Agile and overall optimization of their SDLC. This included training business analysts on how to be product owners and extending that role to product managers. * Improved business process definition and development by implementing a standard BPMN 2.0 business process solution for both requirements definition and software implementation.

Improved product management expertise through several consulting engagements with Hewlett Packard, John Muir Health and DreamHost. ** Hewlett Packard ** * Managed a team of 20 on a $100M project. * Took a desperately broken SDLC and turned it into a functional and efficient software delivery process. ** John Muir Health ** * Delivered online bill pay system for patients. ** Dreamhost ** * Launched DreamHost's cloud computing IaaS service.

Napa, Ca

* Drove the development of a Wine Marketplace where wines were sold directly to restaurants. * Owned engineering and product development for WineDirect's online wine marketplace, online shipping compliance service, and many enhancements to the winery e-commerce platform.

Irvine, California, United States

Mavent performs mortgage compliance on loan pools sold to the secondary market. * Built, managed and mentored the engineering team. * Architected and delivered a next-generation mortgage compliance portal for Mavent (later acquired by Ellie Mae). * Partnered with Mavent stakeholders to create product vision, architect solutions, and define requirements.