Mia Champion

Affiliate Professor at University of Washington

Affiliate Professor
2023 - Current
UW Bothell Graduate Computing and Software Systems, STEM Program.

Senior Technical Product & Program Manager
2019 - 2022
Product Management for Amazon HealthLake, Amazon Genomics CLI, and Amazon OMICs (rebranded as AWS HealthOmics)
Senior Data Scientist - Machine Learning Solutions Lab
2017 - 2019
As lead consultant for customers in healthcare and other industries, I parlayed my expertise by evaluating customer business needs, determining solutions, and building minimal viable products (MVPs) for paid engagements. In addition to building MVPs for customer engagements and leading business alignment workshops with key stakeholders, I also developed data science project plans (team SoWs), training materials for company teams, and code repos for Customers and AWS RE-Invent Jam Session.
Senior Technical Business Development Manager
2016 - 2017
WWPS AWS technical BD team, concentrating on growing the AWS HealthCare & LifeSciences research and scientific computing business.

Founder & Principle
2015 - 2016
Start-up entrepreneur, bioinformatics scientist, AWS certified associate solutions architect, and developer. Provided SaaS products and consulting services for clinical research customers and analyzed genomic variations and molecular signatures driving onset, progression, and treatment resistance in cases of infection by diverse pathogen populations and in cancer patient cohorts.

Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics
2012 - 2015
Bioinformatics leader for Mayo Clinic-N. Scottsdale /Phoenix campus and the principal bioinformatics investigator for published research papers and federally funded grants.