Peter Commons

Senior Lecturer

2021 - Current

Course designer, instructor, and student mentor for the Operations & Information Management department at the UW School of Business focusing on product management, project management, and business analytics/consulting.

Product & Technical Advisor

2021

Provide support and guidance for US & international companies from start-ups to established entities in a variety of roles including fund advisor, M&A evaluator, part-time CTO/CPO, mentor, and planning & leading leadership events. Areas of expertise include product and project management, long-term software & data architectural decisions and planning, organization & roadmap planning, agile & scrum, hiring, and growing & retaining diverse talent.

Growth Partner

2021

As a product and technical advisor, I have and continue to work with many of Mercury's portfolio companies, mentoring and advising their CEOs, CPOs, and CTOs and helping to define engineering and product strategies. Companies include Cooklist, Mercury Data Science, Civitech, Polco, Ripple Science, and Topl.

Vice President Of Software Engineering & Madison Site Leader

2020 - 2021

Member, Chief Data Officer Council

2019 - 2020

This Council brings together senior data office executives from the world’s leading companies and organizations. We share leading practices and emergent thinking on data strategy and business strategy alignment, delivering business value to data consumers, how to best govern data, and technology trends and challenges. The Conference Board is a global, independent member-driven think tank with the mission to provide the world's leading organizations with the practical knowledge and insights for what’s ahead.

VP, Data & Discovery

2019 - 2020

Created a new Data & Discovery organization through a balance of re-organization and external hiring. Instrumental in defining and creating new Warsaw development center, growing from zero to 40+ in 6 months. Rebuilt business’ trust of Data & Search teams, driving architectural and organizational changes including launching a number of successful new machine learning algorithms, improved software pipelines, a new data catalog, and improved data delivery SLAs.

Chief Product Officer

2018 - 2019

Steered all product, software, data, and IT teams for a technology-based facilities maintenance company serving large residential and commercial clients. Brought balance to current projects and clients through new direction and planning processes to clean up technical debt and develop long-term vision. Eliminated over 80 FTE years of work per year for customer service organization by automating and simplifying improvements.

Director, Global Product & Technology, Amazon Fresh

2016 - 2018

Managed global team reporting directly to “CEO” of Amazon Fresh, Amazon’s grocery business, overseeing worldwide product and technology organization of 400 employees including the entire software stack from website/mobile and UX to forecasting and shipment planning. Influential in the growth of the Fresh business by helping to launch 8 new fulfillment centers worldwide, by growing engineering team by over 100%, and by building an Agile project management model across 25 teams, product, program, design, and QA.

Director, International Technology

2014 - 2016

Reporting directly to SVP of international consumer division, managed 200+ tech and product leaders across eight countries in Europe, Asia, South America, and North America. Drove consumer-wide Amazon internationalization requirements and local country-specific customizations.

Director, Website Construction & Telemetry

2010 - 2014

Senior Manager, Website Behavior & Community Platform

2007 - 2010

Software Engineering Manager

2005 - 2007

Created www.amazon.com/yml

President

1993 - 2005

Software Engineer / Consultant

Consultant

2001 - 2003