Peter Commons
Senior Lecturer at Wisconsin School of Business
Peter Commons
Senior Lecturer at Wisconsin School of Business
Oregon, Wisconsin
Overview
Work Experience
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.
Mercury Fund is an early-stage venture capital firm.
Vice President Of Software Engineering & Madison Site Leader
2020 - 2021
Business Made Simple University is disrupting the higher education industry.
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.
The Demand Institute provides an objective, non-partisan perspective on where consumer demand is headed tomorrow.
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.
Groupon is a deal-of-the-day website that offers discounted gift certificates usable at local or national companies.
Raised $1,387,000,000.00 from MIG Capital, RTP Global and Atairos.
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.
SMS Assist provides business services to deliver unprecedented transparency and control within the facilities maintenance industry.
Raised $255,000,000.00 from Goldman Sachs Investment Partners.
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
Amazon is a tech firm with a focus on e-commerce, cloud computing, digital streaming, and artificial intelligence.
Raised $8,108,000,000.00 from DBS Bank and Mizuho Bank.
President
1993 - 2005
Software Engineer / Consultant
Consultant
2001 - 2003
Intuit Turbo is an app to get financial reports and financial advice.