GeekWire

MAY 17, 2021

The move at the time was part of a larger effort by Amazon to expand its COVID-19 testing capabilities, tapping employees from a variety of roles across the company, including research scientists, program managers, procurement specialists and software engineers.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 26, 2021

The 4-year-old company provides advertising and sales tools to online retailers selling products on Amazon, Walmart, Instacart, and other marketplaces. Burdick previously worked for a decade at Amazon on the company’s retail merchandising and advertising teams.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Amazon first announced in April that it was assembling a team of its own workers with a variety of skills, including research scientists, program managers, software engineers and procurement specialists, to start building out testing capacity. An in-house pilot testing program for employees was confirmed in May.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Panay joined the company in 2004 as a program manager and rose to prominence in the tech industry as the leader of Microsoft’s Surface hardware business, overseeing the development and launch of various products such as the dual-screen Surface Duo.

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GeekWire

MARCH 3, 2021

. — After executive stints at Nordstrom, Starbucks, and Nike, Courtney Kissler is now the CTO and senior vice president of technology at Seattle online retailer Zulily. She was VP of Retail Technology for 18 months at Starbucks, and previously spent 14 years at Nordstrom where she held various tech-related leadership positions.

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Vox

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

In its corporate wing, Amazon previously implemented an initiative called “hands off the wheel” that took inventory ordering and other responsibilities out of the hands of retail division employees and handed them over to technology. Amazon CEO Andy Jassy also said that layoffs in the company’s core retail division would occur into 2023.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

CEO Caitlin Morse was previously a program manager at Flex and is also a co-founder of a small medical device services startup, MorseCode Medical. The founders: BrainSpace CTO Stephen Morse is a mechanical engineer who has worked for a variety of companies, including global electrical and manufacturing company Flex.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 10, 2024

He said it’s important to “ensure that we’re doing it in a thoughtful way that is being mindful of the people who are being impacted.” In a joint letter in advance of the hearing, on Jan.

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CTOvision

MARCH 17, 2015

Security has already been front and center early in 2015 with data breaches hitting some of the biggest names in the retail, financial and healthcare sectors. Deepak was the lead architect of Microsoft Systems Management Server 2003, and prior to that was a program manager with the Windows NT Networking team.

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GeekWire

JULY 9, 2020

He led technology and product operations at retailers Gap Inc and L Brands, and spent more than a decade as a consultant at EY. Scott McFarlane, CEO of Avalara, describes Weslock as “a proven human resources leader who has successfully managed and scaled talent programs for some of the world’s most well-known global companies.”

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Dataconomy

JUNE 1, 2023

The worker group Amazon Employees for Climate Justice, which has consistently pressured the e-retailer on its stance on climate change, played a part in organizing the walkout. Eliza Pan, a cofounder of AECJ and a former program manager at Amazon With posters reading “Amazon strive harder” and “Earth’s best employer?”

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GeekWire

APRIL 20, 2023

Flexe Photo) What they do: The Seattle startup offers retailers flexible logistics and cost savings through access to a network of distribution facilities and carriers. CEO background: Nick Fajt spent several years at Microsoft, including as a producer and program manager on HoloLens.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 18, 2021

We’re in a transitional time,” said Eliza Ives, renewable energy program manager with Seattle City Light. Through “net metering” the utilities credit customers for the extra energy at retail rates, lowering the cost of their following months’ bills. I’m looking forward to it,” she said.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

The startup provides retailers the back-end infrastructure to sell products online. Seattle-based product development firm Igor Institute announced three new director-level hires: Kathy Fedirchuk as director of program management. Fabric closed a $100 million funding round in July and has raised $153 million to date.

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GeekWire

JUNE 4, 2021

Fortune 100 customers in retail and e-commerce warehouses are using ThruWave’s hardware and software. Charlie Corredor , a former executive at OtoNexus Medical Technologies and co-founder of Seattle startup Phoresa, has joined Microsoft as a senior program manager in Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Search. million last year.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Speaking with GeekWire this week, Larson-Green said the time was right for the next phase of her life after helping Qualtrics get to its IPO by working to build key functions and teams including people operations, program management, data science and user experience. “The technology changes all the time.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 1, 2022

This is a transformational time,” said Tonia Buell, alternative fuels program manager for the Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT). Retail spaces including hotels, grocery stores and other businesses have started installing chargers for customer use.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 8, 2023

To pay for horseback riding lessons while growing up, Koinig worked in a program for children and young adults with special needs who used assistive technologies. She took a position as a senior IT program manager, then global IT director and next delegate CIO. The WDNR turned 50 recently.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 22, 2022

Rahul Khona has been appointed head of information technology at Nexus Malls, the operator of 16 malls with almost 10 million square feet of retail space across India. Khona has more 17 years of experience across retail, telecommunications, and banking. Based in Mumbai, he will have responsibility for IT strategy and innovation.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Il programma di digitalizzazione di Molteni prevede l’acquisto di “best in class tools”, sottolinea Roero, per facilitare il miglioramento continuo dei processi nelle aziende del gruppo (4 stabilimenti produttivi e 700 workshop nel mondo in due principali business line, Retail e Contract).

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

It’s a pilot program. So the next big thing is that in early August, Apple places Ashley Gjøvik, a senior engineering program manager, on administrative leave. They tell her she can essentially take advantage of their EAP [Employee Assisted Program] therapy program. So let’s start at the start.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 23, 2021

He was self-taught, but also took courses at Bellevue Community College to ramp quickly, and over the years worked his way through support, database administration, developer roles, into technical program management, and ultimately into leadership roles. Retail outlets? Photo courtesy of Erik Arnold). “Fundraising galas?

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Discover Financial Services Arooni is joined by scores of industry leaders across segments such as retail, financial services, healthcare, even government entities moving in this direction. Amir Arooni, executive vice president and CIO, Discover Financial Services.

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CTOvision

AUGUST 12, 2014

Attendees came from the finance sector, media outlets, ecommerce companies, retail companies, the heathcare sector, the scientific research community, law enforcement, plus multiple government agencies including DHS, DoD (Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines ), NRO, DIA, NGA, NIH, NCI, DoT, Treasury, State, VA, HHS, and many others.

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The Verge

AUGUST 17, 2021

It’s kind of now an expectation among customers that there’s a delivery option for most retail businesses. And part of what they struggle with is, “How do I get my products from A to B, and to the customer’s doorstep as efficiently as some of the giant retail brands?” Is it the Ford program manager for a car?

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 9, 2022

Altar’d State is a rapidly growing multi-brand women’s fashion retailer with 122 Altar’d State stores, 23 Arula boutiques, and five Vow’d boutiques in 38 U.S. Earlier, he held multiple technology, operations, and program management positions at MIT Lincoln Laboratory. Joergen Scheuer-Larsen joins Altar’d State as CIO.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 20, 2022

” Co-founder and CEO : Dan Shapiro , former CEO at Ontela and Sparkbuy and ex program manager at Microsoft. GeekWire coverage : Glowforge cuts deal with Michaels to expand retail reach of its 3D laser printers. ” Quote from Sandler : “Great team, timely value proposition for online brands and retailers.

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GeekWire

JUNE 10, 2021

.” Murray, Smith and Enfield, were joined by King County Library System Executive Director Lisa Rosenblum, Equity in Education Coalition Co-founder and Executive Director Sharonne Navas and City of Seattle Digital Equity Program Manager David Keyes.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 11, 2024

Shobhit Agarwal Agarwal studied computer science and was a program manager at Microsoft before pursuing an acting career. He now works in retail and ran for city council last year. Read on to learn more about the candidates with tech backgrounds, with excerpts from their cover letters included in applications for the position.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

The overarching desire — the thing that connects the tenured software engineer in Cupertino with the retail employee in New Jersey — is that employees want to feel heard. On July 26th, 2021, Ashley Gjøvik, a senior engineering program manager, posed a question in the #women-in-swe Slack channel. “Do she asked. “Do

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Trends in the Living Networks

AUGUST 11, 2022

With a PhD in Planning and Innovation Studies, and a Master’s degree in Architecture, Urban Design and Urban Planning, Karuri-Sebina has a sound knowledge base for her work as Executive Manager of programs at the South African Cities Network. She has a solid understanding of technology and its ability to deliver business outcomes.

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