Matthew McGrath

Experience

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  Seattle Pacific University

  Sept 2007 - Sept 2008

  Audio Engineer

  Oversaw audio production for Group, a weekly music and lecture production at Seattle Pacific University. Operated an Allen & Heath mixing board with 50+ channels of wired and wireless audio for simultaneous live and recorded mixes. Recordings were later mixed, mastered, and distributed on iTunes University.

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  Seattle Pacific University

  Aug 2009 - Oct 2010

  Business Manager

  Managed advertising sales, billing, and finances for Seattle Pacific University’s campus newspaper. Introduced online advertising as a new revenue stream and successfully worked to attain profitability in the midst of an economic downturn. Increased year-over-year revenue by 152%, allowing a greater use of color ink and high-quality paper in the final production.

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  Content26, LLC

  Mar 2011 - Mar 2013

  Production Specialist

  Handled the production of online content for corporate clients through various digital merchandising channels and content syndication. This includes advanced coding in HTML and CSS—some of which utilize the Wordpress platform—as well as custom designs in Adobe Photoshop. This includes frequent interaction with Creative Directors and Brand Managers from national and multinational brands. I also serve as the web administrator for content26's various websites, blogs, and databases. Clients have included Philips, Belkin, Reckitt-Benckiser, Samsung, Denon, SanDisk, Kimberly-Clark, Clorox, 3M, Unilever, among many others.Past responsibilities included writing content for corporate clients. This encompassed researching and writing large amounts of product copy for web merchandising distribution, as well as editing in accordance with Chicago Manual of Style and custom client styles. Show less

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  Amazon

  Apr 2013 - May 2017

  Responsible for inventory management, operations, traffic analytics, and logistics for Amazon's $XB Books business. - Wrote and tuned production-level SQL from an Oracle data warehouse to drive business insights. Served as a knowledge resource to department on ETL methods and assisted in migration of production tables to Redshift environment- Isolated and implemented changes with software teams to reduce instances of duplicate catalog listings, improving retail business and customer experience- Managed operations and logistics (TL/LTL) for key accounts and drove improvements in lead time and ASN compliance- Worked with business technology teams to improve offer availability on new release items, reducing the rate of customer order cancellations by 1%- Traced flaws in procurement algorithms and worked to systemically fix problems with system owners, resulting in a 90% drop in aging customer orders with no fulfillment options- Wrote requirement documents and led the technical migration of buying systems to a next-generation algorithm for optimal cost savings with minimal impact on day-to-day operations Show less Responsible for marketing, merchandising, and business performance of academic books on the Amazon platform, as well as providing customized marketing services for key accounts. - Took on leadership as senior copy editor; provided final approval of all customer communications- Negotiated exclusive, jointly-funded promotion with Adobe for release of Lightroom 5- Automated key tasks with VBA to reduce employee workload by 15%. System was adopted in other departments and global marketplaces- Executed on-site and e-mail marketing campaigns, which utilized copywriting, customer segmentation and targeting, and graphic design. Frequently provided design support for graphics packages on Amazon.com homepage and corporate e-mails Show less

  • Instock Manager - Books

    May 2014 - May 2017

  • Brand Specialist - Textbooks

    Apr 2013 - May 2014
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  Amazon Web Services (AWS)

  May 2017 - Nov 2022

  Sr. Data Engineer - Datacenter Network Engineering

  I am the technical lead for a group of business intelligence and data engineers that focus on global AWS network capacity and scaling. We work with large, distributed data sets and operations teams across the world to scale the AWS network. Projects have included coding and maintaining a custom internal web service (Flask/EC2/RDS) for project tracking, as well as generating automated data feeds to power downstream business operations (e.g. critical scaling, hardware decommissioning, etc.) I regularly work in Python and SQL (Redshift/MySQL, Glue/PySpark) for data analysis and Tableau for presentation. I also manage our native AWS data infrastructure (Redshift with 200+ active users, Tableau with 17K+ active users) to ensure secure and reliable data products for our internal customers. This includes work such as migrating our Tableau instance to SAML with MFA to align with security best practices. Show less

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  Microsoft

  Nov 2022 - now

  Principal Product Manager - IC3 Data Platform