Justin Schmauser

About Justin Schmauser

Versatile Product Manager with over a decade of experience orchestrating technology solutions across diverse industries such as life insurance, health insurance, energy, healthcare, and e-commerce. Known for executing rapid integrations by leading diverse engineering teams and direct reports in the deployment of scalable products under tight deadlines in global settings.I thrive on fostering team collaboration, deeply engaging in both the minutiae and strategic vision of product management.Previous efforts include:* Creating an AI-driven framework for insurance sales phone call scoring and insight derivation* Implementing real-time product data querying via GraphQL* Delivering knowledge applications on-site* Conducting at-scale entity extraction and association* Developing inference-based fraud detection systems* Applying machine learning for improved NLP and text classification in industries with complex taxonomiesMy creative outlets include board games and photography. I previously ran an architectural photography business and have been a photographer for over 20 years, discovering the unseen in everyday life. I also cherish spending time with my family, our animals, and our friends.

Experience

1. Senior Product Manager

   Microsoft

   Jul 2024 — Present · Redmond, WA, US

   Senior Product Manager driving data platform strategy and analytics enablement across Microsoft Teams. Oversee and work side-by-side on the execution of objectives for a diverse group of data engineers, data scientists, and business analysts. Directly impact 200+ product builders, software developers, and executive leadership across the Teams organization.Define the roadmap, strategic direction, and cross-functional partnerships of multiple workstreams that connect data models, streaming pipelines, and collaborative data tooling into a cohesive platform that hundreds of individuals rely on for internal + external reporting and analytics workflows.Ownership includes- Data enablement program responsible for designing and launching reusable, pre-aggregated data products that unblock complex analyses shaping the future of Teams- Data tooling program driving adoption of interactive notebooks, query best practices, and self-serve analytics infrastructure across Teams, OneDrive, and SharePoint, growing daily active users 5x YoYResume bullet points- Launched four data products including utilization playbooks, reducing query surfaces from PBs to GBs, cutting query times from hours to seconds, and doubling platform adoption among DS within two quarters- Oversaw legacy-to-modern pipeline migration contributing to a ~50% monthly compute cost reduction (~$1.5M per month)- Led end-to-end execution of a two-phase EU data privacy compliance program touching every major data routing system in the Teams platform stack (PB/day), impacting dozens of platform engineering groups- Built an AI personal knowledge management system used across product, leadership, and engineering disciplines that captures and structures daily work communications into a natural language queryable knowledge graph

Education

• Bellevue College

  Associate of Arts and Sciences (A.A.S.)

  2006 — 2008

• Seattle Central College

  Associate’s Degree

  2011 — 2013

Skills

• Agile Project Management
• Capm
• Jira
• Microsoft Excel
• Powerpoint
• Leadership
• Software Development Life Cycle (Sdlc)
• Adobe Photoshop
• Photography
• Enterprise Software
• Microsoft Office
• Team Management
• Healthcare Analytics
• Software Development
• Scrum
• Distributed Team Management
• Software Project Management
• Project Planning
• Platform Development
• Big Data Analytics
• Adobe Creative Suite
• Customer Service
• Healthcare Information Technology
• Architectural Photography
• Agile Methodologies
• Project Management
• Management of International Teams
• Product Development
• Lean Startup
• Healthcare
• Sql
• Medical Coding
• Population Health
• Digital Photography
• Agile & Waterfall Methodologies
• Hipaa
• Ansi X12
• Interact with All Levels of Management