Kevin Maher

About Kevin Maher

Experience growing leaders and key businesses, while innovating on behalf of customers to…

Experience

1. Director Software Development

   Amazon

   Aug 2007 — Present · Seattle, WA, US

   Alexa Shopping and Search AI-Lead product, engineering, data engineering, and privacy/compliance teams chartered with data acquisition and creation for Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT) LLM’s used to help customers successfully achieve their shopping mission-Lead teams owning analytics, science, experimentation for conversational shopping, including end-to-end data telemetry, enabling access to trustworthy data for analytics/machine learning, self-service capabilities to ingest, discover and access data at scale, and enable data integration across products/services/platforms while maintaining privacy and security guardrails.Alexa Shopping, On-Device and On-line eCommerce-Led efforts to provide customers with proactive, delightful, and personalized experiences that aid in grocery shopping on Alexa enabled devices, on-line, and mobile app-Delivered in-store assistant for customers shopping in physical stores, helping them save time, money, and effort, while providing help with planning and inspiration.Devices, On-line eCommerce, Off-line POS/Inventory-Head of engineering teams responsible for the on-line customer experience, for the Amazon branded devices worldwide. Payments, Pay with Amazon, Login and Pay, Checkout by Amazon-Technical leader of teams responsible for building Amazon’s new externally facing payments platform, on which new payment offerings were built.Seller Services, Webstore-Lead teams responsible for seller tools which enable self-service catalog management, site design & merchandising, asset management, and search engine feeds.Enterprise Services, ecommerce-Responsible for the technical relationship, development, and operations of the Target, Marks & Spencer, Mothercare, and bebe ecommerce sites.

Education

• Indiana University Bloomington

  BS, Qauntative Business Analysis

  1981 — 1985

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

  Master of Business Administration - MBA, Business/ Computer Science

  1994

Skills

• Software Solution Architecture
• Agile Methodologies
• Soa
• Agile Project Management
• Java
• Rest
• Scalability
• Software Engineering
• Distributed Systems
• Software Project Management
• Innovation
• Software Development
• Software Design
• Scrum
• Object Oriented Design
• E-Commerce
• Web Services
• Cloud Computing