Senior Manager, Apple Store online
San Francisco Bay Area
- Current
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- Senior Manager, Site Management Platform at Apple Inc.
- Past
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- Engineering Manager, Online Apple Store at Apple Computer
- Engineering Manager, Large Account Services at Amazon.com
- Senior Software Developer at Amazon.com
- President and Consultant at Focus Research, Inc.
- Consultant at Strategic Technologies and Systems
- Consultant at Category Management Inc
- Management Consultant at The Partnering Group
- Co-Founder at Thoroughbred Development Group
- Development Manager at Kelly Information Systems
- Consultant at Kelly Information Systems
- Software Developer at University of Michigan, Office of Instructional Technology
- Consulant at NeXT Computer
- Education
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- University of Michigan
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Gregor Purdy’s Summary
Strong technical background, with a focus on bridging technology and business. Experience building and leading product development and professional services teams in large and complex technical domains.
Consultant, author and lecturer on large-scale decision support system requirements, design and implementation, both in the United States and abroad.
Gregor Purdy’s Experience
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Senior Manager, Site Management Platform
Apple Inc.
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; AAPL; Information Technology and Services industry)
October 2005 — Present (3 years 1 month)
Senior manager of Site Management Platform group for the Online Apple Store. Includes product information management, merchandising applications, business user interfaces for these functions, and core data services for products, content, navigation, search and other areas.
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Engineering Manager, Online Apple Store
Apple Computer
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; AAPL; Information Technology and Services industry)
June 2005 — September 2005 (4 months)
Manager of the engineering team for Customer and Ordering Systems, including customer profile, shopping cart, checkout, online self service, and integration with back-end ordering, payment processing and fulfillment systems.
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Engineering Manager, Large Account Services
Amazon.com
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; AMZN; Internet industry)
June 2004 — June 2005 (1 year 1 month)
Responsible for the international software development team for Large Account Services (includes www.target.com and store.nba.com). Including environment, platform and infrastructure (internal initiatives) as well as global project delivery (merchant-driven projects). Also involved in technical and business due diligence in concert with our Technical Alliances Group and Business Development group.
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Senior Software Developer
Amazon.com
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Internet industry)
August 2003 — June 2004 (11 months)
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President and Consultant
Focus Research, Inc.
(Privately Held; Myself Only; Information Technology and Services industry)
October 1997 — August 2003 (5 years 11 months)
Enterprise data warehouse consulting for Fortune 50 clients, high profile software and Internet patent prior art research, custom software development and information technology and security assessments.
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Consultant
Strategic Technologies and Systems
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
1998 — 2001 (3 years)
High-end data warehouse consulting and implementation for Fortune 50 clients in Retail sector.
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Consultant
Category Management Inc
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Management Consulting industry)
1996 — 1998 (2 years)
Category Management implementation consulting for national consumer packaged goods manufacturers and retailers.
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Management Consultant
The Partnering Group
(Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)
1996 — 1998 (2 years)
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Co-Founder
Thoroughbred Development Group
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
January 1996 — 1997 (1 year)
Project management, design and implementation of data warehousing solutions for large customers in the retail industry. Including data design, data engineering (extracts, transformations and loading) and report specification and development.
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Development Manager
Kelly Information Systems
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
1994 — 1996 (2 years)
Decision support software product development, including feature definition, system architecture, building and managing the development team (10 people at peak), implementing key components, presales customer visits and architectre and development for technical alliances.
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Consultant
Kelly Information Systems
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
1993 — 1994 (1 year)
Custom Decision Support (Business Intelligence) software implementation for large regional publicly and privately held retail customers.
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Software Developer
University of Michigan, Office of Instructional Technology
(Educational Institution; 5001-10,000 employees; Computer Software industry)
March 1989 — March 1993 (4 years 1 month)
Developed instructional software, including applications for Judgment and Decision Making (with Professor J. Frank Yates) and Harmonic Idioms (with Professor Edward Chudacoff). Ported XLISPSTAT to NeXTSTEP in collaboration with Professor Hal Varian).
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Consulant
NeXT Computer
(Computer Software industry)
1988 — 1993 (5 years)
Gregor Purdy’s Education
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University of Michigan
BSE, Computer Engineering, September 1988 — May 1993
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My very broad interests include real estate investing and development, data and databases (in particular the area of truly relational -- not SQL -- databases), molecular nanotechnology, space exploration and exploitation, briding the world of paper space and digital space (literature and academic works, especially classic works in mathematics and science), and defense systems.
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