Jason WilcoxNew York, New York, United States
Social
Experience
Executive Vice President, Product and Engineering
Dataminr, Inc.
Jan 2016 - Current
Manage worldwide engineering and data science teams.Dataminr is the leading real-time information discovery company for enterprise clients. Dataminr transforms the public Twitter stream into actionable alerts, identifying the most relevant information in real-time for clients in Finance, News, Public Sector and Corporate Risk. Using powerful, proprietary algorithms, Dataminr instantly analyzes all public tweets and delivers the earliest warning for breaking news, real-world events, off-the-radar content and emerging trends. Dataminr clients receive information first, ahead of traditional sources.
Partner Director of Engineering
Microsoft
Jul 2014 - Dec 2015
Director of engineering for the Information Management & Machine Learning team including program management, product development and engineering. The team currently develops a number of cloud services and on premise products as part of Microsoft's Cortana Analytics Suite and platform as well as the SQL Server data products. Some technologies include M that powers PowerBI, OData, Azure Data Factory, Azure Stream Analytics, Azure Data Catalog, SQL Server Integration Services, and Master Data Services. The team also develops tools for exploring data and synthetic programming.
General Manager Central Engineering and Test
Microsoft
Jul 2012 - Aug 2014
Partner Development Manager
Microsoft
Oct 2011 - Aug 2012
Development Manager for the Microsoft's Ads' business intelligence and data platform efforts. Building platforms and running services to manage daily petabytes of event and dimensional data from ingestion to end reporting. Also managed our billing platform and analytics efforts.
Partner Group Program Manager
Microsoft
Jun 2009 - Mar 2012
Manage the Relevance and Revenue program management team within Ad Center; the team that serves ads for Bing, MSN, Syndicated Partners, and the rest of Microsoft. The team is responsible for the algorithms that match ads, placement, and users to maximize three fundamental utility functions (Advertiser ROI, Publisher Profit and User Happiness). The team owns the Marketplace as an economic entity and works with world class economists and top notch scientists to optimize the marketplace for its participants.
Product Unit Manager
Microsoft
Jul 2007 - May 2011
Product Unit Manager for SQL Server Data Programability Runtime team. The Data Runtime team delivers the best programming patterns and infrastructure for developing data aware applications and services for SQL Server and the Microsoft Platform.
Senior Software Engineer
Optimax System Corporation
Jul 1995 - Feb 1997
Optimax delivered semi-custom scheduling and optimization solutions to large manufacturers.
Education
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
B.S.
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
MS, Computer Science
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