MC

Mia Champion

Product Management & Strategy | Investor | Entrepreneur | Advisory Board | Ex-AWS | Ex-Research Scientist

Greater Seattle Area

Work Experience

  • Affiliate Professor

    2023

    UW Bothell Graduate Computing and Software Systems, STEM Program.

2022

  • Founder, Principal Consultant

    2022

  • Senior Technical Product & Program Manager

    2019 - 2022

    Product Management for Amazon HealthLake, Amazon Genomics CLI, and Amazon OMICs (rebranded as AWS HealthOmics)

  • Senior Data Scientist - Machine Learning Solutions Lab

    2017 - 2019

    As lead consultant for customers in healthcare and other industries, I parlayed my expertise by evaluating customer business needs, determining solutions, and building minimal viable products (MVPs) for paid engagements. In addition to building MVPs for customer engagements and leading business alignment workshops with key stakeholders, I also developed data science project plans (team SoWs), training materials for company teams, and code repos for Customers and AWS RE-Invent Jam Session.

  • Senior Technical Business Development Manager

    2016 - 2017

    WWPS AWS technical BD team, concentrating on growing the AWS HealthCare & LifeSciences research and scientific computing business.

2015 - 2016

  • Founder & Principle

    2015 - 2016

    Start-up entrepreneur, bioinformatics scientist, AWS certified associate solutions architect, and developer. Provided SaaS products and consulting services for clinical research customers and analyzed genomic variations and molecular signatures driving onset, progression, and treatment resistance in cases of infection by diverse pathogen populations and in cancer patient cohorts.

2012 - 2015

  • Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics

    2012 - 2015

    Bioinformatics leader for Mayo Clinic-N. Scottsdale /Phoenix campus and the principal bioinformatics investigator for published research papers and federally funded grants.