Mike Alcazaren
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👋 hiya. I'm Mike. 

I am a technical product manager with a passion for clean technology and entrepreneurship. I love collecting hobbies, the ones I keep coming back to include music, travel, food, drones, photography, and woodworking.

I formalized my knack for taking things apart at University at Buffalo, graduating with dual degrees in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in 2012. My first foray into cleantech entrepreneurship was co-founding a company working to detect agriculture diseases before the human eye, Canary Drones in 2014 (not active). Soon after, I realized that technology isn't simply "if you build it, they will come" a la Field of Dreams, and I obtained my MBA at Simon Business School at the University of Rochester in 2019 on a full tuition, Fielding Fellowship, scholarship.

Work:

Present:               Amazon, Senior Technical Sustainability Product Manager, Build sustainable Devices & Services. Virtual, NY
2019-2022:          Amazon, Senior Product Manager. Bring smart home energy products to market. Seattle, WA
2017-2019:           Simon Business School, 2019 MBA Candidate, Fielding Leadership Fellow, Rochester, NY
Summer 2018:    Amazon, Senior Product Manager, Build product strategy for Amazon Dash Buttons. Seattle, WA
2015-2017:           Autodesk, Program Manager, Deploy + support Autodesk Fusion 360 at top-tier universities, Boston, MA
2014-2016:           Canary Drones, Drones+Agriculture+Imaging Agtech start-up, Boston, MA; Los Angeles, CA Canary Drones. 
2012-2015:           Raytheon, Mechanical Engineer, London, UK, Sudbury, MA 
Summer 2011:     Autodesk, Sustainability+Engineering -  Autodesk Sustainability Workshop, in San Francisco, CA.
Summer 2010:    AMP, Smart Grid Analysis - American Municipal Power, Columbus, OH.

Lead:
2017-2018:          Advisory Board, ESW
2015-2016:          Development Coordinator, ESW Leadership Team
2014-2015:          Director of Chapter Relations, ESW National Leadership Team
2011-2012:           President of the University at Buffalo chapter of Engineers for a Sustainable World (ESW) UB.  
2011:                    Co-Chair of the 2011 ESW National Conference.
2010:                    Director of the UB Student Association's Environmental Department

Volunteer:
Engineers for a Sustainable World, Cleantech Open North East

The development of my personal website is a continuous project, but feel free to contact me with any questions you may have!

Cheers!

Updated 04.09.2022

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