William Owens
Business Development Manager at Amazon
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWilliam Owens is a business development leader with nine years of experience and over a decade in industry, combining an MBA in Supply Chain & Operations with a BS in Electrical Engineering from Purdue to bridge technical and commercial priorities. He has a proven track record at Intel where he led strategic sourcing, contract negotiations, and supplier diversification initiatives that drove millions in cost avoidance and savings while protecting supply chain resilience. Known for a hands-on leadership style, William excels at aligning cross-functional teams to deliver high-impact procurement strategies, boost diversity spending, and streamline cash flow. Now at Amazon, he continues to apply deep supplier management and market analysis expertise to expand vendor ecosystems and negotiate high-value agreements. A former validation engineer and self-described biologist/programmer on GitHub, he brings an uncommon mix of engineering rigor, analytical curiosity, and commercial acumen to complex sourcing challenges.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Supply Chain Management & Operations Master of Business Administration (MBA), Supply Chain Management & Operations Master of Business Administration (MBA) at Purdue University Daniels School of BusinessBachelor's Degree Electrical Engineering, Bachelor's Degree Electrical Engineering at Purdue University
Github Skills (75)
text-based10
ncbi9
rna-seq9
genomes9
twisted9
microbial-genomics9
bacteria9
genome-annotation9
buster8
genomics8
python8
mud8
furry8
nim-lang8
bioinformatics8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
wsowens/sockterm
Apr 2020 - Nov 2020
A flexible, easy-to-embed terminal emulator for connecting to WebSockets.
Contributions:6 releases, 37 commits, 16 pushes in 6 months
emulatorwebsocketsterminal-emulatorrustwebsocket
octantbio/octopus
Nov 2021 - Apr 2022
A scalable cloning system
Contributions:6 reviews, 48 commits, 29 PRs in 4 months
cloningscalablepython
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