Sharon Aluma reduces time from warehouse to doorstep - Binghamton News
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Sharon Aluma reduces time from warehouse to doorstep 2015 graduate is senior technical product manager in the core software group at Amazon Robotics When you place an Amazon order online and the product reaches you quickly, thank a robot. “Before robots were used in our fulfillment centers, warehouse associates had to walk several miles a day through hundreds of aisles of product to find the items they needed to fill customer orders, which was very time consuming,” Aluma says. “The software solutions my team and I design provide the data visibility that Amazon operations teams need to better understand the performance of their robotics systems and take real-time, data-driven actions to resolve issues and continuously improve in delivering for customers.” Before AR, Aluma was a software implementation project manager for Epic, an electronic medical records company. She credits campus organizations such as the Society of Women Engineers and Alpha Omega Epsilon Engineering Sorority, along with key Watson College faculty members, for giving her the support she needed to pursue her career. “My professional career has spanned several roles, companies and industries, and has followed an anything but traditional path,” Aluma says.