Mike Waterhouse

Mike Waterhouse's Resume

I build and rebuild the internal tools that fast-moving newsrooms run on — and my niche is finding the product upgrade hiding inside a technical migration.

Highlights

  • Rebuilt Bloomberg's in-house data visualization tool, cutting chart-making time by nearly 40%
  • Certified Scrum Product Owner (since 2021)
  • Led major transition of the newsroom computer system at WABC in 2018
  • Promoted from director to VP within 9 months at Worldnow
  • “Employee of the quarter” at WEWS in March 2011
  • “Most valuable player” at WSAZ in 2006 and 2009, “most innovative” in 2007

Experience

Aug 2025 – PresentBloomberg L.P.New York, N.Y. Data Visualization Product Manager
  • Own data visualization end to end as a focused individual contributor — discovery, specs, UX, build, migration and global onboarding
  • Led the rebuild of the in-house data visualization tool into a faster, cleaner charting workflow, cutting chart-making time by nearly 40% and materially increasing chart output
  • Onboarded entirely new user groups — markets, business intelligence and research — each with bespoke requirements
  • Architected a real-time pipeline feeding enriched charts into the terminal's chart library, enabling automated placement and a searchable repository of every published chart
  • Serve as the go-to product partner for standards, legal and senior newsroom leaders on sensitive, high-stakes and breaking situations
Feb 2023 – Aug 2025Bloomberg L.P.New York, N.Y. Product Team Lead, Visualization & Breaking News
  • Player-coach leading product for data visualization, multimedia and breaking news — primary PM and team lead in one
  • Built and shipped a chart-library system cataloging every published chart with metadata, giving internal users and clients a searchable repository; presented at the company's Core Product Expo in London
  • Led automation of the U.S. election map, replacing a manual process that had required 12+ people working overnight shifts on election night
  • Identified transcription as a strategic priority and drove development of a company-wide speech-to-text platform and editing tool
  • Nearly tripled adoption of the modern charting workflow among holdout legacy users, winning the migration through advocacy rather than mandate
  • Ran a week-long field research study across APAC (~30 interviews) that shaped the multi-year roadmap
  • Hired and mentored product managers and analysts; my structured candidate-evaluation approach was adopted by other team leads
Feb 2022 – Feb 2023Bloomberg L.P.New York, N.Y. Product Team Lead, News Publishing & Visualization
  • Stepped up from one of several stakeholders to the lead PM setting charting and multimedia strategy
  • Named, pitched and evangelized the vision for a unified content management system, selling it to engineers, stakeholders and leadership
  • Reworked core publishing workflows that eliminated nearly all urgent “I can't find my story” support requests
  • Expanded the newsroom's speech-to-text tool to 36 languages and ran field research across the Brazil, Mexico and London bureaus to close workflow gaps for smaller international teams
  • Brought interactive charts to the terminal ahead of the client release
Jul 2020 – Feb 2022Bloomberg L.P.New York, N.Y. News Multimedia Product Manager
  • Led evaluation, contracting and rollout of a new speech-to-text vendor for the newsroom's transcription platform; trained 100+ staff and headed off a service outage through a fast vendor extension
  • Revamped and relaunched the newsroom's universal media-browsing tool
  • Took on data visualization product oversight and set the roadmap that seeded years of charting work
Mar 2018 – Jul 2020Bloomberg L.P.New York, N.Y. News Product Operations Team Lead
  • Led a team of project managers responsible for the technical operations of the newsroom's global footprint, supporting 2,500+ journalists across bureaus and remote sites worldwide
  • Led the technical side of the newsroom's sudden shift to work-from-home in 2020, building a workflow that kept journalists connected to their data and tools
  • Restructured newsroom-wide permissioning into a clean, scalable system that cut access-request tickets and became the company's model for streamlining access
  • Ran the newsroom's global Windows 10 migration across 3,000+ machines and moved the team onto JIRA with custom dashboards
Jul 2015 – Mar 2018WABC-TV Channel 7New York, N.Y. Senior Digital Producer
  • Led daily content publishing strategy for website, mobile, apps and social media
  • Chosen for the small team leading the transition to a combined newsroom computer and media asset management system; challenged the directive to duplicate old workflows and built improved ones later used as the template for all ABC-owned stations
  • Collaborated with TV-based managers and staff to ensure consistency across screens
  • Identified and implemented creative digital storytelling techniques
Jul 2013 – Jun 2015WorldnowNew York, N.Y. Vice President, Client Services & Strategic Account Management
  • Oversaw more than 100 client accounts, ensuring customer satisfaction and retention; promoted from director to VP within 9 months
  • Consulted TV stations on digital best practices and helped devise feasible, effective workflows
  • Presented strategies for social media, SEO, multi-screen approach and site redesigns
  • Worked closely with the product team to execute features that increased discoverability
Feb 2010 – Jun 2013WEWS NewsChannel 5Cleveland, Ohio Executive Producer of New Media
  • Produced and oversaw time-sensitive content generated for website and social media
  • Planned and executed major system changes for the newsroom and trained staff on new technology
  • Developed and carried out social media strategy for the station and staff
  • Motivated a team of five using skills gained at company leadership training
Jan 2005 – Feb 2010WSAZ NewsChannel 3Huntington/Charleston, W.Va. News Operations Manager
  • Helped develop and drive forward all technology initiatives for a two-city news operation
  • Built the station's digital properties and workflows from the ground up
  • Led team planning for major event coverage, including breaking news and elections
  • Developed training guides for new equipment and software, and served as trainer
  • Administered the newsroom computer system, optimizing settings and user features
Apr 1999 – Jan 2005WSAZ NewsChannel 3Huntington/Charleston, W.Va. Photojournalist
  • Incorporated a creative style in capturing newsworthy events for a commercial newscast
  • Crafted and implemented more effective systems for workflow and videotape storage

Education & Involvement

1997 – 2001Ohio UniversityAthens, Ohio Bachelor of Science in Communication — Communication Systems Management
  • Two-term elected student body representative, Ohio University Student Senate

Technical Proficiency

Product & productivity
Jira · Confluence · Slack · Trello · Miro · Figma · Google Workspace · Office 365 · Microsoft Visio

Web publishing
HTML · DNS · TCP/IP · Google Search Console · Google News Publisher Center · AP Style · WordPress · Ghost

Analytics
Matomo · Adobe Analytics · Google Analytics · comScore · Chartbeat

Creative
Adobe Photoshop · Adobe Lightroom · Adobe Premiere

Broadcast
ENPS · iNews · Dalet · Weather Central/WSI · NewsTicker

To reach Mike, please use the contact form or email hello@mikewaterhouse.com.