Responsible for engaging with Business Applications and Platform product teams to drive execution, alignment and prioritization for strategic program requirements and engineering best practices.

Responsible for managing technology, reimagining how it should be consumed, and then driving the development of processes, methodologies, and services to accelerate time to business value.

• Direct report to Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer for strategy and operations of a publicly traded media company.• Manager of Managers – day to day technical operations of direct reports for company wide technology support. Provide indirect management of IT staff at over 10 US locations.• Maintain Sarbanes-Oxley compliance of processes, infrastructure, and application environment.• Develop long term technical strategies and standards for radio and publishing network resources, network planning combining traditional broadcasting, traditional IT, and new media technologies.• Capital and Operational budget process; provide feedback to upper management on suggested technology line items and work with all individuals and entities of the company to control cost and manage $3M budget throughout the fiscal year.• 2014 Emmis Emerging Leader

• Manage Emmis Radio technologies that integrate our on-air radio programming with external systems, such as Internet streaming, iPhone applications, and radio displays.• Develop long term technical strategies and standards for business systems, traditional IT and new media technologies.• Develop and maintain the company strategic technology project timeline.• Manage/maintain the company’s Microsoft product roadmap and licensing.• Manage/maintain project timelines for the Corporate Network Analyst team to ensure that all projects are completed on-time and that systems are properly maintained.• Adept at developing effective policies and procedures, project documentation, and technical specifications.• Manage day to day technical operations of direct reports for company-wide Infrastructure support. Indirect management of IT staff at remote locations in the US. • Manage an Amazon Cloud hosted infrastructure for a team of developers.• Provide feedback and suggestions to upper management on technology line items and work with all individuals and entities of the corporation to control costs and “beat the budget” throughout the fiscal year.• Manage projects for IT personal at our remote locations that help to improve network security and performance.• Manage contractor and vendor relationships to support our environment.• Implement change control documentation/procedures to comply with Sarbanes/Oxley requirements.

• Provide network support for a single Windows 2003 Active Directory Forest environment that includes two child domains, multiple Organizational Units, Sites, and Domain Controllers throughout several locations both in the US and Hungary. • Created and documented a process that would allow Emmis to integrate external domains with the internal Emmis Active Directory environment.• Manage and monitor an Exchange Enterprise environment that includes multiple Exchange 2003 servers located in several locations both in the U.S. and Hungary.• Provide training for IT personal at our corporate and remote locations during on-site IT seminars and via webinars.• Manage contractor and vendor relationships to support our environment.• Create technical documentation for daily operational checks, Exchange server procedures, as well as procedures for various applications used in our environment.• Configure, test, and troubleshoot Compaq servers hosting Microsoft technologies including, Sharepoint, SQL 2000/2005, IIS, Network Load Balancing, and Clustering.’• Manage, monitor and maintain Citrix Metaframe/Presentation servers hosted on Microsoft Windows 2003 OS• Monitor and troubleshoot network servers using Network Management software.• Manage virus protection software installed on servers, workstations, and email systems using McAfee’s ePolicy Orchestrator to maintain/monitor VirusScan and GroupShield.• Manage Windows Updates using Microsoft’s WSUS server.• Manage spam/virus filter system using Postini