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Los Angeles, CA, US

Seattle, Washington, US

• I lead multiple teams delivering products across Rights Management, Production, Post Production, Theatrical Distribution, Sales and Licensing. Responsible for defining Product Portfolio Strategy, execution and engaging.
• Prime Premiere, a customer facing product offering exclusive theatrical screenings of Amazon Originals to prime members, 350M impressions in 2023, hundreds of thousands of prime members attended. Program drove.
• Theatrical Distribution System for Amazon MGM Studios, supported the insourcing of United Artist Releasing and launched in a tight timeline (3 months) to support the theatrical release of Creed III ($156M in US Box.
• Salesforce applications for Sales and Licensing business workflows, adopted by a global sales team delivering $X00M's in revenue to the studio through licensing to 3rd Parties.
• Global release scheduling product for Amazon MGM content, used by a global team to plan and schedule 400+ Prime Video content launches annually in 249 territories
• Automation of avails generation and delivery replacing previously manual workflows and ensuring on time delivery and launch of content globally

Los Angeles, California, US

• Industry lead for Telecom, Media and Entertainment at SADA
• Supported cloud pre-sales / post sales activities
• Led strategic accounts including Dish Networks, Discovery, Activision Blizzard King and Sony Imageworks.
• Partnered with Google M&E leadership on cloud based Product and GTM strategy.
• Multiple cloud based workstation projects and deployments to M&E and gaming clients (BeBop, Teradici)
• Cloud based rendering and transcoding clients and workflows

Burbank, CA, US

I led the product and engineering teams that deliver and maintain the systems and infrastructure that drive the planning, sales, booking and distribution of Disney, Marvel, Lucasfilm and Pixar theatrical releases worldwide.

Burbank, CA, US

I led multiple Product Development teams for the Walt Disney Studios covering; Consumer Experiences, Marketing Technology, Data Services, Residuals & Participations and User Experience design.High profile products in my portfolios included Disney Movies Anywhere, a Webby Nominated cross platform video service integrated with multiple EST partners to.

Seattle, US

• Founder and CTO of Funtini, mobile games startup focused on social experiences that leverage user generated content.http://vimeo.com/funtini
• Shipped Flicksy, a video based trivia game on iPhone and iPad.
• Worked with the other 2 founders to define the products and product roadmap.
• Pitched to VC’s and investors.
• Hired and managed a development team.
• Defined both client and server side software architectures.

Seattle, WA, US

• Senior Technical Program Manager – GameCircle https://developer.amazon.com/appsandservices/apis/engage/gamecircle
• Program Manager for Amazon Gamecircle, GameCircle provides achievement, leaderboard, social and syncing services to game developers on the Kindle Fire platforms
• Successfully launched GameCircle on Kindle Fire HD, featured in Jeff Bezos’s announcement keynote for the Fire HD.
• Worked with Product Managers and UX designers to define product roadmap and requirements.Managed development and testing milestones towards key tablet releases and updates.
• Drove constant improvement in development and testing practices.Senior Technical Program Manager – Digital Products
• Working in Amazon’s Digital Products Group (inc Kindle/Fire) on confidential / incubation projects including Fire TV.

• Consultant helping Group Health transition their portfolio of web applications from a legacy application environment to a modern environment, including transformation of development and testing practices.
• Advised the Director of Web Services and the senior leadership team on development and QA practices in an Agile environment.
• Project Manager / Scrum Master for three Agile teams, championing Agile methodologies within teams including continuous build, integration and test to rapidly bring web applications to market.

US

• Leading a team of Producers, Programmers, Artists and Designers for the re-launch of the Nanovor Game and future S&T products.
• Successfully managed the re-launch of the Nanovor online game using web based 3D technology.
• Member of the S&T Executive team defining company and product strategy.
• Defined the product roadmap to meet business goals of player conversion, retention and revenue.

US

• Executive Producer for shipping the technology and services behind the Nanovor online game and hand held device.
• Successfully managed the launch of the Nanovor online game product, retail SKU’s and associated handheld device in August 2009.
• Managed a team of Producers responsible for multiple aspects of the product, responsible for defining and managing the product roadmap and communication of progress against that roadmap to executives and investors.
• Drove the prioritization of product features to meet business goals of player conversion, retention and revenue.
• Directly responsible for the specification and delivery of the games server infrastructure, including multiplayer game servers, digital asset management and delivery systems, digital transactions, eCommerce.
• Managed both internal development teams and external development partners. Responsibility for $3M+ of external third party development budget.

• Responsible for leading an organization delivering development services to the No.1 manufacturer of role playing and trading card games as part of their strategic digital games initiative.
• Executive Producer, Built from the ground up and managed five Agile teams to deliver a game, digital object system, supporting back office infrastructure and community web site. Total team size comprising of 50+.
• Producer managing a small team of developers to deliver a proprietary 3D game engine for the windows platform and subsequent use of that engine for prototyping of game concepts.
• Business development activities in support of Radiant Machine’s strategy, playing a pivotal role in winning $6M of new business for the studio.
• Established and defined the Radiant Machine Brand.

Redmond, WA, US

Leading multiple agile project teams delivering bespoke software development solutions to various Solutions IQ clients.

US

Myrio innovation group project manager reporting directly to the CTO, responsible for the delivery of next generation IPTV Middleware.Project Manager for the development and delivery of IPTV Middleware to major customers worldwide.

London, GB

Program Manager for a cross BT initiative to grow BT’s CRM business by 400% from FY 04/05 to FY 07/08, forming an important element of BT’s Global ICT strategy endorsed by the BT Board.Project Manager for the design & fit-out of a major computing facility for a Government Department.

London, GB

Project Manager for the provision of new, and the expansion of existing Digital TV and data services for BT Broadcast Services and BT Defense.

Project Manager for major engineering projects, including software development, IT infrastructure and satellite systems.