Andy Wright

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Product Leader, AI and ML @ The Walt Disney Studios
Los Angeles, CA, US
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Los Angeles Metropolitan Area, United States, United States
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About Andy Wright

Executive with a proven track record of building and leading teams from product incubation to launch, and beyond. Experience launching multiple consumer facing products to tens of millions of users at an accelerated pace. Defining product strategy and vision and translating it into an effective execution plan. Founded a startup, worked in incubation teams within larger companies and managed multi team complex projects. Experienced in leading multi-disciplinary product and delivery teams including development, creative & operational disciplines from small start-ups to large corporate environments.Broad knowledge and experience across multiple industries and technologies including digital entertainment, video streaming, games, mobile applications, consumer websites, corporate IT systems and internal tools. Strong advocate for data driven decision making supported by a sound understanding of data analysis, associated tools, and its effectiveness in informing business priorities and driving product roadmaps.Portfolio Websitehttps://andywright.net/

Andy Wright's Current Company Details
The Walt Disney Studios

The Walt Disney Studios

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Product Leader, AI and ML
Los Angeles, CA, US
Andy Wright Work Experience Details
  • The Walt Disney Studios
    Product Leader, Ai And Ml
    The Walt Disney Studios
    Los Angeles, Ca, Us
  • Prime Video & Amazon Mgm Studios
    Head Of Product Management
    Prime Video & Amazon Mgm Studios May 2022 - Present
    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 with senior executives. Consolidation strategy and execution following the acquisition of MGM. Approx. 40 team members.Multiple successful product Launches• 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 incremental engagement on Prime Video.• 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 Office)• 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• Internal Product that provides a single pane of glass view into studios operational data, from greenlight through to distribution, used by 6000+ users across the Studio and Prime VideoOther Initiatives• Proof of concept using generative AI, LLM and RAG to create a conversational AI to explore and find cross functional operational information• Defined a future state vision for Identity, AuthZ & AuthN for studio workflows, alligned to the MovieLabs 2030 vision • Rolled out Pendo across the studios 1P products to measure product analytics and insights, established standard metrics and KPI's, implementation and roll out to product teams
  • Sada
    Director, Telecom Media Entertainment & Gaming
    Sada Aug 2020 - Apr 2022
    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• M&E, Gaming engagement data and BI at scale in the cloud
  • The Walt Disney Studios
    Head Of Technology, Worldwide Theatrical Sales And Distribution
    The Walt Disney Studios Nov 2018 - Aug 2020
    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.
  • The Walt Disney Studios
    Director Product Development
    The Walt Disney Studios Sep 2013 - Nov 2018
    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 facilitate exchange of digital movie ownership across multiple eco-systems. Disney Movies Anywhere has now become Movies Anywhere encompassing the 5 major studios. My Product teams were also responsible for Disney Movie Rewards, the studios rewards program and Disney Movie Club a subscription based physical business.
  • Funtini
    Co-Founder And Cto
    Funtini Dec 2012 - Jul 2013
    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.• Coded both server and client based features.• Designed, configured and maintained backend infrastructure on AWS.
  • Amazon.Com
    Senior Technical Program Manager
    Amazon.Com Jul 2011 - Dec 2012
    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.• Managed individual scrum teams delivering services and client software for an incubation product.• Managed deliverables from other Amazon entities into incubation products.
  • Dynacron
    Agile Consultant
    Dynacron Nov 2010 - Jun 2011
    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.
  • Smith And Tinker
    Vp Product Development
    Smith And Tinker Mar 2010 - Nov 2010
    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.
  • Smith And Tinker
    Executive Producer
    Smith And Tinker Apr 2008 - Mar 2010
    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 integration, retail gift card integration and other back end services.• Managed both internal development teams and external development partners. Responsibility for $3M+ of external third party development budget.
  • Radiant Machine
    Executive Producer
    Radiant Machine Jul 2007 - Apr 2008
    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+ developers and project managers. Project budget approx $6M.• 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.
  • Solutionsiq
    Project Manager / Scrummaster
    Solutionsiq May 2006 - Jul 2007
    Redmond, Wa, Us
    Leading multiple agile project teams delivering bespoke software development solutions to various Solutions IQ clients.
  • Myrio Corporation
    Senior Project Manager
    Myrio Corporation Apr 2005 - Apr 2006
    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.
  • Bt
    Crm Program Manager
    Bt Jan 2002 - Nov 2004
    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.
  • Bt
    Project Manager
    Bt Aug 1999 - Jan 2002
    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.
  • Gchq
    Project Engineer / Manager
    Gchq Sep 1991 - Aug 1999
    Project Manager for major engineering projects, including software development, IT infrastructure and satellite systems.

Andy Wright Skills

Scrum Agile Methodologies Agile Project Management Software Development Software Project Management Mobile Applications Product Management Mobile Devices Cloud Computing Web Applications Management User Experience Web Services Software Engineering Distributed Systems Saas Product Development E Commerce Software Design Test Driven Development Integration User Interface Soa System Architecture Enterprise Software Java Architecture Javascript Xml Scalability Web Development Enterprise Architecture Rest Object Oriented Design Android Strategy Project Management C# .net Linux Technical Leadership Mysql User Interface Design Architectures Start Ups Consulting

Andy Wright Education Details

  • University Of The West Of England
    University Of The West Of England
    Digital Systems Engineering

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