• Charted technology strategy for Slated.com, overseeing a global technical team of engineers and data scientists across 4 business verticals built and scaled on the AWS infrastructure.• Led our Data Science team into the third major refactor of our predictive analytics service. Included working alongside the team to review, source, clean data for feature development and model training using AWS infrastructure: Sagemaker, Lambda and API gateway. Improved RMSE, MAE, precision and accuracy across many metrics by 6-10%.• Engaged in extensive testing and experimentation with Large Language Models (LLMs) and Generative AI to explore potential applications with RAG within the business. Models and frameworks: LongChain, Hugging Face, LLama, Gemma, ComfyUI, Flux, Stable Diffusion, AWS Sagemaker.• Spearheaded the company’s bridge financing and formal Series A raise, recapitalized the cap table, completed due diligence, legal negotiations, and financial documents within 6 weeks.• Initiated and led the launch of two new subscription revenue lines and executed a major website refresh, which directly resulted in a 400% increase in user traffic and a 50% increase in gross revenues. • Directed overall operations, including P&L ownership, strategy, business development, ad tech strategy, product development, and financial reporting to Slated’s Board of Directors.

• Led strategic vision and pivoted towards the highest-performing revenue lines, ad tech optimization, implemented operational efficiencies that contributed to a 53% revenue growth despite challenging market conditions.• Streamlined operations across all departments, reducing operational spend by 65%. • Managed overall operations, including P&L ownership, strategy, business development, product development, and financial reporting to Slated’s Board of Directors.

• Charted technology strategy for Slated.com, overseeing a global technical team of engineers and data scientists across 4 business verticals. • Led our Data Science team into the third major refactor of our predictive analytics service. Included working alongside the team to review, source, clean data for feature development and model training using AWS infrastructure: Sagemaker, Lambda and API gateway. Improved RMSE, MAE, precision and accuracy across many metrics by 6-10%.• Worked with Devops to improve the cost and scale of AWS infrastructure.• Increased team velocity by 179% and individual productivity by 40%. Maintained a low churn rate of technical employees averaging a minimum of 5 years.

• Served as key member of the executive team that set Slated’s strategic direction• Guided the global technical team from product development and CI automation to product release.• Doubled team size and increased 2-year team velocity by 231% and 2-year individual velocity by 86%.

• Led frontend development, leading the transition to modern frameworks and the introduction of new features that enhanced user experience and platform capabilities.• Collaborated with technical teams to overhaul and modernize systems to Angular/Django REST, significantly improving performance and scalability.• Deployed two marketplace services: Script Analysis and Financial Analysis which use machine learning to project the financial success of a film.

• Frontend engineer for the relaunch of Oprah.com, extensive ad tech integration on website, mobile, video. Google Ads, Outbrain. Release date: 03/25/14; Oprah’s inaugural eCourse generating over $4M within weeks. • Programmed in HTML, SASS/CSS, javascript, jQuery, Underscore, Backbone, Perl, SVN, GIT

• Consulted as a Drupal expert, replacing Disney’s legacy intranet with a new Drupal-based enterprise-level intranet for 250K+ employees.• Trained a team of developers in new code and release management workflow. Built custom Drupal modules with Yammer and integrated Solr search.

• Created domestic and international websites, microsites, mobile sites and Facebook apps with turnaround times ranging from 24 hrs to 5 months. Programmed in HTML, CSS, JS, Jquery, PHP (Yii), PHP-based CMS (Drupal, Wordpress, etc), MVC frameworks in PHP (Yii) and .NET (MVC3&4; Razor) • Developed sites solo and in small groups for many of the major studios and a few brands including: Grammys, Universal, Miramax, Sony, Dreamworks, Nickelodeon, Warner Bros, Disney, AMC, IFC, FOX, ABC, CBS, HBO, CNN, Debmar Mercury, ING Direct, Toshiba, El Pollo Loco, Bolthouse Farms, goodness Mfg.

Developed turnkey sites, microsites and CMS websites for FOX, Paramount, Capital One 360, goodness Mfg, CBS, Trailer Park, Tradesy.com and others.