Aaron Stevens Email & Phone Number

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Business and Operational staff consultant for the Global Sports Platform - A technical platform of front and back end components used by various WBD brands (Bleacher Report, HBO Max, Estadio Sports) to support their various Digital Operations.

Greater Atlanta Area

Connected with basketball fans by offering game support via a multi-platform technology suite. Led and staffed team responsible for deployment of all feature enhancements, sponsorships and nightly game coverage. Built and maintained partnerships with the NBA and various internal teams including technology, advertising operations, product management and editorial production.* Delivered 1,000 requests, 20+ projects and covered 1,000+ live events annually for our teamsites Drupal 7 CMS platform while building a team of twelve “matrixed” and direct reports. * Developed and implemented numerous operational process improvements that reduced resolution times on issues by 50%, resulting in minimal live game outages and better editorial publishing support.* Partnered with the league to successfully migrate all 30 Team digital operations back to NBA control in Sept, 2022. Saved $4M in costs by shifting resources to new business initiatives.* Maintained operational continuity throughout the migration and successfully assisted with staff transition to new internal positions.

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Engaged in managing the daily web and mobile operations for all 30 team sites that comprise the NBA Digital organization. Business account manager tasked with maintaining relationships with league operational, editorial and technical staff. Accepted and prioritized scope of requests from teams to ensure an optimal balance of new functionality with site platform performance. * Partnered with technical and league staff to modify the work intake and process flow designed to improve efficiencies in speed of delivery related to team issues. Throughput typically exceeded 1,500 operational issues resolved annually.* Provided business consultation and training to NBA league and team personnel and facilitated technical consultation designed to help the teams manage their own site operations locally. * Directed operations team during live game events to ensure game presentation, ad display and editorial publishing efforts functioned as expected. Coverage extended to over 1200 games, playoffs, summer-league and regular season schedule releases and other tentpole events.* Led efforts to implement various DFP and Freewheel video ad campaigns across team sites that generated revenue for the joint venture digital organizations. Created custom ad implementations were measured via Omniture and Adobe analytics.

Greater Atlanta Area

SI.com GameFlash - Directed and managed the successful launch of Sports Illustrated’s digital College and NFL GameFlash applications. The projects offer users a near real-time play by play experience, combining live stats, video feeds, previews and recaps of every college and professional football game. • Acted as product and project manager for the initiatives while managing all Time Warner and Turner relationships. • Delivered both projects on-time and created a model that is now being used for other SI.com GameFlash developments such as College Basketball and Major League Baseball. NASCAR Nation - Launched a complete redesign of the NASCAR.com community platform, known on the site as NASCAR Nation. The program combined multiple social media platforms, including videos, photos, blogs, chat, moderation and other user generated content for a comprehensive social media experience. • This initiative brought together various internal and vendor resources to build a rules-based interactive game that fans of NASCAR can interact with to earn badges and achievements. • Introduced and championed structure to the project by using SDLC and Agile methodologies, while capturing all relevant issues, status and risks. Engaged in numerous NASCAR.com web and mobile sponsorship projects, with various complexities of scope. Included was development of web micro sites, video series and archives, mobile and web banner ad implementations. Guided creative acquisitions, ad sales inventory/tagging and communication back to sales of status.

The Weather Channel Interactive. Lead project manager for all projects supporting the #1 content provider - Weather Channel Mobile. Successfully launched over 100 projects in the past three years encompassing all major device and operating system platform applications including iPhone, iPad, RIM, Google Android, Java, BREW and J2ME. Acted as project manager for the Shared Services group, tasked with development of back of the house applications designed to improve data storage and manipulation, mapping capabilities, forecasting of weather data and Ads tracking.Worked with the Mobile download business unit and development team to design and launch state of the art applications. Our iPhone free app currently ranks #41 in the application store with over 9M downloads and $1M in Ad sales in 2009. Our Android Ads supported application, utilizing the Open Source platform, has successfully achieved over 4M downloads to date. The new iPad application in its first six weeks in market has secured nearly $2M in ad revenue.Launched our new Mobile Web 3.0 platform designed to optimize customer experiences for iPhone, Android and Palm Pre devices. The Mobile Web platform served over 1 Billion page views in 2009. The team completed a systematic migration all Blackberry devices to this new platform in 1Q2010.Drove successful efforts with our Multimedia platform including the institution of a new BlueFlame video production application. Content driven projects such as "Storm Stories" and "Wake Up with Al" delivered video streams to our Sprint and AT&T carrier partnerships.Instituted structural and formalized project and change management process for the business unit. The new structure established protocol for communication, consistent SDLC methodologies, institution of both waterfall and agile project management and built relationships with outside design and development entities.

Manheim Automotive Financial Services (MAFS)Managed and directed over 30 different and continuing projects related to the Manheim Lending Department known internally as MAFS. Created, presented and implemented process changes that led to the institution of a change management process and the establishment of a consistent lifecycle methodology that improved efficiencies and delivered projects from inception to closure.Engaged in oversight of the full System Development Lifecycle with technical managers to ensure that deliverables for enhancements related to the AS400 platform were accomplished.Led and facilitated the design process for two websites related to the MAFS product that facilitated improvements for the customer and grew estimated revenues by $1M. POINT Platform Redesign - Tasked with managing the migration of the Manheim POINT product platform from an existing third party hosting provider to a new source. Included in the migration were all infrastructural, operational and data feed elements that were integrated into the new solution.Created a tactical plan for implementation of the transition program that included the execution of three project phases: The procurement, staging and implementation of a development, staging and production environments. Second, the creation of an improved recommendations engine that improved the buy/sell decision for an automobile dealership by 50%. Finally, the team created Oracle PL/SQL and Java code to provide various data feeds that the SAS based recommendations engine needed to deliver solutions. Engaged in project management functions including the development and tracking of a $2M budget, creation of project scope, charter, plan and work breakdown structure. Facilitated numerous project meetings and brought cross functional groups together for white board sessions, weekly status meetings and stakeholder reviews.

Directed and managed aspects and activities for three major BellSouth initiatives: Nationwide Virtual Private Network (VPN) Voice Over IP (VOIP) and the BellSouth Regional IP Backbone (BRIB). Delivered on the scope of the product and project with the customer and provided integrated business solutions.BellSouth Regional IP Backbone - End to end project manager tasked with the management of several infrastructural projects designed to make specific enhancements to the IP network foundation. The projects supported planned service offerings, improved network security and updated existing technology. Managed the BellSouth Regional Transport Network transition, an infrastructure initiative that generated $1.5M in cost savings during the 3rd Quarter of 2006.Coordinated activities in engineering and network deployment designed to deliver to the field operating system upgrades, core and edge router installations and card deployments.Voice Over Network/IP - Team leader tasked with the infrastructural development and deployment of the Lucent based IP packet voice offering platform. Elements required for a successful completion included the installation of trunk gateways and SS7 signaling, soft switch complexes, application and media servers and numerous Broadsoft software upgrades.Interacted with corporate security and engineering to develop, test and install security packages including SSH, Patrol, Bastille and Jass on the VON platform.Delivered to product marketing a fully tested and functioning platform 3 weeks ahead of schedule and $500K under budget.Nationwide VPN - Brought to delivery an enhanced BellSouth Managed Network VPN service that created a fully meshed national solution including Class of Service.Managed the deployment of infrastructure in and out of region linking the Sprint and BellSouth internet backbone architectures.

Responsible for tactical development of a new business model that combined community marketing, technology innovation, staff development and fiscal restraint into a successful local account acquisition platform. Team leader tasked with the development of a digitized sales ordering process and call result platform automating sales contact templates and reducing time spent on order processes by 30%.Analyzed and managed $2M dual phase start up and operational budget across nine accounts which led to on-budget attainment in equipment, payroll, premium/apparel, sponsorship, operations and incentive categories.

Atlanta, Ga

Managed elements that pertained to the creation, development and activation of The Coca-Cola 2002 Salt Lake Olympic Torch Relay. Acted as grass-roots leader to facilitate action by bottler, city task force and Olympic organizing groups.Championed sponsorship rights of The Coca-Cola Company in 35 Southeastern US cities leading to over four million visual impressions along relay route.Consulted and convinced five different bottler groups to allocate $1.3M in financial resources to activation of relay, which led to three hundred thousand in incremental case volume and over 400 positive media stories detailing company and relay.

Worked as sales and marketing agent with company's second largest United States bottler to develop programs that built beverage consumption in new channel of business defined as At-Work.Consulted and trained bottling field representatives on the value of core marketing processes that compared volume, profitability and delivery efficiency of bottle and can machines and allowed for the redeployment of machines to more profitable locations.Managed 150 bottler personnel to introduce and grow At-Work business in office, hospital and factory sub-channels which led to volume increases of over 11%, core brand increases of 30% and a contract acquisition of a one half-million case full line operator account.

Acted as a marketing and financial analyst for the restaurant chain. Interacted with management teams and created solutions that cut expenses and grew revenue across system.

Developed marketing and pricing analyses for the 13 state southeastern region. Developed programs targeted at maintaining market share in various geographic locations through trend, sales analysis and break-even studies.

Mba, Strategic Marketing, Corporate Finance, Risk Management

Activities and Societies: Valedictorian of 1995 graduating class.

Bs, Finance, Enterprise Management

Activities and Societies: Member of Phi Kappa Theta social fraternity.