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Walnut Creek, Ca, Us

Austin, Tx, Us

An ASG company.• Built stable software engineering organization, taking the reigns from technical founders, and introduced career leveling guide and defined interview processes while working through a team of engineering managers. Hired and managed teams of iOS, Android, data, and full stack web engineerings.• Increased code output over 2x per engineer through rigorous hiring practices and up-leveling•Partnered with new product team to implement quarterly planning processes, allowing informed executive decisions and top-to-bottom buy-in on planned initiatives.• Right-sized agile processes for a small company in a fast-paced market. following SCRUM and optimizing for speed of delivery.• Overhauled release processes across web, iOS, and Android applications to ensure releases were regularly scheduled, predictable, and boring.•Overhauled QA processes and introduced E2E automated testing that cut release testing time by over 70%. Oversaw the addition of E2E tests on new web products.• Led infrastructure resiliency and observability initiatives, eliminating frequent system outages and ensuring immediate notification of problems.• Managed information security for the organization including risk tracking, annual PenTesting and IR tabletops, and navigating compliance requirements.• Participated in diligence for the acquisition of the Snipfeed product and created a technical integration roadmap.• Trained to represent the company in an exit event.

New York, Us

Real-life entertainment media with brands including Food Network, Discovery, HGTV, and Motortrend• Led multiple global teams launching the Food Network Kitchen direct-to-consumer product on new platforms including web (foodnetwork.com), Roku, and web-based Connected TV reaching over 600k customers per month• Built a team and launched the Food Network Kitchen subscription website in 8 weeks, including handling international team dependencies and information security reviews on a tight schedule to capture high holiday traffic – over 100k monthly visitors and $40k in recurring revenue in the first month• Managed 4 engineering teams including engineering managers on all 8 of the organization’s lifestyle websites such as foodnetwork.com, hgtv.com, and food.com which receive over 60mm monthly visitors• Implemented new SPA based API-driven frontend architecture across lifestyle brands, contributing the approach to a cross-company frontend architectural roadmap• Regularly led team quarterly capacity planning, project estimation, and prioritization efforts with product managers and executives• Aligned team hiring practices with new Discovery guidelines and oversaw and participated in the interview process for over 50 candidates

New York, Us

Formerly Scripps Networks Interactive. Acquired by Discovery Inc in March 2018.• Led teams behind all seven Scripps Networks TVE platforms (iOS, Android, Apple TV, Roku, Fire TV, Samsung, web) to ensure continued support for 50+ individual apps and 17mm monthly video views during the migration to Discovery’s TVE platforms• Managed the launch of Scripps Network’s first direct-to-consumer brand Genius Kitchen on iOS and Apple TV, expanding on existing TVE codebases and reaching 144k monthly users• Served as Technical Lead for OTT platforms including Apple TV, Roku, and Fire TV, including defining architecture and coding/development guidelines and best practices• Managed multiple distributed teams across OTT platforms, including 5 full-time engineers on site and 15+ on site and overseas contractors• Led the Apple TV native rebuild culminating in an on-time launch, a feature by Apple at WWDC, and a 138% increase in video views• Pioneered a new highly-performant server-side SPA (VueJS) frontend architecture for the TVE streaming websites and food.com reducing time to develop new features by 50% and reducing page load time by 30%

New York, Us

Formerly Scripps Networks Interactive. Acquired by Discovery Inc in March 2018.Lifestyle media company with brands including HGTV, Food Network, and Travel Channel • Launched company’s first Apple TV apps for 5 brands including Food Network, HGTV, and Travel Channel in Javascript/TVML for the launch of the 4th generation Apple TV in 2015• Worked directly with Apple engineers as a launch partner for new features such as Single Sign On and Universal Search• Rebuilt streaming websites to be a single responsive template saving the company over $100k in development costs and supporting over 800k monthly video views• Responsible for team quality assurance workflows and test automation• Oversaw team internship program and intern hiring process including vetting over 40 candidates

Fitness product marketing company with a digital workout ecosystem• Managed team of developers to build analytics dashboard integrating with the company CRM to track revenue, advertising performance, and key operational metrics for company’s $22mm annual revenue stream• Built payment processing plugin to expand CRM functionality, doubling average cart values

All-in-one ecommerce platform helping small businesses easily begin monetizing their websites• Built ecommerce shopping cart platform from the ground up, processing $400k+ to over 9,000 storefronts• Raised $490k in funding with co-founders• Become a certified Payment Service Provider (PSP) and managed PCI-compliantcloud-based infrastructure on Amazon Web Services• Won 1st out of 59 companies in Baylor University’s 2013 New Venture Competition• Hired designer and sales lead, and coached designer to contribute style updates directly to theapplication codebase• Acquired by Payscape in Fall 2015

Developed a variety of sites for various business clients, including a Nascar fantasy website, lead generation platform, wedding RSVP system, and others. Honed client communication skills and project management skills.

Provided general technical support to students, specializing in Mac OS X and Linux support, as well as hardware repairs.