Leading efforts to capitalize on opportunities to connect Data and Platforms across TWDC companies: Disney, ESPN, Hulu, ABC, Marvel, LucasFilm and more.Leading Software Engineering, Data Engineering and Data Science - with a charter to build products, proofs of concept and integrations to leverage personalization, data and content relevance as a basis for learning and driving quick, measurable, progress with executive leadership and business stakeholders.--------ESPN (Apr 2018 – May 2019) - R&D and StrategyFocused on designing, enhancing and building strategic Platform solutions.-Designed and led delivery group of a product to allow complex querying and visualization of internal data.-Led effort to conceptualize and build Content Relevance Engine, leveraged for A/B testing to drive and increase overall engagement for digital content audience.

Building Better AthletesLed all facets of Software Engineering and Data Science for Athos, including building engineering team, rebuilding entire Platform and adapting engineering culture and process to pave the way for the expansion of the company into Professional and Collegiate sports markets.- Led effort to architect, design and build scalable platform allowing for real-time processing of EMG signal from ‘wearable’ technology.- Drove effort to build a new Coaches Application leveraging new technologies (React Native), that significantly reduced engineering overhead.

Led Product and Engineering and Data Science for Platform, Content Distribution, Relevance, Personalization, Mobile and Social Product Development for FOX Sports Media Group.- Responsible for establishing and building San Francisco office for FOX Sports Media Group.- Built and led a team of Engineers, Product Managers and QA Staff whose charter was to architect, build and launch Platforms to drive Personalization and Content Distribution across the FOX Sports network.- Platforms built were leveraged to drive a 30% increase in engagement and 11% increase in retention across mobile audience.

Fanhood (Acquired by FOX Sports) - Innovative sports startup, leveraging Big Data to build and drive apps on Facebook, web, iOS and Android with funding from First Round Capital, Mayfield Fund and Foundation CapitalDirect all facets of this Facebook partner developer building user-facing web applications on Facebook platform. Set corporate strategy, led engineering, product development, and marketing.- Led successful M&A Process and drove all aspects of eventual acquisition of the company by FOX Sports.- Built and led 20-person team to architect and develop two mobile games and two Facebook games.- Raised VC funding to build business and position it for strategic partnership or M&A.Our mission is to connect the world's sports fans.

Ecommerce company with funding from Mayfield, Foundation, and First Round Capital.Co-founded and operated e-commerce company specializing in paid auction model with gamification. Led engineering and Product team of 18 direct reports.- Raised $14.5M in first and second round venture capital funds from Mayfield, Foundation, and First Round Capital.- Launched and grew this start-up to reach $50M annual revenue run rate by co-developing business strategy and leading engineering and product teams to build and launch paid auction site within three-month schedule.

Promoted to direct all engineering initiatives for $100M business encompassing web application, platform, and search development; Agile process implementation; infrastructure and capacity planning. Built and led entire Development group.- Achieved 99% uptime during holiday seasons representing periods of exponential spikes in traffic and revenue by implementing continuous integration process, stringent QA environment, and collocations for scale.- Created new vertical business by building Y! Deals Platform and site.- Managed platform and public APIs for thousands of data publishers, plus largest searchable dataset in Y! second only to Y! Search.

Selected as Technical Lead and one of five founding members of Y! Platforms team created to streamline use of data across all Yahoo properties.- Architected and built all workflow management systems for prototype that processed, stored, and serviced all data under Federated APIs for network-wide utilization. This system became default CMS for entire network.

Selected for a team tasked with rebuilding Yahoo Ad Platforms.- Enabled automated scrubbing and manual review of all spam, malicious ads, and algorithms by building system capable of identifying spam and malware.

Software Engineer for the industry’s first web-scale enterprise-grade, real-time travel search engine.- Responsible for indexing and search of unstructured text-based travel sites into structured enterprise-grade booking engine up to eventual acquisition by Yahoo where FareChase became the search engine behind Yahoo Travel.- Built and led offshore team of five engineers in India to develop and maintain FareChase platform for Y! Travel.