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Bellingham, Wa, Us

PressBox builds AI-powered applications that empower fans, leagues, teams, and sports organizations to scale personalized, engaging, platform-specific content. We are the developers of Trackside, an app designed to help motorsports fans follow their favorite racing series, teams, and drivers—free from algorithms, fake news, and clickbait.

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Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Us

➤ Providing guidance across engineering, product, and compliance for a pre-seed stage Healthcare company.➤ Executed audits of potential partner platforms to ensure product, technical, and compliance feasibility.➤ Guide compliance roadmap to ensure balance of risk and regulatory and legal requirements accounting the realities of an early stage company.

San Francisco, California, Us

➤ Grew, operated, and supported a team of 40+ leaders and contributors across Engineering, Product, Data, IT & Security, Compliance, and People & Talent.➤ Launched a sweeping revamp of the company's software including a re-launched marketing site (Python, Big Commerce, TalonOne, Flask, NextJS, Redis, AWS, Postgres & Kubernetes) and a greenfield Data Lakehouse build (Snowflake, Fivetran, DBT, & Looker). ➤ Revamped pricing and offerings to improve retention by upwards of 20% and ARR by 5%, including offering new cadences, optimizing pricing, and bundling multiple offerings.➤ Designed and executed a roadmap to bring the company into compliance with HIPAA, CCPA, and CPOM.➤ Successfully launched HIPAA-compliant e-commerce platform delivering increased flexibility and simpler purchasing leading to > 100 basis point conversion improvement.

San Francisco, California, Us

➤ Operated an Engineering organization of over 100 engineers across web, mobile, data, and platform engineering. The team supported millions of monthly active members through marketing, e-commerce, and telehealth applications with a tech stack including React, Laravel, Redis, GraphQL, AWS, Shopify, and Stripe.➤ Revamped approach to subscription retention prioritizing revenue-retention that resulted in a 7-figure annual improvement to subscription revenue.➤ Orchestrated rebuild of data technology stack utilizing Snowflake, FiveTran, and Tableau to create a well-documented, self-service data solution that increased the speed, reliability, and availability of insights. ➤ Built Product team from a single member, to an organization of 35 managers and individual contributors across Product Management, Project Manager, User Research, Lifecycle Marketing, and Design.

Columbus, Ohio, Us

➤ Built the Technology organization from a team of 8 engineers, to over 100 managers and individual contributors across Hardware and Software Engineering, Product Management, Design, Analytics & Data, IT and Compliance. This included process design, hiring and recruiting, performance management, budgeting, and strategic planning.➤ Lead re-architecture of a monolithic application to a service-oriented architecture built-in Ruby On Rails, React, AWS, Postgres, Redis, Kubernetes, & Terraform. Launched revamped mobile app for iOS and Android utilizing React Native and supporting Beam’s line of connected toothbrushes.➤ Orchestrated the launch of a revamped IOT, Wi-Fi–connected, ultrasonic toothbrush including overseeing industrial design, software & firmware development, packaging, and marketing.

Columbus, Ohio, Us

San Francisco, Ca, Us

➤ Responsible for the management of over 60 Engineering managers and individual contributors including teams responsible for New Relic’s core Application Performance Monitoring product as well as New Relic’s Java & .NET Agents. This included managing customer relationships in partnership with sales and field operations.➤ Contributed to the successful launch of Distribute Tracing, modernizing New Relics product for ephemeral infrastructure, contributing to the design of the Open Tracing standard.➤ Contributed to the transition of cloud and physical infrastructure leading to the successful launch of New Relic’s GDPR-compliant EU Data Center and APM Product offerings.

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➤ Launched B/R Esports Podcast producing and co-hosting over 75 episodes, generating upwards of 80,000 monthly listens, and over 120,000 monthly visits to related editorial content.➤ Managed relationships with developers, collaborating on editorial content and event cover with companies including Blizzard, Microsoft, Riot Games, Hi-Rez Studios, and Super Evil Mega Corp.➤ Acquired and re-launched by Turner Sports as The ELEAGUE report supporting Turner’s televised esports include content production and event coverage of CS:GO), Street Fighter V, and Overwatch.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

➤ Lead a team of over 25 Leaders, Engineers, and Architects in the development of applications and tooling supporting the aggregation, programming, and production of content across B/R platforms. This includes applications & services utilizing Elixir, Phoenix, React, Postgres, Redis, Kafka, and Fastly.➤ Orchestrated the development of an Elixir-based service for the rapid delivery of push notifications, including Rich Audio and Visual notifications, achieving a near 80% success rate in delivering notifications faster than market-leader (ESPN).➤ Expanded content programming to include the aggregation and publishing of streaming audio, streaming video and live play-by-play utilizing various edge-caching to performantly deliver over millions of unique content streams.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

San Mateo, California, Us

➤ Executed clarity-focused redesign of our analytics product that led to a 23% improvement in daily usage and cut data-related support requests by 42%.➤ Designed and Launched an industry User-Generated-Content (UGC) publishing tool allowing customers to schedule campaigns across Instagram, Pinterest, and Tumblr. The product achieved 70% adoption within 6 months of launch, directly attributing $4M in ARR.➤ Led the implementation and testing of Pinterest’s API (as their first test partner) reducing the operational costs of crawling by over 81%.

San Mateo, California, Us

➤ Increased user engagement 20% and cut support requests in half through redesign and redeployment of Piqora Analytics solution; structured and led the Pinterest API integration as the first alpha Pinterest Business Partner.➤ Developed reusable design system and component library, for rapid development of new UI features using SASS and Angular.➤ Built and maintained customer-facing company website and marketing microsites serving as the source for 60% of all new business annually.

Philadelphia, Pa, Us

Philadelphia, Pa, Us

➤ Built and maintained digital properties including audience-facing marketing sites, landing pages, and micro-apps utilizing Javascript, HTML, & CSS.➤ Built several custom landing-page experiences utilizing Angular & MySQL, supporting campaigns that drove upwards of $2M in sales revenue annually.➤ Joined as a founding member of the new Digital Department supporting three separate radio stations and their digital properties.

Cherry Hill, New Jersey, Us

➤ Executed a grounds-up rebuild of the companies marketing site including selection of technology (ExpressionEngine, JavaScript, HTML, & CSS).➤ Contributed to a company rebranding by extending the visual language across properties including website, mobile application, print & advertising (physical & digital).➤ Designed and Built Conference Check-In Application that allowed sales to quickly capture and engage with current and future customers, contributing to a 30% increase in response rate.

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Sociology & Economics

Graduate Studies, Law