◼︎ Leading multiple platform engineering teams supporting consumer-facing products across many of Disney's premier brands, including Disney, Star Wars, ESPN, ABC, ABC News, Marvel, and National Geographic◼︎ Co-lead large scale engineering effort to migrate National Geographic's site and mobile apps to a new modernized in house platform with multi-million dollar savings implications for the company

◼︎ Technical lead of the web platform engineering team, responsible for the architecture and development of over 50 systems and tools, including content, data and asset management systems that support numerous web and mobile app experiences across the Disney portfolio◼︎ Oversees multiple functional engineering and product development teams, from reliability engineering and devops teams focused on uptime, performance and security, to the platform UX team with an emphasis on usability and design◼︎ Led large-scale initiative as the primary technical and project leader to move Disney Interactive's main web platform to Google Cloud, featuring more than 30 major systems that support over 800 guest-facing sites, including Disney's flagship responsive websites disney.com and starwars.com, resulting in multi-million dollar cost savings in system operations year over year◼︎ Lead technical partner to platform solutions team, providing technical guidance and custom-built solutions tailored to the needs of multiple stakeholders and global content production teams◼︎ Collaborates with platform leadership on developing strategy and roadmaps for project teams, involving both full-time and contingent workforce resources, that meet the needs of the organization within budget and on time◼︎ Developed a team-wide knowledge share presentation series as a way to enhance engineering skills and knowledge while building a sense of community through informative presentations in a casual environment

◼︎ Leads product and engineering for backend content management and data platform, which powers Disney's flagship responsive websites disney.com, starwars.com and disneyjunior.com◼︎ Responsible for backend engineering effort in the relaunch of starwars.com under the Disney banner for the first time◼︎ Provides architectural and technical guidance on site-serving APIs and producer interface applications built with Ruby on Rails backed by MongoDB◼︎ Managed revision of recommendation engine for Disney video portal that suggests related content through machine learning using Hadoop

◼︎ Led front end and search engineering teams responsible for newly relaunched disney.com◼︎ Migrated several legacy disney.com sites and portals onto search platform, including Disney Channel, Disney XD and Walt Disney Company corporate sites◼︎ Launched internationalized front end sites and search platforms in Latin America and Europe, supporting multiple languages in a cohesive and integrated ecosystem

◼︎ Architected and built an entirely new search platform for the major relaunch of Disney.com using open-source software and frameworks like Apache Solr and Spring◼︎ Optimized primary search algorithm leading to an increase in direct affiliate revenue from search on Disney.com over 500% year over year◼︎ Search platform includes multiple scalable indices supporting varied clients through a common API including a producer-facing content management system backend as well as other front-facing sites like disneybaby.com◼︎ Spearheaded automation through continuous integration with Jenkins and Capistrano for scripted deployments◼︎ Worked on a fast-paced agile Labs team whose purpose was to innovate on experimental features, many of which became the foundation for the new Disney.com

◼︎ Led team of search engineers in deployment of new search functionality during major site redesign with algorithm improvements leading to increases in conversions and revenue of over $500k per year◼︎ Architected and scaled multiple clusters of Apache Solr-based indexes containing more than 18 million unique business listings performing advanced geo-spatial local searches◼︎ Responsible for development and deployment of CityGrid public content APIs serving localized business listing profiles, search, deals and user reviews used by more than 100 partners and developers◼︎ Principal engineer on cross-functional scrum team responsible for building REST-ful web applications for submission of user generated content including images, reviews and tweets from Twitter◼︎ Built server-side component of auto complete/predictive text functionality using Apache Lucene with index containing over 3 million search terms localized to specific geographic regions◼︎ Built self-enrollment wizard using Spring Webflow for backend customer system for new potential merchant signups

◼︎ Led development of online video distribution applications for both client and server utilizing Java technologies and Windows DRM to generate cost savings of over $1 million for studio◼︎ Involved in development of several consumer facing Java applications including main portal, CRM application, and content management systems

◼︎ Improved software scripts, increasing efficiency of the animation production pipeline◼︎ Provided assistance in production archival, system administration and technology upkeep