Chad Meeks Email & Phone Number

Burbank, Ca, Us

I am responsible for the entire data platform supporting Movies Anywhere and its five studio partners.Movies Anywhere is a premium digital locker and playback experience funded by the top Movie Studios in the entertainment industry; Disney, Universal, Warner Bros., Sony, and Fox. The goal is to increase digital sales and understand in-home consumer behavior. The app lets users connect their Movies Anywhere digital locker to their favorite retailers and access their entire movie collection from every major device and platform.🔹 Product Management-------------------------Establish the data roadmap and use agile methodologies to drive all internal-external data projects through to completion. Gather, document, and communicate product requirements. Write agile stories. Groom and manage the data engineering backlog. Schedule and conduct sprint planning. Leverage a team of five data engineers, three data analysts, and one data scientist to develop product features and support business goals.🔹 Project Management ------------------------Prioritize development based on both the data roadmap and global product roadmap. Work with engineering management and internal data sources to determine resource requirements and level-of-effort estimates for product features. Establish feature delivery dates. Communicate project status to business stakeholders.🔹 Product Design -------------------Design analytics schemas and data collection methodologies for all product features. Facilitate discussion with analysts, backend engineers, frontend engineers, and data engineers to evaluate tradeoffs and determine the correct approach. Work with data science and data engineering on all data driven product features.🔹 Partner Management------------------------Manage the relationship with data related service providers and studio partners. Review contracts. Schedule and participate in Quarterly Business Reviews. Manage slack channels and ongoing communication.

Burbank, Ca, Us

I led the development of Analytics, Search, and Recommendations for our product launch in October 2017.

Burbank, Ca, Us

I led the design, development, and delivery of high priority data projects during a two year rotation across four company segments. Consumer Products | Led development of the analytics platform for Playmation.Disney Music Group | Led the data migration to a new music royalty platform.Disney Interactive | Led the analytics implementation for Disney Store iPhone app. Disney Studios | Led the analytics implementation for Movies Anywhere.

Burbank, Ca, Us

I delivered analytics and AB testing support to the cross-functional product team developing DigitalCopyPlus.com.

I managed the daily operation of the company. Supervised five directors with a work force of approximately forty full time employees and 1099s, and represented the company in business development initiatives.Delivered professional services contracts in quality management, acquisition, and competitive sourcing valued at ~$8 million to the Defense Logistics Agency, National Park Services, and US Coast Guard.Oversaw development of the third version of the company’s flagship software product (QMSIT 3.0). Directly contributed by mapping business processes and creating report specifications for the data analysis features.Represented the technology division in all new business ventures by providing product demonstrations and advocating for the inclusion of quality management software as part of the statement of work on government contract proposals.Managed the development of qmsit.com to begin marketing directly to businesses. Created digital marketing campaigns and increased traffic 300% in two months resulting in increased free trial and free information requests.Presented a Service Quality Best Practice Success Story at the 2011 Annual ASQ Service Quality conference. Received an overall speaker rating of 9.5/10.

Project Manager specializing in quality management and continuous process improvement for the service industry.Led the development of a performance oversight organization for the Defense Logistics Agency. The group accounted for ~$200M procurement dollars and the business processes became an official Agency Best Practice.Conducted an internal Lean Six Sigma project that reduced the production time of quality management handbooks by 87.5%, reducing the time from ~200 hours to less than 25 hours.Provided data analysis support to DLA Headquarters in order to evaluate the performance of ongoing service contracts across twelve distribution centers.

Computer programmer, data analyst, and training instructor.Created the Quality Assurance Surveillance Manager, a computer program developed with Microsoft Access and Visual Basic for Applications (VBA). This program was the precursor to the primary software product known as the Quality Management Scheduling and Inspection Tool (QMSIT).Developed an internal database application used to analyze warehousing and distribution workload data. The output of the project was routinely used as a technical amendment to federal solicitations valued over $10M.Traveled throughout the United States and abroad (U.S. Territory Guam) to present quality management training programs including daily on the job work sessions to Defense Logistics Agency quality teams ranging from 15 – 20 students.

Lewisville, Tx, Us

Supported IT efforts for a school district with 30 elementary schools, 14 middle schools, and 5 high schools.Responsible for PC Maintenance, New System Creation, Novell Network Client Installation and Maintenance, Computer Laboratory Setup, Wireless Networking, Microsoft Windows and Office Product Installation and Maintenance, and Technical Support.

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), Technology And Marketing

Bachelor Of Science, Computer Science, Technical Writing