Responsible for overseeing the CW digital product strategy & design, for all CW applications. Manage a team of developers, designers, and product managers focused on improving and growing the CW digital applications. Developed and maintain a product roadmap to align with business goals and help grow CW digital ad revenue.

Emerging Media Programming Peer Group Member

Spearheaded strategic initiatives with the goal of creating new partnerships and bringing new production projects to MOOCO. Responsible for driving revenue growth, expanding market reach, and forging valuable client relationships for MOOCO.

Successfully built and managed a team of 6 resources to manage various global accounts, resulting in improved efficiencies and operations of the technical account management team. Launched Disney+ Basic (ads) across 4 major global partners (Amazon, Google, Sony, and Microsoft), resulting in increased revenue streams and new subscribers for the Disney+ platform.

Orchestrated the expansion of Paramount+ and Pluto TV into multiple new markets. Successfully managed a team overseeing operations and launch-related activities, contributing to strategic growth targets. Directed business priorities and operations while ensuring successful product and feature launches.

Established an entertainment media group centered on revitalizing independent theater. Developed the Neon Zebra brand and negotiated leasing contracts, demonstrating business acumen and commitment to arts and culture. Despite challenging circumstances, exhibited resilience and continued to support the arts.

Spearheaded product management initiatives, focusing on user experience and customer acquisition through oversight of the unauthenticated web experience. Led the development of a custom CMS solution for marketing purposes and defined the business strategy for HBOMAX.com, demonstrating strategic thinking and a customer-centric approach.

Operated and strategized HBO's digital product offerings, managing content delivery and prioritizing digital distribution partner strategy. Launched multiple products and features across various partners, collaborating with internal stakeholders for successful execution. Successfully ran the operations and distribution product strategy for HBO's digital product offerings, ensuring high levels of operational efficiency and on-time delivery of content assets and metadata, resulting in improved customer experience and increased customer retention by 15%.

Drove the expansion of HBO's digital distribution, fostering relationships with digital partners to grow market share and revenue. Successfully launched HBO NOW on multiple new device platforms, including Sony PlayStation 3 & 4, Samsung Smart TVs, Chromecast, and Xbox 360 & Xbox One, displaying adept project management skills and technical prowess. Pioneered VR application development, establishing partnerships with Meta and HTC. Led the expansion of HBO's digital distribution footprint across 10 IAP partners and 5 vMVPD partners, resulting in increased market share and revenue for HBO's digital products.

Coordinated a cross-functional team from project conception to successfully launch HBO's first standalone streaming service, HBO NOW, on various platforms, leveraging emerging technologies, conducting product demos, and developing viewpoints for new consumer products. Effectively managed daily operations across various vendors and platform developers, fostering collaboration to create a novel product offering that expanded HBO's services. Successfully deployed HBO NOW across multiple platforms including Apple, Android, Amazon, and Roku, significantly widening user accessibility. Leveraged expertise in emerging technologies and products to serve as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) within the organization, providing critical insights and guidance.

Oversaw a commercial-focused product team for HBO GO, delivering commercial insights through competitive reviews and market analysis, managing product enhancements, and coordinating launch activities for new product releases. Ensured optimal user experience and functionality by managing maintenance and feature enhancements for HBO GO's in-market services. Shaped the vision for HBO’s future streaming services by assisting in the development of strategic planning and direction, contributing to the growth and evolution of digital media offerings. Orchestrated successful launch activities for new product releases, coordinating cross-functional teams for effective and efficient product rollout. Led product development for mobile-first features including offline viewing for iOS and Android platforms. Developed innovative second-screen interactive features enhancing viewer engagement.

Was responsible for product development, business strategy, consumer research, and user experience for an award winning, multi-million user, streaming video application. Assisted with the design, testing, and launch of HBO GO on Chromecast, SmartGlass, Apple TV, and PS3. Developed custom weighted models and recommendations, that were used to successfully evaluate key business issues. Collaborated with and managed the day-to-day relationship with external partners and vendors on multiple HBO GO products and analysis explorations. Defined product specs, consumer-facing requirements, and business rules in an agile-driven dynamic environment. Developed product requirements to improve in-app search results, including predictive search, top and misspelled results.

Drove strategic analysis required to identify, assess, prioritize and develop potentially disruptive new product innovations. Project managed innovative new product developments, such as facial aging initiative. Responsible for vendor management, financials, strategy, design, and concept development for projects. Collaborated in conducting an internal innovation challenge that had over three hundred participants and generated over sixty ideas.

Second Rotation - Innovation Studio & Personal Lines New Product Development: Technical expert on consumer telematics new product development. Designed, developed and implemented a strategy and database solution to integrate vendor data into The Hartford systems for analysis and pricing decisions. Led strategy creation for consumer experience and mobile application development. Created an interactive web-based rating game to communicate the benefits of telematic products.First Rotation - Surety Bond IT: Responsible for business analysis, development and quality assurance of maintenance service requests with varying complexity levels. Outlined a strategic vision to improve Bond IT’s database warehouse and reporting speeds. Defined strategy to track the total cost of ownership for the Specialty IT organization’s applications. Project managed the implementation of an Incident Management software solution, which helped The Hartford’s National Accounts Database IT organization improve system incident management tracking.Side Projects: Project manager, designer and developer for internal social and collaboration website; responsible for the strategy, maintenance, and managing of a team of eight resources supporting the website. Campus manager for Quinnipiac University, responsible for outreach and recruitment events. Co-leader of the Hartford Environment Action Team (HEAT), which is focused on lowering The Hartford’s carbon footprint through employee engagement. Reverse mentor for VP of Internal Communications on the topic of emerging technologies and social media.

Researched and recommended a technological solution for the finance department’s incentive compensation process. Helped develop requirements and implement resource capacity management for the information technology organization. Administrator of time tracking application for more than 300 resources. Led implementation of a wiki-based project document library. Developed metrics and weekly project reporting that created transparency in financials and allowed for monitoring of time spent on projects. Maintained excel based estimation modeler to better formulate project estimates. Reduced time to run weekly time tracking reports by 75%. Implemented budget governance report and processes that helped to mitigate a potentially multi-million-dollar budget variance.