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The Hague, ZH, NL

The Hague, ZH, NL

New York City, NY, US

• Worked as Senior Engineering Manager on the Acquisition & Retention Team within CNBC’s Direct to Consumer Products group. Our focus is on enabling the customer journey for CNBC.com’s major subscription products: CNBC.
• Implemented Zephr Marketing Tech platform across CNBC.com and mobile applications with a new highly-available template API service for onsite advertising and paywalls.
• Developed and launched CNBC’s first ever registration wall for content across web and mobile surfaces, generating significant leads for Market Movers readers.
• Evaluated subscription management & payments platforms for migration. Creating alignment across multiple teams of stakeholders on use cases and requirements gathering.
• Manage and coach a team of 4+ engineers: set actionable goals, review progress in weekly 1:1s, delegate work relevant to goals and growth, conduct biannual performance reviews.

Washington, DC, US

• Worked as Engineering Manager on the Subscriber Retention pillar, focusing on building compelling subscriber-only features across web and mobile surfaces. Previously Engineering Manager of the Publishing engineering.
• Built and managed the brand new Subscriber Experience team, recruiting two internal candidates and hiring one external engineer. Launched a new suite of newsletters our first 90 days and a high profile subscriber only.
• Managed and coached teams of 3-6 engineers: set actionable goals, reviewed progress in weekly 1:1s, delegated work relevant to goals and growth, conducted biannual performance reviews. Two direct reports were promoted.
• Architected and launched our subscriber accounts and payment system, the foundation of The Atlantic’s first paywall and digital subscription product, an initiative that has significantly increased revenue and new.
• Coauthored our Engineering Career Ladder, setting a new standard for the entire Product & Technology organization and laying a clear path for engineers’ career growth.
• Planned sprints, ran scrum ceremonies, worked with stakeholders to create quarterly roadmaps.

Washington, DC, US

Washington, District Of Columbia, US

• Worked as Lead Software Engineer and managed our backend engineering chapter composed of four engineers. I coached and mentored engineers in their professional development, promoted the growth of our in-house coding.
• Tech Lead for Peace Corps account. Built and maintained a Django-based CMS for peacecorps.gov website. Developed numerous rich interactives including the award winning interactive children's content (sunset June 1st.
• Tech Lead for Knight Foundation account. Led a team of developers on the redesign of the Knight Foundation blog and the migration of the KnightArts blog onto a unified Django-based CMS and brand aesthetic.
• Tech Lead for NAFSA account. Replatformed NAFSA's flagship product, The Advisors Manual, and created a CMS to manage their hierarchical content using Ruby on Rails. This allowed updates to the manual to be made weekly.
• Worked on the front-end development team of Brooking Institue’s adaptive redesign and developed numerous multimedia and video player features with JavaScript.
• Authored technical strategy sections of new business proposals with an overall 75% success rate.

Boston, MA, US

• Developed interactive advertising units for clients including McDonald’s, Amtrak, and Choice Hotels. Pushed the limits of the ad delivery networks by pulling in data and providing useful interactions within ad-spaces.
• Developed BBOY BATTLE, an interactive breakdance game, for McDonald’s. Awards included Addy Gold and a merit award from The One Club.

New York, NY, US

Developed interactive experiences ranging from branded music-mixers to a fully functional online Karaoke application

Production and development of interactive modules, illustrations, and animations for an online chemistry course.

Developed rich experiences using Flash, from applications to eye-candy