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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 PRO and Investment Club.• 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 team which focused on publishing services and The Atlantic’s content management systems.• 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 newsletter product our first year.• 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 to Senior Engineer and one to Engineering Manager.• 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 subscriptions.• 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.• Set technical direction for mobile application development using React Native to build our first Android app and future replatform of our existing iOS mobile application.• Led replatform of our iOS app to React Native, with one codebase from which we build for both iOS and Android – a subscriber-only benefit. Cut vendor costs by 50%.• Set technical direction for our search service, giving more control over results and presentation, migrating away from Google Custom search to an Elastic based vendor, and enabling the number one requested feature in our mobile apps.

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 standards, and led hiring and onboarding of software engineers.Client work included:• 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 2016).• 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 rather than quarterly.• 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.• Led regular online and offline status and support meetings with clients and stakeholders.• Coached and mentored engineers, facilitated roles and responsibilities, provided briefings on projects and assignments, and promoted professional development.• Planned, executed, and wrote performance reviews for our engineers.• Contributed to the open-source project Tolaria (a CMS for Ruby on Rails that speeds up the tasks of creating useful admin panels, forms, and model workflows).• Promoted development and growth of in-house coding standards (tools, tech stack, style and approach, workflows, code review processes, quality).

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