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New York, Ny, Us

Lead a team of engineers and editors to build reader experiences that are powered by generative AI and collaborate with newsrooms on new tools, accelerated workflows and investigative techniques enhanced by machine learning.

New York, Ny, Us

• Lead a team of editors, and partner with product and data scientists, to shape algorithms, design workflows and roll out algorithmic-programming on the home screen of nytimes.com to help readers find the stories they want and discover new ones. • Oversees running experiments on the home screen and partners with desks, data scientists and product teams to test myriad hypotheses, with a focus on engaging our subscribers and getting them to come back to us more frequently. These experiments includes things like targeting readers based on location or reading history or testing new kinds of content packages.

New York, Ny, Us

• Established a home screen experimentation framework, editorial guidelines and workflow for newsroom editors; develop hypotheses and drive experiments to extract actionable insights for optimizing the home screen's programming strategy. • Play a bridging role and foster collaboration among newsroom leadership, data scientists and product teams to understand and shape how data and algorithms can amplify editorial intention while elevating the home screen experience for readers to boost engagement and habituation. • Embed with product, design and engineering teams to drive the roadmap of internal workflow and data tools that enable the production of home screen tests and variants.

New York, Ny, Us

• Drive, prioritize and articulate the feature roadmap of USA TODAY network's newsletter templates and cross-platform notifications. Ensure we ship features - including AI-driven experiences - that drive traffic and loyalty back to our platforms, and in turn cultivate habitual readers. • Play a bridging role among executive leadership, newsroom leaders, UX, engineering and marketing teams to guide newsletter product and content strategy, design and formatting. Also work with stakeholders to test and optimize workflows while establishing best practices to deliver smart, well-crafted newsletters that inform, delight and build a relationship between journalists and readers. • Established audience engagement strategy for newsletters, by partnering with senior Editorial and Marketing stakeholders, to reposition and align local and network newsletters against a subscription funnel with aim of lifting digital subscriptions among newsletter readers. • Established audience engagement strategy for alerts and notifications to test how they can be crafted, better labeled, targeted and personalized and AI-driven to drive app users further down the funnel.

Sacramento, California, Us

• Play a leadership role in building homegrown data platform and implementing data tools to create a single view of customers, drive insights for audience development and subscription revenue growth. Work with key newsroom and revenue stakeholders to ensure business decisions are data-driven and tactics - such as content personalization and targeted marketing - are aligned across business units.• Drive the vision and roadmap of mobile news apps and distributed platforms (including web, AMP, Instant Articles) for the 31 newspapers under McClatchy's umbrella and ensure product development is in strategic alignment with business goals.• Coordinate a group of strategists to ensure that the product group prioritizes and balances the needs of a wide range of stakeholders — including corporate executives, editors, revenue, design, UX and agile development teams.

Sacramento, California, Us

• Took leadership of strategic planning and execution of a redesign of the news and niche apps in 2017 that led to an increase in unique visitors, revenue and engagement.• Responsible for analyzing highly complex performance metrics and analytics data to provide insights that help drive A/B testing and feature development, and communicating findings to corporate executives.• Work closely with newsrooms, content management and development teams, business stakeholders, industry partners and academia, to develop mobile specific strategies including push notifications, content discovery, personalization and mobile payment.

Singapore, Sg

Responsible for product vision and user experience of The Straits Times’ digital products across all platforms including mobile and smartwatch devices. Working alongside an award-winning team of editorial staff, designers and developers, ensured that stories that mattered to readers are told in a clear, beautiful, and engaging manner across platforms. Also led the team to introduce innovative long-form journalism projects, interactive data visualisations and e-books to readers and the newsroom. On a day-to-day, played a leadership role in coordinating and staffing breaking news coverage for The Straits Times'​ digital platforms. This includes writing, assigning stories, editing stories, live blogging, tweeting and managing the layout and look of straitstimes.com's homepage and section pages. Lead and oversaw the digital coverage of key events including the death of Singapore's Founding Father, Lee Kuan Yew, the 2015 General Elections, the disappearance of Malaysian Airlines MH 370Heavily involved in collaborating with other newsroom editors and corporate divisions, including digital sales and revenue teams, in strategic planning to grow readership and revenue. Oversaw the relaunch of The Straits Times' website and apps in 2015, working with Development, UX and design teams, from both within the paper and external resources to conceptualize, strategize and execute the redesign. Worked with editors, reporters to define a newsroom workflow that would allow us not just be digital first, but also provide live coverage when required.

Singapore, Sg

Managed and coordinated breaking news coverage for the Straits Times’ digital platforms. Was also a multimedia designer and producer who crafted award-winning web specials and long-form interactive packages for The Straits Times. Also heavily involved in the strategic planning and implementation of the newsroom’s e-book and tablet publishing efforts. Helped shape the look of The Straits Times’ latest interactive magazine, The Life, and designed its pages

Singapore, Sg

Technology and telco beat reporter for the newspaper covering a broad range of companies including Apple, Google, SingTel and local startups as well as topics from internet security to the social impact of technology. Wrote and reviewed consumer tech products occasionally for the Digital Life magazine. Also took on the role as a digital content producer and worked on producing interactive graphics as well as e-book projects.

Columbia, Mo, Us

Designed the website and user interface of the various components of Missouri Business Alert, a new startup launching in Sept 2012. Also played a key role in establishing a content and publishing strategy for the site.

Oversaw the production Vox's weekend and entertainment iPad app, Vox 5. Also worked on a smartphone app for Vox 5. Involved in training reporters and producers the Mag+ platform.

Designed, developed and launched the magazine’s iPad app, Vox 5. Also took on the role as the magazine's Facebook editor and ad campaign manager. Played a key role in packaging print content for its website and producing developing news coverage on the magazine's blog.

New York, Ny, Us

Design lead for a module consisting of a story recommendation engine and self-service advertising network aimed at creating new digital revenue opportunities and business models for the online outlets of Hearst Corporation.

Oklahoma City, Ok, Us

Produced multimedia stories for the site's "Stories of The Ages" project - an initiative by the paper to dig into Oklahoma's past and bring it forward by looking at how history has influenced contemporary Oklahoma. Also worked on the site's online communities and made strategic recommendations to improve the paper's community engagement through its online vehicles. Was also roped in to assist with the NewsOK's search engine optimization tasks.

Atlanta, Us

Wrote news features and blogged as part of the network's extensive coverage of the Gulf Coast oil disaster. Also covered general news as well as health and science stories. Blogged and assisted with CNN.com's "This Just In" news blog.

Singapore, Sg

Copy tasted international wires and sub edited local stories for the breaking news website of Singapore’s national broadsheet, The Straits Times. Staffed the breaking news desk during events such as the Obama Inauguration and the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks. Also blogged and produced original multimedia packages and micro sites for the portal.

New York, Ny, Us

Covered major breaking stories for the AP wire from the Singapore bureau, including the nation’s entry into the F1racing circuit, the massive pay rise of Singapore’s ministers and the Singapore-Thailand disputes. Also reported from the East-Asian edition of the World Economic Forum. Wrote several spot features relating to business and technology in the region, as well as the social landscape in Singapore.

Masters, Journalism

Undergraduate, Communication, Journalism