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Santa Monica, California, United States

Los Angeles County, California, United States

• Lead the execution and delivery of digital and technology projects for NBCU’s DTC TVE streaming services, focusing on the backend ecosystem and engineering team management.• Oversaw a dynamic team of engineers, fostering an environment of innovation and excellence in backend system development and maintenance.• Drove the project lifecycle and updates on the backend of NBCUniversal's DTC TVE streaming suite, ensuring it was fully equipped to successfully stream the 2024 Paris Olympics.• Utilized Agile/Scrum, Kanban, and Waterfall methodologies to streamline backend development processes and project management.• Proactively identified risks and resolved technical challenges, ensuring robust backend support for all digital projects.

Glendale, California, United States

• Created and maintained documentation including project plans, strategic guides,executive reports, and post-mortems for Disney+ / Star+ / Hotstar to guarantee timely, high-quality execution across the content supply chain.• Worked with multiple teams across international regions to track and expedite, workflows and timelines within the operational supply chain, resulting in a decrease in delivery times from a 160-day SLA to a 90-day SLA.• Led the integration and product launch of IMAX formatting onto the Disney+, Star, and Star+ platforms to further expand Disney Streaming's offerings.• Created and implemented live televised events onto Disney Streaming with big ticket viewings in multiple categories such as new concerts (i.e. Elton John) and live series (i.e. Dancing With The Stars) resulting in an average audience of over 750k.

Los Angeles County, California, United States

• Gathered and validated various post-production schedules and delivery dates to help build life cycle plans for current linear shows streaming on Disney+.• Followed up with cross-functional teams such as Global Content Operations, Production, and Studio Operations to ensure projects were progressed through the Disney+ supply chain in a timely manner.• Conducted risk assessments on various launch milestones and collaborated with fellow project managers to help streamline Disney+ global territory launch workflows.• Streamlined linear television to Disney+ supply chain by implementing the project management tools and creating a central database allowing teams to access information of linear shows going to Disney+ within a given fiscal year.

Los Angeles, California, United States

• Planned and promoted digital campaigns and promotional incentives which helpedincrease user interaction by over 75 Percent.• Organically increased total social media follower rate to 100,000 followers in one month through the creation of celebrity and influencer partnerships programs.•Launched TikTok account and campaigns gaining over 100,000 organic followers within 5 months.• Curated and audited company website's SEO to help drive traffic to landing pages and ticket sales pages.• Spearheaded the creation of a content library with over 100 pieces of both long-form and short-form digital content to help with museum education and social media engagement.

Greater Los Angeles Area

• Responsible for reviewing and monitoring the content safety of short video products on the Tik Tok, and Musical.ly apps, thus ensuring their legal compliance.• Developed, maintained, and implemented content security standards for both TikTok and Musical.ly communities.• Engaged in the improvement and operation strategies of content management systems for all of Bytedance’s numerous apps.• Collaborated and coordinated with supervising departments to handle contents violating TikTok’s & Musical.ly’s community regulations, and ensured compliance with Bytedance’s operation standards in a timely manner.• Drove awareness and understanding through communicating actively with TikTok’s & Musical.ly’s active users to improve user experience and settle any content issues violating Bytedance company policy.• Conducted regular data analytic queries in order to track popular trends within the TikTok & Musical.ly community.

Greater Los Angeles Area

• Curated, Updated, and scheduled promotions in TMZ’s CMS system for direct ad sales campaigns to boost daily unique visitor rate.• Analysed, Measured, and Reported on major factors in order to influence organic search engine rankings or SEO.• Assisted in determining and negotiating the in-house quality procedures and standards of all digital TMZ products, thus promoting user experience for TMZ’s web and app users.• Partnered with company leaders in the interview process of new employees in order to promote and ensure the longevity of the TMZ workspace.• Utilized problem solving and conflict resolution skills in order to set up workarounds for bugs discovered on TMZ’s websites, IOS, and Android Apps within a 6-hour window. Thus ensuring a quality experience for our users.• Used Quality Assurance tactics to discover, document, and track any bugs affecting TMZ’s Apps, Websites, Store, and Content Management System.

Master Of Business Administration - Mba

Bachelor’S Degree