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Atlanta, Ga, Us

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Hand-selected for this new, senior leadership position formed at time of sale of Cox Media Group to private equity firm Apollo Global Management, and the subsequent company reorganization. Provide direction in development, enhancement, evolution, and support of all digital platforms companywide. Oversee teams across Digital Website and Service Development, Mobile and Connected TV Application Development, VOD and Live Streaming, Digital Advertising, Analytics and Financial System Reporting / Integrations as well as Architecture, Business Analysis and Quality Assurance procedures in support of these functions.

Atlanta, Ga

Led teams in development and continual enhancement of Cox Media Group’s TV, Radio, and Newspaper digital web sites, as well as associated content management systems and backend services. Additionally, maintained oversight of all functions within previous Digital Platform Services role, working to continually streamline development and QA processes and bring greater consistency and uniformity across Development teams.** Developed and executed all digital separation and integration plans related to the sale of Cox Media Group to Apollo Global Management.** Headed up and successfully transitioned all digital website data, mobile apps and video content for the sale of the Austin American Statesman and Palm Beach Post newspaper properties to Gannett.** Migrated CMG TV and Radio digital websites / properties to a new content management system in record time in preparation for separation from parent company Cox Enterprises.** Simplified CMG’s digital ecosystem and reduced operating costs by merging systems, consolidating vendors and combining contracts, unifying all TV, Radio and Newspaper properties onto a single technology stack.

Atlanta, Ga

Promoted to lead turnaround of this business group experiencing poor timeline execution, product quality, high expenses, platform stability issues, and unhappy business relationships. Led Agile Development and Site Reliability Engineering Team in creation of digital content management system and backend services supporting Cox Media Group’s TV, Radio, and Newspaper properties.** Introduced Agile / Scrum methodologies to greatly streamline development and QA processes. ** Spearheaded move to server-less architecture for backend RESTful APIs and Microservices to increase speed to market, improve operational efficiency, and reduce costs.** Provided influential thought leadership and motivational guidance to fortify business partner relationships, streamline internal processes, enhance system stability and performance, reduced overall operating costs by $600K, and greatly improved customer satisfaction.** Successfully executed the redesign of the Atlanta Journal Constitution digital newspaper website (ajc.com) in record time, increasing SEO, page speed, audience and revenue.

Atlanta, Ga

Tenaciously led day-to-day technical operations comprised of TV websites, mobile applications, video streaming, and agile development priorities requiring astute execution skills. Directed staff of managers and individual contributors supporting growth-focused projects while cost-effectively managing technical expenditures. Aggressively negotiated with vendors and cultivated strategic partnerships to meet company objectives.** Managed successful migration and adoption of new content management solution supporting operational efficiencies.** Successfully executed zero discrepancy migration of 60+ terabytes of video-on-demand content and 6 petabyte / month live streaming infrastructure to new provider reducing operations expenditures.** Instrumental in starting and advancing the company’s Connected TV strategy.

Atlanta, Ga

Built a responsive development team of 8 developers and 2 QA professionals supporting all company-owned television station services, mobile applications, and dynamic digital strategies, including flagship station wsbtv.com. Certified Scrum Master; introduced full agile processing requirements adopted enterprise-wide. Mentored colleagues and proactively partnered with senior executives to avoid project derailments.** Skillfully redirected $1.2M dollar mobile project in-house achieving significant cost savings for iOS and Android application development.** Led coxmediagroup.com redesign project demonstrating aggressive contract negotiations, management of cross-functional resources, and full budget accountability.** Served as delivery leader for Cox Communications cable customer portal, myconnection.cox.com, focused on client retention and increased revenue.

Alpharetta, Ga

Led development of operating room mobile software with accountability for directing 5 in-house and 2 off-shore developers through all project phases. Coordinated among business analysts, physicians at UC Irvine, and key decision makers to assess requirements, establish roadmaps/schedules, manage enhancement/upgrade process, and secure buy-in.** Championed transition to Agile development to increase efficiency and quality.** Recommended and achieved buy-in for mobile product offering, highlighting value-add leading to decision to create fully mobile offering alongside desktop product.

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Steered development and launch of multiple Turner-branded entertainment, news, and sports products for iOS, Android, Kindle Fire, and GoogleTV. Directed 15 onsite and 10 offshore mobile application developers, business analysts, and quality control technicians. Assessed/analyzed requirements, created use cases, guided architecture development, and created project requirements, schedules, and roadmaps. Secured business from internal brands through informative product demonstrations, RFPs, and prototyping. ** Reduced costs by 50%+ by effectively presenting value of internal versus third-party development.** Assisted in implementation of Adobe Pass for TV Everywhere.** Played vital role in enhancing quality and productivity of relationships between Turner Studios; Emerging Technologies; Research, Analytics, Ad Sales, and Data; as well as other internal teams.** Led development of Big Bang Theory companion app which won Best Mobile Application Creative at Summit International Awards.

Alpharetta, Ga

Held accountability for product strategy and engineering for startup digital-paper company. Managed 9-member team in all facets of solution development with personal accountability for budget planning, project proposals, product roadmaps, and internal release schedules. Consulted with customers to assess requirements and recommend solutions; partnered with sales teams to present prototypes and demonstrate products.** Steered development of mobile iPad platform used at ’10 Modern House Call Women’s Conference in Las Angeles to provide paperless patient medical record keeping to facilitate free treatment of 2000+ women in one weekend.** Effectively coordinated relationships with high-profile enterprise clients including NBC and ADP.

Alpharetta, Ga

Led development of real-time business intelligence data warehouse reporting and geospatial software for utility companies. Supervised 5-member software development team throughout all project phases. Steered design of software architecture and product roadmaps. ** Played key role in garnering multimillion-dollar sales and eventual sale of company as a result of clear and informative sales presentations at trade shows and customer sites.** Drove continual enhancement of application by garnering feedback and additional requirements from key partner.

Corvallis, Or

Advanced to direct development of real-time video conferencing and collaboration product (Halo) with responsibility for software architecture, design, coding, testing, documentation, and implementation. Trained new engineers and supervise redesign of software architecture. Gathered requirements and feedback; served as liaison between marketing/sales and technical teams, while providing post-sales support to executive-level management at client companies. Ensured on-time and in-budget project completion.** Led development of award winning Halo user interface in .NET 2.0 and Adobe Flash.** Patented “A Method for Coordinating Applications During a Host Transfer in a Collaborative Session”, and “Method for Managing Configuration of Virtual Collaboration Systems during Event Adjustment”.** Wrote technical publication “Elimination of transient, mosaic, and partial images displayed in Halo collaboration”.

Computer Engineering

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