ESM Software helps enterprises design and manage their strategic plans with an all-in-one balanced scorecard application. I'm helping them improve the experience to better guide users through all phases of strategy definition and execution.

Led digital strategy and managed cross functional teams to build new products and experiences that increased revenues and margins. • Built a middleware service to integrate 3rd party job boards with our careers and editorial sites.• Redesigned the site to drive user engagement and SEO acquisition.• Launched several new advertising products with the sales and marketing teams to increase sales.• Conceived of and deployed new products and experiences for job seekers and employers. Resulting in sustained e-commerce revenue gains of 35% YOY and increased user engagement.

Managed National Geographic's Your Shot product, an online photo community. Your Shot is National Geographic's largest community with over 685,000 members and 7,000 photo uploads per day. Your Shot photos are seen by millions in the magazine, books, apps, online and on social networks.

Led three product managers responsible for building an engaged user community, redesigning travel.nationalgeographic.com and managing our app businesses.Conceived of, advocated for, and deployed new methods of delivering ads that increased our inventory by 24% and their effectiveness by 31%.Provided strategic guidance and support for the Your Shot team to develop new ways of maximizing the return on investment from our member community.Led the development of a paywall for premium content that involved integrating multiple content management systems and identity systems.Identified a strategic opportunity with reference content and led a user experience team to design a product that increases user engagement and draws new visitors through search engine optimization (SEO).Led a cross-divisional brand marketing scrum to create a franchise out of our Explorer television series, leveraging lean development processes to ensure continuous improvement of the team, processes, and product.

Led a team of 8 technical project managers.Trained the project management team on Agile processes including Scrum and Kanban. Working for the CFO and key stakeholders, scaled and restructured the development, architecture and project management teams to better align with the business needs.Collaborated with stakeholders to define and prioritize a long range product roadmap.Worked to provide management and stakeholders with increased visibility and better tools to manage our product development pipeline.

Led a team of 13 back-end and UI developers responsible for building and maintaining Content Management Systems.Refined our scrum and SDLC processes to improve system quality and our team throughput.Enhanced our bespoke django Content Management System to support Nat Geo and Nat Geo Wild channels websites, integrating with our video, scheduling and analytics, advertising, search and community systems.Led the development effort to build a contest management system that included payment processing, photo and video uploads and workflow management.

Led a team of 5 application developers responsible for building and maintaining Content Management Systems.Instituted SDLC processes to improve system quality and the teams throughput.Built a new django CMS to support National Geographic’s core websites.Led the outsourced development effort for National Geographic's education site. http://education.nationalgeographic.com

Led the initial efforts to create a portal for employees to manage all stages of content production and delivery.Designed and implemented digital asset management features, including custom upload tools, metadata models, search and browse interfaces, and export methods.Assisted in the design and development of a digital screening room service to accelerate the production of new programs.Implemented enterprise wide search. The number of search queries quadrupled in Discovery Online within 2 weeks of implementation.