Engineering lead overseeing the Core Engineering Solutions Architecture team, chartered with designing and implementing technical solutions across clients and backend services for Disney Entertainment, including Disney+, Hulu, and ESPN.

Engineering lead for the team building out the Browse & Content Discovery experience for the Hulu, Disney+, and Star+ applications on browser-based living room devices.

Oversaw one of the teams building new features in the Browse & Content Discovery space within the Hulu app for both browser-based Living Room devices as well as the Roku.Partnered with peers from Product, UX, and Program Management to define and prioritize the team'sroadmap and drive the design and architecture of new features & functionality for the viewer.

Constructed a data pipeline to reduce large sets of viewer engagement and error data into queryabledigests, enabling teams to measure the health of our application in near real-time during productiondeployments, helping to preempt potential incidents.Led the architectural design and implementation of an EPG “Live Guide” for Hulu's Live TV subscribers.Collaborated on the design and implementation of a flexible, editorially controlled, on-device sign-upflow in React, enabling rapid experimentation and iteration by our partner teams across the business.

The Living Room team at Hulu is responsible for creating innovative and modern client app experiences on popular consumer devices such as the Xbox, Playstation, Amazon FireTV, and Roku, to name a few.Worked with a tight knit team of developers to implement UI for new features & functionality across multiple device platforms.Worked cooperatively with user experience, user research, and product management to design and implement best-in-class client applications that delight our users and continually redefine the boundaries of how our viewers consume content.Partnered with product management to take a data-driven approach in defining goals and corresponding key performance indicators around new features & functionality and ensure the necessary instrumentation is in place to measure the impact of changes as they are released to the general public.

Instrument, collect, and analyze telemetry in XBOX One Shell experiences to better understand and measure customer engagement in our feature space, drive product quality upstream by leveraging preview flighting and A/B testing among consumer audiences, and informing the decision making process around new features with quantifiable engagement data. Designing new and creative means of visualizing and representing this telemetry to let the data speak for itself, enabling partner teams like user research and design to make more informed decisions.

Helped ship Microsoft's next generation console experience: XBOX One. As a member of the Shell team, contributed to the test effort around Social experiences on the console, including: Achievements, Friends, Multiplayer APIs, and Privacy & Online Safety.Core technologies included: WinJS/Windows Store applications built on HTML5/JavaScript, C++/CX functional automation, and telemetry collection & analysis.

Recruited into a rotation-based program for college hires in Microsoft IT intended to grow both technical acumen and breadth of the company by participating in four, six-month-long, rotations in a variety of organizations and technical disciplines:January 2013 - June 2013Software Development Engineer in Test for Microsoft LearningParticipated in the embedded SDET engineering model, contributing to the test effort around the frontend of an MVC web application for Microsoft training and certification planning, including feature test plans, test automation via Coded UI. Fixed product defects and implemented new features and functionality.July 2012 - January 2013Software Development Engineer in Test for XBOX Shell SocialOwned the test effort around the Friends and Achievement apps on the Xbox One, including the creation of feature and integration test plans, functional test automation, and localization.Owned the initial investigation and engineering integration work needed to enable instrumentation of Xbox One feature experiences that improved the efficiency and reliability of test automation and became the infrastructure for our collection and analysis of customer engagement data.January 2012 - July 2012Software Development Engineer for Microsoft.comCollaborated with a UX designer to rapidly prototype functional proofs of concept to demonstrate short and long-term visions for the future of Microsoft.com to leadership, including responsive design and enhanced first-party device experiences.July 2011 - January 2012Software Development Engineer for Microsoft IT Mobile EngineeringOwned the design and implementation of an MVC web application that served as an administrative interface for managing the content of a prototype enterprise marketplace for the Windows Phone.

Worked with the Microsoft Mobile Center of Excellence's incubation team to leverage new, advanced, web technologies to develop and deploy interactive line-of-business mobile web applications for the Windows Phone, iPhone, and Android platforms.

Collaborated with a team of four other engineers on the development and deployment of rich, interactive, web and social experiences. Specialized in the integration of numerous content management systems and the development of extensible modules for these systems.

Designed, tested, and implemented pluggable extensions for a PHP/MySQL-based content management system that powered the College of Social Science’s departmental websites.

Partnered with creative designers and project managers to develop rich and interactive web experiences that drove consumer interest in a brand, leveraging JavaScript libraries such as jQuery and Prototype and PHP frameworks including Drupal and CodeIgniter.