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New York, Ny, Us

New York, Ny, Us

New York, Ny, Us

* Architected and oversaw the development of the NFL’s flagship mobile applications as they transitioned to ReactNative helping reduce our operating cost by over 60% while increasing our KPIs over 130%* Facilitated the move from legacy CMS system, for our 32 clubs and our flagship NFL.com site, to a more robust set of services for content management * Architected and oversaw the development of a new backend system that replaced 10-year-old legacy services. Moved the NFL away from 100% in house development and more towards leveraging the marketplace thus helping us reduce operating budgets by over 50%* Oversaw the rebuild of our Fantasy Football platform helping rebrand as a more youth-focused game helping usher in the next generation of fans, built on the same ReactNative platform used for our other Mobile applications. The move reduced our overall spend and operating budgets by over 50%* Oversaw the relaunch of our OTT applications across 6 platforms leveraging the You.i platform for a “build once deploy everywhere” solution.

New York, Ny, Us

Team Leadership and Culture Development:- Led the recruitment and mentorship of a high-performing engineering team, scaling it from 5 to 50 members.- Established a collaborative team culture and industry-best practices, fostering a culture of innovation and excellence.- Oversaw the successful onboarding of new team members, ensuring seamless integration into our dynamic work environment.Cost Optimization and Scalability:- Spearheaded cost-saving initiatives by implementing best practices and leveraging marketplace resources, resulting in an astounding 195% reduction in monthly development expenses.- Successfully reduced the monthly burn rate from $1.5 million to a mere $20,000, while simultaneously doubling our user base.Strategic Client Onboarding:- Demonstrated expertise in onboarding large media and entertainment brands, many with high-profile target dates, consistently delivering projects on time and within budget.- Forged strong client relationships and fostered trust by consistently meeting and exceeding client expectations.Infrastructure and DevOps Excellence:- Orchestrated the development and deployment of cutting-edge CI/CD pipelines, leveraging the latest technologies.- Enabled our platform to handle global scale effortlessly while maintaining an evergreen environment, achieving a remarkable 99.999% uptime rate.

New York, Ny, Us

* Part of the original team that brought iHeartRadio to market working on backend services and original iPhone and Blackberry applications* Helped grow the engineering team from 6 developers to over 500+ through traditional hiring, acquisition and acquihire practices* Expanded to OTT devices and worked with various partners to make iHeartRadio available anywhere our listeners were* Facilitated growth from 50k to over 50 million users building for burst scale and live streaming events like iHeartRadio Music Festival and Jingle Bells, all while maintaining a small footprint and managing low overhead

Dashbox is a search provider for production music used by major corporations such as NFL, NBA, CBS and FOX• Maintained and updated PHP based web product written in PHP framework Code Ignitor. • Developed backend services to automate the processing of new content into system.• Created new, more efficient workflows to better serve customers while also reducing work.

Tustin, California, Us

inXile Entertainment is video game company specializing in user generated content driven games for both the iPhone and Flash games having multiple titles in the top 50 applications on the Apple app store and sites with more than 7 million monthly unique visitors.• Was part of development team that brought line rider, fantastic contraption and line racer to the iPhone• Managed the development of multi-tear social networking websites, building front-end, middle-tier, back-end and web service components with high reliability, performance, and scalability.• Created and implemented coding standards and development workflows to streamline development and provide high reliability.• Managed team of six developers with no previous web development experience, this included teaching best practices, daily code reviews and weekly code highlights.• Developed advanced stored procedure and indexed views in SQL Sever 2005/2008 that where optimized for maximum performance by indexing results and performing performance profiling. • Integrated Facebook connect to all web properties to increase usability by users.

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

BIG Interactive is an award winning digital marketing agency focused on create marketing solutions for their clients via Web, Mobile, and Broadband. Clients include Honda, Anheuser-Busch and Clear• Developed multi-tear eCommerce solution, building middle-tier and back-end with extremely high reliability, performance and scalability requirements.• Meet weekly with business owners to gather requirements and give weekly updates of project status• Created in-depth 400-page document covering all aspects of technical design of project to be approved by all business owners.• Managed team of three offshore developers with daily code reviews to ensure that project stayed on time and that all requirements where meet.• Developed advanced stored procedures and indexed views in SQL Server 2005 that is optimized for maximum performance by analyzing execution plans and performing performance profiling.

EMAK Worldwide is an award wining advertising company focused on creating custom solutions for retailers by leveraging it’s ability to created branded merchandise to serve it’s clients like Burger King, Sunoco, and Kholls.• Solely responsible for building multi-tear websites, building front-end, middle-tear and back-end with high reliability, performance and scalability.• Meet with business owners to gather requirements and provide weekly updates on project statuses.• Managed two off shore developers, assigning day-to-day tasks and mentoring.• Converted existing classic ASP application to ASP.NET 2.0 while maintaining all functionality and with no downtime.• Created unique programs that not only meet the needs of the client but also engage customers in a new and exciting way.• Create complex business programs for our backend users.• Add Facebook connect to our outward facing clients websites to increase user usability.

Beverly Hills, Ca, Us