Director, Software Engineering, Abc News Digital
Greater New York City Area
• Directed teams of full-stack, systems, and QA engineers in a fast-paced Agile environment with a focus on developing promotable talent via strong mentorship and coaching and inspiring long-term employee retention through empowerment.• Led software development and operations for the digital publishing business from internal tools to consumer-facing products via websites, mobile iOS/Android apps, Apple TV, Roku, Amazon Fire OTT experiences and third-party content services and partners such as Yahoo!, Apple, Facebook and others.• Reporting directly to the CTO of Disney/ABC, with dotted line reporting to the President of ABC News, I worked with senior leaders across Product, Editorial, Marketing and Sales to develop the technical strategy and budget for execution of top business priorities.• Led both engineering and product for editorial content workflow identifying opportunities to optimize processes, creating and iterating a robust suite of tools and services to produce and distribute on-demand and live streaming video, news articles, special event coverage and other types of content experiences seen billions of times by tens of millions of users.• Led requirements gathering, joint application design, resource allocation, sprint planning/grooming and was responsible for defining operating procedures, incident management and escalation protocols, and organized and led communication throughout the larger organization for high profile, 24/7 news operations.• Responsible for hiring, evaluating and retaining a bicoastal organization of around twenty engineers and managers. Successfully established a new architecture team based in Seattle as well as forming a new team in New York for native app development.• Managed vendor relationships, internal partnerships and third-party services across infrastructure, delivery, development and distribution. Was the key technical point of contact and liaison for all strategic content partners and service providers.
