Mark Harrison Email & Phone Number

New York, Ny, Us

Disney Streaming is responsible for delivering Disney’s key D2C offerings: Disney+, Star+, ESPN+, & Hulu.Leadership and Strategic Execution• Led the development and scaling of our Experimentation platform, achieving over 1000 tests in 3 years. Aligned strategies with business objectives, resulting in over $80 million in increased revenue. This involved close coordination across functions to communicate the vision, gain buy-in, and ensure a cohesive implementation and user experience.• Incepted and led a team building an in-house solution for monitoring playback quality, processing over 317 billion events monthly and realising $30m in savings.• Played a pivotal role in defining organisational strategy and growth, identifying and expanding domains to meet and exceed key business objectives.Successfully grew and nurtured a number of high-performing teams capable of delivering cutting-edge solutions following agile practices. Collaboration and Stakeholder Management• Worked closely with business stakeholders across multiple business and product domains to understand their needs and translate them into actionable solutions.• Collaborated with global teams across the organisation to unify & architect key components of a multi-tenant platform serving hundreds of millions of users. Streamlining the ecosystem, reducing costs, duplication, and engineering complexity. Talent Acquisition and Culture• Transformed the hiring process, collaborating with HR, hiring managers, and DEI teams to prioritise quality and diversity in candidate selection, leading to the adoption of improved practices by hundreds of engineers.• Led the tech community outreach and open-source efforts, enhancing the organisation's visibility and brand reputation. This involved fostering partnerships across the business, contributing to industry-wide initiatives, and representing the company's interests in public forums such as Disney's first-ever public blog.

Cake Solutions is a software solutions provider specialising in scalable distributed systems in Scala and JVM based technologies. - Led a team of over 50 engineers with responsibilities including: project delivery, engineering excellence across all projects, team development and growth, technical business strategy, training, and brand perception.

- Worked with the company directors to communicate and implement strategic ideas for expanding the business. - Founding member of our New York office, acting as a bridge between the US engineering team and UK HQ. Provided updates on projects from both a technical and strategic perspective.- Developed and managed client & partner relationships, organising joint marketing and technical events and working with them to further common goals.- Provided leadership and drove architectural change on site for a number of high profile clients. Leading the delivery of critical projects, both on site and remotely across a diverse set of verticals including pharmaceutical, manufacturing, travel, transportation, and education. In one instance led recruitment and team growth, directly enabling successful delivery of a ground up rewrite of their application to millions of users. - Improved brand perception through events, conferences, blogs, and demonstration of expertise in the community. - Performed ad-hoc workshops and technical consultation for clients. Provided knowledge and expertise via the creation of technical proposals and reports. Guiding and subsequently running programmes of process and architectural change.

- Worked with a varied set of technologies including AWS, Scala, Kafka, Reddis, SQL, NoSQL & Graph databases.- Led the delivery of numerous critical projects, both on site and remotely across a diverse set of verticals including pharmaceutical, manufacturing, travel, transportation, and education.- Mentored junior, senior, and lead engineers working on site with clients, enabling successful delivery both short and long term.- Published technical blogs and journal articles over several years

Ultra Electronics is a company which is focused on delivering mission critical systems to airports adhering to strict (ISO 9000 compliant) quality procedures. - Delivered a number of high scale, critical projects covering a range of front and back-end technologies, including high pressure on-site testing and sign-off at various Airports. Shaped and documented new standards and best practices for future projects to follow.- Cross trained .NET developers on JVM based technologies.