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Lead a 150 person engineering org.Manage teams across iOS, Android, Scala/Java microservices, Data Science, Data Engineering, Web, CMS/Publishing, Test Engineering, SRE, Content Platform, Content Operations, and Program Management. Teams are spread across NYC, Orlando, Nashville, and remote.Recently completed a 6 month buildout of a 50 engineer team in Nashville across iOS / Swift, Android / Kotlin, Web / React / Node.js, Scala, Java, Python, Data Engineering and Data Science to bootstrap iHeart’s newly built Digital HQ2.Led reorg to increase efficiency and effectiveness by flattening out management and raising the profile of team leaders. Refocused all engineers to make decisions that maximize iHeartRadio’s Reach, Voice footprint, and Revenue and question any decision that doesn’t obviously support those.Moved to an embedded SRE model and gave teams ownership of their infrastructure and a mandate to migrate to fully managed AWS services and Kube/EKS. Reduced AWS costs 15% with no loss of capabilities and moved all public APIs to EKS. Consolidated BigQuery and GKE back to AWS EMR/Redshift and EKS to increase AWS EDP savings and reduce transport costs.Created a tech product group across Data Science and Content to enable faster iteration on launchable products, better marketing to our users, and replace legacy infrastructure and processes with modern scalable solutions.Launched iHeartRadio in Mexico enabling full North America availability for our partners in Auto and Home/CE.Built an automated and distributed CCPA solution for iHeartRadio’s 120M+ registered users with an operational model that requires zero additional compliance staff.Launched Apple Music, Sonos, Amazon, Google, and Samsung content integrations to distribute iHeart’s radio, music, podcast, and local news content directly into their ecosystems.Expanded academic and open source contributions. Enabled Data Science to get papers accepted and presented at ACM RecSys 2019.

Realigned vertical teams from feature delivery focus to wholly owning problem statements on user acquisition and retention strategy. Collaborated with Product to define broad problem statements the teams could wholly own, brainstorm strategies and tactics to solve, establish KPIs around, and iteratively test, validate and show performance at solvingRapidly expanded multivariate A/B testing capabilities with Data Science developed microservices and dashboards wired into every flagship client and backend service and Analytics developed Adobe tracking supporting all testing and validation.Reimplemented personal performance and goal tracking creating an OKR based system for all engineers that mapped back into the corporate performance management system.Led development of an industry first ad-tech product that extrapolates broadcast audience profile and broadcast ad exposure by modeling the digital audience behavior within the broadcast signals range providing iHeart with unique sales and audience measurement capabilities that no other broadcaster has.

Took over the Engineering Programs group and pivoted mission to bring Engineering and Product together as a more lean, agile, and data driven org and scale out external Home/CE and Auto partnerships.Ran a “stop the world” agile reboot of all teams bringing in coaches to train Execs, Product, and Engineering. Restructured teams into verticals, set up common scrum practices and individual team commitments, established a big-room quarter plan schedule, and restarted the teams.Pivoted iHeartRadio to an On-Demand subscription service with a music festival launch deadline. Created MVP launch features with Product and organized vertical teams to own them. Vetted partners to accelerate launch timing and chose Rhapsody/Napster for their catalog and subscription tech stack. Developed contracts with legal for the major music labels. Ran an entire org scrum of scrums to triage the MVP progress vs. time remaining, ran integration with Napster, and launched on time.Migrated data center from Carpathia (QTS) to AWS and GCP and shifted to a cloud native strategy for engineering. Migrated CDN from Akamai to Fastly to enable configuration via each team’s config repo.Ran bakeoff of different microservice architectures with API team and CTO and began breakup of our Java monolith into Scala/Akka and finally Scala/Kube.Ran internationalization program to add multi-language support, region specific and multi-tenant services, and regional catalogs. Took over existing iHeart branded apps in Australia and New Zealand and moved them onto our new flagship apps. Integrated Transifex translation workflow to enable Spanish language support for iHeart Fiesta Latina launch and French language support.Coordinated total revamp of analytics in our apps using a dual reporting strategy of Adobe Analytics alongside internally developed capture endpoints to enable analysts and engineers total access to our user activity and starting the pivot to being a data driven organization.

Managed integration with Amazon’s Echo / Alexa team enabling a launch partnership and securing 1st party inclusion (no skill needed) of iHeart’s content on Echo and enabling iHeart account linkage via the Alexa app.Ramped up onboarding of Home/CE and Auto partner integrations and created a support structure to intake and prioritize updates to the iHeartRadio service needed by partners and provide development support back to critical partners.Managed migration from statutory DMCA rights to direct deals with the major record labels, buildout of new royalty workflows and catalogs to support the new deals, and buildout of playback models to optimize the cost efficiency of iHeartRadio based on the each deals structure.Managed large scale CDN migration of all IHeartRadio’s content from Level3 to Akamai to secure significant savings in a larger ATT & Akamai deal for iHeartRadio’s business.Managed buildout and launch of an iHeartRadio customized AdsWizz AIS ad-replacement system for live radio streams.

Responsible for buildout and launch of iHeartRadio backend and managing all backend services, infrastructure, data, and partner integrations.Hired during the Thumbplay acquisition with a 6 month deadline to launch the new service at iHeart’s music festival. Defined MVP launch features including Live Radio, Custom/Artist/DMCA Radio, Facebook registration, and User profiles with Product and UXD and managed development, infrastructure buildout, client integration and testing for ontime launch.Launch partner for Facebook's Open Graph, used FB login exclusively for relaunched app and gave visibility of friend’s activity via OG Listen events.Managed data center migration of iHeart service from Datapipe (Rackspace) to Carpathia (QTS). Staffed a migration team and ran partnership between engineering and dev ops to plan new datacenter footprint and implement centralized configuration management for each migrated stack.Created and managed development of a turnkey subscription HD video product for Premiere Networks including HD video capture/encode hardware, content catalog and search service and management tools, and Akamai HDnet distribution. Migrated existing Premiere content and apps from Kit/Kyte to our turnkey solution.Created, managed development of, and patented a dynamic advertising service for email based newsletters to allow consistency of ad delivery to a user and competitive separation of ads in a constrained HTML email client environment.Managed Akamai advanced config buildout to merge existing Clear Channel services with new iHeartRadio APIs as a single URL structure and manage caching across services.

Managed the integration of Dovetail’s high-value payments solution to an existing low-value payments customer as part of multi-year global expansion at one of the big four US banks.Ran workshops with bank executives, SMEs, and operations staff to determine critical features for a multi-country combined system. Ran a rapid prototyping group to create demoable solutions back to the workshop attendees and iterate on requirements.Defined a reusable “model bank branch” MVP enabling lighter weight deployments for simple branches and incremental feature development for more complex branches. Managed parallel project for the first scheduled expansion branch based on the “model branch” concept starting with early country & clearing requirement definition and ending with initial software delivery and acceptance.Mentored business analysts on high value payments concepts, mentored developers on Dovetail's product, payments processing approach, and technology underpinnings.Created traceability and approvals process and streamlined workflows and responsibilities across product, project, and development teams.

Managed projects, product, development, and relationship for Dovetail's flagship HV payments customer. Served as a technology leader and mentor to the development group backing up the CIO's organizational responsibilities.Ran hiring drive to increase Dovetail’s development staff size by nearly 400% as our client portfolio increased. Worked with CIO to establish an evidence based performance review process, professional development program, and onboarding process.Developed policies on infrastructure, client support, security, and business continuity in order to support contractual commitments with clients. Ran training program on security and ensured full compliance during all client audits.Managed multiple engagements with Sun to performance tune Dovetail’s applications at Sun’s Scotland lab on some of their largest server offerings (Sun Fire E25Ks) and publish performance reports for press and partner use, enabling Dovetail to win new business with a big four US bank and one of the worlds largest banks.Responsible for support of a large dollar maintenance revenue stream from early clients. Worked with CEO to create a standard client support strategy and flexible resource agreement to ensure service without impacting new product development.Developed sessions for a first ever product advisory group hosting senior management from our largest clients for several days to shape Dovetail’s product roadmap.Worked with the Fed and Chips on Swift’s 202 Cover implementation and led Dovetail’s effort to create a compliant solution

Key member of the small startup’s development team, able to make a large impact on the product and its technology choicesDeveloped a next generation universal payments system, a T+1 trade settlement system, and a transactional application development platform. Involved in full lifecycle of software and product development, including initial concept work, customer requirement studies, development and testing, customer implementation, and production support and maintenance.Worked with co-founder and CTO to translate his older middleware product’s concepts into a leading edge Enterprise Java app platform, create a new object/relational persistence engine, and workflow/orchestration engine.Created a bank reference data search engine for Thompson Financial and integrated the capabilities into Dovetail’s Payments System.Led the development of gateway interface to the pre-launch GSTPA Axion4 trade matching service. Coordinated testing with trade service’s pilot clients and got Dovetail’s implementation certified.Worked with a small team building out and integrating the first large implementation of the Dovetail Payments System for the top Euro clearer’s New York and Frankfurt payment hubsDeveloped clearing support for Fed, Chips, RTGSPlus, Target2, EBA Euro1 and XCT, and Swift.Took a lead role in productizing the Dovetail Payments System and packaging it up for white label resale through partner offerings. Coordinated with partners to build out the required components in Dovetail's product and provide the needed integration points for the partners products.Early member pilot team supporting the Fed's conversion to IP. Worked closely with the Fed in workshops to trial their end-to-end conversion process enabling Dovetail to become the first vendor certified for the Fedline Direct IP based offering.