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Philadelphia, Pa, Us

Toronto, Ontario, Ca

Managed the post merger integration of technology platforms that included migrating all clients to a single product.

Toronto, Ontario, Ca

• Built the team and infrastructure that allowed the company to accelerate growth consistently to achieve over 10mm annual billings.• Oversee budgets for engineering, product and data with a reporting line of ~25 individuals in a distributed work environment.• Designed completely new hiring process and handle compensation review.• Reduced overall cloud spend as % of revenue while maintaining over 99.99% uptime for real time systems.• Championed for best practices such as continues integration, unit test coverage, end to end testing and developer /testing environments and A/B deploys• Promoted to CTO after 1.5 years.• Supported successful exit of the company

New York, New York, Us

Prebid.org is an independent organization designed to ensure and promote fair, transparent, and efficient header bidding across the industry. Funded by dues-paying members, it manages the open source projects Prebid.js, Prebid Mobile, Prebid Server, Prebid Video, Prebid Native, and others.

New York, New York, Us

Designed and authored the original Prebid.js library which is the leading open source header bidding framework, which is used by millions of websites worldwide and most of the Comscore 100.• Led many initial conversations with SSP partners to allow the formation of Prebid.org, which is an independent organization designed to ensure and promote fair, transparent, and efficient header bidding across the industry.

New York, Us

AppNexus was acquired by Xandr (AT&T)• Hired 3 engineering teams responsible for sell side of the business.• Designed and built the publisher tag used by all clients (AST).• Scaled Prebid Server to handling up to 80k QPS for peak video demand

New York, New York, Us

Managed 3 teams within the Engineering organization responsible for sell side of the business.

New York, Us

New York, Us

-Work closely with the Engineering and Business teams to ensure quality product releases in a timely manner.-Write highly technical functional requirements and business workflow artifacts.-Facilitate a quick escalation path to Engineering when reviewing urgent issues from Business. -Ensure product quality, requirements specifications and ease of use of the business applications.

New York, Ny, Us

-Lead Developer for Asynchronous Ad Tag Project-API Development-Front end UI JavaScript development-Business Analyst for 24/7 Media's Connect Platform-Rich Media and Video technologies

Valley Forge, Pa, Us

Improved performance of page load times by offloading tasks to run in background threads. Supported development of consumption of a third party vendor Webservice.Utilized session based caching to prevent round trips to the database.

New York, Ny, Us

-Initiated Proof of Concept for the OpendAdstream Video Module. Provided client specific recommendations and specifications. This work allowed our clients to integrate Rich Media into their advertising with less overhead. -Worked with the R&D team to resolve bugs/issues with the Video Module. -Maintained and expanded the core business API using Java EE technology, SOAP Webservice communications. -Involved in several development cycles of the Rich Media Foundry tool, including UI and template generation code. -Agile and Scrum methodologies.

New York, Ny, Us

Provided customer support for the full suite of 24/7 products and services, including the base OpenAdstream (OAS) product. Provided prompt, accurate feedback to clients pertaining to open tickets and a clear escalation path for issues that were not readily resolved. Worked with the support team to assist in training newer members, including specific module training and in depth knowledge transfers. Provide feedback to the Product Management team for future product functionality. -Act in a consultative role to educate clients on software best practices during initial implementation of software and throughout lifetime of customer.-Assist clients in Video and Rich Media ad serving implementations. -Provide training to the team in technical aspects and functionality of the software. -Reporting and documenting any bugs found in the software for further analysis by QA-Training of new employees and documentation of procedures and processes.

Atlanta, Ga, Us

-Organize and direct 8-12 individuals working to sort packages in a very fast paced and time sensitive environment.-Worked well under pressure and achieved best “miss-load” rate in the district. -Won many “best in class” awards.-Worked with the Management team to accomplish goals set by the district.