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Santa Monica, Ca, Us

All TV is streaming, OrkaTV is founded to ride the wave created by the fundamental tech shift that is crashing through the television ecosystem. This tech shift is causing massive, chaotic disruption and by reading the currents, OrkaTV is charting the course for the entertainment companies of the future. Our first goal is to help ad buyers reach the viewers and audiences on streaming tv. Then we're looking to bring a great viewer experience back to the television set. If you are someone that loves television, come join our pod! We need all the friends, partners, and supporters that we can get.

New York, Ny , Us

At Amagi, we are building the tech platform that powers streaming tv. For Content Owners and Studios, our products enable the creation, distribution, and monetization of channels to a broad array of video services including streaming, OTT, and traditional broadcast. For Streaming TV Services, our products enable easy onboarding, management, and monetization of a broad set of channels in a seamless, standardized way. For Broadcasters, we provide advanced cloud-based automation, playout, and delivery.

Palo Alto, California, Us

At Wurl, we pioneered the fundamental tools and infrastructure that powers free, ad-supported streaming tv channels and streaming tv services. We invented and built the tools that enabled Content Owners and Studios to create channels of content and to distribute them to both streaming services and traditional broadcasters as linear channels and as VOD offerings.In this role, I led the Product, Engineering, and Operations teams and helped grow the company from a small team with lots of ideas into a full operating company with a world class set of clients.

Burbank, Ca, Us

Acquired by The Walt Disney Company, Maker Studios was the largest of the multi-channel networks on YouTube. Working across all the divisions at Disney, we adapted our core video management, packaging, and delivery systems to form the back-end video management systems for the Disney+ streaming service.

Glendale , Ca, Us

Acquired by The Walt Disney Company, Maker Studios was the largest of the multi-channel networks on YouTube. A talent-first, technology driven media company and the #1 producer and distributor of short form digital content reaching millennials in the US, attracting 14 billion+ monthly views. Maker was the #1 producer and distributor of online video to Millennials and younger generations, a diverse, tech-savvy group living a mobile, social, on-demand life.At Maker, I led the product teams responsible for our 1) Direct to Consumer properties, including Maker.tv and our talent-centric Mobile App constellation (70+ apps showcasing many of the biggest talent on YouTube); 2) Video Management and Distribution platforms; 3) Data and Analytics platform; and our 4) Business Support tools

As an independent consultant, I helped coach / mentor high-growth, investor-backed startups and small, rapidly-growing companies create product strategies, improve their development methodologies, and structure their companies to scale with rapid growth.I worked closely with venture capital, private equity and angel investors, entrepreneurs and business leaders to assess opportunities being considered for investment and to coach / mentor their portfolio companies.I used techniques from the Lean Startup, Design Thinking, Agile / Scrum / Kanban, Growth Hacking, Mobile First, and Big Data Analytics to help companies define their business model, determine a strategic vision, create tactical projects that will move the product along the strategic roadmap, then assess the results to determine the next steps.Often, I was a sounding board for founders, investors, and senior executives that want to bounce ideas and questions off of someone who has "been there and done that" a few times.

Santa Monica, Ca, Us

Combining my experience in strategy and Big 5 consulting with a passion for technology and cars, I helped to create and execute Edmunds.com’s mobile strategy, including the company’s five-star iPhone / iPad app which was rated a “Best Car App” by CNN in 2012.Director of Product for the Dealer Tools group. We designed and built the specialized B2B systems that operate between Edmunds.com and the Dealerships that subscribe to use their services. Started as a bit of an afterthought, the Dealer Tools product became one of the most critical links in enabling dealer's to use the companies listing products. To be successful, we used techniques from many disciplines - the Lean Start Up to define what the products would be, Design Thinking to figure out what the critical features were and ensure our usability goals were met, and Agile / Scrum / Kanban to execute the development. We went from raw concept to production product in just 6-weeks. Over the year, we grew from nothing to thousands of users of the system --- with an adoption rate of over 70% by dealerships.Director of Product in charge of the company's Mobile Website. As a product manager, I defined a strategic plan for the mobile website, then executed tactical projects to improve the user experience. We transformed the site and delivered an app-like experience within the mobile browser. Our approach delivered huge results and traffic grew by over 200% within the year.Product Manager for the Mobile Team. We developed the Edmunds.com mobile website, iPhone, iPad, and Android apps. At the time, Edmunds operated an enthusiast website called Inside Line and we built the Inside Line mobile website and iPhone apps. On the emerging tech front, we developed a predictive algorithm based vehicle recommender called “My Car Match” in collaboration with professors from MIT Sloan and UCLA Anderson.

El Segundo, Ca, Us

As an independent consultant, I worked worked as a Program and Sr Project Manager for VP and C-Level executives to assess enterprise systems, define and charter internal strategy consulting groups, and execute large-scale system development projects.- DIRECTV: as an Enterprise Program Manager for COO’s “Top 5” Project Hit List, I led cross-department, cross functional teams to analyze issues, define solutions and execute projects to implement the solutions. We improved automated-account activation from 45% to over 90% saving the company millions of dollars in call center and on-site tech costs. Our ability to rapidly complete these projects allowed other critical IT initiatives to stay on track and release on time- DIRECTV: as a Scrum Master, I organized and structured the project to redesign DIRECTV.com. We used the Agile/Scrum methodology and executed the full product management lifecycle - from conceptualization to prototyping, usability testing with focus groups, and development. We accomplished a full redesign of site and worked through all major functionality - sales, service, TV program guide, pay per view to improve usability, simplify sales process flows, and improve the underlying code stability. The results were that we increased new customer sales, increased customer purchases of pay-per-view events and movies, improved customer satisfaction, and improved customer retention.

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Led Application Services group for offshore services provider. Responsible for global project delivery by 150 member development team based in Mumbai, India.Defined methodology for group, established internal standards, implemented development tools in order to improve quality and increase customer satisfaction with delivered systems.

As an independent consultant, I worked worked as a Program and Sr Project Manager for VP and C-Level executives to assess enterprise systems, define and charter internal strategy consulting groups, and execute large-scale system development projects.Successful consulting engagements led at: - Farmers Insurance: Implemented custom enterprise CRM system with real-time data links to 13 other enterprise systems, worked with Chief Strategy Officer to write the charter for the Zurich Insurance Company's internal strategy consulting group- Cincinnati Insurance Company: Audit of enterprise system to determine system lifespan and to recommend improvements - Nissan: Implemented a global content management system to power the companies intranet across North America, Japan, and Europe- Los Angeles Unified School Districts: Managed the execution of the Procurement-to-Payables project to solve issues with their accounting system and processes

Led strategic planning sessions and implementations of Digital Asset Management systems. Key clients included:- Sony Pictures Entertainment- Lucent- Microsoft Studios- Disney Consumer Products

London, Gb

Key Projects Included:- Farmers Insurance- Y2K Conversions at Costa Mesa ACC / ADE- Nationwide Insurance- McDonnell Douglas

Bs, Geology

Certified Scrum Master, Agile Development

Private Pilots License, Aviation