Built a new public square based on authentic people and conversations, a safe place to be real and curious.Led the technology team to handle growing user base, and deliver a delightful experience.Used AI and ML to build trust and safety systems at scale to support our community.

Senior Director of Engineering for Core Product, leading the Directors of Eng for Core Experiences, Community & Creators, and Platform Ecosystems.Owned technology strategy, organizational structure planning, large-scale projects, and our engineering culture of excellence and speed.

Director of Product Engineering encompassing Revenue, Growth, Apps, Community Servers, A11y, Design Systems, and Messaging. Grew the team from 12 to 160 through driving recruiting, developing interviewing practices, establishing management culture, and org planning.Built our engineering culture of velocity, autonomy, and responsibility.Led fast and awesome teams both small and large.

Co-founder with former CNN President and NBCUniversal Chairman of a subscription video service for passion verticals such as politics, faith, health, and music. Responsible for product, technology, and company growth.• Architected and led the product development and build of a modern SVOD platform scalable to thousands of independent channels. • Custom CMS supports community contributions, and the API powers delivery from web to mobile apps to TV. • Developed deep analytics, built a data-informed company culture, and created and led our big data team on a successful graph-theory project to identify and market-size potential future channels.

Leader of digital publishing/revenue, marketing, social media, product, commerce, and technology teams. • Led the The Onion to its historically highest growth and revenue. • Took The Onion onto new platforms, garnering millions of app downloads and social media followers. • Launched TV shows with Comedy Central and IFC, directly managing the marketing for both, along with with partnerships on Yahoo and YouTube.

In charge of all product, marketing, social media, and technology, including advertising products and delivery, as well as print production and e-commerce.• Doubled traffic to The Onion by creating new video, news, and partnership products.• Extended The Onion brand onto social and mobile platforms, becoming the most followed “news organization” on Twitter and one of the strongest presences on Facebook.• Led the collaboration with editorial and sales using technology and digital storytelling.

First digital leader at The Onion, charged with building the digital business of the popular free newspaper.• Took The Onion from a print publication to a top digital media company.• Created the product development and technology process to focus on growth and business goals.• Built technology team and architecture.• Designed websites to support community, which rapidly grew reach. • Launched Onion Video in 2007, which powered growth and later became the basis for the television shows.

Managed programmers and architects for digital products across Time Inc. including People, InStyle, Parenting, Sports Illustrated, AOL Food, Real Simple, and EW. Developed products around video, editorial content, and user generated content integration.

Freelance developer in media industry, working for brands such as iVillage. Programmed in Java, Perl, Rails, Python, PHP, JavaScript, SQL, TCL, CSS and HTML.

Managed engineering and user experience teams for a supplier qualification startup. Built out application inJava.

Managed engineering and UI teams to develop the interface for a financial analysis application. Hands-on J2EE coding.