Manage all technology operations for entire local spot television ad sales organization with $250M gross billing and $10.5M revenue. Oversee 80+ onsite and offshore personnel in software development, technology infrastructure, hardware software, networking, level 2 support; disaster recovery (business continuity). • Led reorganization of technology and product departments into multiple divisions aligned with end-to-end customer interactions, enabling faster issue resolution and product delivery.• Directed multiple teams from cross-functional divisions to execute product roadmap, ensuring delivery and operations of functionally complete software for entire platform for commercial sales.• Developed and executed yearly technology roadmap, ensuring alignment and support of Videa vision, meeting or staying ahead of anticipated product requirements within 6-month window.• Migrated platform from on-premise to cloud-based technology, increasing capacity for innovation and responsiveness to business needs, leveraging microservices for quicker response times and avoiding disruption, improving customer experience and drastically reducing time to make changes and resolve issues.• Maximized business value of IT investment by partnering cross functionally with product management peers, cultivating strong relationships, increasing clarity on development capacity and delivering consistent productivity and value.•Moved platform to cloud, streamlining deployment process, ensuring reliability and scalability. Increased security and enabled growth based on actual or anticipated demand. • Delivered resources that enabled teams to create innovative solutions that improved user experience by communicating well-defined system management processes, standards, tools, technology selection, methods of integration and network architecture. • Increased gross sales from $70M 2018 to $250M in 2019 with projections of growth to $500M in 2020.

Managed Architecture, Data Services and QA teams to meet delivery challenges with 3 direct reports at director level. Hired, directed, mentored and grew technical staff across the portfolio. Managed deliverables to scope, budget and time. Defined strategy and planning for next generation of products. Drove planning and execution of complex technical projects.• Worked with direct reports to developed high-performing teams in each shared services discipline, creating plan to deliver optimal business results. • Developed process that reduced processing time to ingest large daily volume of transaction data from multiple customers by factor of 2 or 3, enabling scalability and quicker delivery of customer insights.• Built strong interpersonal relationships across the organization, improving team communication, alignment, and efficient support for business objectives.

Defined architecture and provided development guidance for scrum team working on traffic system data integration and internal support functionality. Assisted Product Owner, Scrum Master and Development Manager with creation, prioritization and management of technical stories. Served on team that provided technical design and oversight and support for all technical solutions and projects for growing platform.• Contributed to design and development efforts in creation of Appliance software, a .Net-based Windows service installed on dedicated servers managing extraction and transfer of traffic system data between Station Group and Videa.• Collaborated with 3rd-party contractor for design and implementation of internal SQL Server SSIS based framework transformed and loaded traffic system data into platform databases, ensuring performance reliability and scalability.• Designed and implemented Inventory Management System that enabled enrichment and enhancement of traffic system data, facilitating spot buying to agencies / advertisers on platform.

Architect on development team managing the implementation and support of the SmartBIM Library – library.smartbim.com and ecoScorecard – ecoscorecard.com websites. Influenced configuration of AWS hosted Elasticsearch clusters.• Built new search experience for ecoScorecard website utilizing an Elasticsearch index. Established a JAVA Spring based custom ETL from the MySQL database. UI involved custom jQuery plugins to retrieve data via JAVA Spring REST API.• Initiated design and development efforts related to migration of websites from a codebase of Ruby on Rails to .NET C# APIs and ASP.NET MVC Framework.

Supported CNN news gathering activities as member of team overseeing design and implementation of 10-15 custom technology solutions and 3rd-party applications. Delivered support and maintenance for internal and external websites, back-end processes and services. Supervised technical design for all projects within development group. • Architected development of AI process to automate extraction of information from CNN.com content across Turner brands, enhancing access to and placement of content.• Leveraged online tool (Amazon’s Mechanical Turk) to obtain human classification for content of 6K articles and 2K videos to use as training set in development of AI categorization. • Built internal search site using Apache Solr with Drupal 6 user interface, aggregating over 9M news-gathering documents from multiple sources and presenting single unified search platform.• Assisted with migration of external affiliate content sharing website to load-balanced server platform and upgraded to .NET 4.0, delivering a more reliable and stable end user experience.• Devised ASP.NET MVC website for recruiting potential on-air talent, eliminating reliance on multiple disparate spreadsheets. Researched best practices for ASP.NET MVC, Entity Framework and jQuery Datatables plug-in.• Replaced 3rd-party search application in external affiliate content sharing website with Apache Solr solution. Devised redundant search index servers for high availability, developed automated processes to extract and maintain about 80K index items.

Member of development team supporting custom technology solutions for CNN newsgathering. Managed full lifecycle development and support of new and existing internal and 3rd-party solutions across the portfolio. • Designed and developed custom solution for receiving and processing satellite phone vendor billing invoices. Worked with vendors to define XML billing specification. Developed process to ingest invoices into SQL Database. Created ASP.NET website enabling CNN users to view, track, add custom annotations to vendor invoices. Created custom reports using ActiveReports.NET.• Developed product that extended news gathering logistics / reporting website to support all 12 domestic news gathering bureaus. Worked with customers and business analysts, implementing changes to support custom business rules for each bureau, creating unified view of all coverage items. Enhanced back-end process to synchronize stories.• Modified news gathering / logistics website to enhance presentation of coverage items in more concise and consistent manner. Implemented AJAX, increasing page loading and improving user experience. Enhanced open source ASP.NET grid control to provide specific customer- requested functionality. Upgraded site to ASP.NET 2.0.• Added reporting to news gathering / logistics website, enabling finance department to more accurately track costs of producing news stories. Worked with finance customers and business analysts to define reporting requirements. Enhanced ASP.NET website and SQL Server database to produce online and Excel exportable reports using ActiveReports.NET.