Manages overall technology strategy in collaboration with C-Suite and leadership team, and establishes and maintains engineering best-practices in collaboration with engineering leads. Responsible for both on-site and remote teams (domestic and international).Works with VP of Product on roadmap and capacity planning, balancing internal engineering initiatives with business plan. Addresses needs and concerns of business teams as they relate to technology and customers.Managed engineering portion of due diligence on behalf of Beachfront's engineering team during the Seedtag/Beachfront acquisition process.Established a culture of cost-awareness, focusing efforts on AWS spend reductions across core services. Reduced monthly spend by anywhere from 5%-30% in individual service costs. Works with CFO to forecast and maintain annual infrastructure budget.Revamped employee hiring and onboarding process, improving the experience for both interviewers and candidates. Established official engineering career path at Beachfront. Mentors engineers on personal development and achievement of career goals, providing additional support wherever needed. Implemented incident response protocols, improving application uptime across core products. Led efforts to strengthen core technology stack by addressing areas of concern escalated by engineers, and allocating resources to improve each platform.Led long-term project to update data and reporting systems. Worked with vendors and data team to upgrade system, providing better capabilities to engineering and product teams for future platform enhancements.

Works in the ad tech industry developing ad auction and client delivery solutions. Facilitates integrations with SSP and DSP platforms and develops optimizations to improve revenue performance. Creates front-end and back-end solutions for end-to-end ad transactions using a cloud-based infrastructure. Recommends vendors and solutions to improve ad quality and expand feature offerings to publishers. Meets with customers to discuss requirements and bridge communication between technology and business.AccomplishmentsWorked as member of engineering team connecting real-time bidding to Video On Demand and Linear inventory. Developed solutions to integrate traditional MVPD environment with RTB, bridging communication between SCTE and OpenRTB systems. Led development of ad pod bidding product focused on optimizing pod fill and publisher yield for CTV.Added display product to existing video technology stack. Built ad quality solution using third-party API. Developed services for tag-based, exchange, and header bidding display inventory. Implemented integrations for new supply and demand revenue streams, and new data systems for improved bid rates through better match rates and inventory targeting.

Works in the ad technology industry on VPAID-compliant video ad delivery solutions and RTB technology. Current team works with with Google, Amazon, and other partner RTB integrations. Designs and develops high-volume features that help acheive business revenue goals. Developed in-house video ad delivery solution to replace third-party technology and matched performance metrics of third-party implementation. Increased video ad revenue by over 400% through feature enhancements, including server-side performance algorithms and client-side optimizations. Works on full-stack projects involving metrics reporting, bid performance, and fraud detection. Builds integrations using third-party technologies to improve ad traffic quality.Presents company-wide demonstrations of significant releases and new features.

Creates web sites, social applications, games, and multimedia training materials that support STARZ original programming. Uses HTML5, CSS3, jQuery, Javascript, Flash/AS3, and various web frameworks and libraries.

GNut Creative specializes in web development, multimedia, print, and identity design for small to medium sized businesses. My experience includes clients in the performing arts, homebuilding, restaurant and food service, entertainment, and fitness industries.

Multimedia developer for Starz corporate. Responsibilities include development of promotional sites for original television series, integration of XML and Flash for call center web sites, development of multimedia training materials, and sound design for multimedia sites. Development languages include CSS, Javascript, HTML, Actionscript 2.0 and Actionscript 3.0.

Worked on the Karsh/Hagan corporate site as a designer and developer. Provided design and development work for client campaigns as needed.