• Lead the strategy, evangelism, and capability build out of mobile application development across government, DoD, military, and commercial clients. • Ensure common standards, practices, and a governance structure to speed mobile development with consistent quality results. • Implement common processes, tools, and methodologies for app development across dev teams and platforms.

•Consulted & led projects in the areas of mobile, IoT, multi-screen, living room experiences, and second screen.• Client base spanned media, government, and private companies.

• Manage all aspects of product development & roadmap for all Discovery Communications brands: Discovery, TLC, Animal Planet, ID, Science, ID, as well as PetFinder & HowStuffWorks.com.• Responsible all functions for Mobile, including monetization, business development, reporting, and internal & external evangelism.• Leveraged existing video & news workflow & publishing systems; layered on platform specific services. • Constructed cutting edge IPTV Apps for Connected TV platforms: Samsung, Roku, & xBox• Developed 2nd Screen Coviewing /Companion Apps providing a synced customer & advertiser experience.• Owned business relationships with App Stores, OEM, & carriers.

• Developed all of NYTimes mobile products including iPhone, iPad, Android, Mobile Web, Windows, BlackBerry, Kindle, eInk, and eReaders, using a variety of internal & external resources and varied business models.• Led growth to nearly three-forth of a billion page view in 2009, from near zero three years earlier; by mid 2010 monthly mobile page views were over 100 million per month.• Managed all aspects of product development, user experience, internal/external engineering, design, information architecture, marketing, press, bizdev, customer care, R&D, carrier, OEM, and vendor management. • Evangelized products throughout NYTimes, editorial to legal to senior management as well as external media. • Educated and collaborated with ad sales to ensure product roadmap meets sales, agency, and advertisers needs in terms of functionality, units, reporting, as well as expectations of readers.• Created packages in conjunction with sales across the multiple mobile platforms, main NYTimes.com, and print.• Integrated third-party ad networks/remnant providers for mobile apps and mobile web.• Developed integrated consumer experiences combining the core print products, with the regular web, to mobile web & SMS, increasing the combined value to NYTimes and its readership.• Forged new competences within the sales, sales development, business development, and dev team to transform a non-mobile focused company, to one with a mobile focus.• Developed NYTimes.com iPhone application with groundbreaking ads & offline reading in less than two months to meet July 2008 iTunes App store launch.• Managed iPhone News Reader App to over 3.5 million downloads; often the most popular free news app.

Premium Online Product & Deployment Management• Evangelized product vision for AOL’s foray into new non-access subscription products.• Oversaw product registration, billing, and cross-sell improvement initiatives.• Managed multifunctional team of marketers, vendors, content partners, and developers to deploy products.Wireless/Mobile Email Product Management• Defined product vision, strategy, & roadmap for AOL / AIM mobile email applications; wrote functional specs.• Managed full product lifecycle: design, construction, branding/marketing, P&L for Java, BREW, WAP.• Negotiated email application deals with cellular carriers: placement, marketing, and revenue share.• Revitalized member/customer support services for multiple lines of business utilizing in-house and outsourced resources and varying support technologies, including: phone, email, chat, and web self-service. Consumer Product Development & Billing Implementation Management• Provided product review & oversight: functionality, UI, hosting, billing, reporting, tax, legal, and testing.• Defined product roadmap, performed competitive analysis/benchmarking, managed partner/content integration.• Managed development of real-time online product sales and authentication via an in-sourced solution.• Ensured reporting solution adhered to corporate revenue standards; leveraged a low-cost, outsourced, solution.Online Entertainment, Sports, & News Channel Product• Managed product development and program to migrate AOL’s content to HTML and open/industry standards from proprietary technologies. Platform utilized by Live 8 concert 7/05, 5 million users watched.• Reviewed & vetted: MRD, PRD, wire-frames, UI mock-ups for six online content channels & publishing tools.• Utilized team of 100’s of technologists, programming, and design resources.