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Menlo Park, Ca, Us

New York, Us

Dotdash Meredith is America's largest digital and print publisher, reaching 200M monthly users. DDM’s 40+ iconic brands include PEOPLE, Better Homes & Gardens, Verywell, FOOD & WINE, The Spruce, Allrecipes, Byrdie, REAL SIMPLE, InStyle, Travel + Leisure, Investopedia, and Southern Living.

Palo Alto, Us

Palo Alto, Us

Co-founded DML and built a groundbreaking SaaS platform that makes it possible for digital content creators like Hearst, The Guardian, The Atlantic, and The Canadian Press to expand their reach and revenue potential beyond the Google and Facebook ecosystem. Built an innovative 100% serverless infrastructure, the platform provides a low cost, low maintenance, high scale toolset that supports content syndication, in-network recirculation, multi-publisher collaboration, and content curation.Company co-founder, leading all technology, product and user experience. Selected achievements:➔ Drove company from concept to live with first client in 4 months.➔ Delivered a product that: supported both ad supported, web monetization, and license revenue models; supported multiple product expressions to support different customer use cases.➔ Grew product to be deployed across 200+ publisher websites.➔ Created a platform that multiple companies are building new business on top of.➔ Designed an architecture that provided high scale support for enterprise customers with minimal cost and overhead. Key technologies: AWS, Serverless, Lambda, ElasticSearch, Redis, Node.js, React, Kinesis, Athena

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Nfinite is the leading visual merchandising solution for ecommerce.Using a combination of CGI and 3D modeling, powered by Machine Learning and trained 3D modelers, Nfinite replaces expensive photoshoots with real life quality, virtualized imagery with infinite possibilities.

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

The Target Innovation team was charged with building a portfolio of new digital products and experiences, with the goal of transforming the business and disrupting from within. Product concepts spanned social, eCommerce, budget product marketplaces and fintech.Technology executive, leading all aspects of engineering. Selected achievements:➔ Responsible for building a ground-up engineering organization across all disciplines.➔ Led engineering team in defining new multi-tenant platform architecture that could support multiple products and brands.➔ Defined product development pipeline, testing and automation processes, and DevOps strategy.➔ Heavy focus on security and DevSecOps to deliver deep security as part of a rapid development process.➔ Took first product from concept to beta testing in 6 months.➔ Part of the executive team responsible for defining business and product strategy for new concepts.

Binge was a social recommendation platform focused on sharing content recommendations - TV, movies, books & podcast. Delivered as a mobile app experience, users created recommendations using a ‘Snapchat-esque’ post, combining full-screen imagery with text and emoji to capture how they felt about the content.Company co-founder, leading all technology, product and user experience. Selected achievements:➔ Raised $2m in funding in Jan 2015 and was acquired in early 2016 by Turner Broadcasting.➔ Built a globally distributed team of engineers and designers.➔ Led product through multiple rounds of beta testing and design iterations.➔ Designed micro-service architecture to support rapid development.➔ Defined API-contract based development process to support distributed engineering setup.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Business and product strategy. Technology team oversight and support.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Bleacher Report is a leading digital sports brand that transformed the sports media landscape. Today, Bleacher Report reaches over 250M people across web, mobile, apps, and social media platforms.Technology and Product Executive responsible for all aspects of product development. Selected achievements:➔ Joined as 1st executive hire to lead technology and quickly assumed additional responsibilities for product management and user experience. Member of the executive team and active participant in board meetings.➔ Helped lead the company through all phases of its growth, through to its acquisition by Turner Broadcasting. Heavily involved in the acquisition process and transitioned into Turner organization.➔ Oversaw the evolution of the product and platform from a small sports blogging platform to a media powerhouse. Building out an omnichannel product portfolio across mobile, web, OTT, email and social.➔ An early champion of mobile-first design experiences, delivering a product that captured the next generation of mobile native consumers.➔ Built, mentored and retained a diverse team of amazing engineers. Teams were responsible for web front-end, mobile applications, backend and APIs, plus a groundbreaking content management and curation platform for editorial operations.➔ Migrated initial Rails monolith architecture to a high-scale polyglot micro-services architecture that leveraged a variety of tools and technologies.➔ An early adopter of DevOps, oversaw the development of scalable, highly automated infrastructure that met the very variable and demanding real-time news cycle.Key technologies:Ruby on Rails, Node.js, Elixir, AWS, EC2, Docker, Kubernetes, RDS, iOS, Android, XBox

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Turner Broadcasting acquired Bleacher Report in 2012 for $200m+. Post-acquisition continued to lead Bleacher Report product development organization and assumed additional responsibilities to aid in modernizing Turner’s technology group and systems.Technology and Product executive, leading a product development organization and consulting across the enterprise. Selected achievements:➔ Led the technology, product, and design organizations through the expansion of Bleacher Report’s scope as Turner’s primary sports brand.➔ Led efforts with legal, compliance, security, and finance teams to integrate with the wider enterprise.➔ Led the acquisition of a sports data startup (StatMilk), successfully integrated people and technology into the Bleacher Report product portfolio.➔ Technology evangelist working across the Turner organization, helping drive the adoption of modern toolsets and approaches. Focused in particular on cloud architecture, news sites, content management, and ad serving technology. Major brands included CNN, HBO, and TNT.

Co-founder of a small boutique consultancy focused on delivering innovative Web 2.0 solutions to startups and enterprises leveraging agile development to rapidly deliver solutions. Responsible for all technology and project delivery. Roles included project management, project design and planning, all aspects of agile development process, architecture, and delivery of scalable high quality software.Clients and products:http://www.birdpost.comhttp://www.zinio.comhttp://theguide.latimes.comhttp://travel.latimes.comhttp://my.latimes.comhttp://www.outsellinc.com

Vancouver, Bc, Us

Manager for the application development group in the Redwood Shores office. Responsible for overseeing application development for the US West Region. Key clients included Nike and Electronic Arts.

New York, Ny, Us

Senior Architect and experienced technology consultant with extensive experience in a wide range of technologies from established products such as ATG Dynamo and BEA WebLogic to leading edge developments such as XML Binding and high performance XSL frameworks. Lead technology trainer and coach, developing knowledge and best practices within Avenue A/Razorfish. Specialization in J2EE applications, with experience in a variety of vendors and technologies. Key member of Razorfish’s Agile Methods practice, providing coaching and leadership for project teams.

San Jose, Us

Built a global brand delivery platform to support Fujitsu's portfolio of brands. Solution deployed to a global audience with sites launched in 32 countries and 9 languages. Designed, built and lead the development of a ground up platform based on ATG, Java, XML & XSL technology. Successfully led move to an XP based approach to application development.

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Opened a San Francisco office in 2000 with 3 other core staff. Worked with all departments to grow office to 80 people. Head of training for ATG technologies. Technology lead working with recruiters to hire development staff. Architect responisble for leading development on multiple java, ATG and XML solutions.Joined company in the UK and worked as a senior developer and technical lead for multiple projects.