Engineering (E-commerce web applications, Data, Security), IT (Enterprise Systems/ERP, Infrastructure, Desktop support, PMO) and Platform Product (Design systems and Backend services)

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Head of technology and member of the executive team.Animoto's award-winning online video builder makes it easy for anyone to create powerful and professional videos. Millions of consumers, businesses, marketers, and photographers around the world use Animoto to turn content they already have into videos that stand out in a video-first world.

- Head of engineering for E-Commerce and Enterprise business units (two of the largest BUs in the company). Working closely with General Managers to align business plan to product and technology roadmap and ensuring key technology initiatives are driving incremental revenue and EBITDA growth.- Oversaw all Shutterstock customer-facing web applications (www.shutterstock.com, www.offset.com, www.bigstock.com, premier.shutterstock.com and submit.shutterstock.com) and front-end platform. Oversaw technology organization of over 50 engineers.- Managed build out of key internal platforms/services/applications such as the checkout/order processing systems, front end web application for Shutterstock’s contributor portal, public API, iOS and Android mobile apps. Spearheaded technological aspects of strategic relationships with Shutterstock’s largest API customers such as Facebook and helped mitigate any risks/concerns around uptime/availability/stability of Shutterstock’s API

- As interim CTO, was as a member of the executive team, responsible for day-to-day and long-term direction of technology organization. Drove Tech vision, budget and roadmap. Participated in weekly C level executive meetings as well as board meetings- Represented engineering organization in M&A activities, including managing technology related due diligence as well as day-1/day-90 integration plans. Partnered with infrastructure organization to identify key dependencies and transition plans.

Heading engineering teams responsible for Shutterstock's mobile apps, contributor site (submit.shutterstock.com), public facing API as well as the test engineering team (40+ engineers).• Managing Software Development Managers, Tech Leads, SDEs and SDETs in NYC, SF, Denver and Berlin• Driving key business collaborations such as the API partnership with Facebook (Facebook is a large consumer of Shutterstock's public facing API)• Part of core leadership group managing Shutterstock's transition from a legacy platform to a fully distributed system (Service Oriented Architecture)• Working directly with the CEO, CTO and the rest of the executive suite on the largest initiative the company has undertaken since its inception. Currently reporting to CTO, previously to CEO Manage all Test/Quality efforts across company • Building Tools and Frameworks that can scale across the Shutterstock product line (Shutterstock.com, bigstock.com, offset.com, skillfeed.com and Mobile Apps)• Hiring and Developing top engineers and empowering them to drive quality by influencing the development process

Lead and drove Quality initiatives and managed test efforts on multiple projects in the web and services space. – Audible.com, Kindle Store – Audible, Core Services, acx.com• Managed quality on multiple products such the core Audible website, Audible store on Kindle fire tablet as well as acx.com• Managed a team of SDETs and QAEs across New Jersey and India• Drove an effort to build out a test framework that would over time shorten a 3 month release cycle to a weekly release cycle• Heavily involved in recruiting top engineering talent for the organization• Mentored QAE’s in coding and CS fundamentals, and successfully helped to transition 3 of QAE’s to SDETS- shifting Audible’s culture of manual testing to Automated testing

• Lead Software Development Engineer in Test for Audible’s ACX.com• One of the first SDET’s to be hired at Audible.com, helping to create an automation culture from the ground up in a fast-paced, agile environment• Helped developers with bug fixes as well as new feature development as per need (JAVA and JSP)• Developed an automation framework for automated testing of acx.com (both front end and services testing) helping move ACX towards CI and CD.• Mentored junior SDETs in Java Development and Automation. Software Design Engineer in Test

• Recipient of the Microsoft Gold Star award for being one of the top performers in the company• Part of the Microsoft Office - Visio client and server team• Helped design the automation framework as well as automate product functionality testing• Served as liaison between Visio and Microsoft Office Sharepoint Services for performance issues• Organized Microsoft Office wide server performance testing training.

Worked as a software design engineer Intern for the Performance & Architecture group at Apple. Worked on porting unix based software to a Mac platform, as well as implementing user interfaces for software performance profilers.