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Burbank, CA, US

Lead backend engineering teams responsible for delivering web and mobile experiences for Disney's Entertainment brands. Portfolio includes Disney.com, Marvel.com and Marvel Unlimited App, StarWars.com, NationalGeographic.com and Nat Geo App, 20thCenturyStudios.com, Avatar.com, ElCapitanTheater.com, and over 100 domestic and international properties.

Burbank, CA, US

Managed platform development teams for DMED Direct-To-Consumer brands. Led the migration of Marvel Digital Media Group systems into Disney’s technology stack.

Burbank, CA, US

• Managed software development for the Matterhorn Platform - the content and asset systems that power domestic and international sites including Disney.com, StarWars.com, MarvelHQ.com, 20thCenturyStudios.com, Avatar.com.
• Responsible for the end-to-end video ingestion, metadata, and transcoding pipeline for videos that appear on Disney Digital Network sites and apps
• Managed the technical integration of video management and distribution systems from Disney’s $500M acquisition of Maker Studios
• Developed and operated admin tools for asset management, localization, and delivery of original Disney shortform content to the Disney+ streaming service
• Increased video views by 50% by working with player vendor (Kaltura) to optimize load times, enhance features, and A/B test
• Worked with multiple public and private cloud environments (Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, CloudStack), languages (Python, Ruby, Java, PHP, JavaScript - Node.js), and databases (MongoDB, MySQL, Cloud.

Burbank, CA, US

• Led the full-stack development and launch of sites for Lucasfilm: StarWars.com, ILM.com, SkywalkerSound.com
• Managed the technical integration of Disney’s $40M acquisition of parenting site Babble.com
• Merged Disney Interactive Family sites (Family.com, DisneyBaby.com, BabyZone.com, Spoonful.com) into parent Disney Interactive’s infrastructure
• Launched quiz engine that led to a traffic increase from 6 million pageviews per month to over 100 million on Disney Blogs
• Led new tech initiatives for Editorial teams including Facebook Instant Articles and Slack bot integrations to identify news trends
• Managed a team of frontend and backend engineers

New York City, NY, US

• Led 15 frontend and backend engineers for NBC Entertainment Digital
• Managed a 24/7 offshore technical support and emergency response team

New York City, NY, US

• Architected consumer experiences, content management tools, and services for NBC.com (homepage, video watch pages, photo galleries, episode guides, games, comments, ratings) backed by MySQL and MongoDB databases
• Worked with partners at Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Mass Relevance and Gigya to integrate social marketing into NBC products
• Optimized sites for high-capacity caching on multiple tiers (Akamai, aiCache, Memcached)
• Directly responsible for technical initiative that made NBC.com the fastest loading broadcast network site (according to Google Pagespeed and Pingdom).
• Oversaw on-air live voting applications that required high availability under flash crowd traffic levels
• Worked with Veracode for static and dynamic security scans

New York City, NY, US

• Led development for Heroes Evolutions - Emmy winner for Interactive Media Programming: Interactive Fiction
• Managed development for The Office Digital Experience - Emmy nominated for Outstanding Achievement in Interactive Television in 2009. Webby winner.
• Lead developer for MyNBC social network
• Responsible for full-stack development of admin tools and consumer experiences
• Oversaw analytics integrations on NBC.com including Omniture tracking and A/B test implementations
• Worked with Eventum and ActiveCollab for issue and project tracking

• Designed site architecture and relational databases for the major Hollywood studios
• Created custom content management systems
• Developed interactive web applications
• Provided technical consultation to clients and staff

• Programmed interactive web applications using Perl, PHP, C#, ASP, ASP.NET, JavaScript, MySQL and SQL Server
• Developed custom content management tools for managing client sites
• Integrated site frontends with backend services
• Maintained IIS, Apache, Windows, Linux and Solaris servers
• Clients included Paramount, NBCUniversal, Warner Bros, Disney and Yahoo!

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