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Burbank, Ca, Us

West Hollywood, California, Us

CULTIVATING A DELIVERY DRIVEN MINDSET TO THE NUMBER ONE F.A.S.T SERVICE IN WORLDLead, supervise, and drive strategic and tactical initiatives in the areas of program management and team building, including training for hundreds of team members, forums on organizational challenges and solutions, better communication between delivery teams, and the evolution of the planning procedures.Lead strategic and tactical initiatives in program management and team building, including training for hundreds of team members.- Orchestrated digital transformation, expanding value streams from 2 to 7 within three years.- Managed cross-disciplinary discussions, resulting in standardized methods for capturing MVP value, investigating release management updates, and improving data collection.- Built and managed a team of 20 technical program managers across various disciplines, dynamically allocating resources based on team needs.- Trained over 700 employees in remote Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) courses.

West Hollywood, California, Us

ENTERTAIN THE PLANET!Lead, coordinated, and championed activities amongst various stakeholders and engineering teams resulting in the development of Pluto TV’s first Media Asset Management (MAM) platform, improvements to the Content Management System (CMS) which programs and schedules all Pluto TV content both, and delivery of Pluto TV content feeds to both international and domestics partners on mobile devices, connected TVs, and websites including Android, Apple, Roku, Samsung and LG.- Coordinated development of Pluto TV’s first Media Asset Management (MAM) platform and improved Content Management System (CMS).- Led communication efforts with external partners and internal stakeholders for major OTT providers and platforms.- Served as Agile Release Train Engineer and SCRUM master for content systems teams.

Burbank, California, Us

Worked with a collection of product owners, project managers, engineers, and executives to define and deliver Deluxe’s next generation content and fulfillment platform, Deluxe One.- Defined and delivered Deluxe’s next-generation content and fulfillment platform, Deluxe One.- Managed requirements and delivery of core CMS for automated, scalable content delivery.- Improved user experience and processes for title ingest and asset delivery to global partners.

Dallas, Tx, Us

Used SAFe and SCRUM Agile methodologies to facilitate the delivery of AT&T Entertainment Group’s next generation DirecTV Now entertainment platform.- Facilitated delivery of AT&T Entertainment Group’s next-gen DirecTV Now platform.- Managed platform-wide error and contingency messaging solutions.

Offered multimedia and technical services using Agile methodologies, focusing on the film, television, and literary entertainment industries.

Hoofddorp, Noord-Holland, Nl

Created and executed strategy and roadmap for anti-piracy and forensics focused technology services for home entertainment market using Agile methodologies and owning the P&L statement for the studio segment.- Developed strategy for anti-piracy and forensics technology services for the home entertainment market.- Engaged with Hollywood studios to define 4K/UHD content protection and forensics.- Coordinated efforts among consumer electronics manufacturers and software vendors.

Oversaw the product life cycle for development and delivery of mobile/web cloud-based APIs for content search, discovery, and recommendations.- Managed product lifecycle for cloud-based APIs for content search, discovery, and recommendations.- Led cross-functional team communication and project delivery from initiation to completion.

Los Angeles, Us

Created user stories and use cases for a digital delivery platform that secured, delivered, and published music and film content both domestically and internationally to personal computers.- Created user stories for a digital delivery platform for music and film content.- Managed product development efforts across multiple departments.

Assisted with software and hardware development of next generation devices for network security applications using Open Source based technology suites.

Ft. Meade, Md, Us

Designed, implemented, and tested a number of TCP/IP socket-based, multi-threaded communications applications for embedded systems. Implemented and tested an IPv4-based, IPSec-suite-B-sanctioned elliptical curve key exchange and encryption technique for an experimental Secure Wireless Local Area Network (SWLAN) project.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Electrical Engineering

Master Of Science (M.S.), Electrical Engineering

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Electrical Engineering