• Integrating culturally diverse Pandora and SiriusXM development teams, after the merger of the two companies. Growing, managing and mentoring large combined Agile teams across both coasts.• Performing technical due diligence on corporate mergers, acquisitions, and investments. Providing subjective input and decisions on the viability of these actions.• Developing new content strategies and user experiences to support both, paid subscribers and Ad supported users. Re-imagining our consumer facing systems to bring these different user classes within the same umbrella. Re-engineering and scaling up our apps to meet a combined load of 100M+ users.• Renegotiating contracts with partners and vendors in building a new generation of clients and save costs. Working closely with C-Level executives to develop a fresh build v/s buy strategy.Worked closely with C-Level executives to introduce and manage the development of Video on-demand and Live Video streaming products, in a primarily audio centric product line. This resulted in an increase in paid subscriptions and customer retention.• Built an Agile team of senior Architects, Developers and infrastructure personnel from the ground up, to deliver Analytics and cutting-edge audio and video streaming.•Built a new Data Science team to develop a Predictive platform based on Big Data Techniques, Behavioral Analytics and Modelling, using data collected from our Web and Mobile platforms. This resulted in direct revenue impact in terms of user retention and new user acquisition.•Replaced Spotify’s EchoNest by developing a custom Drools and Java based sequencing engine to deliver custom playlists.•Tactical delivery of Search and Recommendation engines based on Big Data technologies like Lucene Solr, Spark, Hadoop and Mahout.

• Manage the development and maintenance of customer facing distribution systems Web Properties, Web Feeds, etc.• Built and mentored technical teams and managed the development effort using Agile Methodologies.•Developed highly visible web properties like APArchive.com, APVideoHub.com, APVideoUS.com.••Architected back end systems using technologies ranging from open source systems to the .NET stack with SQL databases and no-sql systems like ElasticSearch, Percolator, Autonomy and FAST.• Helped transition AP to the Digital world by building consumer facing products like APImages.com, APExchange.com and APArchive.com.

Client Relations, Day to Day management, Vendor relations.