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Greater Los Angeles, California, United States

M&E domain expert and leader of a global technical team, program managing cloud-based video content and advertising workflows for Subscription Services Industry. Architected content workflow solutions for VOD, broadcast and live events customers, collaborating across stakeholders and vendors, program managing end-to-end services to support streaming video experiences. Extensive experience partnering on ad campaign implementation, facilitating first-party and programmatic ad monetization with SSP partners for over 120 subscription streaming services.Instilled a culture of collaboration, diversity, inclusivity, wellbeing, sustainability, continual learning, and being customer obsessed. Synthesized 12+ years of diverse customer data and market knowledge to train new sales staff on GTM strategies, prospect qualification and prioritization, and possible deal roadblocks. Partnered with L2 and L3 colleagues to define and normalize post-M&A customer lifecycle processes across 11 departments, resulting in improved customer support and internal planning.Nurtured C-level and executive relationships to develop and close $44M in TCV. Led 14 partner engagements building cooperative ecosystem solutions to a +$80M pipeline.Created ACV model that standardized sales opportunity assessment and became required for revenue projections, risk assessment, and customer on-boarding planning.

Greater Los Angeles, California, United States

With the Apollo Funds acquisition, Verizon Media Platform became Edgecast, under the Yahoo-rebranded Verizon Media entity. Edgecast was subsequently spun-off and acquired by Limelight Networks, creating Edgio.Built and developed a diverse team with the breadth and depth for innovation in every scenario across the world, who helped our partner ecosystem in growing the usage of their existing business, accelerating their time to business value, and acquiring new customers.Coordinated cross-silo customer implementation tasks, engaging partners and customer ecosystem vendors to provide end-to-end services support. Led partner engagements for reseller, sell-with and integrated business models.Plan, staff and represent the company at trade shows and industry events. Actively participate in development of marketing artifacts, including PR, blog posts, white papers, and stand out as an evangelist for the company in press interviews, podcasts and industry gatherings.

Greater Los Angeles, California, United States

Title change with reduction in force and discontinuation of a product line.M&E expert and manager of solutions engineering team, responsible for program managing cloud-based video solutions cross-functionally to meet customer and market requirements. Architected and delivered the Multiview App for Verizon, going from concept to prototype in 60 days, debuting multi-camera, real-time streaming in-stadium at Super Bowl LIV in the NFL OnePass App.Directed development of parallel content workflow for a key customer's LATAM initiative, providing legacy Smooth Streaming support in 90 days to support widely distributed MVPD devicesIntegrated on-prem and cloud linear broadcast feed acquisition for a major broadcaster for a new B2C service. Resolved systemic issues in parallel that improved the broadcaster's linear product.Coordinated live video acquisition and distribution for sports leagues and broadcasters.Product managed digital advertising support for live and VOD, including programmatic ad support. Staff and represent the company at trade shows and industry events. Spokesperson in panel discussions, press internviews, podcasts and industry gatherings.

Greater Los Angeles, California, United States

Title change with reorg bringing team expansion to include Volicon SE team and partnership responsibilities. Worked closely with product partnerships team to align ecosystem partners with customer needs and sales opportunities. Partnered with product management and engineering to improve agile methodology practices. Led customer feature request tracking and prioritization process that became the standard internal reference, providing focus for feature roadmaps. Organized and led pre-sales discovery meetings and POCs, RFP responses and presentations, and product demonstrations and training.

Greater Los Angeles Area

Promoted to lead M&E Solutions Engineering team, overseeing product training, workloads, meeting customer deadlines, and cross-functional alignment with internal teams and partners. Managed product feature request process as aglie methodology stakeholder for sales and customers.

Greater Los Angeles Area

Business development role for Uplynk, an optimized, cloud-based streaming platform orchestrating content ingest and delivery. Engage with customers on a daily basis to reduce operating costs through automation of video workflows and enable monetization with this first SSAI solution in market for live and VOD experiences. Integrated multiple content ingest models in varied environments, including linear broadcast acquisition in HD-SDI facility with live-to-VOD and SSAI with existing broadcast automation, on-prem and cloud-based VOD workflows with DRM and SSAI, and multiple remote acquisition opportunities with live events.

DTS is a global leader in entertainment technology, licensing IP technology to the professional content community and major consumer electronic brands.• Delivered DTS’ first commercial encoding partner and leveraged relationship to win-win deployments and providing first linear OTT demonstrations of DTS audio in common streaming formats to mobile devices.• Recruited as product manager to lend digital content expertise resulting in accelerated time-to-market for products by implementing SDK development roadmap methodology based on market research and licensing opportunity windows, enabling just-in-time delivery of new solutions to meet corporate goals. • Transformed DTS’ ability to create and demonstrate DTS audio solutions by introducing industry standard content tools decreasing work time by 66%.Promoted: Sr. Product Manager (2012-2013), Product Manager (2010-2012)

Provided subject matter expertise for Fortune 40 and Fortune 200 consulting companies on short-term projects. Managed $33M P&L of Fortune 90 company’s digital media workflow for a movie streaming service.

The world’s largest provider of integrated global services for the creation, management and distribution of entertainment.Recruited by Ascent Media’s president to run a new content delivery and technology division.Acting CTO to acquired digital-out-of-home company, transforming backend services of a $40M acquisition for a 16-month turn-around resulting in a $185M divestiture.Assigned by and reported to C-Level executives on new product initiatives, M&A investigations, and technology reviews. Produced business plans and proposals, and managed tactical projects.

Los Angeles Metropolitan Area

• Tasked by CTO to provide guidance and promote Thomson’s Research and Innovation team for the Hollywood community. • Worked with a global team of CxO executives of the CTO's office, delivering networking events with C-level and executives of prospective customers. • Program management of R&D activities related to film industry, including IP submission review, customer advocacy, and aligning project with the needs of prospective M&E clients. • Designed new Burbank facility with a technology lab, to house R&I engineers, as well as host open house meetings, client presentations, new product launches, and facilitate product discussions. • Worked with the CMOs of Thomson R&I and Grass Valley divisions, managing marketing and product demonstration efforts for major conventions and other industry events. • Initiated corporate-wide program to ally executive stakeholders from multiple divisions to Thomson R&I’s strategic goals in research, product development, and global standards groups.

Initiated operations of new division and film industry’s first company focused on digital cinema distribution and support, becoming a trusted advisor to movie studios and establishing a dominant industry position.Exceeded customer expectations with simultaneously coordinated build-up of field services team and supply-chain processes, overlapping the arrival of personnel and equipment across 16 companies, in 6 countries, on 3 continents, in 7 weeks, to match customer scheduling. Managed a product line through three cradle-to-grave lifecycles over the course of four years, in a start-up subsidiary partnered with industry-leading companies, growing to a $17M subsidiary by 3rd year of operations.

Migrated a single-point-of-failure, supply-chain management system with 80% uptime, to a redundant model that provided 99.983% uptime in the first year, reducing administrative costs by $260K and increasing employee satisfaction.Detected hardware source of reoccurring error in $35M custom production systems operating in 4 countries, and determined a non-capex solution to mitigate issue, resulting in an 18.8% efficiency increase for a $2B+ division.