Thomas Rivera Email & Phone Number

Garden City, New York, United States

New York, Ny, Us

Engineer Nielsen’s Sports: Fan Insights, using React and Node.js, deliver comprehensive sports fan analytics across 60+ global markets. Implement business intelligence solutions with MS Power BI, Apache Superset, and AWS QuickSight, leveraging generative AI for advanced insights. Evaluate and optimize AWS QuickSight with SPICE storage, document pros and cons. Present findings via internal channels and highlight the benefits of QuickSight and AWS Q AI. Globally demonstrate QuickSight and AWS Q AI capabilities, optimize insight delivery efficiency, and lower BI tool costs.• Introduced Figma prototyping to enhance development efficiencies.• Led special projects, collaborating with internal teams and third-party vendors.• Presented design prototypes to align stakeholders and gather feedback.• Developed React components with CSS and JSX for streamlined workflows.• Engineered dashboards with AWS Lambda and API Gateway integrations.• Unified applications for seamless user experiences across global teams.• Supervised bi-weekly sprint reviews and demos, ensuring stakeholder engagement and feedback.• Implemented a flexible setup for including projects with shared OKTA authentication, hosting Nielsen Fan Insights products.

New York, Ny, Us

Developed API-driven JavaScript libraries, WordPress plugins, and Drupal modules for content syndication across The USA Today Network, optimizing imagery searches.• Engineered React/Redux Information Portal, managing 10K+ annual events for business, editorial, and photography staff.• Presented application to Gannett for network-wide adoption.• Enhanced efficiency in event management and budgeting for Imagn’s photographer network.• Developed Drupal and WordPress plugins for seamless search, import, and embedding of Imagn’s sports imagery, improving customer usability.

Oversaw recruitment and management of engineering consultants specializing in PHP and WordPress projects. Provided detailed client cost estimates, project proposals, and ongoing progress updates.• Revamped USA Today Sports Images website and CMS for enhanced mobile web performance.• Developed WordPress and Drupal plugins enabling seamless image search, import, and integration into posts.

New York, Ny, Us

Engineered Moviefone’s front-end to attract 10M monthly unique users. Designed and implemented an AngularJS solution for Moviefone’s ticketing checkout UI.• Boosted Moviefone's search engine ranking and user traffic by optimizing page load speeds and implementing semantic HTML markup, achieving a 10M monthly unique user increase in 10 months.

Mclean, Va, Us

Engineered AngularJS solution for curating and publishing photo galleries across The USA Today Network. Implemented delivery via JavaScript SDKs and WordPress plugins.• Led USA Today’s Amway Fan Poll project to $2M revenue as scrum master.• Engineered a custom Brightcove video player in USA Today’s CMS, achieving 28M monthly views.• Developed AngularJS solution for galleries across The USA Today Network, integrating with JavaScript SDKs and WordPress plugins.• Managed sprint planning, collaborated on UI design, and implemented ad placements for enhanced revenue.

As CO-Founder and CTO of SlingPing Inc., a Long Island NY based technology start-up and content provider. Developed engineered as well as conceptualized several products. The products are as follows:1. slingping.com a Long Island local and social content site promoting a variety of events and original content.2. Created SlingPing Real Estate. A SAAS product used by brokers to generate qualified real estate leads. 3. Built a text messaging platform used to support all of our products including slingping.com , SlingPing real estate lead generating service, as well as our PingMe (iSlingPing.com) text messaging sharing widget.

New York, Ny, Us

AOL Entertainment: Movies, Music, Television

Chiswick, London , Gb

Hicksville, New York, Us

New York, Ny, Us

AOL Entertainment: Moviefone, AOL Box Office