Allen Tingley Email & Phone Number

New York, Ny, Us

Led multiple high performing teams across disciplines to deliver record-setting audience growth in 2023 and 2024.* A proven track record of developing engineering leaders from within, leading to a more effective internal growth model, and retaining org investment. Shepherded a focus on transparent, psychologically safe, value-driven teams with outstanding stakeholder responsiveness. * Launched Wirecutter’s first Apple News, newsletter and podcast products, leading several initiatives across multiple teams and interfacing with and integrating into the wider New York Times audience growth ecosystems, leading to the newsletter growing from zero to over 3 million subscribers. The podcast launched in August 2024 at #1 in Apple’s general category, and the Apple News Channel is now a top five source of referrals.* Developed “Wirecutter Digital Top Picks” quarterly awards program to celebrate individual and team impact and bring visibility to benchmark-pushing work to the entire organization.* Revamped Wirecutter’s Community of Practice program to ensure ownership over critical systems while empowering engineers to make decisions quickly and in full view, focusing on improving the developer experience for all teams.

New York, Us

Recruiting impactful, diverse software engineers, inspiring them to grow their skills and achieve balance, and clearing their way to deliver value to readers and staff every day.* Demonstrated ability to recruit and retain skillful, emotionally intelligent, and experientially diverse engineers across skill levels, doubling the size of our development team while outperforming retention goals. * Founded Reader Experience team, led development and launch of Wirecutter’s first unified front-end and design system alongside design and product teams.* Brought a focus on community to distributed teams, established asynchronous best practices, peer support, and efficient meeting culture to a mostly-new-to-remote workforce. * Selected quotes from 360 feedback: “I would work for Allen anywhere doing any work.” “Allen is a force of nature.” “The best manager I have ever had.”

New York, Us

Managed team process, improvement, and delivery for various cross-functional development teams at Wirecutter on an AWS/PHP/SQL/GraphQL/React/NextJS stack.* Introduced and supported advanced Scrum Agile methodologies, growing confidence in internal team predictability and team member satisfaction, resulting in exceeding our KPIs for FY19.* Worked in dual PM/EM role on Wirecutter Money pilot, AB testing for audience development for a new vertical with editorial, design, and product stakeholders.* Developed systems for change management to support digital development teams during acquisition and management reorganization with New York Times.

Pittsburgh, Pa, Us

At Confluence, I lead teams of individual contributors focused on the development, launch, and support of the next generation in financial services data management solutions. When I'm not managing teams, I'm focused on individual performance, program organization and process, and application quality of service and security. We wear a lot of hats. Through close collaboration with Confluence's Product and Sales teams, we've been fortunate enough to capitalize on an enormous market opportunity by building an industry-leading suite of SaaS applications and capturing over 70% of the available market -- a major contributor to Confluence's record-breaking fy2017/2018.

Pittsburgh, Pa, Us

Lead teams developing adaptive courseware projects for key customers on time and on budget.– Lead individual teams across 31 projects for international partners.– Manage relationship with customers to create customized adaptive courseware products for students.– Create systems and tools for instructional designers, engineers, and authors to rapidly build and iterate on courseware, reducing development overhead; and– Utilize change management strategies to meet targets and ensure stakeholder satisfaction.

Pittsburgh, Pa, Us

Lead development of adaptive learning products for international customers at education technology startup; from initial strategy to operations, implementation, and customer success. – Conduct focus groups and analyze customer engagement data to inform strategy and target high impact, low-cost product improvements;– Lead development team in agile methodology; define short and long term product roadmap.– Collaborate with sales and product teams to design client service-level agreements (SLAs) and identify strategies for delivering services on time, on budget, and within scope;– Collaborate with designers to create mockups for internal and external stakeholders; and– Collaborate with engineers in solving for customer needs with a tech-stack that includes AWS, MongoDB, Node.js, Bootstrap, and AngularJS.

Seattle, Wa, Us

Launch interactive media company, producing an award winning video game that uses optical illusions to inspire creative discovery. – Develop business strategy and operations. Lead team of five to design and develop the game Museum of Simulation Technology and secure publisher support and financing.– Lead marketing campaign to drive over 2M Youtube views and 11,500 upvotes on Reddit, resulting in one of the top 5 highest rated posts on /r/gaming all-time. Create branding and communications material; manage community and press relations.

Pittsburgh, Pa, Us

Producer/Designer/2d Texture Artist

I get to help 48 awesome kids learn to think with all of their brain.

Austin, Tx, Us

>Created best practice documentation for effective management of store logistical concerns, including financial accounts, shipping and receiving, operational efficiency, and active problem resolution.>Adjusted operational workflow to improve efficiency and reduce friction, leading to a 9% increase in Sales Per Labor Hour YOY.>Maintained store financial records and advised on budget concerns and strategies for reducing operational cost.>Developed and maintained healthy relationships with local and national clients and vendors, including contract negotiation and fiduciary accountability.

Austin, Tx, Us

>Developed skills to identify strengths and weaknesses of team members through empathy and support, creating positive growth through accurate assessment and goal-oriented education.>Set regional financial performance records through a focus on teamwork and skill oriented organization, turning a traditionally troubled group into a confident, supportive, and self-motivated team of experts.>Graduated Whole Foods Market Regional EMERGE Leadership Training program ranked #1 out of 47 classmates.

Masters, Entertainment Technology

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Creative Writing

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