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Culver City, Ca, Us

Culver City, Ca, Us

Led architecture design and implementation of cloud-based SOA OTT SVOD/AVOD platform.Led the successful migration of a 10-year-old product serving > 15M monthly active users from a data center to AWS.Lead for the Architecture Oversight Group comprised of technical leads across the engineering organization.Led design and implementation of deployment automation enabling rapid CI/CD flows.Define technical strategy and roadmap.Manage internationally distributed Engineering, Security, and IT teams across 5 locations and 4 time zones.Acting CSO and Head of the Security Council comprised of leaders from each line of business.Matured security program from a singular focus on application engineering to span the entire business risk profile.Scaled security program through inclusion of domain leaders to create a culture of security awareness and expanded responsibility as a company-wide concern.Successfully maintained PCI compliance and created process optimizations that reduced audit duration from 2 months to 3 weeks.Support parent company as technical lead and engage across business units to align technical leadership on solution delivery such as implementation of the data & analytics, security, and privacy reference architectures.Manage Engineering and IT contracts and lead vendor negotiations.Provided technical workflow guidance for production and post-production content pipelines.Mentor to individuals across product and engineeringEvangelist for engineering best practices and strong technical culture across the organization.

San Francisco, California, Us

Served as head of engineering team accountable for 4 PHP sites, NodeJS microservices, Elasticsearch cluster and PHP E-commerce platform hosted in AWS.Acted as CSO.Architectural lead for application and infrastructure design, ensuring security requirements are met at all layers of the stack.Architected application refactor, infrastructure redesign, and fully automated deployment with a focus on performance and scalability. Contributed over 60% of infrastructure deployment codebase.Architected application and infrastructure for SaaS industry analysis platform built on React/Redux frontend with PostgreSQL backend supported by ETL processing and integrations with 3rd party data sources. Contributed over 50% of code base.Coordinated migration between hosting partners and to AWS.Mentored engineering team and enhanced cross-functionality of team members while building a product-focused culture within organization.Served as head of product by leading executive team in product strategy and roadmap creation, build-ing/mentoring product management team, and presenting roadmap strategy to organization.Implemented scrum agile methodology across the organization and built sprint cycles with project tracking for engineering, design, and product teams which led to an increase in executional efficiency of 200%.Built support sprint rotations and triage procedures.Defined and enforced security policies.Conducted routine risk assessment.Presented engineering roadmap to board members on bi-monthly basis.Identified areas of consolidation and leveraged integrations to reduce spending and brought engineering under budget throughout 2015.Partnered with Sales and Marketing teams to enable internal and external campaigns and provide additional monetization strategies.Enhanced ad network integrations while providing performance optimizations.Coordinated product partnerships with vendors and negotiated contracts for tooling.Executed routine SEO activities.

Palo Alto, Ca, Us

Served as the engineering lead for a 24-person team engaged in server and mobile development and QA. Managed the engineering group accountable for Ruby on Rails, SaaS Enterprise Social Network platform with over one million users; customers included Siemens, Nokia, GM, 3M and Philips.Defined the software roadmap and feature implementation. Served as the project manager and Scrum master for mobile, analytics, API and performance engineering teams, and the interim product manager for the mobile team engaged in Android, iOS and Windows phone clients.Defined the software roadmap and feature implementation and coordinated releases.Coordinated the SaaS migration from AWS to vCHS with the devops team.Led a project to build an Android client from conception to implementation. Optimized the release management cycle to enable thorough QA.Achieved a ~30% increase in velocity through team building/development and mentorship during a significant budget cut and staffing shortages.Revamped the development cycle for the mobile team, achieving a 100% increase in productivity from the team.Conducted interviews, selected candidates and mentored engineers.

Los Angeles, Us

Served as the engineering lead for a 17-member development, QA, and devops staff. Developed and maintained MySQL-backed PHP application with modules written in Perl, Python and Ruby to provide a browser-based software solution for transcoding video and audio files, render farm control, metadata management, and LT05 archival. Coordinated and supervised operational engineering support for facilities in Los Angeles, New York, Montreal and London, plus client locations around the world.Ensured security of client video and audio assets through system and network design, application layer access management, and security audits/testing.Built an engineering team from the ground up, designing the development process and acting as the lead developer, generating $5M in revenue during the first year.Introduced all practices to operate in an agile environment and managed the development life cycle, building a customer support process and escalation hierarchy, scaling to support a 50% increase in the global customer base.Defined security policies and procedures in alignment with business needs.Performed risk assessments.Served as the product lead for software and hardware integration at several Technicolor facilities.Managed the department’s hardware and software R&D and budgets, and engaged in purchasing negotiations and licensing agreements.Architected web portal leveraging private 10Gb infrastructure to create a global cloud presence.Designed and streamlined workflows for processing digital media and metadata, and acted as the company representative for technical consultation.Provided Tier 3 support for high priority and technically complex issues.Interfaced with vendors of third-party software to develop and utilize APIs.

Served as the lead engineer to introduce new color correction/finishing software and systems as a basis for a $10M yearly revenue business and a separate $5M yearly business.Managed a four-person engineering team providing equipment installations around the world, and supervised engineers and tech/construction crews from partner companies. Advised executives and clients on technology decisions and roadmaps.Wrote software to automate workflows, resulting in a ~20% to 70% reduction in process times. Designed and supervised the construction of timing theaters, editorial and VFX bays. Created a completely new business unit for the company to modernize the way clients worked.Served as the project lead for full facility build outs for movie productions, including Life of Pi and Hugo.Managed a three-person IT team supporting 200 users across three facilities.Ensured security of client video and audio assets, as well as corporate network through system and network configuration/design, access management, and security audits/testing.Defined IT security policies and operational procedures.Designed and supervised the implementation of all hardware and software integrations.Introduced process improvements to allow a three-person IT group to scale from supporting one to three facilities. Conducted interviews for new hires.

Supported Telecine, scanning, DI, editorial, dubbing, digital cinema and mastering divisions. Provided administration for an aggregate 650TB of SAN storage. Engaged in software development for automating SAN administration and dubbing automation.Collaborated with engineers to study light capture of the human eye, 3D systems and color science to reduce fatigue on operators so they could sustain longer shifts and enhance the lifetime of the hardware use in these processes.Consulted for directors and editors to install and tune theater installations. Configured, calibrated and maintained in-house projection systems. Traveled to provide onsite hardware integration for clients. Engaged in workflow development and color science / management. Provided email and LDAP administration.Monitored calibration and characterization.Provided Juniper firewall/VPN administration, and LAMP server / network configuration.Ensured security of client video and audio assets through system and network configuration, access management, and security audits/testing.Delivered DNS maintenance and updates, and active directory/NIS user administration.Engaged in systems troubleshooting, maintenance and repair.