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Seattle, WA, US

New York, NY, US

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New York, US

• Provided project and program leadership for Food Network Kitchen (FNK) and Discovery direct-to-consumer (DTC) group.
• Planned, managed and drove delivery for multiple FNK programs. Supported requirement and design reviews, agile cross-team development, testing and product releases across Android, iOS, FireTV and web platforms.
• Successfully delivered 15 initiatives to FNK customers on mobile and web platforms, including personalization to allow customers to specify diet and allergy preferences to receive customized search results and.
• Led DTC effort to develop a strategy and roadmap to replace a 3rd party identity platform, used by 25MM customers of FNK and other lifestyle brands, with an internally Discovery+ platform, to save $1MM per year in.
• Aligned teams on program scope, requirements, key milestones and timelines through executive- and team-level narratives, weekly cross-functional meetings, and frequent and proactive targeted communications.
• Developed technical documentation and system flow diagrams to improve communication and decision making.

• Boutique tech strategy consulting. Clients included Verizon.
• Reduced late feature delivery by 25% over 6 monthly releases via grooming process enhancements and controls while a consultant for Verizon on their Verizon Cloud mobile backup and synchronization subscription product.
• Conducted requirement and design workshops to understand pain points with existing software development tracking processes from ideation, through development and release to consumers.
• Socialized and implemented JIRA enhancements including: Release & Roadmap dashboards, a continuous JIRA feature lifecycle from ideation to implementation, and bespoke Kanban boards per product team needs.
• Produced weekly reports for engineering leadership outlining product delivery and operational updates.

New York, NY, US

• Led cross-functional teams delivering new business capabilities, increased performance and efficiencies.
• Led programs to move data and analytics platforms to AWS from on premise platforms, including: infrastructure, ETL tooling, governance controls, and data pipeline migrations. Improved turnaround of processed data sets.
• Led effort to migrate 30 B2B web applications to virtual hardware, cheaper Tomcat middleware, standard CI/CD tools, and transition to offshore team for support. Delivered project on time, saving $250k per year after.
• Interviewed, onboarded and mentored engineering consultants based on a hybrid offshore/onshore model.
• Scrum master and integration lead on a complex path-to-air system modernization to rewrite monolithic EJB/Swing architecture to support AngularJS and microservices, while enabling support for new Arris multiplexing.
• Led data analysis, requirements gathering, and end-to-end project team delivery on multiple non-linear scheduling and distribution service migrations and new service launches.

New York, NY, US

• Promoted to design and build the next generation of HBO’s scheduling and metadata distribution systems at a time when Video-On-Demand (VOD) distribution agreements and complex projects were exploding in frequency.
• Technical and project lead on effort to reduce cost involved in launching a new HBO EST or VOD service. Led 2 teams of engineers on UI and server efforts, as well as QA, and UAT. Successfully reduced cost by 40% and.
• Core developer on new HBO platform to support non-linear scheduling and metadata distribution for traditional MVPDs, as well as newer EST and VOD providers including: Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, Walmart, and many others.
• Developed or enhanced platform modules including: metadata publication, validation framework, service replication, notification, and enhancements to state processing framework (e.g. from JBPM to transactional state).
• Platform technologies included Java, Spring, Hibernate, JBPM, XML, XSL/XSLT, SVN, Git, Swing, WebLogic, Tomcat.

New York, NY, US

• Developed enterprise HBO applications for Finance and Marketing using Java, EJB, Spring/Hibernate Shell, JavaScript, SQL, PL/SQL, and Perl/CGI.

Master Of Science - Ms, Computer Science

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Civil Engineering