Feb 2021 – Aug 2025 · 4 yrs 6 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Feb 2020 – Feb 2021 · 1 yr · Greater Seattle Area

• Disrupting the LTL Logistics industry by inventing technology solutions to solve complex problems at XPO, a Fortune 200 leader in the B2B logistics industry.
• Building software products that run and optimize operations for a business spending $1.5 billion on operations within XPO’s LTL organization. Tech stack includes mobile and web client technologies, distributed applications, data science and engineering, AI for predictive and prescriptive analytics and computer vision applications. On point to migrate pending legacy systems running on mainframes and other dated technologies to a modernized cloud-based tech stack.

Aug 2018 – Feb 2020 · 1 yr 6 mos · Connecticut, United States

• Expanded the charter at Disney’s ESPN Technology group to extend success across all Disney Media Network brands owned by The Walt Disney Company, including ESPN, ABC Entertainment and News, Disney Channel Worldwide, FOX, National Geographic, and more. Spearheaded the creation of common core platforms, incorporating development and developer productivity platforms. Undertaking this highly intricate and visible initiative involved orchestrating software development, instigating cultural and organizational changes, process enhancements, and extensive evangelization both within and beyond the immediate sphere of influence. The role encompassed platform support for products developed by 2000+ engineers, facilitating 1000+ releases annually for 80+ native client applications and 50+ major websites (plus 200+ minor sites). These products collectively reach 230 million users globally, who spend 14 billion minutes per month, generating billions in ad-sales revenue.
• Key leader to transform The Walt Disney Company’s Advertising business by moving all of Disney’s digital brands and properties worldwide to Google’s advertising platform with a goal to improve personalization, engagement and data metrics for cross-platform media use. This transformation will impact digital video and display ads for multiple content types, including but not limited to long-form VOD, live streaming video, short-form video, news content (video and text), and fantasy games.
• Released 20+ new streaming experiences for FX and National Geographic by on boarding millions of fans and the newly acquired content on TWDC's Entertainment streaming platform.

Jan 2017 – Aug 2018 · 1 yr 7 mos · Connecticut, United States

• Built core platforms to modernize the technology stack and inject speed, quality & reliability to the product development life cycle for ESPN’s software engineering organization; including but not limited to ESPN App & espn.com in domestic and 12 international markets, Fantasy Games, Tournament Challenge and WatchESPN on OTT devices.
• Led hands-on iterative launches of key products like the ESPN App, Fantasy Games, Tournament Challenge, and WatchESPN across mobile, OTT, and web platforms.
• Played a major role for the launch of ESPN’s big push into digital subscriptions, ESPN+.
• ESPN+ is The Walt Disney Company’s first Direct to Consumer streaming service.

Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 · 1 yr · Seattle, WA

• Developed a multiyear business strategy and technology roadmap for the digital transformation of resort guest experience by providing our guests access to hotel amenities and services via their personal devices. The strategy accounted for domestic and international markets, direct-to-room implementation with digitized keys for hotel rooms at Disney Resorts, digitized operations, labor & operational efficiencies and personalization delivered by a global team of mobile developers.

Oct 2012 – Jan 2015 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Seattle, WA

• Transformed the digital experience for Walt Disney World Resort, Disneyland Resort, Disneyland Paris, Hong Kong Disneyland, Shanghai Disney Resort and Disney Cruise Line. Built global teams from ground up to build a productized digital experience platform for both mobile and mobile-web including content management, web and mobile client libraries, localized for multiple languages for European and Asian destinations. This productized platform supports 150M+ digital guests yearly, providing a commerce foundation for a $4+ billion dollar digital enterprise, and was on the critical path of My Magic+, Disney’s $1 billion dollar bet on the next generation experience at Walt Disney World that includes Magic Bands, FastPass+ and My Disney Experience.

Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 · 1 yr · Seattle, WA

• Delivered features and services that comprise of store checkout flow, subscription & recurrence, payment processing, and digital fulfillment for traditional and cloud gaming service initiative.

Jan 2006 – Jan 2011 · 5 yrs · Seattle, WA

• Started as a Sr. Software Engineer to develop order and payment processing for digital subscriptions and hard-goods, custom accounting software, registration and checkout, A/B framework, business administration tools, and content management tool. Promoted to Software Development Manager to deliver a new ecommerce solution, replacing the inflight ecommerce platform. Was accountable for architecture, design, engineering team, and delivery.

Jan 2002 – Jan 2006 · 4 yrs

• Sun certified Java developer and Sun certified Web Component developer.