Professional Experience
Product Manager
Inspyr Solutions (AppleTV+)
- Spearheaded the development of enhanced roles and permissions within an internal CMS, enabling scalable user management and improved content workflow in an in-house pre-production, development, and contract tracking system
- Collaborated with stakeholders across multiple business teams to ensure that features within the roles and permissions product met specific business requirements and long-term goals
- Conceived solutions for user permissions management and an enhanced assigning workflow within existing processes and CMS tools
- Assimilated both comprehensive documentation and nuanced, institutional knowledge of internal studio processes, enabling integration and contributions to team objectives
Product Manager
Sinclair Broadcast Group
- Owned and managed the strategy for CMS features to implement enhanced news alerts and expanded user admin features through Auth0
- Collaborated with business managers, software engineers, and stakeholders to ensure the applications met their needs from a functional and technical perspective
- Created roadmaps to illustrate the product vision, and user journeys, stories, and wireframes to build product requirements
- Tracked and communicated project status to stakeholders, as well as defined and prioritized deliverables
Product Manager
Warner Discovery
- Worked with design, development, and QA to drive project development of new features to streamline editorial curation workflow and improve tool efficiency for the HBO Max CMS
- Developed requirements for tooling solutions on the HBO Max app for "multi-SKU" cohorts, including AVOD and branded ad campaign curation
- Defined and tracked KPI targets on metrics, delivery, and quality for the CMS using a combination of internal quantitative and qualitative data from Looker, Airtable, and surveys
- Spearheaded initiatives and processes to improve the product development lifecycle, including format and data validation and UI components foundational work
- Led the launch of a web-based tool to preview specific content curations across different SKUs, regions, devices, age groups, and A/B testing on the HBO Max app, a tool that reduced curation workload for producers by over 40%
Technology Manager
Fox Digital Consumer Group
- Operating within the Product Engineering team, oversaw new and ongoing technical direction of product development and maintenance for customer-facing streaming apps on Apple devices (tvOS/iOS)
- Managed technical solutions for multiple teams of vendors, including external app developers and third-party service providers, extending to ad tech, analytics, and video operations
- Worked on project scoping in accordance with product roadmaps and translated product requirements to technical specifications
- Coordinated with internal departments and service providers on enhancements to the backend API, which combined video for streaming, schedule data, and show information
Technology Manager
Sony Pictures Television
- Led data governance efforts for Sony's 80+ international channel websites, partnering with InfoSec and legal to identify and resolve vulnerabilities and ensure compliance with GDPR regulation
- Collaborated with analytics teams to integrate data insights into product development processes
- Defined and determined technical solutions for integration of third-party applications with underlying components of the company's Drupal CMS platform, focusing on security, templatization, and automation
- Managed technical integrations on multiple projects at once, often involving integration across different platforms: desktop responsive/mobile-first sites for browsers, mobile apps, and OTT
- Led and defined the technical direction and requirements of projects, including vetting potential vendors, collaborating on SOWs, RFPs, auditing DRM contracts, and managing product development and launches
Core Competencies
Product & Technical Skills
Product StrategyCMS DevelopmentUser ManagementAPI IntegrationData AnalyticsKPI TrackingTechnical RequirementsAgile/ScrumGDPR ComplianceAuth0Content ManagementStreaming Platforms
Leadership & Management
Stakeholder ManagementTeam LeadershipProject ManagementVendor ManagementCross-functional CollaborationStrategic PlanningProcess ImprovementDocumentationRequirements GatheringProduct Roadmapping
Education & Certifications
Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO)
Scrum Alliance
Bachelor of Arts, Journalism
University of Arizona, Tucson