Where I've Been


Head of Product; Director (News Group Digital)

TIME Inc. News Group (Now Meredith Corp.)

Manhattan, NY  |  July 2015 – Current

Responsibilities: Hired and trained entire News group product management team over several years. Lead product managers across TIME.com, Money.com, FORTUNE.com, and TIME for Kids brands into a single high functioning product group to innovate horizontally across TIME Inc.’s news vertical, the News Group

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  • Established and implemented a communication framework linking Agile software development methodology with Atomic Design principles to a React.js component based web development approach. This tailored ‘planning and communication system’ enabled visual designers, UX designers, product managers, and engineers to build towards complex goals using a shared vocabulary and common guiding principles.
  • Led the unification of TIME.com, Money.com, and FORTUNE.com onto a single React based front-end architecture bringing +50 million monthly unique visitors under one highly scalable and robust product umbrella.
  • Incubated several top down ideas within the News Group to profitability before they were spun out into stand alone business units including millions of dollars of native and branded micro-sites (became TheFoundry), Motto.com (became a new brand under TIME.com), the unification of TIME, Money, and FORTUNE (became the model for unifying all TIME Inc. O&O brands under the Element platform), as well launching an in classroom Ed Tech platform.
  • Responsible for multiple years of successful digital franchise launches including TIME’s Person of the Year, TIME’s 100 Most Influential People, the FORTUNE 500, World’s Most Powerful Women, A Year In Space, and various others.

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Senior Product Manager

AOL Inc. (Now Oath, a Verizon Company)

Feb 2014 – April 2015  |  Manhattan, NY

Responsibilities: Own end-to-end product lifecycle for new generation of AOL.com desktop and mobile consumer products while modernizing brand reporting infrastructure and BI capabilities. Heavy focus on content personalization. Transitioned from relational database to graph database architecture.

  • Launched a series of major changes to AOL.com site architecture, navigation, CMS functionality, and personalization resulting in +8.7% front page CTR, +10% PV growth, and +60% increase in social share bar clicks.
  • Ideated and prototyped several experimental products including an infinite game (i.e. Candy Crush) modeled mobile app geared around content discovery, a new type of social platform designed for content collaboration as a ‘sheet of glass’ over content, and an AOL Inc. wide hackathon win in the video contributor space to name a few.
  • Hire, train, and manage recent graduates as entry-level data analysts and associate product managers as part of a managerial role which oversaw the product management and audience development teams.

Business Metrics & Analytics Manager

AOL Inc. (Now Oath, a Verizon Company)

July 2012 - Feb 2014   |  Manhattan, NY

Responsibilities: Reimagined and implemented corporate reporting and data visualization tools within AOL’s existing data framework to account for sweeping changes towards mobile, video, and cross-platform media technologie

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  • Conceptualized, pitched, product managed, and launched AOL360: an enterprise wide, customizable data platform consolidating KPI’s from disparate data sources into one simple user interface.
  • Evolved product requirements to integrate reporting and visual story telling tying metrics across multiple platforms.
  • Created automated dashboards and visualizations to support AOL’s brand portfolio, business planning cycles, and
  • M&A activity using a variety of tools including Tableau, Adobe Discover, comScore, 3rd party, and Excel modeling.

Reporting & Analytics Manager

Cablevision Systems (Now Altice)

May 2008 - July 2012  |  Manhattan, NY

Responsibilities: Managed integration of business intelligence suite unifying various set top box data steams, qualitative/ quantitative research, and early applications of audience data for the advanced TV industry into a cohesive data ecosystem

  • Developed big picture analytics and product insights for Cablevision’s suite of interactive television technologies at all business levels ranging from local ‘mom and pop’ clients to national advertising agencies.
  • Facilitated practical integration of business intelligence, set top box audience measurement, qualitative/quantitative research, and internet banner measurement tools into a cohesive data ecosystem.
  • Functioned as a business analyst in the development of advanced analytics data modules, business use cases, and reporting requirements for an end to end data architecture business intelligence data mart.

Research Analyst

University of Michigan

Ann Arbor, MI  |  Jan 2006 – Mar 2008                                                     

Responsibilities: Manage several industry research projects encompassing digital media, broadband and interactive advertising 

  • Served as digital media analyst for University of Michigan’s Global Media Study, a comprehensive pilot research initiative spanning 50 years of media usage and consumption
  • Authored a comprehensive “search codebook” that maps Internet and search usage patterns.