AdTech.

Utilizing React Native with TypeScript to build the next generation of mobile, OTT & web apps for delivering streaming video content across all brands including Discovery, ID (Investigation Discovery), HGTV, Food Network, Animal Planet, TLC and others.

Led front-end development/key member of architecture team for Viacom’s custom-built content management system serving domestic and international properties such as Comedy Central, Nickelodeon, MTV, VH1, BET, CMT, TV Land, and Paramount Networks across web, iOS/Android, and OTT content delivery platforms (Roku, Apple TV, etc.). Features include dynamic schema, three-stage publishing, full version history, time travel, Solr-based search, digital asset management, content localization & contextualization, etc.

• Developed applications using Angular 4-5, Node.js, and Azure AD including a user rights administration tool; a video search tool for filtering and previewing video & closed caption content; and various content and scheduling preview tools.

• Hands-on leadership of team of 4 developers building main front-end application for creating, editing, scheduling, localizing, and publishing content and media assets. Core UI built in Adobe Flex with Cairngorm MVC framework accessing REST API.

• Innovated features such as dynamic rendering of content editing forms based on schema definition, which allowed for parallel development of software and schema; “virtual fields” to work around limitations of representing relational data in a NoSQL database (MongoDB); “related records tree” for deriving sets of related records based on inferred hierarchies; a role-based user access control framework providing record- and field-level security; and a rich configuration framework for brand customization.

• Technical product manager for back-end REST API used by front end applications. Implemented in Scala and Java using engineering team located in Warsaw, Poland. Developed dashboards in SumoLogic for measuring and optimizing performance.

Senior developer on the URGE Subscription Music Platform, a joint project between MTV Networks and Microsoft.

• Developed custom plugin-in for Windows Media Player 11, a multi-threaded DLL developed in C++/COM which handled all DRM-related and device management features. Worked closely with Microsoft engineering team on plug-in integration.

• Developed web-based music player and playlist manager for URGE on The Web using JavaScript, Flex 2.0, Microsoft Silverlight, and C++/COM.

• Developed Track the Ripper, a tool for ripping and encoding music CD’s for use on URGE’s internet radio platform using C#/WinForms.

• Developed the URGE Radio Programming Tool used by music editors to manage 100+ URGE radio stations.