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Senior Director, Platform Engineering, Media Supply Chain

Operational since 1994, Scripps Networks is a media and marketing company. The company offers a variety of lifestyle television brands include HGTV, Food Network, DIY Network and Fine Living Network. It offers assistance in developing media platforms for broadband and video on demand. The company also provides online search and comparison shopping services. In addition, it has usergenerated content capabilities. Scripps Networks serves more than 150 countries worldwide. The company has launched several online newsletters, content for mobile utility and highdefinition channels. It is owned by Scripps Networks Interactive, which is one of the United States leading developers of lifestyleoriented content for television and the Internet.

My passion is to use my experience to build high performance software development organizations and assist them in transforming to Agile development and engineering practices and migration to the cloud. - Experience transitioning development organizations from structured programming and waterfall methodologies to object-oriented approaches and agile methodologies - Proven track record of building high performing development teams - Drive change to reduce cycle time and improve quality by implementing test driven development, continuous integration, continuous delivery and agile engineering processes - Experience implementing Cloud based applications and services as well as migrating existing apps and services to the Cloud Specialties: Application Development, Project Management, Team Building, Agile, Scrum, Web Development, Package Implementations, Application Integration, Aligning business and IT strategy