Engineering leader with 17+ years of experience building and scaling software organizations — consistently trusted to take on broader scope, manage managers, and deliver across multiple workstreams simultaneously. Known for building high-performing teams, developing leaders from within, and maintaining strong execution standards without losing sight of the people doing the work. Brings a track record of shipping complex platform programs at scale, owning multi-million dollar budgets, and communicating with clarity at the executive level. Currently leading AI delivery at Warner Bros. Discovery — experienced enough in the space to set direction and drive decisions, while building and trusting the right specialists to execute.
Lead multiple engineering teams across disciplines including AI, data, and platform delivery — managing managers and tech leads across independent project streams with full accountability for delivery, quality, and people development.
- Manage multiple concurrent workstreams — setting goals, aligning priorities, and holding teams accountable across varied disciplines without needing to be the domain expert in every area.
- Lead AI delivery including an LLM governance program (AI Intake) and an agentic AI experimentation platform (AI Sandbox) — experienced enough to drive strategy and evaluate trade-offs, while trusting specialists on implementation.
- Developed managers and tech leads through structured coaching, performance conversations, and deliberate growth planning — multiple reports have moved into expanded leadership roles.
- Acting Product Owner (2+ years): owned the roadmap, drove prioritization across competing demands, and kept delivery aligned with business goals across stakeholder groups.
- Delivered HBO Max / HBO GO OTT backend (auth, IAP, subscriptions, UX) and a full analytics reporting suite — shipped to production, presented outcomes to senior and C-suite leadership.
- Governed architecture decisions across multi-system programs; drove AWS platform adoption (CloudFormation, CodePipeline, CodeDeploy) across delivery teams.
- Managed multimillion-dollar annual budget; negotiated vendor SOWs/POs; led full hiring, onboarding, and career development lifecycle for all reports.
Led BI, EDW, and backend engineering teams across local and remote locations — responsible for both the technical direction and the people executing it.
- Architected a cloud-based EDW on AWS (Redshift, S3, RDS) consolidating data from Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, and PostgreSQL — powering analytics for ad sales, scheduling, HR, finance, and marketing.
- Designed and deployed HBO GO backend systems (auth, IAP, subscriptions) serving millions of users across Latin America.
- Built ETL/ELT pipelines and BI dashboards for broadcasting and content operations; introduced CI/CD practices; mentored engineers on architecture and data modeling.
- Progressed from individual contributor to team lead — delivered ETL pipelines, BI dashboards, SSAS cubes, EDI integrations, and full-stack .NET applications across media, banking, and manufacturing.
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