Fifteen years of general management,
operations management, and software development with specific
experience building and running following:
- Rich
media and streaming video content and content programming
- Collaborative web properties and social networks
- Full Product Development Lifecyle Ownership
- Web analytics and business intelligence
- PMO construction and execution (Change the Business/Run the
Business)
- Mastery of multiple total quality management and project delivery methodologies:
including, RUP, AGILE and SCRUM. Trained in Big 5 program
management techniques.
Working and playing as an early adopter in
the internet and broadband space since the early 1990s has provided
me with exposure to and mastery of vast array of strategies and
techniques.
I have been providing management
consulting and agency services to media companies and non-profit
organizations, globally, in the New York, Chicago, Seattle,
Rome, Paris Metro and Rheinland Germany.
Silvermine is expert in the following
business processes:
- Gathering and analyzing comprehensive requirements
quickly.
- Identifying the primary business drivers, risks and unknowns
relating to each project stakeholder group.
- Executing gap analysis discreetly in order to minimize any
potential disruption to our clients' corporate culture.
- Holding the line on presenting solid findings only when the
best options have been thoroughly vetted.
- Shielding live processes during implementation through
adherence to industry standard best practices.
- Going to school and delivering against each client's cultural
and hierarchical sensitivities.
- Delivering rock-solid solutions that have outlived their
expected life-spans by 3 to 4 times.
While this approach has long commanded
results in a variety of industries, Silvermine has of late been
focusing our energy on the cutting edge.
Building revenue-driven "new media" products (social networking,
SmartPhone apps, video streaming applications) and driving adoption
of them at established, identifiably "old media" companies,
specifically: Ziff Davis Media, Sotheby's, World Wrestling Entertainment and
Thomson Reuters.