I help CTV and streaming publishersgrow programmatic yield.I've sat in both chairs.
Senior Technical Account Manager, SSP Accounts at FreeWheel (Comcast) · New York, NY
Work Experience
I combine technical depth with commercial ownership of strategic accounts, across integration, yield and AI-assisted workflows.
FreeWheel (Comcast)
CurrentSenior Technical Account Manager, SSP Accounts
Jun 2025 – Present
Trusted technical partner and account owner for strategic SSP publisher accounts across streaming and CTV (Roku, Samsung, LG, TCL, Bloomberg, Katz, Wurl, FrndlyTV, Canela and Bold Collective), managing multi-million-dollar programmatic portfolios across FreeWheel’s SSP, Marketplace and Streaming Hub products. Onboarded faster than any recent team addition and moved from learner to mentor within 90 days.
- •Delivered 202% to goal across all strategic accounts in the first performance period (Roku 197%, Samsung 208%, TCL 955%, Bloomberg 217%)
- •Samsung: led the SFX migration driving 160% YoY growth. TCL: elevated to a top-2 performing SSP for the publisher
- •Account Manager on Roku's migration from legacy SFX to Streaming Hub: project kickoff, phased partner-inventory cutovers, and the publisher training program with engineering, advisory and product. Now the template for strategic publisher onboarding
- •Authored Wurl's 2026 QBR charting its SFX-to-Streaming Hub/Marketplace transition; drove listing de-duplication and supply standardization across 17B+ bid requests to improve RPM and marketplace efficiency
- •Co-own account strategy, spend growth, upsells and renewals; bridge Product, Engineering, Supply Operations, Advisory and Solutions Engineering on product feature sprints and feature requests, and present to CxO-level executives
- •Lead DSP deal-delivery and performance investigations (The Trade Desk, DV360) and supply-hygiene initiatives (invalid-bundle clean-up, listing configuration, brand-safety controls), quantifying the revenue impact of policy changes for clients
- •Lead weekly account calls and publisher trainings; built account-management infrastructure and contribute to the SSP Account Manager onboarding curriculum, using Claude and Glean to speed QBR preparation and client documentation
Burt Intelligence
Technical Solutions Engineer
May 2024 – Nov 2024
Enterprise client platform integration and technical support across 15+ client environments in the ad analytics space.
- •Resolved 95% of platform integration issues within 24 hours using SQL, JSON API configuration and AWS tooling
- •Automated S3-to-BigQuery ETL pipelines processing 2TB+ daily, eliminating 20 hours/week of manual data transfers
- •Built custom REST API integrations and Python web scraping solutions that cut client onboarding from 6 weeks to 4 (33% faster)
- •Maintained 99.5% client satisfaction scores through proactive CloudWatch monitoring and custom alerting workflows
- •Coordinated zero-downtime production releases via Jira with Product and Engineering, managing nightly migrations affecting 50M+ ad impressions, and contributed to product feature sprints and feature requests
- •Served on an on-call / after-hours support rota
Bloomberg
Pricing Lead, North America
May 2023 – Nov 2023
Directed product catalogs and pricing strategies for digital, video, print, social and podcast inventory across 8+ platforms reaching 80M+ monthly users.
- •Increased deal closure rates by 22% ($3.5M+ additional revenue) through optimized pricing strategies and cross-functional collaboration with sales, BI and campaign management
- •Built analytics dashboards in SQL, Datorama and Tableau
- •Created GTM strategies for generative AI learning tools that accelerated sales funnel velocity by 18%
Global Revenue Lead, Large Partner Solutions
Jun 2022 – Jan 2023
Led technical support and revenue optimization for 15+ large publishers on a $200M+ programmatic portfolio. Role eliminated in January 2023 layoffs.
- •Grew the portfolio by 25% through publisher revenue optimization and yield strategies
- •Designed automated analytics pipelines using BigQuery and GCP that saved 2+ hours weekly and informed $5M+ in quarterly decisions
- •Participated in early Gemini (then Bard) internal release testing, providing structured feedback on LLM performance and integration patterns
- •Led cross-functional teams that included Legal
Paramount
Senior Programmatic Yield Manager
Jul 2018 – Jun 2022
Primary technical liaison between Paramount's digital properties and FreeWheel's ad serving platform. Four years of managing FreeWheel as a publisher client (experiencing platform limitations, escalation processes and yield optimization challenges firsthand) now directly informs how I support FreeWheel's supply partners.
- •Drove VAST 4.0/VPAID 2.0 compliance across all digital properties, cutting ad serving errors by 40%
- •Led the Viacom–CBS merger technical integration: unified SQL dashboards across 100M+ daily transactions and surfaced $8M in previously hidden revenue opportunities
- •Managed integrations with 50+ programmatic partners (DSPs/SSPs) and implemented header bidding optimizations
- •Built live Tableau dashboards pulling from 8 data sources and 5M+ daily impressions
- •Designed an audience segment taxonomy connecting first-party data across the digital ecosystem
- •Led cross-functional teams that included Legal and presented to CxO-level executives
Projects
AI Workflow Tools & Automation Systems
AI · AutomationAI workflow tools that connect LLMs to enterprise data and automate media workflows.
- ›MCP server integrations connecting LLMs to enterprise data sources
- ›n8n-based automation pipelines for media workflows
- ›Knowledge graph systems for persistent AI context
Education
Bachelor of Business Administration, Operations & Information Management
GPA 3.66
Certifications & Awards
Code in Place Certificate
Stanford University
SAP Student Recognition Award
UMass Amherst
Dean's List
UMass Amherst
Best Deliverables, Data Visualization
Tableau
Leadership & Volunteering
Board Member, EMERGE LGBTQ+ Employee Resource Group
Partnered with external organizations including ACLU, GMHC and local community groups to develop internal programming and community engagement initiatives.
Leadership Roles, DEI & LGBTQ+ Employee Resource Groups
Held leadership roles across three employee resource groups focused on diversity, equity, inclusion and LGBTQ+ advocacy.