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|<\/span><\/strong> Resume<\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Joseph Ambeault<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

New York, NY <\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Experience<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

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Optimum<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Senior Vice President, Product Development<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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  • Lead 349 tech product managers, engineers, designers, and UX researchers for consumer and business connectivity products<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Increasing velocity of discovery and delivery with tools and automation, improving successful production changes to 100%<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Authored & implemented the corporation\u2019s first Job Leveling Guide, correlated to improving employee engagement from 77 to 85<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Returned 45% of sales channels to YoY growth with new capabilities and continuous improvements delivered with DevSecOps <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n

    Brightspeed<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n
    Vice President, Product<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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    • Led product management and business development for a startup fiber broadband provider<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • Core contributor to a debt offering, backed by Apollo Capital, that raised over $10B in capital<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • Lead negotiator for strategic contracts with a total value exceeding $400M<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • Established product vision and principles with 2-year product, offer, and technology strategy<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • Led the definition and delivery of a new API-first, cloud native tech stack to replace 800+ conveyed applications in 10 months<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • Launched new fiber products less than 6 months after the company began operating while stabilizing conveyed products <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n

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      Codecademy<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n
      Vice President, Product<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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      • P&L owner for subscription direct to consumer and business to business education tech products<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      • Led product, design, UX research, data science, and community departments consisting of 39 employees<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      • Grew 1Q21 revenue 52% YoY with e.commerce optimizations, tech quality improvements, and new features<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      • Implemented Bayesian knowledge tracing\u00a0<\/strong>machine learning model to measure the mastery of technology skills<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n

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        Discovery<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n
        Senior Vice President, Product and Technology<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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        • Responsible for streaming products with 3-years of 100% YoY growth that provided all the corporation\u2019s ad revenue growth<\/li>\n\n\n\n
        • Led a global team of product managers, designers, and engineers that grew from 23 to 164, plus 90 contract engineers, with a 4% voluntary attrition<\/li>\n\n\n\n
        • Delivered and operated consumer experiences with over 100K videos across 11 CE devices for 18 content brands<\/li>\n\n\n\n
        • Integrated direct, header, and waterfall programmatic ad demand sources to meet eCPM and fill rate targets<\/li>\n\n\n\n
        • Enabled data-driven targeting, viewability, and audience measurement capabilities to attract new ad clients<\/li>\n\n\n\n
        • Developed UX improvements, enabling 33% YoY increases in revenue per consumer session<\/li>\n\n\n\n
        • Implemented product improvements and supported marketing initiatives to grow daily hours viewed from 0.2M to 3.1M<\/li>\n\n\n\n
        • Developed a real-time data platform that processes 2.6B events daily for analytics, operations and product use cases<\/li>\n\n\n\n
        • Increased uptime from 97% to 99.995% and removed 3s of latency from the UX, while API traffic increased by 12x<\/li>\n\n\n\n
        • Led global product and development workstream for MotorTrend and Scripps acquisitions and integrations<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n

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          Verizon Communications<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n
          Executive Director, Consumer Video Product Management<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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          • Responsible for FiOS TV, NFL Mobile and GO90 products that delivered over $150M in annual ad sales revenues<\/li>\n\n\n\n
          • Led a global team of 50 product managers, designers, and usability researchers<\/li>\n\n\n\n
          • Grew GO90 audience by over 100% MoM by increasing distribution, developing tune-in tools, and A\/B testing<\/li>\n\n\n\n
          • Co-inventor for 2 digital media discovery and delivery patents that were granted by USPTO in 2016<\/li>\n\n\n\n
          • Led the acquisition and integration of Vessel\u2019s technology and product development staff to accelerate GO90 growth<\/li>\n\n\n\n
          • Defined video strategies for 5G, Internet of Things and Virtual Reality \/ Augmented Reality corporate initiatives<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n

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            Chief Product Officer<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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            • P&L owner for a subscription video on demand joint venture that acquired 0.5M OTT subscribers in under 2 years<\/li>\n\n\n\n
            • Led a global team of 120 product managers, engineers, designers, and usability researchers<\/li>\n\n\n\n
            • Designed and instituted startup governance with DevOps tooling to open for sale in 10 months<\/li>\n\n\n\n
            • Delivered client apps for 11 CE devices in under 8 months, reaching more than 60M televisions across US households<\/li>\n\n\n\n
            • Continuously enhanced mobile apps with analytics and usability studies to deliver app ratings exceeding 4.5 stars<\/li>\n\n\n\n
            • Rationalized offers using analytics with predictive modeling to increase engagement by 17% and reduce churn by 13%, accelerating positive value contribution from subscribers by 4 months<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n

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              Director, Consumer Video Product Management<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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              • Responsible for a global team of 35 product managers delivering FiOS products that grew from $0 to over $8B in revenues<\/li>\n\n\n\n
              • Established strategies for media policies and advocated for Verizon’s position with Congress and the FCC <\/li>\n\n\n\n
              • Delivered the pay TV industry’s highest ARPU of $103 while reducing costs by over $100M annually<\/li>\n\n\n\n
              • Created and implemented a commercial model for interactive TV that became profitable in less than 6 months<\/li>\n\n\n\n
              • Extended the FiOS TV platform to include web, smartphones \/ tablets, XBOX 360, connected TV\u2019s and Blu-ray players<\/li>\n\n\n\n
              • Grew VCAST Video to over 4M subs with a new content strategy, content merchandising tools, and better tech quality<\/li>\n\n\n\n
              • Popular Science Best Innovation (2007), Consumer Reports (2007-2012), and J.D. Powers (2008-2012) awards<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n

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                SeaChange International<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n
                Director, Broadband Systems<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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                • Managed $120 million VOD and advertising solutions product portfolio for global markets<\/li>\n\n\n\n
                • Supervised 2 product marketing managers focused on cable, telecom, and satellite sectors<\/li>\n\n\n\n
                • Doubled Latin American business through primary research, strategic pricing, and marketing campaigns<\/li>\n\n\n\n
                • Launched the first network-based time-shifted TV application and managed global sales to operators<\/li>\n\n\n\n
                • Byline in post production trade magazines outlining how to access interactive video and ads business opportunities<\/li>\n\n\n\n
                • Created video business cases with localized assumptions for worldwide network operator executives<\/li>\n\n\n\n
                • Emmy award for technically innovative VOD system that powered 70% of commercial deployments<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n

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                  Product Manager, Advertising Systems<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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                  • Managed advertising product definition, release processes, market launch, and initial sales cycles<\/li>\n\n\n\n
                  • Implemented value engineering programs producing a 26% increase in gross margins<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n

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                    Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi Capital Corporation<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n
                    Network Manager \/ Officer of the Bank<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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                    • Led Year 2000 enterprise assessment and remediation program to meet Federal Reserve requirements<\/li>\n\n\n\n
                    • Designed and maintained disaster recovery plans to ensure immediate business resumption capabilities<\/li>\n\n\n\n
                    • Migrated mainframe applications and Banyan Vines infrastructure to Windows servers to reduce costs<\/li>\n\n\n\n
                    • Integrated globally distributed systems into a cost effective and fault resilient enterprise network<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n

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                      SeaChange International<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n
                      Service Engineer<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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                      • Provided second level remote and field support to customers, call center, and installation staff<\/li>\n\n\n\n
                      • Analyzed catastrophic system failures to determine root cause and provide timely solutions<\/li>\n\n\n\n
                      • Developed service software tools that automated installation, configuration, and troubleshooting tasks<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n

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                        Farrington Associates<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n
                        Software Engineer<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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                        • Developed desktop and web applications with C, HTML, JavaScript, and SQL databases to meet contract specifications<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n

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                          Education<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

                          Brandeis University<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n
                          Bachelors of Art<\/strong><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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