Sean McCarthy

As part of the senior leadership team, I managed the IT department with staff members and external vendors reporting to me.

❏ Managed a team of technology professionals (database administrators, dev ops, programmers, sys admins) responsible for the development of SaaS analytical solutions and the update, monitoring, and maintenance of the Insights out-of-home ratings platform consisting of the ingestion, processing, and storage of a multi-terabyte data set in a Snowflake data warehouse.

❏ Supervised IT infrastructure, hardware procurement and support, as well as productivity software implementation and support.

❏ Effectively evaluated and negotiated vendor/consultant contracts and established long term partnerships

❏ Developed and oversaw cost effective annual IT infrastructure and software budgets

❏ Orchestrated software development and system implementation projects following agile project management methodologies and scrum.

❏ Experience in building, training and mentoring IT staff

❏ Effectively communicated with members and external companies to facilitate the use of the Insights REST API and gather business and technical requirements

❏ Directed corporate website development and maintenance

❏ Lead the development of an e-learning curriculum using the SmarterU platform

❏ Reduced the cost and time to audit out of home advertising assets by 50% by conceiving of and developing a custom mapping application which leveraged Bing Maps satellite and street view imagery to visualize out of home billboards on a map. This revolutionary tool replaced labor-intensive site visits by staff with remote auditing

❏ Migrated paper-based audit reporting to a reporting web site for Geopath members.

❏ Championed the development of a web service API making Geopath’s audience data available for integration intomember and third-party platforms.

❏ Founder of a software startup focused on making magazine media planning, buying and selling easier, less costly, and more effective

❏ Developed the companies first product idea and designed the proof of concept prototype

❏ Assisted with business strategy, sales, marketing and software development

❏ Lead product management of software applications for advertising agencies and cable tv networks

❏ Leveraged strong industry knowledge to create new product ideas and drive their definition through identifying and analyzing use cases, developing working prototypes, and writing functional specifications.

❏ Responsible for the implementation, training and account management for a suite of software applications for a large advertising agency