// Project & Program Management · Los Angeles & San Diego
The calm behind
technical execution.
Hi! I'm Rob, a Project and Program Manager who turns ambiguous goals into delivered outcomes. For the past decade I've led cross-functional teams across Engineering, Design, Media, and Operations — building the delivery frameworks, reports, and financial controls that keep complex projects calm, predictable, and on budget.
// Writing & thinking
Notes on delivery, AI, and leadership
// Experience
A decade of delivering complex projects and programs
Mar 2022 — Present
Los Angeles · Remote
CURRENTProject Management & Operations Lead
Arcadian Consulting
Leads cross-functional delivery for Sony Pictures Entertainment initiatives such as Sony Pictures Core, RideVu in-car entertainment for Mercedes-Benz, and content-transcoding workflows for interactive events like the Emmy-winning Silent Hill: Ascension.
As operations lead, I've scaled delivery across Project Management, Customer Success, Design, and Media Services teams, resulting in 95.6% client satisfaction, and building a sales-to-delivery pipeline that won $200K+ in new business.
May 2020 — Present
Remote
Freelance React Developer
RedZone Studios
Builds the interface for QuizBowl PRO, a real-time academic competition used by thousands of K–12 students utilizing React, Socket.IO, and GraphQL against a DynamoDB backend, hands-on alongside the PM work.
Sep 2015 — Nov 2021
Los Angeles · Remote
Senior Project Manager
Diamond Web Services
Previously lead the delivery of FOX's Video Engineering Web Player Framework — eight engineers across web and connected-TV at $1.5M annual budgets, supporting live streaming of the World Series, World Cup, and Super Bowl. Also drove the video-focused rebuilds of FOX.com, FX+, and NatGeo.com.
Mar 2014 — Sep 2015
Encino, CA
Digital Project Manager
Hoverstate
Managed the buildout of an online renewal application for small businesses insured with Kaiser Permanente, which increased yearly retention by more than 26% from previous year renewal cycles.
// Selected projects
Projects I've managed
Silent Hill: Ascension
via Arcadian Consulting
Owned content-transcoding workflows for an Emmy Award-winning interactive live event, streamed in real time to tens of thousands of concurrent viewers.
RideVu In-Car Entertainment
via Arcadian Consulting
Coordinates delivery of in-car entertainment experiences built for Mercedes-Benz vehicles and their connected displays.
Sony Pictures Core
via Arcadian Consulting
Leads an engineering team delivering Sony's premium streaming and digital movie-locker applications across platforms.
Fox.com
via Diamond Web Services
Manages delivery of features and releases across Fox.com's web experience, coordinating engineering and content teams against live programming schedules.
// In the wild
A few projects, as they shipped
Screens captured from the live products. The sites have since moved on — these are the versions I delivered.
// Skills & tools
How the work gets done
program management
- Agile / Scrum
- Release Management
- SDLC
- Change Management
- PRDs & SOWs
- Contract Negotiation
- Strategic Planning
leadership
- Stakeholder Management
- Distributed Teams
- Budgeting
- Forecasting
- Resourcing
- Risk & RAG Reporting
tools
- Jira & Confluence
- Claude Code
- Rovo AI
- SmartSheet
- Monday.com
- WCAG Compliance
- React & Node.js
// Education & certifications
Bradley University
B.A., International Studies & German