🏆Sports Emmy Award · 2025 · Outstanding Interactive Experience

The Director Who Built the Feature That Won the Emmy.

Director of Product Management with deep technical roots. Streaming DNA from DreamWorks and IGN through NBCUniversal and Peacock — every era of this industry, from tentpole streaming before broadband existed to live sports at Olympic scale.

Sports Emmy2025
Paris Olympics 2024Shipped
225M+ subscribersPlatform scale
DreamWorks · IGN · NBC · PeacockEntertainment streaming lineage
16–30 peopleTeams led at Yahoo Music
Emmy Case Study

Live Actions: The Missing Piece That Unlocked the Olympics

Peacock’s Live Actions feature was already fully conceived — real-time clip saving, whiparound show navigation, watchlist integration during live events. The architecture was designed. The experience was designed. But the project was completely blocked.

No engineer on the team had bandwidth to build the integration UI into the existing real-time ad-marker-drop tool — the final piece that would connect the entire system end-to-end. Without it, the feature couldn’t ship. The Paris Olympics had a fixed deadline.

I stepped in, designed and built the integration UI myself, unblocked the project, and got it across the finish line. That’s not a Director delegating. That’s a Director who can become the team when the team needs one.

My manager nominated me for the Emmy because I wrote the code. The feature went live for the Paris Olympics in 2024. It ran at the Milan Winter Olympics in 2026. It’s been deployed for NBA playoffs and the 2026 World Cup. It’s still running. Still my work.

Live Actions is a direct blueprint for what any major live sports platform can do with real-time interactivity — and it’s the clearest signal of what I’d build next.

Career Arc

Director-Level Depth Across Every Era of Streaming

Pop.com
Director of Engineering
DreamWorks Animation-backed streaming startup. Hollywood-grade streaming before streaming was streaming.
IGN Entertainment
Chief Product Officer
Led product for IGN’s esports platform. Called the architecture correctly — was overruled — and was proven right when the site fell over on launch day.
NBCUniversal
Sr. PM, Streaming Television APIs
Built the client-facing API powering content distribution across all NBC brands.
Peacock
Engineering Systems Manager · TPM
Ad tech at OTT scale. Live sports interactivity. The Emmy.
Sports Emmy 2025
Yahoo
Engineering Manager
Peak-era streaming and media. Former Yahoo teammates are now engineering leaders across every major streaming platform.
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Todd · AI Interview
“What would you build first as Director of Product?”
The first thing I’d build is a Live Actions layer for live sports — exactly what I shipped at Peacock for the Olympics, but purpose-built for your platform’s content density. Real-time clip saving, multi-feed navigation, stat overlays that sync to the broadcast moment. The content exists. The infrastructure exists. What’s missing is the interactive layer that makes the viewer feel like a participant, not a spectator…