Parsons School of Design - The New School

University of Arkansas

Senior Technical Product Manager at The New York Times

- Driving centralized app platform strategy across native, hybrid, app operations (e.g. CI, stability and performance tooling), and release management teams to increase efficiency of all mobile development across Cooking, Games, News, and emerging apps
- Hiring, managing, and developing product managers
- Facilitating company developer partnership with Google and Apple

The New York Times

Technical Product Director

- Led discovery and development for process and technology that scaled native mobile development from a centralized News app team to over 10 distributed product teams
- Hired, managed, and developed product managers across frontend and backend teams
- Key consultant on critical launches and strategy through thorough knowledge of technical, business, and design underpinning mobile apps and connected systems
- Built consensus with engineers and QA analysts to ship new app versions on biweekly release trains, increasing productivity and predictability

Senior Technical Product Manager

- Steering company-wide process
- Mediating conflict resolution internally and between teams and clients
- Developing new business and pitching clients
- Recruiting, hiring, and coaching producers
- Product and program managing projects with teams of developers, designers, and others for clients such as Disney, Fujifilm, Oakley, and Aetna ActiveHealth

Small Planet

Executive Producer

Teaching "Mobile UX Design" course, a four week Summer Intensive session for professionals and weekend workshop for Masters level Interaction Design students.

School of Visual Arts

Faculty

Selected clients: Oakley, Outerwall, University of North Carolina School of Medicine

Senior Producer

Teaching Mobile Media, a 15 week course for MFA students in the Design and Technology Department, covering mobile user experience design.

Parsons The New School for Design

Adjunct Professor

Producing and also assisting with development on iOS app projects for clients such as Cooking Light Magazine and Family Fun Magazine.

Developer/Producer

- Global 501(c)3 that facilitates multi-disciplinary sustainable development
- Assessment of need and project planning with community leaders in Belize and St. Lucia
- Planned logistics and led groups of 8-80 from Wake Forest, Lynchburg College, Duke University, and the University of Arkansas

Drew Cogbill