Trinity University

Cloud Engineering Principal at Capital Group

Los Angeles Metropolitan Area

Capital Group

Cloud Engineering Principal

Led design and implementation of next generation omnichannel digital banking platform for CNB:
- Created target cloud architecture for hosting using Kubernetes (AKS) and other Azure PaaS-based platforms.
- Led architecture efforts to re-platform the CNB digital platform to a more cloud native distributed design with a focus on microservices and asynchronous messaging patterns.
- Worked closely with DevOps leads to design and implement Terraform-based infrastructure-as-code cloud provision pipelines, as well as automated CICD processes for code build and deploy pipelines.
- Worked closely with SRE leads to design and implement end-to-end monitoring using Dynatrace and Azure Monitor for tracing, logging, alerting, and dashboards.
- Participated in numerous key technology committees across CNB and worked closely with Enterprise Architecture and Information Security groups to design and execute on various company-wide initiatives such as Cloud Enablement and Digital Transformation.

City National Bank

SVP, Principal Digital Architect

Senior executive responsible for client-facing digital engineering for City National Bank. Led software development, quality assurance, and delivery management for online banking platforms and mobile banking applications. In addition, led digital infrastructure, DevOps, and support teams.

- Grew department from 25 to 100+ colleague and contract personnel with an annual budget of $20M+; managed day-to-day administration of department: budgeting, recruiting, personnel/HR, vendor management, etc.
- Led re-architecture and re-platform from mix of legacy .NET and SharePoint codebase to services -based distributed architecture built upon .NET core and modern Microsoft technology stack.
- Digital team delivered several large high-value projects under my leadership including the addition of Treasury Management system to the on-line banking platform, as well as new bespoke iOS and Android mobile applications.
- Acted as executive liaison to various CNB business units to ensure digital technology team was delivering maximum value and executing on key business objectives.

SVP, Head of Digital Development

Collide was an early stage startup building a platform to bring fans and followers a premium live streaming and VOD experience while allowing creators in every field from celebrities to social media stars, chefs to politicians a way to publicize themselves and at the same time select their own specific content and monetization strategies.

- Head up all technology for Collide -  Web (Laravel PHP/NodeJS) and mobile app (iOS/Android) software development, AWS DevOps, and daily IT management.
- Recruited and lead a distributed engineering team and act as chief architect of platform.
- Implemented Agile (“Scrumban”) methodology with two-week sprints and ticket-based task management using Zenhub/Github platforms.
- Worked with team leads to implement an automated testing and deployment platform for Collide (CircleCI. Ansible, AWS Codedeploy, Github, Sauce Labs, Selenium, Artillery).
- Worked with Wowza and AWS to build a video platform supporting live and VOD streaming (RTMP/HLS) -- hosted on AWS using EC2 and CloudFront with support for streaming to large audiences of simultaneous users of both free and PPV content.

Collide

Chief Technology Officer

Machinima was a gaming and media streaming website, and a multi-channel network (acquired by Warner Brothers). Machinima was one of the top ten channels on YouTube with billions of video views per month.

- Led Machinima’s technology and project management organizations including Software Development, Data Engineering, IT, and the Project Management Offic
- Worked to instill Agile methodologies and DevOps culture within Machinima tech group with a focus on repeatable and sustainable culture of innovation and execution.
- Led design and development of Machinima’s next generation of media management and delivery systems.
- Managed day-to-day activities of the technology group and focus on applying technology to aid in achieving strategic corporate objectives.

Machinima

Vice President, Technology

TMZ is a fast-paced company within a company at Warner Brothers.  My day-to-day was very typical of a “just get it done” environment with new products and challenges coming my way every week.  The TMZ technology team had a very accomplishment focused culture.

Digital:
-  Led re-architecture of TMZ's customer-facing digital platform which reduced Amazon AWS hosting cost by 30% while increasing capacity by 250%.
-  Created mobile services platform that added 200MM+ page views and 20MM+ unique visitors per month to TMZ traffic.
-  Combined TMZ platform services 50MM+ unique visitors, 650MM+ page views, and 40MM+ video views per month.
-  Moved team to DevOps delivery paradigm allowing much faster build, test, and deploy cycles.
-  Introduced Scrum methodology using 2-week sprints providing high value products as quickly as possible.
-  Led Product and Design teams responsible for creating new and innovative products and partnerships for TMZ and related sites.

IT / Broadcast:
-  Led technical aspects of TMZ relocation from Hollywood to Playa Vista -- move was extremely challenging, as we had to support zero downtime cutover.
-  Managed day-to-day IT / Media Management (Dalet) teams including on-site datacenter with 70+ servers, 400TB Storage, and 10GB SONET data/voice/video WAN along with a postproduction infrastructure with 20+ edit bays.
-  Teams provide 24x7 engineering and technology support for all TMZ staff.

Administrative:
-  Managed a team of approximately 35 with three director-level direct reports.
-  Worked with Sales, Product, and Executive teams to brainstorm and create new products and revenue opportunities for various TMZ brands on a continuing basis.
-  Managed the budgets for all technology teams and projects and work closely with corporate finance and procurement to optimize costs and maintain strong vendor relationships.
-  Collaborated with other Warner Brothers and TimeWarner divisions on numerous initiatives.

Head of Technology (CTO)

Led  technology, architecture, and product teams in the design of new products and platform enhancements with a focus on Microsoft and browser-based technologies.

Architected and led several ERP (SAP, JD Edwards, Dynamics) and CRM (Salesforce, Dynamics) integration projects.

Managed strategic studio, network and broadcast relationships - re-established Xytech as the leading provider of facilities management software to the major studios.

Provided business and technical leadership for Xytech’s Sales, Professional Services, and Technology groups with a focus on large complex business process improvement, media management and digital supply chain initiatives.

Forged numerous industry partnerships with leading services and technology providers with the goal to enhance the usage of Xytech software and services across the entertainment and broadcast sectors.

Functioned as project executive and lead architect on large, complex implementation projects.

Represented Xytech at SMPTE, Hollywood Post Alliance, and other industry organizations and institutions.

Xytech Systems

Senior Vice President

Directed the infrastructure and software development teams within the Technicolor Advanced Technology Group (office of the CTO). Main focus was building a strong project focused team with the goal of delivering Technicolor’s next generation digital supply chain platform (MIDAS) and providing strategic architectural, process, and technology guidance to the various business units within the Thomson Services business units.

Managed the teams for several major projects, including:

MIDAS – Three year, $33M project to build a system to provide Technicolor-wide order management, human and device task scheduling and management, human and automation workflow, and physical and digital asset management using a combination of Microsoft and J2EE (Oracle/SAP) platforms and technologies.

Tiger – Custom high definition MPEG-4 grid-based encoding platform for Blu-Ray and digital delivery content creation.  Built upon a large (96 node) HPC Linux cluster with InfiniBand-based Lustre file system.

ATG Datacenter - Led architecture, deployment, and operation of the infrastructure for the research and development lab (30 servers and 30TB storage), as well as, the MIDAS production datacenter (20 servers and 100TB storage).

Recruited and led the 45 member software development and infrastructure engineering team within the Advanced Technology Group, as well as, several remote on and off shore development teams (60-100 engineers).

Technicolor

VP Engineering and Development

Clickstar was a partnership between Morgan Freeman’s Revelations Entertainment and Intel to launch an innovative original content and movie download service.  Successfully delivered the first simultaneous theatrical and broadband premier of two major studio motion pictures – “10 Items or Less” and “Lonely Hearts”.

Recruited to turnaround the technology teams required to launch the Clickstar movie and original content download site and brand - Clickstar folded shortly after launch in early 2007.

Jump started development efforts and launched initial version of Clickstar service in under six months on LAMP-based website and C-based client player.

Worked with fellow members of the executive team in the development of the business plan and with venture funding efforts.

Worked with major studios and independents along with their post-production partners to build digital content pipeline for the service – encoding, ingestion, and distribution of Clickstar catalog and original content.

Clickstar Inc

Led the creation of the digital distribution network for AMG and worked with AMG studio (Disney, Warner Bros, Sony, etc.) and network (Viacom/MTV, Discovery, BBC, PBS, etc.) clients to help them move their existing physical media based creation, distribution, and presentation workflows and processes to more cost and time efficient digital workflows.

Led the research, design, development and implementation of new technology projects for AMG.

Major projects included:
- Digital Cinema distribution workflows and technologies.
- Digital Intermediate creation, distribution, and film out workflows and technologies.
- High definition digital dailies.
- 2K/4K digital workflows (domestic and international).
- 100+ station group digital network and broadcast automation and distribution.
- 1000+ screen in-store captive audience network design and implementation.
- Design and implementation of AMGs global content distribution network (MediaXpress).

Ascent Media

VP Technology Development

Selected by the CIO to provide technology leadership for the SPE Digital Media Initiative, worked with a team of senior studio executives in the various SPE divisions (Theatrical, Television, and Home Entertainment) to create a three year Digital Media Initiative (DMI) program to facilitate SPEs goal to integrate digital media technologies into the traditional workflows in order to cut costs, improve efficiencies, or shorten timelines.

Designed and implementation systems for full resolution Avid-to-Avid editorial transfers and high definition digital dailies systems for international theatrical feature productions.

Led the implementation of a common set of enterprise media asset management platforms at SPE.

Recruited to jump-start an under-performing International Television IT group with poor business alignment and lack of focus on key business values. Led the organization to become a highly valued and credible business partner.
Lead several ERP (JD Edwards, SAP) integration and workflow projects for International Television.

Increased cash flow for the Latin American International Television sales organization via the creation of a multi-network sales management and billing system. The system reduced the time to produce invoices by seven days and reduced average receivables collection period by fourteen days.
Delivered a significant increase in revenues through reductions in refunds for un-aired advertising spots and shipping/customs cost reductions via the design and implementation of a system for the digital delivery of over 2,500 broadcast quality advertising spots per year using existing network and satellite bandwidth.

Tony Lockard