1. MR. Andrew David Hyman
4502 Ethel Ave
Studio City, CA 91604 US
Mobile: 818­726­3247 ­ Ext:
Evening Phone: 818­986­2462 ­ Ext:
Email: hymana@gmail.com
Availability:
Job Type: Permanent, Temporary, Telework
Work Schedule: Full­Time, Part­Time
Desired locations:
United States ­ CA ­ Los Angeles
Work Experience:
Disney Interactive
1200 Grand Central
Glendale, CA 91201 United States
09/2013 ­ 09/2015
Hours per week: 45
Senior Manager, Product Management
Duties, Accomplishments and Related Skills:
Led the development and deployment of a multi­pronged UGC (user­generated content) platform. Disney's ultimate goal for guest­submitted content is
simple but powerful: From anywhere, to anywhere.
­­ Intake: Met with stakeholders across the division, learning their hopes, needs and pain points for UGC;
­­ Compliance assessment: Navigated the minefield of COPPA compliance with Disney Corporate legal, and data security with Disney Interactive TechOps
to determine the safest approaches to solving high­level data storage requirements, as well as assess the risks involved in deviating from the safety ideal;
­­ Planning: Creating practical roadmap, workflow, requirements, and UI documentation, and broadly evangelizing it;
­­ Resource wrangling: met weekly (at minimum) with other product leads to review current project priorities, development burndown rate, deployment
timing, potential product conflicts or integration needs, and determine if product resources were still optimized across the product team.
­­ Development: Led or participated in daily standups, reviewing epics and stories constantly to ensure the most important product components were
prioritized appropriately;
­­ Review and testing: coordinated with all approval stakeholders from product, legal, techOps, QA and marketing to ensure that full buy­in before product
launch;
­­ All­phases contingency planning: Adapted or pivoted as needed to accommodate priority shifts and high­visibility campaigns.
Supervisor: Darin Foster (8189313305)
Okay to contact this Supervisor: Yes
Disney Interactive
1200 Grand Central Ave
Glendale, CA 91201 United States
05/2012 ­ 09/2014
Hours per week: 50
Senior Product Manager
Duties, Accomplishments and Related Skills:
Managed two separate acquired UGC platforms for Disney Interactive: Disney.com Create and MyDCast. Key achievements:
­­ Grew the Create portal to a peak of 125 different themed and branded online creativity apps (drawing, painting, photo and video mashups), which
generated 300,000 monthly saves, 1 million monthly visits, and an average of 20 minutes spent on the site;
­­ Built and managed the 2012 "Make Your Mark" video UGC contest, which inspired almost 100,000 tweens and teens to submit 45­second dance
audition videos for judging by Disney Channel execs;
­­ Managed, built, and maintained over 20 additional photo and video UGC campaigns on MyDCast.
Daily responsibilities included:
­­ Meeting with brand stakeholders, marketers and Ad sales reps from across Disney, to discuss campaign needs and tech requirements;
­­ Managed agile board (primarily using Jira) and daily standups, reviewing and shifting priorities as needed;
­­ Guided UI team in development of mockups for all campaigns, and managed approval process for the designs with all stakeholders
­­ Shepherded campaigns through the corporate UGC approval process, serving as primary point with the internal "UGC committee" ­ a cross­discipline
task force to ensure the primacy of guest data safety;
­­ Built and/or configured apps using legacy UGC production tools, a mishmash of CMS, CSS, JSON and shell scripts that moved versions of each
campaign's app through each internal review environment.
­­ Managed final stakeholder review and approval process, bringing together QA, legal, TechOps, Marketing, ad production, and executives to give
launch green light.
­­ Managed production deployment and served as primary point of contact 24/7 for any production issues;
­­ Compiled app traffic data into a variety of reports, in a readily­digestible format for the relevant audience.
Disney Interactive
5161 Lankershim Blvd
North Hollywood, CA 91601 United States
04/2008 ­ 05/2013
Hours per week: 50
Senior Producer
Duties, Accomplishments and Related Skills:
Managed Disney Connection, a premium version of Disney.com, available to guests through specific ISP licensees. Key achievements:

2. ­­ Guided Disney Connection through a major redesign and content expansion in April 2006, expanding content to 200+ games and 1000+ videos;
­­ Led Disney Connection through another significant product overhaul with launched in April 2007 adding community features such as user profiles,
leaderboards, and favorites;
­­ Restructured how new ISP affiliates were on­boarded, shifting from a manual engineering to a simple CMS­based solution.
On a daily basis, I worked with the following teams and organizations to guide site production: Design, Engineering, Marketing, Ad Sales, Affiliate Sales
and Marketing, Legal, Quality Assurange (QA), TechOps, Disney TV Animation, Disney Channel New Media, Walt Disney Pictures Marketing, Verizon,
AT&T, Mediacom and Comcast.
At its peak, Disney Connection generated about $20 million in annual revenue, providing crucial funding for other Disney Interactive projects.
Walt Disney Internet Group
5161 Lankershim Blvd.
North Hollywood, CA 91601 United States
07/1999 ­ 07/2008
Hours per week: 50
Lead Producer
Duties, Accomplishments and Related Skills:
Oversaw the development, integration, launch and maintenance of over 100 websites for Walt Disney Pictures, Touchstone Pictures, and Hollywood
Pictures. Worked with internal marketing, design, engineering, legal, QA, and 3rd­party agencies on a daily basis to keep Walt Disney Studios online
marketing beast sated.
Key achievements:
­­ Managed vendors to ensure that their design and technical ambitions met Disney Online's compliance and quality standards;
­­ Led efforts to leverage the marketing reach of movies such as "Tarzan," "Finding Nemo," "Monsters Inc.," and "The Incredibles" into cross­division,
synergy­driven "supersites";
­­ Oversaw the website launch and maintenance for the Disney Movie Club, a direct­to­consumer, online­only continuity program for DVD and Blu­ray
movies;
­­ Produced the first online ticket purchasing system by a major studio or theater chain, for the Disney­owned El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood.
Supervisor: Jodie Resnick (818­931­3268)
Okay to contact this Supervisor: Yes
Education:
Stanford University Palo Alto, CA United States
Bachelor's Degree 06/1988
Major: International Relations
References:
Name Employer Title Phone Email
Jodie
Resnick (*)
Disney
Interactive
Vice President 818­931­
3268
jodie.resnick@disney.com
Darin Foster
(*)
Disney
Interactive
Director, Product
Management
818­931­
3305
darin.foster@disney.com
(*) Indicates professional reference
Additional Information:
Skills:
­­ Digital product management
­­ Website project management
­­ Agile and Scrum methodologies
­­ UX
­­ Customer Journey Mapping
­­ Web analytics
­­ Dedicated team player
­­ Digital strategy
­­ Mobile applications
­­ Content management
­­ Information architecture
­­ Digital distribution
­­ Deadline­oriented
­­ HTML and CSS
­­ Javascript
Tools:

3. ­­ Jira
­­ Confluence
­­ Slack
­­ MS Project
­­ MS Visio
­­ MS Office
­­ GitHub
­­ SVN
­­ Wordpress