New media product guy with fifteen years of engineering and product management experience.
VP of Product Development @ Refinery29 is the largest independent fashion and lifestyle website in the US, and was named fast growing media company by Inc. magazine. From May 2015 to Present (8 months) Greater New York City AreaDirector of Product Development @ Many good things to come ... From June 2013 to May 2015 (2 years) Greater New York City AreaVice President of Product Development @ Head of Dish Digital's New York office, overseeing Product, Design, Content and Ad Operations teams. Responsible for the consumer experience of "over the top" and on demand video products. This included both platform/device apps and customer acquisition website (& mobile web).
Increased (Dish owned) Blockbuster’s digital video rental business by 40% through a comprehensive redesign across all platforms. Launched DishWorld, an OTT video service delivering international TV channels and VOD on connected TVs, tablet, mobile and desktop. An English language service, branded Sling TV, launched in 2015 on the DishWorld platform. From January 2011 to May 2013 (2 years 5 months) Greater New York City AreaSenior Director of Product Development @ Employee #3 (after President and Chief Product Officer) of Sling Media's New York expansion. Responsible for staffing and managing a user experience team while driving the requirements and development of a new product area.
Sling Media was acquired by Dish Network in the fall of 2007
Following the Dish acquisition I led product development of Dish Network's first "TV Everywhere" video portal, DishOnline.com. DishOnline synthesized DVR scheduling, OTT video and "place-shifted" live TV (using Sling technology), into one integrated experience. From January 2007 to December 2010 (4 years) Greater New York City AreaSenior Director of Product Development @ Product lead for the video-focused relaunch of MTV.com and Windows Media Center app, MTV Overdrive. Responsible for managing the product roadmap, creating wireframes & building prototypes, while working alongside designers and developers to ship, test and iterate. Video consumption for marquee events grew by 200% as a result of the relaunch. From November 2004 to January 2007 (2 years 3 months) Greater New York City AreaProduct Manager @ UI/UX lead for ESPN’s online video platform, ESPN Motion. Developed second-screen applications that incorporated Motion (pre-recorded and live video) with real-time chat and polls. Resulting from its success, Motion was platformized and rolled out across Disney’s properties including, ABC.com, ABCNews.com and Movies.com. From October 2002 to November 2004 (2 years 2 months) Greater New York City AreaSenior Front End Engineer @ Lead client-side developer of numerous multimedia and real-time stats applications, most notably MLB.com Gameday. Gameday was rated #1 in The Wall Street Journal as the best live game simulator on the web - April 17, 2002 From June 2001 to October 2002 (1 year 5 months) Greater New York City AreaFront End Technology Engineer @ Client-side developer specializing in web standard HTML, CSS, Javascript and Flash. From May 2000 to June 2001 (1 year 2 months)
Bachelors of Science, Computer Graphics Technology @ Purdue University From 1996 to 2000 Frank Conway is skilled in: Product Development, Product Management, Online Video, Video, User Experience, Information Architecture, User-centered Design, User Interface Design, Interaction Design, CSS, HTML 5, Web Video, JavaScript, A/B testing, Usability Testing
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