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  "basics": {
    "name": "James Boehmer",
    "summary": "Dynamic engineering leader and platform engineer. I build and grow strong technology teams, create products, drive and adapt to change, and turn ambiguity into clarity.",
    "label": "VP Engineering @ Altana | Building an AI Knowledge Graph of the Global Supply Chain",
    "email": "james.boehmer@gmail.com",
    "location": {
      "city": "Brooklyn",
      "region": "New York",
      "countryCode": "US"
    },
    "profiles": [
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        "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamesboehmer/",
        "username": "jamesboehmer",
        "network": "LinkedIn"
      },
      {
        "url": "https://github.com/jamesboehmer",
        "username": "jamesboehmer",
        "network": "github"
      }
    ]
  },
  "education": [
    {
      "endDate": "2010",
      "startDate": "2007",
      "area": "Information Systems and Technology Management",
      "studyType": "Masters",
      "institution": "Stevens Institute of Technology"
    },
    {
      "endDate": "2003",
      "startDate": "1998",
      "area": "Computer Science",
      "studyType": "Bachelors",
      "institution": "Stony Brook University"
    }
  ],
  "references": [
    {
      "reference": "Passion and personality greatly matter in leadership. James and I worked as peers in engineering management and I found him to have an infectious amount of passion for his work and the strength in personality to be able to balance the growth of his team and personnel issues while pushing through with business requirements. Those traits, coupled with his creativity for innovative solutions and sharp technical acumen, make him a formidable partner in spreading positive change throughout an engineering organization. More specifically, I witnessed his work in developing and scaling a new search platform at the Times, while deciphering undocumented legacy data formats and complex data processing pipelines. He brought about statistically meaningful results and cost savings, all the while pushing to root out inefficiencies throughout the rest of the company, found both in our processes and in our tools.",
      "name": "Thompson Marzagão, Director of Engineering, The New York Times"
    },
    {
      "reference": "I have worked with James in an agile environment for several years across multiple search related projects. I have usually been the product owner and James has managed the development team. He has been a great partner. James has deep knowledge in his field, is an outstanding engineer, and is highly motivated to deliver results quickly. He has strong communication skills and is a fine manager.",
      "name": "Robert Larson, Artificial Intelligence Program Manager at Bloomberg LP"
    }
  ],
  "skills": [
    {
      "keywords": [
        "Hiring",
        "Roadmapping",
        "Professional Development",
        "System Architecture",
        "Information Security & Compliance"
      ],
      "name": "Engineering Leadership"
    },
    {
      "keywords": [
        "Python",
        "Java",
        "Kotlin",
        "Go",
        "Postgres",
        "Redis",
        "Redshift",
        "Serverless",
        "Spark",
        "Databricks",
        "Flask",
        "REST",
        "Docker"
      ],
      "name": "Platform Engineering"
    },
    {
      "keywords": [
        "AWS",
        "Azure",
        "Terraform",
        "Kubernetes",
        "Helm"
      ],
      "name": "Devops"
    }
  ],
  "awards": [
    {
      "title": "NYT Publisher's Award - Times Machine",
      "summary": "Having previously won the NYT Innovation Challenge People's Choice award for the reenvisioned TimesMachine in 2013, the prototype graduated to full-fledged production in April 2014. Already a novel experience, the final product became an instant sensation, offering a beautiful and smooth experience for readers. With the addition of search functionality, the TimesMachine has quickly become a solid source of reader engagement, and represents a triumph of cross-team collaboration.",
      "awarder": "Arthur O. Sulzberger, Jr., The New York Times",
      "date": "2014-11-01"
    },
    {
      "title": "NYT Publisher's Award - Collections",
      "summary": "In September 2014, The New York Times unveiled a revised approach to the organization of data-driven features for reader usability and engagement. Using the same search technology which powers Times Topics, the framework for powering section fronts and topic pages have evolved into the concept of collections, allowing the organization to better leverage its archives, and create efficiencies in the news room by eliminating one-off design and curation efforts.",
      "awarder": "Arthur O. Sulzberger, Jr., The New York Times",
      "date": "2014-11-01"
    },
    {
      "title": "NYT Publisher's Award 2013",
      "summary": "Awarded for the successful completion of a massive data center migration, involving the rewriting of 75+ applications, a 90% reduction in server footprint, and a quadrupling of computing power.",
      "awarder": "Arthur O. Sulzberger, Jr., The New York Times",
      "date": "2013-04-01"
    },
    {
      "title": "NYT Innovation Award 2013",
      "summary": "Awarded by popular vote, this entry to the New York Times's internal Innovation Challenge is a web-based interactive map of archived print editions. Built entirely with open source geospatial technology, it provides an enhanced, modern, multi-platform map-like experience for reader engagement with the New York Times print archive, an under-utilized source of new digital subscriptions.\n\nA second entry also won an Honorable Mention award, for delivering a live real-time stream of nytimes.com search terms to the browser. The New York Times Live Search Cloud uses Node.js, web sockets, and the D3 framework for scrolling user searches inside the browser, periodically clustering the most popular, enabling the news room to instantly know what readers are searching for.",
      "awarder": "Marc Frons, SVP & CIO, The New York Times",
      "date": "2013-02-01"
    }
  ],
  "work": [
    {
      "summary": "Altana AI enables trusted commerce by providing the single source of truth on the global supply chain. Our AI platform connects and learns from billions of data points to help governments and the private sector build safe, resilient, and sustainable supply chains.",
      "website": "https://altana.ai/",
      "company": "Altana AI",
      "name": "Altana AI",
      "location": "Brooklyn, NY",
      "position": "VP of Engineering",
      "startDate": "2020-07-10",
      "highlights": [
        "Scaled a crossfunctional team of engineers and data scientists from 8 to 50 through a Series A",
        "Built a Knowledge Graph of the global supply chain on Databricks and ArangoDB",
        "Transformed the company from a service-oriented to a product-oriented one",
        "Made heavy use of infrastructure automation to build out multi-cloud environments",
        "Responsible for SOC-2 and ISO-27001 compliance"
      ],
      "pinned": true
    },
    {
      "summary": "As a technology leader at Disney Streaming Services, I am lucky to have played a crucial role in one of the world's biggest product launches ever: Disney+. Together with my product, operations, analytics, and technology partners, I led a team of 50+ extremely talented engineers through the development and launch of an array of services which directly power the user interface, content discovery, and personalized features consumed by tens of millions of subscribers, as well as metadata supply chain and content curation tooling used by our business partners in Disney Content Operations.\n\nIn 4 years here, I've navigated the evolution from MLB to BAMTech to Disney Streaming, and it's taught me to be adept at organizational partnership and alignment, technology ownership, making great hires, goal-setting, and delivery & operational excellence.",
      "website": "https://disneyplus.com",
      "company": "Disney Streaming Services",
      "name": "Disney Streaming Services",
      "location": "New York, NY",
      "position": "VP of Content Engineering",
      "startDate": "2018-04-01",
      "endDate": "2020-02-14",
      "highlights": [
        "Launched Disney+ to an astounding number of signups that broke our annual growth expectations in the first 13 hours",
        "GraphQL Content APIs",
        "Personalization & Recommendations",
        "Hiring & Team-building",
        "AWS",
        "Elasticsearch",
        "Content Management",
        "User Experience service integration"
      ]
    },
    {
      "summary": "After Disney’s acquisition of my segment of MLBAM, the Search and Personalization team grew to take on efforts for all client-facing content discovery. During this time my team and I focused on streamlining a legacy landscape of data files and feeds by defining a strong schema and taxonomy, and refactoring our content APIs to use GraphQL.\n\nIn addition, I also worked toward making my team a center of excellence in information retrieval, building out a controlled vocabulary system, an online machine learning tool for multivariate testing, and various quality improvements for search, including named entity recognition, freshness algorithms, and technology innovations for improved performance and caching of personalized content.",
      "company": "BAMTECH Media",
      "name": "BAMTECH Media",
      "website": "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/bamtech",
      "position": "Sr. Director of Engineering, Content Discovery",
      "startDate": "2017-03-01",
      "endDate": "2018-04-01",
      "highlights": [
        "Launched Fox Sports Go and ESPN+",
        "Managed a team through a corporate acquisition"
      ]
    },
    {
      "highlights": [
        "Created a new Search & Discovery offering for all new MLBAM partnerships",
        "Built a team of 30 from scratch",
        "Launched NHL.tv"
      ],
      "summary": "I was hired at MLBAM to create a team focused on Search and Personalization. I designed and implemented the search platform for use with the nhl.com relaunch in January 2016, powering all video and article feeds across client platforms, as well as relevance-based user search and typeahead.\n\nShortly after, I began building the team and by January of 2017 the team grew to 8, and continued to mature and work on personalization efforts for WWE Network. Other partners include MLB (mlb.com, At Bat, Ballpark) and Eurosport (eurosportplayer.com).\n\nTechnology used includes AWS, Elasticsearch, Python, Java, and Redis, and was built reactively to scale with worldwide consumer demand.",
      "company": "MLB Advanced Media",
      "name": "MLB Advanced Media",
      "website": "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/mlb-advanced-media",
      "position": "Director of Engineering, Search & Personalization",
      "startDate": "2015-09-28",
      "endDate": "2017-03-01"
    },
    {
      "highlights": [
        "Managed a team of backend and web developers",
        "Relaunched an equity crowdfunding platform",
        "Implemented a Continuous Delivery pipeline for rapid development",
        "Full stack application development using MySQL, nginx, Python/flask, AWS, RequireJS, Sass"
      ],
      "summary": "Active management and development of all product technology, including full stack web systems. In this role, I assembled a strong technology team by establishing consistent processes for tasking and prioritization, focusing on clear communication, and personally and significantly contributing to development and product ideation.",
      "company": "Quire",
      "name": "Quire",
      "website": "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/quire",
      "position": "Head of Engineering",
      "startDate": "2015-02-15",
      "endDate": "2015-09-01"
    },
    {
      "highlights": [
        "Relaunched the Times Machine archive feature",
        "Responsible for search and collection discovery for nytimes.com",
        "Managed a team of 6 engineers through the NYT5 relaunch",
        "Built out the NYT Semantic API, whose taxonomy is core to NYT's information architecture"
      ],
      "summary": "Active design and development of Google CSE-based Site Search, MongoDB and Elasticsearch-based internal faceted search tools, \"most-popular\" analytics and APIs, Times Topics, autosuggest services, site maps, named entity recognition and rule-based categorization.",
      "website": "https://www.nytimes.com",
      "company": "The New York Times",
      "name": "The New York Times",
      "position": "Engineering Manager, Search",
      "startDate": "2012-05-01",
      "endDate": "2015-02-15"
    },
    {
      "highlights": [
        "Rebuilt the NYT site search using Google's Custom Search Engine offering",
        "Constructed external-facing NYT Content APIs"
      ],
      "summary": " Content API engineering in the cloud ",
      "website": "https://www.nytimes.com",
      "company": "The New York Times",
      "name": "The New York Times",
      "position": "Engineering Manager, Search",
      "startDate": "2012-05-01",
      "endDate": "2015-02-15"
    }
  ]
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