Amanda Berkowitz

Managing the Tracy Anderson website, focused on the online subscription fitness class platform and product managing the e-commerce site.

Clients and projects include: • Technical Project Manager at Digital Citizen. Many projects such as a large scale interactive microsite with custom 360 degree video and images for Conde Nast Traveler and Bank of America. • Product Manager at Halo, developing their first app enabled electronic device to monitor's baby's sleep quality and alert parents to prevent incidents leading to SIDS. • Senior Product Manager at R/GA, a world renowned creative advertising agency. I expanded their product and services internal processes and client offerings, while working on a Cole Haan proposal for website redesign/re-platform and omnichannel business transformations with fantastic marketing data science and user experience design teams. • Product and Quality Manager at SuitableYou, a monthly subscription e-commerce fashion start-up. Women led company providing career women a customized stylist-curated work wardrobe. Managed multiple features including CMS for updating customer website, stylist analytics, and the first redesign of their customer website and portal, stylist portal, administration CMS, and trigger emails. • QA Manager at Blockchain for Change, connecting the underserved and underprivileged communities with access to the traditional financial system, digital identification, and services more efficiently. Managed the implementation of a beta launch incl. mobile app for low tech phones, service provider portal, and admin portal, confirmed they matched the requirements, and created and prioritized future tasks for the next version. • Digital Producer at Roman, creating medical articles with WordPress to answer health questions and promote Roman products and pharmacies.

Intersection is the Google-funded company at the forefront of the smart cities revolution, replacing phone booths with interactive kiosks across the US and UK, connecting the digital and physical worlds through connected experiences, offering free WiFi and hyper-local messaging through the internet of things (IOT). I managed the development of the wayfinding application for all the custom digital displays at New York City's new Hudson Yards neighborhood and seven-story luxury shopping complex. Worked on our custom out of home (OOH) advertising platform and kiosk hardware/software integration.

Epix is a premium cable television network owned by MGM, Lionsgate, Paramount, and Viacom. I managed the release of our first API and its migration to our over-the-top (OTT) streaming video media product on web, iOS, Android, Apple TV, Roku, Tivo, Samsung TV, Android TV, xBox One, xBox 360, and PS4. Managed new features on API, CMA, and all apps including tv series support, downloadable content, free trials, and redesign. Epix is where I really refined my product management and agile process. I led the team by defining and prioritizing product requirements based on business objectives and customer need, to be completed using agile frameworks and tools, while refining our agile process and documentation. Trained team on agile, sprint ceremonies, Jira tickets and kanban boards, writing user stories, the API specs.

Condé Nast Marketing Solutions was the digital marketing agency creating innovative multimedia and interactive projects and products, servicing Condé Nast magazine brands (such as Vogue, Allure, Vanity Fair, Bon Appetite, Wired) and world-class luxury, fashion, beauty, travel, and entertainment clients. In my first Product Manager role, I solved difficult problems with innovative solutions using my background as a developer and collaborated across disciplines using clear documentation and a servant-leader approach. Delivered products: content management systems (CMS), sweepstakes, contests with UGC, ratings/comments, moderation, iPad digital editions, AR campaigns, retargeting for ad tech, custom reporting data analytics. Set and enforced the standard for QA, UX, SEO, ad integration, and analytics to ship a pixel perfect design that appears and functions the way every discipline had intended cross platform, cross browser, and cross device.

Netomat created the first of its kind on pre-smartphone mobile web, highly visual and interactive social network. Became an expert in User Experience for cross-device pre-smartphone mobile web and issues of mobile usability.

Created marketing and promotional websites and products for the tween and young adult market.

Created electronic publishing tools for archiving rare and visually detailed scholarly texts in a virtual library. Wrote scripts to process and reformat XML e-books, delivered a product to visually present e-books to reader.

Created the first ever software to provide an end-to-end solution for legally digitally signing documents and verifying authenticity of electronic documents using USPS Electronic Postmark (EPM).

Executed a wide range of consulting projects, in a team of 25 developers, designers, and project managers.

Launched and maintained magazine, music, and television web sites with teams of producers and designers. Created CMS and auto-publishing tools that enabled users to demo and test customized material before publishing.

Developed early interactive, distance education tools for AskERIC, an education resource virtual library. Led next generation search-first web browser initiative for Sun Microsystems. Also designed alternative interfaces for quadriplegic users for Pulsar R&D Lab and Northeast Parallel Architecture Center.

* Team leader for website redesign * Teaching assistant in web development class