Direct Connections to Streaming Video Inventory | FreeWheel | Icebreaker

Direct Connections to Streaming Video Inventory | FreeWheel | Icebreaker

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Software engineer with 14+ years of experience with experience in people management and technical leadership positions. Experience and skills in full stack engineering in product, data, and infrastructure domains.

Andrew Policastro

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Sr. Director, Publisher Development at FreeWheel

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As a seasoned Program Manager and Client Relationship expert, I bring a wealth of experience from thriving in both Fortune 500 environments, like Google, and nimble startups, consistently delivering exceptional results across diverse industries. My career is defined by adaptability, a relentless drive for excellence, and a knack for navigating complex challenges with empathy and precision. I excel at fostering trust and collaboration, whether I’m guiding global, cross-functional teams, coaching stakeholders through high-stakes projects, or translating intricate concepts for audiences ranging from C-suite executives to frontline staff. My soft skills—active listening, emotional intelligence, and inclusive leadership—have been the cornerstone of my success, enabling me to drive productivity, profitability, and client satisfaction while cultivating positive, high-performing team cultures. With a proven track record of leading transformative initiatives, I thrive in dynamic settings, seamlessly adapting to evolving priorities and organizational needs. My expertise spans program and project management, stakeholder engagement, risk mitigation, and process optimization, complemented by a commitment to mentoring others and fostering growth. Specialties: Program management, Project Management, Risk Management, Process Engineering, Stakeholder management, Adaptability, Leadership, Project Scheduling, Quality, Problem Management, Contract Management, Coaching, Mentoring, Presentation Skills, leading client engagements, expectation management, cross-functional team leadership, management in matrix organizations, Written and Verbal Communication, User Requirements, Application Service implementation planning and execution, issue resolution, Application Service product management, corporate training using adult learning techniques, Residential construction and renovation. #OpenToWork

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Jill Mintzer is Senior Manager, Strategic Relationships on the Distributor Supply team at FreeWheel. In her role, she specializes within the OEM and digital-first publishers, delivering monetization and ad-serving platform solutions across the FreeWheel technology portfolio. With over 13 years’ experience in media & entertainment, sales and technology, Jill is a fearless customer advocate, driven by internally championing the needs of her customers to develop out of the box solutions for their long-term objectives.

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Senior Executive Assistant

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FreeWheel | Marketing Strategy & Commercial Activation

Christina Taylor

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I am passionate about open source, multi-cloud, scalable and efficient data pipelines. I make data informed architectural decisions to build data products that support advanced analytics, machine learning, and customer facing applications. I also have a keen interest in interdisciplinary areas such as Cloud FinOps, DevOps and MLOps. I love to learn, share and contribute to the open source community - you will find me an engaging technical writer and presenter. Specialty designing and developing enterprise scale mutil-cloud batch/streaming Spark applications Production implementation of AWS/GCP, Databricks, EMR, open source and managed Airflow Practical application of data catalog, data lineage, and sensitive information handling Experience with CICD, monitoring, alerting and log analytics (ELK/Datadog) Proficiency with infrastructure as code: Terraform/Cloud Formation, k8s config connector Knowledgeable of cloud data warehouses and tuning (Snowflake, Big Query, Redshift, Postgres) Skillful in Python, Scala, SQL. Working knowledge of Java and C#. Strong command of MS Office/G Suite, design (UML, LucidChart) and project management tools (JIRA, Zendesk, Trello)

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Revenue Operations and Planning

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Executive Director at FreeWheel

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Senior Operations and Client Service professional with a proven ability to scale organizations to the next level by instituting effective change management strategies across systems, processes, roles/responsibilities, and organizational structure to ensure accountability and results. - A natural leader offering proven success with scaling organizations to the next level. - Known for bringing passion to people development and making diversifying revenue streams a reality. - An extremely effective communicator and collaborator who excels at leading cross-functional teams to achieve operational excellence.