Bio
Hal Danziger is the Chief Technology Officer at New York Media, publisher of New York Magazine, nymag.com, and MenuPages.com. He is responsible for software development processes, best practices, software architecture and infrastructure. Danziger introduced the scrum framework to the software delivery team at New York, which has had a large role in drastically increasing the number of quality product enhancements rolled out since April of 2009.
Prior to joining New York, Hal served as VP of Product Management for the CBS Television Stations Digital Media Group, where he was responsible for the product roadmap for the 29 CBS owned and operated television stations’ web sites, including WCBS in New York and KCBS in Los Angeles (see full list at http://cbslocal.com). Danziger’s expertise in the areas of video, ad delivery and social media helped to drive products that aggregate the efforts of all divisions of the organization, including sales, editorial, marketing, technology and user experience. He also directed project management practices, leading cross-functional teams to implement and build the products as defined by product managers.
Danziger was previously the Director of Development for the organization. He led the development of all digital products that support the owned CBS stations. He also managed integrations between CBS and its technology partners, which include Yahoo, Google, DoubleClick, Endeca, Entriq, and Match.com, among dozens of other technology and media companies. His primary responsibility was to architect CBSTV’s new content management system, web sites, and infrastructure. This architecture has supported over 1 billion page views in a year and over 1 million page views in an hour. His hands-on software development expertise was instrumental in his accomplishments in this role.
Danziger performed a similar role during his employment at Cablevision Systems Corp. While at Cablevision, Danziger architected a home grown digital asset management system (DAM), adding features such as integration of digital rights management and automatic ingestion of digital assets and metadata from third parties via satellite, including video on demand (VOD) programs from HBO and Showtime.
He has also served for a number of digital media companies in roles ranging from Director of Development to CTO. Danziger acted as the chief architect for solutions provided to clients including Cablevision, Computer Associates, PRNewswire, British Airways, Nortel Networks and Getty Petroleum. The applications he architected included content management systems, CRM integrations, and e-commerce sites and applications.
Danziger is an alumnus of Stony Brook University, with a B.S. in Computer Science. His greatest strengths are in the areas of product development, business analysis, content management, digital asset management, relational databases and applications integration. He is a member of the Online Publisher’s Association Tech Committee, and previous served on the IAB committees for Digital Video and User Generated Content (UGC), and Social Media.
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