Brian Maniere

Product Manager bridging technology, management, and design. Certified Scrum Product Owner. Strong Agile, digital media, and UX experience. Offering vision and depth leading cross-functional teams to deliver user-focused web and mobile initiatives. Familiar playing most roles on the team along the way.

Product Management

Reuters U.S. Elections Service

Reuters U.S. Elections Service

Product Manager who led the creation of the technology platform that broke the AP's monopoly on live election results. Data was collected via mobile app, published via API. Product Owner within an Agile framework. Specified the requirements, set the priorities. Defined the API, designed the data analysis applications, supervised the technology partners, guided the client integrations.

Reuters White Label Web Publishing Platform

Reuters White Label Web Publishing Platform

Product Manager who led the creation of Reuters' highly customizable SaaS platform for publishing automated responsive web and mobile sites. Scrum Product Owner. Defined the requirements, set the priorities, designed a modular administration console and its user experience, provided the voice of the customer. Sales over $700,000.

Reuters Winter Olympics White Label Solution

Reuters Winter Olympics White Label Hosted Solution, Data Modules, and API

Product Manager who led the adaptation of the Reuters Web Publishing Platform into a white label solution for Winter Olympics news and live results. Product Owner within an Agile framework. Defined the requirements, set the priorities, guided the client integrations. Served 12 customers in 5 languages. Sales over $200,000.

Reuters World Cup White Label Solution

Reuters World Cup White Label Hosted Solution, Data Modules, and API

Product Manager who led the adaptation of the Reuters Web Publishing Platform into a white label solution for World Cup news and live results. Agile Product Owner. Specified the requirements, set the priorities. Served 29 customers in 11 languages. Sales over $500,000.

Reuters Connect API

Reuters Connect API

Product Manager responsible for promoting, enhancing, and integrating the API solution for searching and retrieving Reuters editorial content. Specified the requirements, set the priorities, owned the product. Powered over 100 customers and internal systems.

Reuters Pictures API

Reuters Pictures API

Product Manager who led the creation of the API solution for searching and retrieving Reuters photography, slideshows, and graphics. Specified the requirements, set the priorities, owned the product.

Daylife Publisher Suite

Daylife Publisher Suite

Client Services Manager responsible for product evangelism, sales engineering, post-sales integration, and all varieties of customer support. The Publisher Suite was an innovative SaaS solution for digital media publishers to easily deploy auto-updating content, data, and user engagement widgets.

Daylife Select and Smart Galleries

Daylife Select and Smart Galleries

Client Services Manager responsible for product evangelism, sales engineering, post-sales integration, and all varieties of customer support. Select and Smart Galleries were innovative, modular, highly customizable SaaS solutions for publishing up-to-the-moment news and photography.

Daylife API

Daylife API

Client Services Manager responsible for product evangelism, sales engineering, post-sales integration, and all varieties of customer support. The API was the flexible solution for creating apps with the news analysis and classification engine at the core of the Daylife product suite.

Web Development

NBC Universal Local Integrated Media

NBC Universal Local Integrated Media

Senior Web User Interface Developer on the Scrum team who created NBC's 9 local city sites, executed a redesign, and built additional verticals and enhancements. Delivered key components, application logic, and future-compliant code.

Condé Nast's Style.com

Condé Nast Publications

Senior Front End Web Analyst and Lead Front End Developer for Style.com and Men.Style.com, the web sites for Vogue and GQ. We redesigned Style, launched new verticals, and refactored the code. Instituted coding best practices.

WNYC's Onthemedia.org

Onthemedia.org

Front End Architect, Developer, and Creative Director who redesigned and rebuilt the web site for this WNYC NPR radio show and podcast. Delivered fully standards-compliant and accessible HTML / CSS / JavaScript templates, and a fresh design.

WNYC's Studio360.com

Studio360.org

Front End Architect and Developer who rebuilt the web site for this WNYC NPR radio show and podcast. Made the sale, fulfilled the contract. Delivered fully standards-compliant and accessible HTML / CSS / JavaScript templates.

Coolhunting.com

Coolhunting.com

Front End Architect and Developer who rebuilt this design and trendspotting site. Made the sale, fulfilled the project. Delivered fully standards-compliant and accessible HTML / CSS / JavaScript templates and integrated them into a Movable Type CMS environment.

Flux.com

Flux.com

Front End Architect and Developer who built this MTV web site that sold ringtones and wallpapers for mobile phones. Made the sale, fulfilled the project. Delivered fully standards-compliant and accessible HTML / CSS / JavaScript templates.

Tropolism.com

Tropolism.com

Front End Architect and Developer who built this architecture and urbanism web site. Made the sale, fulfilled the project. Delivered fully standards-compliant and accessible HTML / CSS / JavaScript templates and integrated them into a Movable Type content management system.

Weddingatelier.com

Weddingatelier.com

Front End Architect and Developer who built this web site for a high end bridal boutique. Made the sale, fulfilled the project. Delivered fully standards-compliant and accessible HTML / CSS / JavaScript templates.

Needled.com

Needled.com

Front End Architect and Developer who built this web site about tattoo culture. Made the sale, managed the project. Delivered accessible and fully standards-compliant HTML / CSS / JavaScript templates and integrated them into a Movable Type content management environment.

Fun | Video | Art

Sandbox

Sandboxes

Interactive Artist and Creator of these networked wooden boxes of interactive digital sand for play and reverie.

Cycle

Cycle

Cinematographer and Sound Recordist for this short video produced, written, and directed by Mac McKean.

Sonnet Subterfuge

Son(net) Subterfuge

Sound Artist and Director of the New York crew for this networked transatlantic live audio-visual and dance performance directed by Josephine Dorado.

Soul of Motown

Soul of Motown

Segment Producer, Interviewer, Sound Recordist, and Editor of this multimedia documentary for iVillage that accompanied the publication of the book A Day in the Life of the American Woman.

Flow

Flow

Sound Artist and Software Developer of this interactive audio-visual installation directed by Chiaki Watanabe and exhibited at the vertexList Gallery, Brooklyn.

Gesture Painter

Gesture Painter

Interactive Artist and Creator of this software instrument that intuitively translates gesture to synthesize live video for visual expression.

Carlen Versus

Carlen Versus

Location Sound Engineer for this television pilot produced and directed by Mac McKean and Morgan Bernard.

Metastable Sound Framework

Metastable Sound Framework

Sound Artist for this improvised audio composition performed live with Jamie Allen at the Chelsea Museum in New York City.

Gesture Painter

Sandboxes AVC

Creator, Director, and Sound Artist for this audio-visual performance illustrating a shared creative play space for live artistic collaboration.

Head Up

Head Up

Cinematographer for this short video produced, written, and directed by Mac McKean.

Game of Life

The Game of Life

Creative Technologist and Teacher expanding upon James Conway's cellular automata "zero-player" game to explore algorithmic / generative design.

GP01 Controller

GP01 Controller

Product Designer of this hardware controller to pair with a Gesture Painter for performing live video synthesis.