Constance Miller

Constance Miller

Versatile and accomplished digital media professional with tenure at award-winning Discovery.com, Time Inc., and NPR in Internet and new media creative development; site and production management; and publishing. Proven capability as leader, change agent, and team-builder. Compiled extensive track record of achieving creative excellence, fostering ongoing process improvement, and implementing technical innovation while achieving fiscal growth. Proponent and practitioner of the Agile Scrum, Lean product development, and Kanban.

Led first implementation of Scrum and Agile iterative methodologies during National Public Radio’s comprehensive redesign of NPR.org. Led, as ScrumMaster, the run, grow, transform approach to product
development and innovation; proven success fostering communication, transparency, and adaptation
creating a high level of efficiency, productivity, and collaboration during product expansion from
desktop to multiple form factors. Experience with Lean hypothesis-driven Scrum product development.

Provide vision, develop strategy and recruit staff for WashingtonCityPaper.com, the interactive, hyperlocal and ad-driven digital platform in the challenging newspaper industry. Following purchase in 2007, refocused editorial and technology groups to produce and build R&D revenue-generating projects across 6 newspapers in 3 of the top 10 newsweekly markets.

Created new media production department, recruited and managed staff responsible for producing award winning Discovery.com—one of the most popular Internet sites. Led company’s production through maturation of Internet, from development to deployment, during rising investment to cost-containment; adopted new methods, technologies and processes staying at the forefront of a rapidly advancing industry.

Executed day-to-day page makeup of Sports Illustrated for Kids magazine. Included every aspect of monthly magazine production—page construction, story-fitting, quality control, and final approval. Member of new projects team, built original SI for Kids website.