PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Creative, high - energy and hands-on leader with 15 years' expertise in building TV/STB/web/media/IoT middleware and HTML application platforms, JS application frameworks, web services, and UI products from ideation to deployments.
• Specialist in transforming a device into a web applications platform, integrated with back-office services, content services, and mobile devices to create a performant and scalable ecosystem for delivering media, web applications, and content.
• Congenial, consensus, and relationship building communication with customers, partners, vendors, and teams.
• Results driven by mentoring, leading-by-example to build and lead 35+ person cross-functional, local and offshore teams.
• Created and brought to market a uniquely architected Interactive TV HTML5 applications' TV Confidential platform. Generated $5m+ licensing revenue, and led growing deployment of250k+ subs at Confidential in Poland, Czech, Austria and Chile.
• Innovated, led development and adoption of a new JavaScript Applications Framework for TV apps ecosystem, simplifying UI development. Drove adoption with multiple UI partners and customer application teams, with 100+ developer following.
• Led creation of sandboxed JS Web Applications Framework for Web App Stores. App Store partner deployed 200+ Apps.
• Devised an inter-application messaging framework to integrate TV Confidential platform Apps with mobile Apps. Leading to development of next-gen multi-screen services, push-to-TV, pull-from-TV services, giving seemless experiences across devices.
• Led revival of TVNavigator-4.0 product as an Confidential TV HTML4 HD platform for Telcos MVPDs. Generating $10m revenue from deployments in TurkTelekom 300k, Smart Digivision India 100k+, Corvette Telecom Russia 1000s.
• Led and ported TVNavigator-1.2 platform to a HD Zapper Confidential on an aggressive 6 months schedule. Oversaw an accelerated deployment at Virgin Media by 1.5M STBs, adding to $14m license and service revenue, I was responsible for.
• TV, STB, IoT web application platforms and web services Innovative platform software Architectures and Designs Intuitive data-driven APIs and Application Protocols Customer-facing collaborative Solutions Engineering
• Product management, Strategy and Planning, PDLC, SDLC MVC based Ecosystem JavaScript Applications Framework Leading Embedded, UI, Middleware software development C, C++, JavaScript, JSON, HTML, Java, HTTP, TCP, Linux ompetencies

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Milpitas, CA

Director of Engineering

Responsibilities:

• Creatively architected and led development to deployment of Nucleus HTML5 TV applications Confidential platform integrated with Cloud based back-office services.
• Innovated and led creation of Ecosystem JavaScript Applications Framework (NAF, WebApps) for Nucleus Interactive TV system, with HTML5 applications and Metrological app store deployed in multiple countries across multiple customers.
• Devised a push/pull TV message casting framework (RNAF) for mobile devices to communicate with platform applications. Led development of auto discovery using ZeroConf/mDNS between Gateway and IP clients platforms and mobile devices.
• Built, mentored and led STB middleware, UI Apps, JS Framework, QA, Customer Support, and Documentation teams of varying sizes with 35+ professionals , local and offshore, located in US, UK, Turkey, and Philippines.
• Oversaw development of SeaChange's winning Nitro UI and Charter UI applications using HTML5 , designed by Frog Design and Brainstorm design houses, for Gateway and IP-Client STBs, Tablets, iPads, iPhones, and PCs.
• Spearheaded and successfully delivered numerous Cable and IPTV MSO Interactive TV system trials and PoCs .
• Boosted productivity , improved product design quality, API documentation and team collaboration by software process improvements and pushing adoption of Google collaboration suite. Got teams experienced in SDLC, Jira systems, Agile and Sprint processes, DevOps, Continuous Integration, Test Automation. Recognized by GM/SVP as best and versatile teams.
• Led integration of Interactive TV platform with Data Analytics web services, propagating audience measurement, usage tracking, service quality, learn events, user selections, favorites, and purchases data. Influenced the end-to-end
• Led development of in-house tools to validate the TV platform, using Node.js for simulated web services, MochaJS for API testing suite, Python utilities for fake/error data induction, log analysis and Google Confidential for data visualization.
• Enhanced device security for Confidential and customer's strict secure perimeter requirements, using Linux containers, HTTPS, SSL, DBus, device authentication, TLS Session ticket (RFC 5077), Security Token, Firewall.
• Spearheaded creation of first time install flow and resident bootstrap Cloud application loader with firmware download, application cache, remote pairing, language selection, and welcome video stages, eliminating truck rolls in deployments.
• Xtra Unblocked first launch by figuring out Qt/WebKit browser object caching issue, increased stability from 4hrs to 20hrs.
• Modeled and documented TV applications platform's HTTP JSON-RPC APIs and JS Applications' Framework APIs and Data Model. Engineered back-office communication patterns to keep device data refreshed but not cause network overloads.
• Primary customer-facing solutions contact , management and technical lead for thousands of conference calls every year, pursuing end-to-end system integration, stability, scalability, performance, deployment issues, and delivery planning.
• Hands-on work included bug triage and investigations; object oriented design, documentation, API and code reviews ; bug fixing, feature enhancements; debugging and log analysis; branch, build and release management ; sprint, release and feature planning; back-office communications and optimization; and numerous travels for on-site multi-vendor integrations.
• Supported GM in business development, by traveling trade shows and customer sites, evangelized product capabilities, did booth management, gave demos and presentations, and supported in RFP, RFQ, SOW processes.

Skills : C, C++, JavaScript, Node.JS, Java, AJAX, CSS, DOM, HTML, HTTP, RESTful, JSON-RPC, Mongoose, SSL, PMRPC, OOD, SOA, SQLite, Model-View-Controller, API design, Application Networking Protocols, Web Services, JS Frameworks, TCP, RTSP, HLS, OTT, DLNA, H264, TR-069, RDK, DVB, ATSC, DOCSIS, OCAP, Event driven architectures, cross-platform embedded systems development, Python, Perforce, Git, GitLab, Jenkins, Linux.

Confidential, San Mateo, CA

Engineering Manager

Responsibilities:

• Manager accountable for $14m Liberate products SLA, led development of client and server roadmap features and field issue resolutions.
• Developed software using C, C++, JavaScript, HTML, HTTP, HTTPS, SSL, CSS, DOM, TCP, UDP Multicast/Unicast, DVB, HTTP, HTTPS, Squid Proxy, Apache HTTPD.
• Architected and led the revival of TV Navigator 4.0 HTML4 product and IPTV web services for IPTV, Cable, and Terrestrial hybrid HD set-top platforms, and delivered it to multiple customers. Led trials, deployments with multiple Telco operators.
• Interim manager of server products and team , delivered broadcast server updates and added IPTV services.
• Managed cross-platform development, build and release management for 20+ STB platforms from various vendors.
• Unified multiple branches and versions of Interactive TV platform software into one development and release branch.
• Migrated all Confidential vendors to a new unified TV Porter 2.0 specification for HD, IPTV, IP-VOD, DVD-on-demand services.

Confidential, Palo Alto, CA

Senior Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Designed and developed server side components for two generations of Confidential server platforms, that connects mobile devices for sharing of personal and professional data like contacts, events, tasks, POP, IMAP emails and attachments, and briefcase data.
• Developed software using Java, J2EE, EJB, JDBC, XML, XML-RPC, WBXML, SyncML, Ant, WebLogic App Server, Oracle RDBMS, IntelliJ IDE, Bugzilla. Acquired by Yahoo in 2005.
• Synchronization server adapter for Danger HipTop PIM data and email.
• Synchronization server gateway for third-party SyncML servers.
• Developed Record Exchange (REX) protocol device adapter and server proxy.
• Developed XML driven automated testing framework for Confidential REX protocol. Used by QA to stress test the server.

Confidential, San Carlos, CA

Lead Senior Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Enhanced DTV networking core for HTTP/1.1 compliance.
• Designed and developed data fetchers, client networking features and JavaScript APIs for DTV-1.x, TVNavigator-4.0, and AOL TV set-top products and Network Porting APIs.
• Developed software using C, C++, JSNI, JNI, IDL, TCP/UDP, HTTP, HTTPS, SSL, MPEG, DVB, Visual Studio, Perforce, vxWorks. Formerly NCI, startup by Netscape.

Confidential, Sunnyvale, CA

Senior Software Engineer, Web Appliance

Responsibilities:

• Implemented Java APIs using C, C++, JNI for board configuration, touch screen calibration, device drivers, and flash file system. Startup by Mitsubishi.