SUMMARY:

• 15 year mission to make production of high quality IPTV, SVOD, connected DVD & BD.
• 12 years Management experience in Business Development & Engineering Quality.
• 10 years in consulting on compression and media Production & Technology.

Confidential

San Jose

Video Systems Coordinator 

• Develop, review and rework Telepresence Classrooms with Cisco Phones, Video Conferencing, Technical support for Faculty and Staff, using Tandberg CODEC’s for H.323 and SIP dialing plans. Deployed telepresence to Dean’s conference rooms and University Advancement.
• Audio, Video and compression systems level troubleshooting on Lecture Capture systems for Courseware development. Use Case studies and technology evaluation for appropriate sizing of scalable worldwide collaboration, with guest lecture participation and breakout huddle space touch platforms for engagement and student success.
• Lecture Capture edit & captioning workflow and streaming publishing evaluations for best practice in ADA compliance.

Sr. Consultant

• Managed software Development for improved vendor workflows: Designing encoding system PBS Station profiles, standards compliance and optimized CODECs for Nationwide PBS content delivery. Defined and documented Encoding Procedures, and training of operations staff. Designed code for more reliability and removed hundreds of points of failure in nation wide deployment.
• Responsible for directing software encoder optimizations and hardware systems improvement for Development facility's build out and systems level integration validation for large Video On Demand networks.
• Engineering Liaison for Station Support, providing bug fixes & beta program feature updates as the 15 person development team lead, feature enhancement, software maintenance releases & documentation to integrate six - product turnkey system. Retooled infrastructure to double reliability of RAID Storage, Closed Captions services, and made recommendations for best practices in Production and Distribution methods.
• Testing Video Compression methodologies, validations with Venera Pulsar & Sencore bit stream test tools. Wireshark IP Packet capture and analysis with streaming video. Playout servers and automation scheduling systems integration testing, Interra Baton automation testing and Archemedia Master Player media assets, and splitscreen full reference objective defect analysis.
• Set Top Validation, VOD SME and Social Media Apps
• Quicktime API, Quality Assurance Testing
• 3D & HD H.264 Silicon systems Marketing NAB 2010
• DirecTV Satellite IP Systems Deployment: ATSC DTV
• Network connected PS-3 - Analyst Network development: Sony DADC Blu-ray Live
• Microsoft MediaRoom: STB Compression Validation matrix Ad insertion
• Blu-ray Authoring & Encoding - Cinemacraft Compression DVD, Blu-ray, HD-DVD - End to end systems deployment
• Jabber client development for Social Media

Quality Assurance Validation / Engineering Clients

Silicon Valley, CA

• Apple Quicktime Team
• Radius Video Vision Team
• Raster Ops MoviePak team
• Divicom DTV- Bell Atlantic
• Comcast Converged Products
• Apple Inc., Cupertino
• Magnum Semiconductor, Milpitas
• Tandberg Television, DirecTV LABC
• Sony DADC, Century City
• Microsoft TV, Mountain View CA
• Ambric Inc., Portland OR
• Hunter Sauleda, Burbank CA
• Ambient Digital Media, Marina Del Rey
• LegatoVideo, Hopewell NJ
• Spot Magic Inc. San Francisco
• Minerva IPTV deployments
• Adobe Premiere & After Effects QA
• Sorenson Media IPTV
• Virtual Reality @ VPL Research
• Workflows for Video format and resolution repair, Audio conforming, AVC and MPEG systems development: Systems Integration Design, Black Box Testing Validation with White Box Automation (Perl) using RaftCode.
• Directed off-shore development engineers using BD-J & Linux OS Set-top box for HDTV over IP networks, Fiber channel Network Storage, and DVD Jukebox for cache management in Los Angeles County Office of Education “Video-On-Demand” system.
• Recommended best practices for VOD, DVD & BD production workflows & flowcharts process and test cases for complex distribution and Post Production systems.

Denver, Colorado

IT & Media Ops Magnetar Networked Systems Administrator

• Specify Media networking, Storage, Distribution and Playback for 24/7 Cable TV
• Load balanced networks, CPU’s, GPU’s, FPGA’s, Blades, Petabyte SAN+IP CDN.
• Launched Starz Originals programming on Confidential Widevine encryption DRM Apple HLS, ABR Streaming on Confidential OTT delivery using Akamai CDN.
• 30% Video Quality improvement using my Goldeneye adjustments across entire networks: Encore, Movieplex, Starz, VOD, 3D, MPEG, AVC, CableLabs, Prorez.
• Designed Image Processing Pipeline SW development for Repository Archive, Post Production formats, Transcoding, Transmission; Evaluation and selection of several SDK’s for software development on proprietary in-house DirectShow & .Net Transcoding systems. Feature request, Code Validation & production deployments.

Sr. Field Support Engineer

El Segundo, CA 

• Sr. Field Support Engineer, DirecTV account: Deployment of AVC/H.264 Multicast systems, on-demand & satellite content distribution solutions that enable HDTV Digital television experiences and Support revenue using the highest quality solutions for Digital TV, HDTV, VOD, and IPTV.
• Validate Audio / Video Synchronization and IP packet loss Forward Error correction, IGMP v3 Multicast security snooping.
• Troubleshooting while Commissioning IP Multiplexed DVB Satellite modulation systems designed and implemented by Tandberg Television Support services.
• Deployment of DirecTV LCF WonderBox 2 local channel ingest of ATSC signals during the Digital Televisions Transition. Changed Satellite Analog source to DTV contribution signals using Mpeg2 HD transcoded to H.264, and Remote Stat Mux on IP

 Burbank, CA

Founding Director

• Surround sound conversions (DTS & Dolby) Clients included Disney Interactive, New West Records “Confidential”, Criterion Collection, and Capital Entertainment, Buena Vista Worldwide Entertainment. Technically Produced Xena, Hercules, Highlander, and American Idol DVD boxed sets, MPEG, AVC and VC-1 for HD-DVD and Blu-ray Disc formats and VOD in trailer distribution.
• Quality Conformance for HD Trailer materials & distribution to Disney Blu-ray authoring facilities, using my custom built ProTools equipment & process.
• Services include DVD Premastering (Cinemacraft compression and Scenarist authoring); Editorial & Compositing (Discreet & AfterEffects)

San Francisco, CA

Chief Media Officer

• Producer of DVD Magazines for Short Cinema Journal - Integration of advanced DVD navigation features and Hybrid DVD-ROM Internet links into the DVD-Magazines; "International Release", "Draft", and "Young Cinematographer".
• Consulting with Apple computer on DVD specifications & Apple Media Player product development. Technical Editor for “Doing DVD” publication by Daikin, a professional guide to understanding the DVD-Video Specifications.
• Taught DVD production techniques in Glendale/Verdugo Private Industry Council (PIC) Job Development Program Act.

Novato, CA

Lead Technical Support Engineer / Quality Assurance Testing

Responsibilities:

• Provided support for all technical issues in the DVD development community in Hollywood, and the world at large. Teaching seminars in Post Production & Premastering in Scenarist. - Vancouver at the University of British Columbia.
• Contributed to the development of hundreds of disks with regards to specification compliance and authoring techniques to avoid DVD-Video player bugs, most notably the "Video Essentials DVD" for Joe Kane’s Imaging Science Foundation. This disk is recognized as the reference design for ISF calibration of home theater systems.
• Developed & executed testing of the complete feature set of encoding tools
• Herby Hancock, MIDI control • Ornette Coleman S.F. Jazz festival • Brett Leonard & Dan Mapes • Peter Gabriel WOMAD Tour & Billy Idol on the Tonight Show Stone Temple Pilots - Purple Tour
• BVHE Promo distribution to Authoring: MPEG2 MP@HL 1080P Encoding
• Color Correction and lower thirds: Bridge to Terabithia Music Video
• Blu-ray Authoring: International marketing CEDIA Sizzle (2006) Barbara Lange’s Disney theatrical projects for Jerry Bruckheimer presentations: National Treasure II, Pirates of the Caribbean 3: (seven versions)
• CES Blu-ray launch presentation by Bob Igar (2007): Up-conversion and frame rate changes: Tinker Bell, Power Rangers, and High School Musical Brand Identity segments. Specialist in restoration and Up-conversion of Value Added materials: Chicken Little Video Game (2005)