SUMMARY:

• An entrepreneur and executive with over 30 years’ experience in developing and delivering software products and services to market.
• A pioneer in the digital video, interactive television, and multimedia industries.
• Major strengths include leadership, recruiting, mentoring, team building, operations management, engineering management, project leadership, program management, sales, and business development. Assembled and managed large programs, with development teams spread across many companies/disciplines/geographies, to successfully deliver technology and products to market.
• Member of company board of directors and technical advisory committees
• Speaker at Confidential, cable operator, and software industry events
• Consultant and guest lecturer on software product lifecycle, processes, DevOps, and quality control
• Experienced in the establishment of intellectual property programs and the pursuit of patents
• Primary corporate interface to customer executive management teams
• Expert witness specializing in technical and policy implications of digital television and related technologies
• Skilled analyst, software project lead, and architect with the ability to sell a product or idea

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Denver, Colorado

Responsibilities:

• Co - Founder of new start-up developing technology and tools for the virtual and augmented reality markets
• Business plan development, raising investments
• Intellectual property development
• Operations and financial management

Founder/Principal

Confidential, Denver, Colorado

Responsibilities:

• Executive sales, business development, engagement management
• Negotiations, contracts, and licensing
• M&A - Financing, joint ventures, bankruptcies, business plan development, Advisory and BOD
• Vendor and partner management
• Expert witness in patent litigation
• Operations - Processes, deployment, team building
• Architecture and design
• Operations, playbooks, testing and QA
• Intellectual property program establishment and management
• Establishment of research, development, DevOps, and innovation programs
• Product, Program, and Project Management
• Process - Agile, requirements assessment and product definition
• Workshops, seminars, white papers, training, and technical writing
• Representation in industry standards bodies
• Virtual Reality - Low latency video encoding

Confidential

Engagement Manager

Responsibilities:

• Provided Sr Program Manager Services to Confidential ’s Video Technologies operation division.
• Oversaw a team of project managers in the execution of Confidential ’s Video Resilience Program.
• Assisted in the extension of Agile, DevOps and NFV programs.
• Managed projects across multiple divisions to improve quality of service with the addition of redundancy as well as the upgrade of equipment and software.
• Assisted with budgeting, vendor assessment and management, contract reviews, and procedure development.

Confidential, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Responsibilities:

• Coordinated and managed various efforts related to VOD, OTT, Video over IP, entitlements, and metadata specific to the Confidential /Time Warner Cable merger program.
• Responsible for maintaining and communicating product and business requirements to stakeholders.
• Worked with vendors and internal teams to establish and achieve goals and manage risks.
• Shared expertise as subject matter expert with knowledge of Time Warner Cable technology.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Provided strategic, sales, and business development consulting to help establish a US presence.
• Contributed to requirements and design of OTT and DLNA video distribution solutions

Confidential, New York, New York

Responsibilities:

• Provided strategic, analyst, sales, and business development services.
• Assembled and managed a team that provided software product development services. Implemented a product development processes incorporating Agile and DevOps principals.
• Performed due diligence on acquisition targets. Developed market and product strategy for a cloud-based video management product and service targeting the investigative and insurance industries. Developed prototype implementation and deployed on Amazon AWS.

Founder/Managing Partne

Confidential, Denver, Colorado

Responsibilities:

• Promoted opportunity to investors and corporate entities. Identified and negotiating with potential distribution and restaurant partners.
• Surveyed market needs and developed business and technical requirement specifications.
• Pursued sales distribution channel relationships with satellite and cable installer networks.
• Identified manufacturing partner and built the first prototype of a digital audio headphone compatible with video displays in public venues.

Founder/President/CEO

Confidential, Boulder, Colorado

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for operation management, financing, strategic relationships, engineering management, intellectual property creation, business development, and sales that generated, year-to-year, $4.8M - $7.2M in revenue.
• Negotiated the buyout of the business assets of Confidential from Advanced Digital Broadcast (ADB). Negotiated the acquisition of Solekai Systems cable business including the service, lab facility, and products.

President/CEO

Confidential, Broomfield, Colorado

Responsibilities:

• Working with the ADB CTO, established the plan for merged software product plan of US and European operations. Built strong relationships with development teams in Poland, Switzerland, and the Ukraine. Began work on joint project team communication strategies.
• Assessed Intellectual property position and proposed plans for the pursuit of patents worldwide. Promoted the transition and use of ADB technology in North America.
• Formed plan for the introduction and transition of ADB technology and products for the US cable market. Developed strategic partners with ADB group members, Osmosys and Simple.
• Developed business plan for the spin-off of Confidential assets from ADB in 2008 to form Confidential . Promoted sale to investors and corporate entities before negotiating a management buy-out.

Founder/President/CEO

Confidential, Boulder, Colorado

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the establishment and operation of all departments including engineering, sales, finance, marketing, legal/IP, QA, systems integration support and training that grew the team to over 110 employees generating revenues to $18M with average year-to-year growth of 35%, and profitability.
• Assembled a world-class team of professionals that became a core resource to the digital video and cable industries in the development of leading edge technologies for interactive television.
• Developed intellectual property portfolio resulting in 13 patent applications, a core asset in the sale of Vidiom. Serving as the Director of OpenCable Software, led the cable industry effort to define the OCAP software standard.
• Conceived, developed, and pitched the Vidiom business plan to investors, partners and acquisition parties resulting in the sale of Vidiom to Advanced Digital Broadcast (ADB), Geneva Switzerland.
• Primary responsibility for sales and execution on most of Vidiom’s products and service contracts including:

Chief Engineer VP CTO President

Confidential, Chicago/Des Moines/Boulder

Responsibilities:

• Hired and developed a multi-discipline team focused on the development of tools and technology that targeted the very first CD-ROM, Cable, Telco, VOD, MPEG Encoding, VideoCD, and CD-i platforms.
• Established engineering processes that resulted in the creation of over 70 products targeting the Windows, Mac, and Sun Unix platforms. Managed project teams of 40+ engineers spread across 3 continents and 4 companies.
• As president, transitioned company away from a technology focused Philips division to an independent profitable company with 60 employees in 3 locations and $6M/year in revenue. Built and managed a sales and marketing team. Established customer relations and technical advisory boards. Developed and pitched business plan to the investment community.
• Technology - developed scripting language-based SDK and authoring environments that further influenced the development of Script-X, Oak/Java, MHEG5, DAVIC, DAVID, DivX, DVB MHP, and other technologies.