Andreas F. Email & Phone Number

Darmstadt, Hesse, Germany

EVS fully acquired Scalable Video Systems in Dec 2014.Continued development of DYVI.Conversion of legacy build system to cmake, TeamCityProcessing of HDR (High Dynamic Range) videoDevelopment of a real time FTP server (full implementation of RFC 595) of overcome latency issues of the standards FTP servers (vsftpd), needed by a customer for time accurate upload of imagesCooperation with Francis Ford Coppola's "Live cinema", an experimental mix of live theater and cinema effects, special video filters had to be developed to bypass scene Illumination problems.Unit tests with gtest (GoogleTest)Participated in Nvidia's developer conference GTC in San Jose, CA, in 2014,2015,2016,2017 and 2018SCRUMJIRA

Darmstadt, Hesse, Germany

Continued development of DYVI

Darmstadt, Hesse, Germany

Pixarithmic was a Management Buyout from GrassValley. Between July 2013 and December 2014 it was taken over step-by-step by EVS Broadcast in form of a new company Scalable Video Systems (see above)Development of next generation video production switcher DYVI (C/C++, Linux, RT-Linux, Cuda, OpenGL, GLSL, FFmpeg, Qt)Research and implementation of high performance graphics algorithms on Nvidia hardware (Cuda/C++)Version control system: Mercurial

Darmstadt, Hesse, Germany

Nevada City, California, United States

SW-development for video switcher control panels for Zodiak and Kalypso (C++, Realtime OS PharLap, MS-Windows, MS Visual Studio)RamRecorder for common platform, kernel drivers, FPGA interfacing (embedded realtime, C/C++, MontaVista Linux, DevRocket IDE, Xilinx Virtex-4, PowerPC, I2C bus, Boundary Scan)Version control system : ClearCase

Darmstadt, Hesse, Germany

Development of video switcher XtenDD based on its predecessor HD35/Seraph (see below under Philips).Project management for the HD35 software

Darmstadt, Hesse, Germany

DFT Film originated from the film business of Thomson Broadcast. At that time, Thomson Broadcast owned GrassValley (live video) and Technicolor (film).On loan to DFT Film from GrassValley (employee exchange program)Development of post production SW Bones and BonesDailies (C++, Qt, Linux, OpenGL, Nvidia)GUI development for Bones and integration of 3rd party control panels (TangentDevices, FilmLight), USB drivers for interfacing.Porting legacy Qt3 code to Qt4Import and export of audio/video clips, codecs (C/C++, FFmpeg)Version control system: ClearCase

Cergy-Pontoise, Île-De-France, France

Thomson Broadcast was the owner of GrassValley at that time.Development of a low end video switcher based on the XtenDD switcherDevelopment coordination between the teams in France and Germany

Darmstadt, Hesse, Germany

Philips got 100% of BTS. In 2001, Philips Digital Video Systems was sold to Thomson Broadcast, who acquired GrassValley in early 2002, the entire business unit was then renamed to GrassValley (see above),Development of video production switcher DD35 (C++, MS-Windows NT4, MS Visual Studio, gcc, Realtime OS VxWorks)Development of HD (HighDefinition) video switcher HD35/Seraph based on its predecessor DD35 Jul/Aug 1999 on site engineering support for the American Pre-Olympic Basketball Tournament in San Juan, Puerto RicoVersion control system: PVCS

Darmstadt, Hesse, Germany

BTS was a joint venture of Robert Bosch GmbH and Philips.Development of video servers MediaPool (embedded, C++, Realtime OS VxWorks) and MiniPool (embedded, C, Realtime OS Nucleus (now owned by Mentor Graphics))Development of DiskCache application (C++, MS-Windows)Parts of development were done on-site (Salt Lake City, UT and San Francisco, CA)Version control system : PVCS

Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Lower Saxony, Germany

Worked as student intern at my university for several industry financed projects (Intel and Motorola Assembler, C/C++, Ultrix, Solaris, Linux, X-Windows, OSF/Motif, ObjectStore, processors MIPS R3000/R4000, NEC V25, Motorola 68K)First experiments with Linux in summer 1992 (distribution with 3 floppy disks)Graphics/GUI development on Linux since September 1994 (X-Windows, OSF/Motif with personal developer license)System administration on SCO-Unix cluster (network, TCP/IP, NFS, YP (YellowPages))