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Denver, Colorado | Cork, Ireland | Bengaluru, India

San Francisco, California, US

• Scope AR is the pioneer of enterprise-class augmented reality solutions, delivering the industry’s only cross-platform AR tools for empowering frontline workers the knowledge they need, when they need it.
• Empower key team members with leadership roles, fostering trust and professional growth.
• Spearhead the exploration into AI tooling, driving innovation in machine learning and content creation technologies.
• Lead strategic collaborations with Qualcomm, Lenovo, and Apple to integrate cutting-edge AR hardware and software capabilities.
• Ensure seamless collaboration between Product and Engineering teams, leveraging data insights for strategic decision-making and project execution.
• Establish Agile and Scrum methodologies to streamline workflows and enhance team efficiency across diverse platforms.

Madison, WI, US

• Promoted to oversee a diverse, remote and hybrid, talented, cross-functional, interdisciplinary Engineering team consisting of Advanced Research, Hardware Engineering (Industrial, Mechanical, Electrical, Computer).
• Transitioned Engineering, Product and Technology teams from waterfall to agile and standardized on the Scrum framework.
• Formed and led an Advanced Research team focused on finding, building, training, customizing and utilizing novel artificial intelligence and machine learning models for audiovisual enhancement and transformation.
• Championed DevOps and educated teams to implement technical, process, measurement and cultural capabilities to achieve elite level software delivery performance.
• Led the development and continuous improvement of Mediasite Video Platform, an award-winning video platform used by higher education, corporate, government and medical customers in dozens of countries around the world.
• Enabled and supported remotely managed, complex deployments of the largest lecture capture installations in the world

Madison, WI, US

• Promoted to lead multiple teams across multiple product lines, including Product Management, Hardware Engineering, Software Engineering, Quality Assurance, and Quality Control.
• Continued leading the development of live-streaming multi-track audiovisual recording appliances, including hardware, firmware, custom embedded operating systems (based on Windows 10 IoT Enterprise), and embedded.
• Led the development of Mediasite Monitor, a remote video production desktop application built using UWP and utilizing WebRTC for real-time audio and video preview and remote control of hundreds of distributed live.
• Led the development of Mediasite Join, a standards-based, real-time video conferencing live streaming, and recording service compatible with audiovisual communication and signaling protocols including H.323, H.239, and.
• Numerous speaking engagements sharing expertise on streaming media technology at conferences, tradeshows, and webinars
• Frequent travel domestic and abroad, communicating with vendors, suppliers, and customers

Madison, WI, US

• Promoted to lead cross-functional engineering team of hardware engineers, software engineers and quality control engineers.
• Took on leadership of live streaming and recording embedded software development. Lead addition of remote management, hardware acceleration, a log collection and analysis feedback loop, automatic recording recovery.
• Scaled and optimized to achieve largest lecture capture deployments in the world
• Orchestrated architectural overhaul of embedded software significantly reducing technical debt and improving stability
• Secured strategic partnerships with key organizations
• Numerous speaking engagements presenting on streaming media production

Madison, WI, US

• Promoted to lead hardware engineering and manage contract manufacturers and vendors
• Developed hardware agnostic Windows Embedded Standard 7 operating system image
• Led and implemented Industrial design of new hardware platform
• Transitioned outsourced custom manufacturing to new contract manufacturer
• Led the development of a hybrid PCIe capture card consolidating audio and video inputs to single capture card

Madison, WI, US

• Responsible for design and testing of hardware platforms
• Designed and developed a custom PCIe video capture card. Utilized multiple fabricators for redundancy and reduced costs 50% over previous solution.
• Developed warranty programs including RMA processes and advanced replacement services
• Developed custom Windows XP Embedded operating system images
• Designed initial models of rich media capture appliances and transitioned to outsourced custom manufacturing