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Program Manager for Audio and Video CODEC's across multiple platforms.

San Diego, CA

Co-founder and technical lead of a start up company establishing a new television channel in North America. I also perform consulting services under this corporate structure as opportunities arise in the fields of consumer electronics product development and digital video. See "http://www.ablebroadcasting.tv"

Short term contract to gather and write use cases and requirements on Automated Meter Infrastructure (AMI, part of Smart Grids) system.

I lead the Integration, systems engineering, and QA teams and eventually because the PM on Wind River Services development of the RED ONE camera. The team was made up of large groups of FPGA, Hardware, Software and systems engineers working closely with the customer to address what averaged almost 2 change requests per day! It was a great project that.

Reporting to the GM and the VP of Engineering I manage the development, test, and roll out of a new consumer electronics product within MovieBeam's service. I negotiate contracts with partners and work with the partners to insure timely delivery to requirements and deal with the exceptions. The team consists of an international manufacturer, a contracted.

Led a 60+ person internaltional team generating over 50% of DDI revenues. We designed hardware and embedded and application software products for worldwide clients like Philips, Panasonic, Sony, Samsung, TiVo, Digeo, and many others. We delivered on time, on schedule, and to our customer’s specification. I instituted standard project management processes.

Lead the specification and development of a 2nd generation control system based on Java and Win/NT. Walked into a disaster and transformed a research effort by planning, staffing, and delivering the first generation control and conditional access system. Included the delivery to and launch of the TV/COM system in very large satellite TV system head ends in.

Air Force officer responsible for computer and radio communications areas of a billion dollar project called "North Warning". Performed technical and management reviews for other program offices in areas such as device driver and hardware controller development, computer capacity planning, software quality assurance management, software development.