Director Of Technology And Development
Current• Design and implement high-end passive and interactive digital signage systems for multiple markets, including Corporate, Healthcare, Retail / Point of Sale, Education, Hospitality, Entertainment and Government.• Responsible for sales & marketing support: Creating graphics, diagrams and demo scripts for presentations, participating in pre-sales meetings / presentations with prospective clients, researching functionality capabilities and programming proof of concept scripts, reviewing RFP documents and writing technical solutions to be used in proposals.• Responsible for project planning: Pre-sales needs assessments, determining system requirements for hardware (media players, displays, mounts, cables, video/audio distribution, external devices, etc…), software and custom programming solutions and specifications, network design, timeline and budget estimating, procuring equipment.• Responsible for project development: Project management, graphics and content creation, media specifications and encoding/transcoding, custom ScalaScript, VBScript and Python programming, database and third party data integration, pre-installation hardware/software setup and configuration.• Responsible for project implementation and operation: Installation support, troubleshooting and go live, remote and on-site training for clients, on-going content management, system maintenance and continued system growth.• Responsible for general support: Animation, compositing and graphics, video and audio editing, client/server and network administration, backups/archives and maintenance, research, development and implementation of new technologies.• Develop many non-typical digital signage solutions: Systems utilizing a single media player to drive 3-wide and 6-wide HD portrait and landscape displays, containing 30+ zones with unique content; Systems requiring content triggering via data sources or third party applications; Systems requiring integration with external hardware devices.