Brent Durst Email & Phone Number

Kirkland, WA, US

Advisor to CEO, CTO and CFO | Napster, Inc. Nashville, TNProvide consultative services focused on auditing cloud spend and implementation of Cloud Governance and FinOps best practices across engineering, finance and product teams.Board of Directors | MaxSet Worldwide, Inc. Seattle, WADuring my tenure on the board of directors at MaxSet Worldwide, Inc..

New York, US

DDEX is a consortium that I'm proud to be part of, comprising top-tier mediacompanies, music licensing organizations, digital service providers, andtechnical intermediaries. Our collective focus is on establishing digitalsupply chain standards for audio and video subscription services.At DDEX, we're at the forefront of developing messaging formats that.

Auburn, WA, US

In my role, I oversee pre-sales activities for cloud solutions,collaborating closely with our sales teams to ensure that our strategiesalign with the unique objectives and challenges of our clients. My focus ison translating complex client needs into actionable cloud and infrastructurestrategies through consultative discovery and solution architecture.I.

Redmond, Washington, US

• Technical and sales consultant for cloud computing, caching, and IP delivery services. Deployed a wide range of services on a unified global digital distribution and on-demand computing service using a combination of.
• Negotiated and managed corporate vendor contracts with AKAMAI, Level3, Limelight, and Signiant.
• Supported 200+ properties totaling $60 million annually.
• Consulted on event driven projects: 2008 Olympics, Mark Burnett Rock Star

Redmond, Washington, US

As a part of my role, I managed catalog, database, and live site operationsfor prominent Microsoft products including MSN, Zune, and Xbox. Thisencompassed overseeing data integrations with a multitude of contentpartners, ensuring seamless operations and optimal performance.One of the key responsibilities I undertook was coordinating advertising.

• Managed catalog and database operations for leading on-line music subscription service. Oversaw licensing and acquisition initiatives. Developed long term competitive strategies to address industry trends, data.
• Created the most comprehensive offering of new release and back catalog tail content to date.
• Worked closely with editorial and music producers to create rich programming.
• Oversaw metadata processing, data importing, file encoding, file post processing, and archiving.

• Developed overall content management strategy for an online music download service.
• Oversaw design, deployment and operations of content licensing and acquisition initiatives.
• Coordinated with IT, legal, product, and business development to meet defined business goals.
• Built a competitive catalog with minimal resources.

• Built the largest catalog of legally licensed digital music in early 2000. Planned and implemented the process to acquire, digitize and store a catalog of 2 million audio tracks. Oversaw encoding and metadata operations.
• Completed on tight timeline in 8 months.
• Outsourced extensively to a third-party encoder, led the team that completed the project.

Arlington, VA, US

Established project documentation standards for a team of producers and project managers. Oversaw the implementation of WebLogic for publishing and managing community discussions. Managed resource allocation and production budgets for 7 business units. Directed outbound marketing campaigns.

Managed manufacturing and inventory for educational programs containing books, videos, CDs, toys, board games and other ancillary items. Managed complex schedules for manufacturing in the U.S. and Asia, as well as assembly of pieces into kits for distribution to schools. Prepared budgets and resource allocation grids for large-scale packaging development.