Chris Holdsworth Email & Phone Number

London

• Delivery Lead for private companies tender and pitch to build a standalone bespoke Content Delivery Network
• Researched, developed and lead presentation of successful concept pitch resulting in the build of a bespoke Content Delivery Network (CDN).
• The pitch led to managing a remote based team of 16 contracting consultants.
• CDN built from Zero to Minimum Viable Product (MVP) in 6 months. This was a highly complex technical solution bringing together multiple consultant… Show more Delivery Lead for private companies tender and pitch to.
• CDN built from Zero to Minimum Viable Product (MVP) in 6 months. This was a highly complex technical solution bringing together multiple consultant specialities and technology sectors (which has taken considerable time.

London, United Kingdom

• Governance of CDN engineering & technical related services for the group, making sure that service level agreements and other business targets were met, which included ensuring the high quality of product and.
• Strategic liaison between stakeholders, internal departments & CDNs, working with legal and technical teams to enable clear options for management consideration and planning. Translating highly technical information.
• Strategic liaison between stakeholders, internal departments & CDNs, working with legal and technical teams to enable clear options for management consideration and planning. Translating highly technical information.
• CDN budget management and forecasting, working with global accounts teams to provide scheduled updates and future costings to management, allowing for business planning both for the short and long term.
• Major achievement was managing the technical analysis, planning, implementation, migration, and reconciliation of 2500+ CDN customer Live ‘Cache’ profiles and CDN tools, due to company sale of its web portal assets..

As above. Role transitioned under new group company ownership.

Feltham, UK

• Developed companywide understanding of internal technical solutions, via joint company/service provider collaboration developing bespoke training packages, which included the service providers self-service tools.
• Support and troubleshooting of delivery network issues, incident escalation, root cause analysis, SLA reporting & implementing remediation strategies. Delivered individual and team coaching with… Show more
• Support and troubleshooting of delivery network issues, incident escalation, root cause analysis, SLA reporting & implementing remediation strategies. Delivered individual and team coaching with personal high.

Feltham, UK

• Management of extensive Akamai CDN service catalogue for global delivery of assets by building, renewing and maintaining the delivery service backend technical configurations for the organisation.
• Initiated and rolled out live streaming operational support processes across group to develop strong technical capabilities both for internal support and infrastructure teams, based in UK, India and Poland for global.
• Risk management and troubleshooting of live event… Show more
• Risk management and troubleshooting of live event and associated technology systems issues, initiating & implementing preventative measures to ensure faultless delivery, identifying root causes & implementing.
• Company spokesman at the service provider CDN Akamai’s global ‘Usability Council’ (a group of industry leaders helping shape future streaming developments) providing client and user insight into day to day usage.

Feltham, UK

• Built a strong Audio Visual (AV) Engineering and CDN departmental setup & structure to provide support for growing technical departments, including vision and planning for company product expansion, recruiting and.
• Project management of technical builds, including AVID ISIS implementation, Broadcast MCR build (with Arqiva) and internal Encoding infrastructure. Responsible for strategic planning of technology and team resources.
• Project management of technical builds, including AVID ISIS implementation, Broadcast MCR build (with Arqiva) and internal Encoding infrastructure. Responsible for strategic planning of technology and team resources.
• Implemented PremiumTV’s original Live and VOD Windows Media, Flash and H264 video delivery, researching, developing, and implementing the hardware and software packages of cutting-edge audio and video streaming.

Feltham, UK

• Responsible for the editing of multiple sports videos for online distribution capturing and creatively packaging content to be supplied as supplement to client’s static website content material.

London, United Kingdom

• Creation of initial concept leading to writing the business plan to enable funding for initial streaming music service research and development, including proposed budget and potential company growth. Development of.
• Developed a creative concept of a Media Encoding House… Show more
• Developed a creative concept of a Media Encoding House into working business model via R&D of streaming media encoding, internet broadcasting technologies. Managed and implemented the evolution of the initial streaming.
• Responsible for Encoded audio & visual media into streaming media file formats for major record companies including EMI Classics, Decca & Warner Classics, allowing additional consumer engagement by using existing.

Acton, UK

Harrow Campus, London, UK