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Responsible for Managing Engineerings and Quality assurance teams spanning 3 locations (Silicon Valley, Sofia, Bulgaria, Italy developing end to end IP television and entertainment software for service providers. Products include iTVFusion client/server IP television distributed server system, analytics, mobile clients(Android, iOS, Apple TV, Roku, Android TV), and PC Client software.

Palo Alto based start-up developing consumer software platform for home network support/automation, call center support and cloud computing back-end server. Products include a Linux consumer reference appliance (Pie Manager), Windows & MAC OS X client software(Pie Agents), backend cloud based server (PieBase), Android, Apple iOS mobile applications(PieHome Mobile) and internet applications(PieHome, PieTech) on Amazon EC2.Responsible for all aspects of engineering including software development, product management, NPI development process (Agile), QA, offshore/near shore resources and IT. Successfully completed 2 consumer BETA tests and re-directed development efforts toward software only solutions. Participated in 3 venture funding rounds.

• Oversaw all engineering functions within the Storage & Applications Group and Quality Assurance for the entire Omneon storage, applications and broadcast product line.• Drove the architecture and introduction of new products that includes MediaGrid Clustered file system, ProXchange Grid based video transcoder, Software-based MediaPort (6101), Probrowse, and several other application products (MSF, SystemManager, MediaTools). • Achieved significant engineering improvements by introducing new tools and processes including QA automation, code reviews, unit testing framework, new bug tracking system, customer support problem tracking, and earlier involvement of QA in the development process improving time to market.• Led the engineering integration efforts associated with the acquisition of Castify Networks (France) and directed the engineering team that developed the ProCast content distribution software.

Sunnyvale, Ca, Us

• Recruited to rebuild Venturi’s engineering team and to improve overall development processes and delivery of products per an aggressive schedule.• Delivered 2 new server (2.3, 3.0 and 4 new mobile clients (Windows Mobile, OS X, Linux, Windows XP) to customers on schedule as well as supporting existing customer demands. • Managed software, hardware system development, QA, system engineering and manufacturing operations.

Startup focusing on utilizing reconfigurable silicon in the automotive industry. • Directed formation of start-up venture including negotiations of key contracts with strategic partners and participation in raising seed funding.• Played a key role with managing company’s P&L, organization design, strategic plan, and product roadmap.• Built the software, IC and system engineering teams from scratch and project managed the execution of development activities.• Successfully negotiated and executed multi-year development contracts ($2 million) with Toyota in Japan.

San Jose, California, Us

Recruited to manage new product development and build the Hardware & Software Engineering organization.• Developed Video over IP infrastructure Hardware and Software products for interactive television (IPTV). Products included IP Head end based MPEG-2, H.263, H.264 video encoders, Video de-multiplexer, ITV Manager STB client and server application software for interactive television. • Successfully developed and shipped four new products within 12 months. (ITV Manager, Media Gateway, VNP-40, VC800) and several software releases for legacy products. Revamped company product offerings by introducing new software-based products with new architectures. The iTV Manager Application suite is a multi-tier database application that is based on open web based standards, Java, JSP, JDBC, Oracle 8i.

Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nl

A contributing member of the STB Business Unit Management Team. Responsible for managing all software engineering functions including the architecture, development, system engineering and Quality Assurance teams. • Played an instrumental role in developing and releasing new products (Digital Video Platform (DVP) SW architecture and reference platform) to market.• Led the architecture definition of the Digital Video SW & System platform used in the Nexperia™ System-on-Chip (SoC) Platform.• Directed a multi-national system and software engineering team that delivered full reference kits (hardware & software) for target middleware environments (Windows CE, Liberate, OpenTV, Java).

San Jose, Ca, Us

Sr. Director of Software responsible for developing SW applications, device drivers, diagnostics for WD 2D/3D graphics chips. The WD Imaging Product Group was acquired by Philips Semiconductors in 1996.

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