Dan Penn Email & Phone Number

Kirkland, Wa, Us

As the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at High i.Q., I play a pivotal role in shaping the technological direction and strategy of our innovative company. I am spearheading the development of an advanced AI system designed to revolutionize lead generation through automated phone calls and text messaging. In addition, I oversee the development of a comprehensive full-stack CRM system that integrates seamlessly with our AI technology, enhancing our overall customer relationship management capabilities.

Omaha, Nebraska, Us

The Share Group provides real estate lead lists for agents, brokers & investors. As CTO I am overseeing all technology solutions within the company.

New York City, Us

iStreamPlanet was acquired by Warner Media and then subsequently merged with Discovery. Continuing to work in a Software Director capacity, overseeing the development of several critical components of media ingestion and management.

Recruited to join the leadership ranks of this cutting-edge technology company, overseeing teams of 20+ engineers/developers responsible for building and supporting the company’s suite of live video encoding and streaming applications—used by top media organizations and events around the world (e.g. NBC Sports, Olympics, Super Bowl, World Cup, March Madness Basketball) to stream programming content over the web. • Served as Director in building out the company’s large-scale services and operational processes, leading to the company’s successful, highly profitable 2015 acquisition by Turner Broadcasting• Analyzed talent needs and recruited a top-tier engineering team, providing the coaching, mentoring, and development activities needed to create an extremely engaged, high-retention work culture• Led development of a complex video routing system to redirect 100’s of media streams to the company’s technology endpoints for processing• Built a creative video splicing mechanism within the compressed domain, allowing for the insertion of advertisements and switching between video feeds• Drove the engineering effort to develop a distributed encoding farm with efficiency/redundancy at its core• Architected a VOD media workflow system to ingest media/metadata and subsequently deliver it to viewers• Architected and drove the engineering and production delivery for two seasons of March Madness Basketball Tournament—which included 67 games within a 15-day span

Redmond, Washington, Us

Transitioned to Microsoft’s speech recognition group, lending engineering expertise to help the company capitalize on the booming market for speech-enabled devices. Led an engineering team and oversaw the resolution of numerous complex technical challenges related to the speech recognition field.• Invented a one-of-a-kind automatic keypress device (an electronic finger) to conduct competitive analysis for iPhone, Android, and Windows Phones—overcoming the challenge of how to test up to 5,000 minor speech utterances in “live” fashion (without triggering bot/security issues) on the platforms of various competitors• Conducted text normalization and phrase analysis to generate multiple derivatives and subsequent numerical analysis of data to determine accuracy of recognized speech

Redmond, Washington, Us

Worked in technical contributor role, focused on the development, release, and commercialization of the company’s Silverlight technology.• As Lead for the core Silverlight application model, guided a 5-member team in developing/delivering dozens of compelling new features, including an automatic install/update program for Mac OS• Made multiple direct hands-on contributions to the platform, including designing and developing the new Silverlight Media Analytics Control for inclusion in the Silverlight ToolkitCAREER HISTORY & ACCOMPLISHMENTS (CONT’D)• Created/drove the Silverlight monetization strategy, resulting in the closure of deals with numerous key advertising networks, publishers, and analytics providers such as Ad Center, Atlas, DoubleClick, Panache, EyeWonder, Tencent, Yahoo!Japan, MSN, Microsoft.com, Omniture, and Nielsen• Published two white papers and sample code to demonstrate the proper creation of Silverlight ads and how to host/publish them; additionally delivered presentations to industry groups and advertising conferences

Redmond, Washington, Us

Stepped up to manage an entire group focused on growing/sustaining the use of the VC-1 encoding format in high-definition video formats (HD DVD/Blu-ray)—establishing the VC-1 standard as the dominant encoding format over multiple other competitive offerings.• Assisted with development of the Windows Media Video (WMV) codec feature set—which emerged as the VC-1 standard—and established it as the “Center of Excellence” for codec technologies within Microsoft• Collaborated with Business Development teams to generate revenue via the new VC-1 Encoder SDKs and to ensure the proper support measures were in place to support the technology’s rapid growth• Manage key relationships with Hollywood studios and post-production facilities, answering technical questions related to the VC-1 solution and evangelizing its benefits over competing alternatives• Recognized as the key technical contributor behind the successful adoption of VC-1 by 86% of all HD DVDs on the market—as well as 96% of all “Big 3 Studio” HD DVD titles released during the time period

Redmond, Washington, Us

Promoted to management role tasked with building, developing, and leading a team of software quality professionals responsible for supporting Microsoft’s rapidly-growing streaming media technologies.• Grew the department from a single person to over 50 engineers and led the design/development of complex digital audio/video solutions utilizing multiple languages: C++, C#, ASP.NET, XML, XSL, and SQL• Tested multiple platforms (Win32, WinCE (ARM, MIPS & SH), XBox, Windows Embedded) and oversaw the certification of 44 separate WMV HD releases• Successfully developed/shipped an enormous number of applications and components over a six-year span, including 28 flavors of embedded audio porting kits; 31 flavors of embedded video porting kits; 29 flavors of Win32 products; 15 flavors of WinCE products; and 11 XBox-related components• Partnered with the Business Development team to promote the company’s new streaming technologies, resolve challenging technical barriers, and close deals with top customers around the globe

Redmond, Washington, Us

Microsoft Money, TaxSaver

Redmond, Washington, Us