David Burleson Email & Phone Number

Greater Atlanta Area

Staines, Middlesex, Gb

David joins Synamedia from the position of Vice President of Engineering in Cisco’s Service Provider Platforms and Applications business where he led a global team of engineers developing cloud-based video products. David joined Cisco through the Scientific Atlanta acquisition. His career has focused on leading global product development teams. He holds 8 patents in technologies such as graphics, networking, video games and virtual memory.

San Jose, Ca, Us

Cisco is a global powerhouse helping companies transform how the world connects, communicates and collaborates. The Service Provider Video Sector is number one in market share for client software and number two in market share for content security for Satellite, Cable and Telco customers worldwide.• Leading a team of 1,200+ engineers and program managers located in US, Israel, India and Belgium working on software and hardware solutions for broadcasters to process, secure, distribute and monetize premium video on any consumer device.• Scaled a Video delivery platform from a reference customer in Germany to a SaaS solution delivered to customers worldwide. The platform integrates OTT video delivery to mobile devices, SmartTVs, AndroidTV boxes and other devices with traditional Satellite, Cable and Telco video delivery including cDVR.• Drove a major reorganization to align the engineering teams with the markets they serve giving independence to each team to prioritize customer opportunities.

San Jose, Ca, Us

• Lead a team of 850+ engineers and program managers located in US, Israel, and India delivering headend and client solutions for a global base of Satellite, Cable and Telco customers.• Executive sponsor on the effort to develop the Vodafone GigaTV program. Vodafone chose Cisco not only for the product as it existed but also because of our development methodology that would continually improve and refresh the product. • Transformed a group of disparate teams using Waterfall development for point products into a cohesive organization that can execute a complex program using Agile techniques to build and deliver an end to end solution.• Optimized the engineering teams without a significant disruption to customer deliverables.• Experienced working directly with major service providers to define and deliver software roadmaps.

San Jose, Ca, Us

• Managed a Cisco team developing industry Leading SoCs for high volume products. Successfully competed head to head with Broadcom. Realized the value of using low power processes well before our competitors.• Building ASICs allowed Cisco introduce features well ahead of our competitors and provided Cisco control over product costs. Cisco recognized over $1 billion annually in high margin revenue on set-tops while our competitors struggled to maintain single digit margins.

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Scientific Atlanta was a manufacturer of broadband and telecommunications equipment. In February 2006, Scientific Atlanta was acquired by Cisco.• Joined Scientific Atlanta as a Staff Engineer working on hardware and software projects. Member of the newly formed team developing the first ASICs for set-tops. The ASICs grew quickly in complexity following the silicon geometry curve. My career progressed from Staff Engineer to Principal Engineer to Director in the ASIC group. • Drove the development of ASICs for Video Equipment, Digital Audio distribution and Game Consoles.

Melbourne, Florida, Us

The Harris Corporation is a Florida based communications equipment manufacturer. In the 1980s they also produced Semiconductors and expanded into PCs and networking equipment by purchasing Lanier Business Products an OEM that produced office equipment. • Hardware Engineer for computer peripherals, including disk drive controllers and video display adapters. • Transitioned to ASIC group developing ASICs for use in PCs and Networking products.• Developed ASICs for an industry first OS independent Virtual Memory.

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