David Wright Email & Phone Number

Los Angeles

Greater Los Angeles Area

Co-founded a startup, worked for a year building a beta app. We pulled the plug before going live.• Aim was to provide a service to allow consumers to evaluate corporations on their ethical, environmental and legal record so as to enable informed purchasing decisions.• Google Cloud Platform, Python, ElasticSearch, FirebaseUI, MySQL, Docker, Flask, Jjina, SQLAlchemy, Coral Talk• Semantic extraction of metadata from news articles (via Dandelion.eu)

London, United Kingdom

Headed up department (3 product teams) responsible for the the modelling, ingest and serving of public facing BBC and non-BBC online programme metadata.• Programme titles, descriptions, cast & crew, categories, durations, versions, access control, rights windows - all the data needed for users to discover what to watch or play, when, on which device.• Department consisted of three software product teams and one support team. ~40 staff at peak, mixture of employees and freelancers, Scrum and Kanban.• Provided wide range of high volume APIs and services critical to AV consumption throughout BBC Online (iPlayer, BBC News, BBC Sport) and on partner platforms.Key achievements:• Designed, planned or managed delivery for many integrations with major UK broadcasters/partners•• Sky•• YouView•• Virgin Media•• Freesat• Secondary role as Technical Program Manager for BBC public service contribution to BBC Store• Developed and agreed 10 year BBC metadata strategy, nominal savings of ~£6m over lifetime of contract• Wrote, evaluated and commissioned multiple third party tenders; managed subsequent commercial relationships • Senior Manager on rota for operational support during London 2012 Olympics, overseeing on-call staff spanning ~15 teams• Commissioned multi-year plan to replace legacy Perl/MySQL metadata stack• Built successful relationships with key partners (Ericsson, BBC Operations, BBC Worldwide, YouView, BBC R&D, third party software vendors)• Delivered critical refactoring of AV metadata chain in time for London 2012Key experience:• Familiarity with DVB-T and DVB-T European TV broadcasting standards• Experience with multiple TV-Anytime profiles• Extensive line, organisation and program management• Resolving critical operational isssues• Stakeholder management to C-level• Developing a range of approaches to API design and management

Product Manager for BBC metadata backend.• Oversaw transition of system from embedded backend to a general use API• API became very successful and significantly aided the development of iPlayer across a large range of devices (Mobile, TV, Games consoles)• Agile methodology

Led a team of 6 Software Engineers, delivering the metadata backend for version 2 of BBC iPlayer.• Perl/Mysql• Usage of BBC iPlayer grew exponentially during this time, demanding a range of approaches to scaling the system• Extensive operational and debugging support, in tandem with BBC operations/infrastructure

Senior Perl/Postgres developer, working on a turn-key E-commerce platform.

Senior Perl/MySql engineer, working on a B2B SMS platform.

Graduate Certificate

Graduate preparation for a US M.Arch

Msc, Computer Science

Ma(Hons), Mental Philosophy

Master Of Architecture - March, Architecture