Devin Block Email & Phone Number

Asheville, North Carolina, United States

Hybrid Cloud Broadcasting Subject Matter Expert:Designing, developing, and deploying the first major 8K VR hybrid broadcasts of NBA games and concerts for iHeartMediaWorking with industry leaders such as RED, Meta, AWS, AMD, NVidia, Google, Oracle, Blackmagic Design, and VizRT to integrate their tech into our bespoke workflowLed technical alliances with partner engineering teamsCreating along with partners the ability to view live 8K 3D content in VR headsetsContributor to software defined broadcast open and closed source projects (OBS, RED Connect)

New York City Metropolitan Area

Responsible for the design, development, upkeep, and maintenance of our traditional and new remote broadcast solutions, both for VR and traditional content.R&D for emerging technologies: 8K, Stereoscopic VR, HEVC and AV1 capture and delivery, CDN High Bitrate DistributionCreated virtual broadcast trucks in AWS that Media.Monks uses day in and day out for remote broadcasting, using a variety of custom and off the shelf solutions.Designed remote workflow for end to end cloud based VR broadcasting, using GPU cloud instances, custom stitching plugins, graphics engines, encoders, and more.Expertise in EC2, CloudFront, VPC routing / peering, Vmix, VizRT Vectar, 3Play, Nimble Streamer, Touch Designer, OBS, and more.On all the live broadcasts we do, I'm the last line of defense, who the producers / engineers call if there are serious problems. I'm the person who fixes them quickly and puts out the fires.

New York City Metropolitan Area

Started company in 2012, one of the first NY based companies to do widespread HD live streamingProvide broadcast equipment and engineering services for companies of all sizes (from Amazon and NY Times to Columbia University to small independent musicians)Full service company: we provide broadcast equipment and personnel (cameras with operators, audio equipment with audio engineers, EIC, TD, Director, Producer, etc)Built and maintained double-wide 4K live streaming flypackSome examples of projects live streamed:Women in the World Summit from 2013-2019Tribeca Film Festival in 2019Hunter College Graduation from 2012-2020American Justice Summit in 2016Keynote with Jack Dorsey of Twitter in 2016and many more corporate panels / TED talk style events

Specializes in installation, network management, troubleshooting, design, and repair of corporate and personal networks and computer systemsHead Engineer, Technical Director for Live Streaming and Television BroadcastsWorked with blue-chip companies such as Google, Amazon, Verizon, MicrosoftCreated end-to-end socially distant Cloud-based live-streaming workflowBuilt and maintained custom live stitchers and 4K x 4K encoders for VR live streaming purposes360 VR Event Videography and Photography

Hollywood, Florida, United States

Responsible for designing, building, and maintaining custom high-end servers and workstations for video production / live streamingHave integrated systems for large financial companies, news stations, production studios, and telecomsLinux and Windows based workstations and servers, from 1U Supermicro Rackmount to 3U custom designed video encoding / switching serversServer / Workstation use cases: Live Streaming, Instant Replay, Multichannel Synced Recording, 360 Video Stitching, 180 Video Stitching, Video Editing, Color Grading

New York City Metropolitan Area

Responsible for filming, editing, color correcting analyst videos for social media and internal useBuilt, maintained, and integrated broadcast control room, media studio, and working cafe live streaming setup

New York, United States

Engineer / Consultant for 30 Ninjas' live VR projects.Built hardware, Systems integrated, and live streamed Super Bowl LII for Verizon in VRLive streamed Conan 360 at San Diego Comic ConLive streamed Jack Ryan immersive experience (VR obstacle course) at San Diego Comic ConRecording Engineer / DIT for Virtually Dating Season 2 with FacebookBuilt live stitchers and encoders that went on a boat, connected to land via microwave internet, for Good Morning America's VR experience in the BahamasEngineered the server room for 30 Ninjas' office spaces

New York City Metropolitan Area

I operated on camera, off camera, Presidential, and Interrotron telepromptersWorked with various clients, from politicians to musicians to billionaire celebrities

Miami Metropolitan Area

I tutored for the SAT and ACTAll of my students finished with higher scores than their baseline pre-tutoringSome of my students made massive jumps: enough to qualify them for Ivy League