Daniel Epstein Email & Phone Number

Chicago, Il, Us

Redmond, Washington, Us

Redmond, Washington, Us

As a PTS in the Global ISV team, I work with strategic partners in the Media and Entertainment space to help the technical teams bring to market new products on Azure.

Montreal, Quebec, Ca

• Created a new team within product development focused on standardizing DevOps and security tools and practices across disparate development teams in multiple countries.• Worked with development teams to revamp their software development life cycle to formalize gates for security and risk analysis in the promotion of code to production environments.• Centralized product security ownership in my team to improve company responsiveness to newly announced vulnerabilities, reducing published response to critical CVEs from weeks to days (or hours).

Montreal, Quebec, Ca

I joined the product management team at Haivision as part of a digital transformation initiative to pivot the company from a purely video hardware manufacturer into a Cloud SaaS solution provider in the broadcast and media transport space.• Managed the SRTHub/Haivision Hub cloud video routing program from inception through initial GA release and a significant "2.0" expansion.• Led Agile stand-ups or SCRUM for several cross-functional teams in UX design, cloud software development, hardware engineering, QA, and support/documentation.• Maintained roadmaps and Jira backlog to help guide the development team to be accountable to business milestones while also meeting technical objectives of an agile and rapidly evolving cloud service.• Fostered ongoing partner relationships by engaging with both business and technical teams, including running "code-with" development events and numerous joint presentations to customers and at trade shows.

Montreal, Quebec, Ca

As a hands-on technical manager and seasoned solution architect, I preferred to "lead from the front" and regularly traveled to partner and customer sites to lend my breadth of expertise and technical knowledge on many of our larger and more challenging projects.• Led a thirteen-person global sales engineering team responsible for Haivision’s success in providing sound technical solution designs to customers.• Designed, proposed, and delivered complex media systems architectures to critical accounts in media/ broadcast, aerospace, medical, and large enterprise.• Fostered the careers of members of my team, helping them to grow into larger roles within the company, or supporting them in the next stages of their careers.

Montreal, Quebec, Ca

• Built an excellent team of field engineers responsible for managing deployment projects and advanced support for partners and customers.• Standardized deployment procedures and documentation to ensure clear partner and customer communications while promoting continual improvement under our ISO 9001:2008 quality management system.• Established a comprehensive internal technical training program for sales and field engineering personnel.• Maintained and grew partner relationships with technical teams at key resellers.

Provided technology consulting in IT systems design, network architecture, digital asset management and streaming to clients in the broadcast media and educational sectors. Projects included:• Network and server architecture design for a major recording studio and media production facility built on 100 acres of forest land in the southeastern United States.• IT systems and security integration for digital production, asset management, and broadcast facilities at a state-wide public television network.• Network intrusion detection, forensics, and production systems recovery for a leading broadcast television news station in Indonesia.• Digital audiovisual production and IT infrastructure consulting for several artistic and cultural organizations managing large analog to digital migrations and digital archival projects.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

• Bootstrapped the IT team at the heart of a start-up digital media arts college in downtown Chicago offering programs in film/broadcast, recording arts, visual effects/animation, and game design.• On a 100 day timeline from end of demolition to opening day, my team designed and implemented the IT infrastructures supporting the business, academic, and media production processes of this state-of- the-art media production and educational facility.

Chicago, Il, Us

• Managed a portfolio of small business, not-for-profit, and educational clients as lead engineer and program manager.• Oversaw the field engineers providing daily support to customers.

Chicago, Il, Us

While completing my degree in Audio Production and Design at Columbia College, I worked as a TA and member of the student studio staff. Here, I set up and ran audio recording and live sound reinforcement systems for class sessions, provided assistance to students on class projects during class time and lab hours, and performed system maintenance and troubleshooting duties.

Chicago, Il, Us

While completing my degree in Audio Production and Design at Columbia College, I spent a summer working as a post-production and archival engineer at the Old Town School of Folk Music. There, I performed archival transcription and authoring services for the school's audio archives, converting a mix of vinyl, analog tape, A-DAT, and CD media to digital file-based archival storage. I also provided technical oversight of the Resource Center's migration from Spark XL to BiasPeak! for audio editing and processing.

Chicago, Il, Us

• Carried out incident response duties including intrusion detection and forensic investigation for a network consisting of roughly 27,000 users.• Principal architect for the university's Windows 2000 ActiveDirectory rollout.• Provided security consulting oversight to campus groups developing systems handling sensitive data.

Chicago, Il, Us

• Maintained the server and desktop infrastructures for the Multimedia Services, Digital Media Labs, and Campus Computing Clusters and Classrooms groups.• Designed and deployed the Windows computing environment for a major expansion of the public computing facilities on campus.

B.A., Audio Production And Design

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