Eric J. Piard, Ph.D. Email & Phone Number

Gainesville, Fl, Us

-Developed and managed product strategy for critical software solutions used by major Television Broadcast station groups (Playout, Content Acquisition, Asset Management, Media Distribution).-Interfaced and coordinated with customers and business partners from requirements gathering and analysis to successful system deployment, including exploring the nascent move of complex broadcast media workflows to the Cloud.-Provided fellow executives with vision and development roadmap.-Actively participates in industry engineering standards development (SMPTE, OSA), in particular with respect to standardizing microservice-based media workflow solutions deployed in a Cloud environment (frameworks and APIs) and standardizing control of media devices, for greater interopability.

Gainesville, Fl, Us

-Same responsibilities and impact as VP R&D above.

Gainesville, Fl, Us

-Directed the full Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) for all the company products, managing and mentoring a dozen software developers and testers. Researched, budgeted and purchased all required development, versioning, testing and deployment tools; moved some projects from a traditional Waterfall approach to an Agile methodology, and started the use of MS C# and ClickOnce in some new Web service for more virtualized products.-Gathered all the requirements and wrote all the specifications for new features and products.-Active participant in the creation of the ATSC A/76B standard, PMCP (Programming Metadata Communication Protocol), used extensively by TV guides.-Long-time key contributor to the SMPTE ST 2021 XML-based standard, BXF (Broadcast eXchange Format), used primarily in interfacing to a TV station Traffic system (programs and ads scheduling, billing).-Completed training in IBM Rational suite of software development tools.

Gainesville, Fl, Us

-Designed and implemented multi-threaded high-frequency critical timing calculations in the automation front-end, including interface to a database tracking media metadata.-Wrote and enhanced serial communication drivers interfacing to Audio/Video/Graphics broadcast equipment (VTRs, Video File Servers, Switchers, CGs...).-Implemented features leveraging Windows NT DCOM (Distributed Component Object Model) for fine-tuning playout vs. control, in hub-and-spoke models, for large distributed TV station groups.-Initiated conversion of back-end media database from Btrieve/Pervasive to MS SQL Server.

Gainesville, Fl, Us

-Ported legacy TV automation software modules from DOS to Windows NT, using C and C++.-Leveraged Windows NT near real-time functionality and higher resolution clocks to improve frame accuracy of timecode-driven broadcast equipment control.-Spent several months at a TV station in Australia successfully developing (full SDLC) and (overnight-only) testing for a multi-channel master control switcher.

Charlottesville, Va, Us

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