James Hightower Email & Phone Number

Burbank, California, US

Streamland bought Technicolor Post! Same wonderful crew of people, just a different email sig.

Los Angeles, US

I've spent the last half-decade working on Pulse, A cloud-based software solution for centralized and collaborative content management, storage and delivery from anywhere in the world. We've been "The heart of the production pipeline" for over a hundred shows, including episodic and features.Our team built the award-winning Technicolor Pulse Platform in.

New York, NY, US

I partner with the Dev teams to design and build the environments they need to develop, and Ops needs to deliver, top-notch services to our customers. I also oversee our CI and software deployment operations, from building Java projects, sheperding new product through QA and integration testing, the final go/no-go decision to deploy to production, and the.

I have more than 18 years experience designing, building and maintaining Web servers, setting up VPNs, configuring firewalls and routers, setting up network infrastructure and other projects for high-traffic, high-profile sites. Specialize in Linux/Unix.I support developers with build and integration procedures and tools, release control, code.

Designed and programmed interactive game server software for the video game industry. Built and managed online video game servers. Managed projects and development teams building pioneering online interactive technologies.

I was there at the birth of The Bubble. SoftAware was one of those ISPs that was started in a closet, and ended as a multi-million dollar buyout. Those times were everything you've heard... I built and ran high-volume web servers for movie companies, pornographers, and banner ad networks. And some good honest people, too.

At Tri-Digital, I was contracted to the old Pacific Bell. We built systems that brought automation capabilities to their legacy mainframe-based testing services. I also created a system to allow PacBell staff remote access to testing tools over the internet, encrypted, over a cell-phone data link with a laptop computer.

My first foray into embedded computing. I wrote software that turned a mild-mannered printing terminal into an credit-retrieval system.While at ER I also designed and programmed an automated credit retrieval system based on an 80286 board. The system featured a roll-my-own RTOS and remotely upgradable firmware.

Fully Responsible for the conversion of DEC based software packages to Unix based microcomputer systems. Also converted PDP-11 DIBOL software to VAX/VMS. Developed a suite of system tools to support our development efforts. As the Systems Administrator, I was responsible for hardware and software maintenance as well as the day-to-day operation of several.