Robb Beal Email & Phone Number

United States

Developed deep expertise in image and video quality/visibility metrics with applications in video streaming, display specification and design, visual comparison of results, and perceptually-guided quality optimization. These state-of-the-art metrics are chromatic spatiotemporal and explainable (e.g. through novel visualizations).Hands-on leader of a team.

Concurrent with my work on video products (Veriskope) and displays × graphics (Display-Adaptive), I'm actively exploring computational approaches for adapting, editing, generating, and evaluating images, UIs, data visualizations, videos, and 3D objects or scenes using the 2 primary computation paradigms: learning and optimization.The docs linked below.

Played a product leadership role with video innovations startup Veriskope across live streaming (all major use cases) and conferencing (live video shopping) where the technology bases were Adobe Media Server and Twilio Video, respectively.✦ Led a world-wide product team that coincidently developed 3 video products/services.✦ Led effort to provide.

Hazelwood, Missouri, US

Exec-level Product Management with a Strong UX Emphasis in EdTech and E Commerce✦ Led a team that rehabbed/reinvented the user experience of an extensive educator- and student-facing web app, in a market/domain I was new to, with a small team that had never worked together before, half of which were new to the company, in about 75 working days, with.

St. Louis, Missouri, US

Played a Senior Director-level Product Leadership role across a variety of initiativesIn one initiative, led product strategy for a significant project to add B2B functionality (including regional product availability, complex fulfillment, and personalized pricing) to a B2C-only online store which formerly had 1-size-for-all availability, fulfillment, and.

Product Management and Design on a consulting basis for leading companies, primarily St. Louis based.✦ Desktop Web App Design and Product Mgt with a strong emphasis on data viz (Evolve24)✦ Tablet/Touch Web App Design and Product Mgt with an emphasis on extreme interactivity through touch controls and gestures (Monsanto). See my screencast describing the.

San Mateo, California, US

Executive-level contributor to the Laszlo Sales organization—think of this as a Global, Director-level Field Product role. Product Management and Design for a highly-customizable Converged Communications Suite sold to Cable and Telecom customers. ✦ Evangelized the benefits of great user experience to C-level executives✦ Product managed the functional and.

US

In a year-long sprint to v1.0, as the sole designer, directed user experience for a web-based data analytics application with desktop app-like sophistication and interaction complexity. (The app was Tableau-like.)Pentaho describing the acquisition: "The acquired technology, developed originally by LucidEra and known as “Clearview,” provides intuitive.

St Louis, MO 63141, MO, US

✦ Design Lead for Large-scale (millions of users) Web Application Redesign for Scottrade.com Consumer Trading App✦ Design Lead for Large-scale (millions of users) Webmail Redesign for Charter Communications

"What Spring does is what we wish Apple had been bold enough to do with OS X, and make a really radical departure from the 2D file/folder office automation metaphor of the 1970s into a more loosely structured and spontaneous UI more appropriate to an always-connected world." —Andrew Orlowski, The RegisterFounder of this pioneering social infinite canvas.

Member of 2 person team that made Watson one of the best-selling commercial consumer apps in its price range.✦ Led Product Management, Marketing, and UX.✦ Generated /hundreds of thousands of dollars revenue in 6 months/—this was breakthrough sales for an OS X app at the time.✦ Won both a Most Innovative Apple Design Award and Macworld Magazine Editors'.

Provided world-class technical pre-sales support to Apple Professional Services prospective customers. Achieved extremely high success rates closing those prospective customers.One significant project included conceiving, building, and managing a world-class demo app supporting a nationwide seminar series (10 cities) for a leading web application server.