Ryan Colgan Email & Phone Number

As a Product Owner, I collaborate closely with project management and technical stakeholders to ensure alignment with the vision for products and enhancements. I am responsible for creating comprehensive product overview slide decks, including detailed comparisons of legacy systems versus new solutions, financials, roadmaps, milestones, and current status updates. These presentations are delivered bi-weekly to NBC Distribution leadership.Key Projects: • Virtual SatOps:… Show more As a Product Owner, I collaborate closely with project management and technical stakeholders to ensure alignment with the vision for products and enhancements. I am responsible for creating comprehensive product overview slide decks, including detailed comparisons of legacy systems versus new solutions, financials, roadmaps, milestones, and current status updates. These presentations are delivered bi-weekly to NBC Distribution leadership.Key Projects: • Virtual SatOps: Centralization of NBC’s satellite downlink operations by transitioning from local antenna systems to a unified, geo-diverse network of earth stations. Implemented advanced technology platforms like AppearTV and Dataminer, facilitating nationwide signal distribution and streamlining operations with enhanced user-friendly interfaces for non-technical staff. • VideoIPath: Integration of NBC’s global video router, enabling seamless content delivery across facilities and cloud environments. This vendor-agnostic system supports hybrid SDI and IP workflows, facilitating the transition to IP-optimized operations. • Local Network Graphics: Product refresh for NBC’s “bottom-line” crawler by leveraging cloud-based HTML5 graphics insertion technology, enhancing operational efficiency and graphic capabilities. Show less

Bristol, Ct

At Disney Media & Entertainment Distribution, performed the cross functional role of Sr. Systems Engineer and Product Owner. Responsibilities included managing special projects to improve streaming system designs, establishing performance metrics and legal contracts with cloud streaming partners, and implementing new SOPs for media engineering and operations.Video Product Manager that launched ESPN+ in 2018.Participate in sprint planning meetings with the engineering teams… Show more At Disney Media & Entertainment Distribution, performed the cross functional role of Sr. Systems Engineer and Product Owner. Responsibilities included managing special projects to improve streaming system designs, establishing performance metrics and legal contracts with cloud streaming partners, and implementing new SOPs for media engineering and operations.Video Product Manager that launched ESPN+ in 2018.Participate in sprint planning meetings with the engineering teams, ensuring that user stories and tasks are clear, prioritized, and estimated.Successfully migrated 100% of Fox Entertainment Netherland's video streaming technology into Disney's platform, reducing total operating expenses in the region by 80%.Achieved synergy-savings in the EMEA region by implementing the integration of Fox Entertainment tools into Disney's corporate tooling, resulting in a minimum of 15% reduction in operations.Spearheaded the successful simulcast of the US State of the Union Address on Facebook Live for ESPN, ensuring 100% uptime for the video stream.Developed and implemented new streaming KPI metrics and workflows, enhancing Disney's ability to monitor and hold streaming partners accountable.Collaborated with the Disney Legal team to establish legally binding SLAs with vendors, outlining different levels of charge clawback depending on the SLA breach, achieving a commitment of 99.7% to 99.9% uptime. Show less

Bristol, Connecticut

Cross functioning Systems Engineer and Product Owner. Carried out tasks such as encoding and distributing live linear and VOD streams, researching new platforms, enhancing workflows, and building monitoring tools for 24/7 operation of WatchESPN OTT streams.Developed and implemented a no-cost strategy that enhanced WatchESPN video quality to 60fps across consumer devices, while establishing player KPI feedback loops with this new encoding stack.Leveraged research and testing to… Show more Cross functioning Systems Engineer and Product Owner. Carried out tasks such as encoding and distributing live linear and VOD streams, researching new platforms, enhancing workflows, and building monitoring tools for 24/7 operation of WatchESPN OTT streams.Developed and implemented a no-cost strategy that enhanced WatchESPN video quality to 60fps across consumer devices, while establishing player KPI feedback loops with this new encoding stack.Leveraged research and testing to reduce the video latency of WatchESPN streams from ~34 seconds to ~12 seconds encoding-to-screen latency, providing a significant improvement to the user experience.Research piracy activity and re-create exploits in video streaming for prevention. Collaborated with Disney Product Security.Managed the relationship between encoding and player development teams.iOS Media Player, Android (ExoPlayer), Microsoft XBOX, PlayStation, RokuDeveloped prototype apps using iOS & Android SDKs.Research cloud (Azure, AWS) streaming system designs and creates documentation for the leadership audience. Show less

Bristol, Connecticut, United States

Cross functioned as Content Systems Engineer and Product Owner at ESPN, leading research, engineering, and implementation of systems for content acquisition, editing, and distribution workflows. Additionally, oversaw the deployment of technologies that support large file-based WAN remote production content sharing and transcoding.Successfully implemented WAN acceleration technologies such as Signiant and Aspera into ESPN’s video editing platform, resulting in a 50% average speed… Show more Cross functioned as Content Systems Engineer and Product Owner at ESPN, leading research, engineering, and implementation of systems for content acquisition, editing, and distribution workflows. Additionally, oversaw the deployment of technologies that support large file-based WAN remote production content sharing and transcoding.Successfully implemented WAN acceleration technologies such as Signiant and Aspera into ESPN’s video editing platform, resulting in a 50% average speed increase for video transfers, including 1TB+ file transfers with resume transfer benefits.Revolutionized content delivery by transitioning from tape to file-based delivery for NFL Films, reducing delivery time by approximately three days and significantly improving our on-air product.Refine the internal and external product roadmaps by liaising with stakeholders and understanding technical constraints.Modeled ESPN’s video editing ecosystem usage to aid in predicting purchasing decisions based on new shows, buildings, etc.Coach junior and support engineers as part of the lifecycle of the project.Attend professional and consumer trade shows (CES, NAB, etc) and recommend interesting technologies to senior leadership with cost analysis.Developed and maintained software that automatically closed inactive video editor applications, freeing up licenses and saving the company from buying additional seat licenses. Show less

New Hartford, New York

* Completely assembled and tested GPS units to track and monitor tractor trailers.* Troubleshoot circuit board related issues* Design circuit board rework and testing procedures to meet production workloads

New Hartford, New York, United States

* Developed software and hardware to support radio frequency pattern analysis on military aircraft. Primary programs include F-22 and F-35. * Operated positional equipment for military airframe (F-16’s, F-22’s, etc.)* Operated data acquisition programs and equipment in the Classified/Unclassified environment* Design/fix/troubleshoot circuit boards* Fix and troubleshoot existing circuit boards and components for RF equipment* Setup transmitter and receiver networks at various… Show more * Developed software and hardware to support radio frequency pattern analysis on military aircraft. Primary programs include F-22 and F-35. * Operated positional equipment for military airframe (F-16’s, F-22’s, etc.)* Operated data acquisition programs and equipment in the Classified/Unclassified environment* Design/fix/troubleshoot circuit boards* Fix and troubleshoot existing circuit boards and components for RF equipment* Setup transmitter and receiver networks at various commercial and military microwave frequencies for data acquisition Show less

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Electrical And Electronics Engineering

Activities and Societies: IEEE Society Telecommunications minor Microprocessor Programming, Assembly, C++ Data Communication/Network.

A.S.E.E.T., Electrical Engineering

Activities and Societies: IEEE Member Circuits I & II, Operational Amplifiers, Linear Circuits Calculus 1 – 3 Telecommunications I & II