Peter Brophy Email & Phone Number

Santa Clara, Ca, Us

Nevada City, California, Us

Engineering Manager, Team Lead• Managed engineering effort for Flip64, Multiscreen, IPTV, Avid, and Post Producer Enterprise transcoder products.• Interfaced with global and remote teams (India, UK) providing technical direction, coordinating engineering best practices and workflows.• Triaged level-of-effort, communicated and prioritized tasks with technology groups within Telestream to drive execution of solutions to customers in a timely manner, often working towards critical deadlines.• Reported to VPs, Directors and PMs progress and any areas of concern and re-focus. Continually interfaced with sibling teams such as QA and Support in order to provide stable and quality product releases. • Participated in discussions with broadcast customers to understand their feature requests, bug reports and SOWs, often on very tight schedules.• Worked with external partners to integrate their codecs / SDKs into the Vantage Media Processing engine.• Engaged with direct to mentor, guide and encourage their technical and personal tasks / goals.• Filled gaps in engineering needs to unblock engineers and allow them to work optimally.• Worked on procedures and best practices, through branch strategies, jiras, Continuous Integration etc. to better streamline deliverables.• Involved in mentoring intern program and new hires.• Helped develop the ECO process to efficiently output deliverables through the internal pipeline.

Nevada City, California, Us

• Designed and developed distributed Automated Test System (ATS) with MS SQL Server and UI front end. Directed best practices for QA to develop unit and integration testing.• Test System designed to be extendable and scalable to significantly reduce manual testing overhead and provide Product Management the confidence of a high quality level of released products.• Designed evaluators to measure various types of outputs from media processer such as video, audio and metadata.• Worked on bugs and features for transcoders helping drive product development and maintenance revenue as the key source of income for transcoder products.

San Jose, Ca, Us

Development of Typekit web application.• Feature development and bug fixing for Typekit website w/Ruby on Rails.• Wrote security features and bug fixes, notably for user sessions, passwords, protection of personal information.• Implemented User Interface workflows and enhancements, working with members of the team.• Worked with Cloud-Ops concerning backend support & origin.• Spent time bug hunting and fixing.• Upgraded 3rd party libraries and supporting software with Chef.• Dealt with financial workflow / Braintree issues.

San Jose, Ca, Us

Development of Flash Player and Gaming infrastructure.• Worked with team to design Premium Feature gating and Chrome Sandboxing UI for Flash.• Oversaw development and deployment of gaming portal to support Premium Feature gating.• Worked with IT and implemented gaming monitoring and health checks to support web portal uptime.• Implemented Log Analyzer, using Akamai logs, for an accurate revenue reporting scheme.• Added support for Omniture / Site Catalyst analytics to gaming portal to understand how user navigated the site.• In conjunction w/Google, designed and implemented Chromium browser microphone support for the Pepper API.• Implemented camera re-architecture for Flash OS X.• Development of Flash Native Control Panel, User Interface and installer features.• Worked with team to implement silent auto update for Windows.• Fixed numerous browser, video, character encoding and general purpose Flash bugs.• Implemented security features and fixed bugs for Flash.• Converted and upgraded Visual Studio / Makefile / GYP project conversions for different products / versions.

San Jose, Ca, Us

Development of Creative Suite OnLocation, Ultra CS3 and Visual Communicator products; primary focused with OnLocation.• Ported low-level and backend infrastructure from Windows to OS X in a short cycle.• Led development of video device capture, codec support, video display (UI frameworks, shader code), record-to-disk and performance enhancements.• Created a crossbar interface for the OnLocation UI to simplify communication to the backend libraries.• Engaged with internal groups within Adobe such as MediaCore and CoreTech to interface with their 3rd party libraries so that OnLocation became suite compliant.*• Communication with 3rd parties such as Intel to optimize codebase, and BlackMagic / AJA to extend feature set.• Designed a unified API and plug-in framework to ingest uncompressed audio and video frames.• Added multi-core encoding of live uncompressed audio and video streams to a DVCPro clip in real-time. • Implemented 2D resize and video zoom for first time in OnLocation, providing the user with a flexible workspace setup. Added monitoring usability features such as color correction, letterboxing and other video overlay features.• Product serialization and authentication.

Designed and developed software to enhance display and user workflow of PowerPoint presentations.• Designed and implemented the application software through entire product lifecycle.• Worked with QA, 2D / 3D artists and marketing to produce and refine product features. Worked closely with Product Management to refine implementation with a fast turnaround time.

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Developed internet-based video communication related products and software components (Comcast VideoMail, Logitech VideoPhone). • Developed and implemented feature sets on video client. Video client was structured under a COM based web architecture model (Active X using C++, HTML and Javascript) that was multi-threaded for real-time optimizations.• Implemented and designed multi-threaded video server that would scale with many client connections.• Collaborated with 3rd parties to implement audio suppression improving customer experience.

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Architecture and implemented real-time interactive 3D (i3D) solutions for internet delivery. Based on SuperscapeÕs web-based 3D Active X technology, via Java.• Interacted with clients to analyze functional / non-functional requirements and built relationships with clients through entire development cycle. Responsible for implementation and deployment to Web.• Managed engineering deliverables for client projects using Java, HTML, Javascript, Actionscript and C++.

Dorval, Quebec, Ca

Developed MS Windows 2000 / NT video capture drivers to support the Rainbow Runner video capture cards for G400 series of graphics cards.• Led development for Multiple Monitor Support with graphics chips output for 4 displays on a single graphics board.• Participated in a small team to produce video consumer products for Windows 2000 / NT including design, porting, and debugging product for release.• Worked with clients to analyze specific project needs, and with QA and Marketing to provide direction, evaluation, and problem solving.

M.Sc., Computer Graphics

B.Sc (Hons), Computing