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• Established and managed business relationships with key content providers and CA/DRM solution vendors to design and deliver a solution display and stream content directly from the content provider’s CDN
• Worked with industry leading video streaming vendors to launch new Minerva system components responsible for end-to-end content management and playback on end user devices
• Launched updated admin user portal, simplifying system configuration and management
• Collaborated with developers to define and design a single sign-on workflow using OpenID Connect with Amazon’s Cognito to streamline end user login for tier 3 pay TV service providers
• Directly managed staff of product owners to drive roadmap definition and execution

• Delivered Minerva’s next generation middleware platform to launch a major tier 1 service provider in Argentina
• Defined and implemented new internal processes to transition Minerva to Agile development, dramatically increasing project visibility and team velocity
• Defined and implemented a new Video On-Demand enrichment service to improve metadata quality for content presentation and incremental revenue

• Led strategic targeted development effort to replace competitive solution at tier 2 North American pay TV service provider
• Analyzed impact and defined features to address regulatory requirements for the Emergency Alert Service and accessibility
• Implemented a metadata analysis tool using Python and MySQL to drive content discovery feature definition for end users

• Helped close deals at major service providers in North America and the Caribbean
• Installed, configured, and managed evaluation systems at prospective customers
• Designed, implemented, and delivered demo systems for use at trade shows worldwide
• Delivered technical content to support RFPs and RFIs to successfully win new customer accounts

Alviso, CA

• Configured and maintained complex systems consisting of different pay TV vendors’ hardware and software
• Coordinated a team of 5 QA engineers working for systems testing verification
• Served as primary partner contact for integration issues

• Worked directly with pay TV service providers worldwide to resolve issues ranging from simple configuration errors to customer affecting outages
• Wrote Perl and Shell scripts for the support team to easily analyze logs to troubleshoot issues
• Reduced time to resolution by maintaining replicas of the most common customer environments
• Trained new support team members

• Executed interoperability tests on DisplayPort-to-VGA adapters
• Reported test results, including competitive product analysis to product marketing team
• Contributed to VESA DisplayPort Link Layer Compliance test specification