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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