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Thousand Oaks, CA, US

Los Angeles Metropolitan Area

Kwaai is developing personal AI as a 501(c)(3) non-profit, through open-source collaboration, developing a deeply passionate community of technologists, designers, thinkers, policymakers, and doers. Kwaai OS is an operating system that will enable individuals to own their AI, empowering users to retain their self-sovereign identity and control interactions.

Greater Los Angeles, California, United States

M&E domain expert and leader of a global technical team, program managing cloud-based video content and advertising workflows for Subscription Services Industry. Architected content workflow solutions for VOD, broadcast and live events customers, collaborating across stakeholders and vendors, program managing end-to-end services to support streaming video.

Greater Los Angeles, California, United States

With the Apollo Funds acquisition, Verizon Media Platform became Edgecast, under the Yahoo-rebranded Verizon Media entity. Edgecast was subsequently spun-off and acquired by Limelight Networks, creating Edgio.Built and developed a diverse team with the breadth and depth for innovation in every scenario across the world, who helped our partner ecosystem in.

Greater Los Angeles, California, United States

Title change with reduction in force and discontinuation of a product line.M&E expert and manager of solutions engineering team, responsible for program managing cloud-based video solutions cross-functionally to meet customer and market requirements. Architected and delivered the Multiview App for Verizon, going from concept to prototype in 60 days.

Greater Los Angeles, California, United States

Title change with reorg bringing team expansion to include Volicon SE team and partnership responsibilities. Worked closely with product partnerships team to align ecosystem partners with customer needs and sales opportunities. Partnered with product management and engineering to improve agile methodology practices. Led customer feature request tracking.

Greater Los Angeles Area

Promoted to lead M&E Solutions Engineering team, overseeing product training, workloads, meeting customer deadlines, and cross-functional alignment with internal teams and partners. Managed product feature request process as aglie methodology stakeholder for sales and customers.

Greater Los Angeles Area

Business development role for Uplynk, an optimized, cloud-based streaming platform orchestrating content ingest and delivery. Engage with customers on a daily basis to reduce operating costs through automation of video workflows and enable monetization with this first SSAI solution in market for live and VOD experiences. Integrated multiple content ingest.

• DTS is a global leader in entertainment technology, licensing IP technology to the professional content community and major consumer electronic brands.
• Delivered DTS’ first commercial encoding partner and leveraged relationship to win-win deployments and providing first linear OTT demonstrations of DTS audio in common streaming formats to mobile devices.
• Recruited as product manager to lend digital content expertise resulting in accelerated time-to-market for products by implementing SDK development roadmap methodology based on market research and licensing opportunity.
• Transformed DTS’ ability to create and demonstrate DTS audio solutions by introducing industry standard content tools decreasing work time by 66%.Promoted: Sr. Product Manager (2012-2013), Product Manager (2010-2012)

Provided subject matter expertise for Fortune 40 and Fortune 200 consulting companies on short-term projects. Managed $33M P&L of Fortune 90 company’s digital media workflow for a movie streaming service.

The world’s largest provider of integrated global services for the creation, management and distribution of entertainment.Recruited by Ascent Media’s president to run a new content delivery and technology division.Acting CTO to acquired digital-out-of-home company, transforming backend services of a $40M acquisition for a 16-month turn-around resulting in.

Los Angeles Metropolitan Area

• Tasked by CTO to provide guidance and promote Thomson’s Research and Innovation team for the Hollywood community.
• Worked with a global team of CxO executives of the CTO's office, delivering networking events with C-level and executives of prospective customers.
• Program management of R&D activities related to film industry, including IP submission review, customer advocacy, and aligning project with the needs of prospective M&E clients.
• Designed new Burbank facility with a technology lab, to house R&I engineers, as well as host open house meetings, client presentations, new product launches, and facilitate product discussions.
• Worked with the CMOs of Thomson R&I and Grass Valley divisions, managing marketing and product demonstration efforts for major conventions and other industry events.
• Initiated corporate-wide program to ally executive stakeholders from multiple divisions to Thomson R&I’s strategic goals in research, product development, and global standards groups.

Initiated operations of new division and film industry’s first company focused on digital cinema distribution and support, becoming a trusted advisor to movie studios and establishing a dominant industry position.Exceeded customer expectations with simultaneously coordinated build-up of field services team and supply-chain processes, overlapping the.

Migrated a single-point-of-failure, supply-chain management system with 80% uptime, to a redundant model that provided 99.983% uptime in the first year, reducing administrative costs by $260K and increasing employee satisfaction.Detected hardware source of reoccurring error in $35M custom production systems operating in 4 countries, and determined a.