Thomas Dodson Email & Phone Number

San Jose, California, US

• Oversee a multi-department staff of 100+ team members across six countries
• I lead the team that drives operations and business processes related to content delivery and optimization on Roku - inclusive of 3rd party D2C channels and 1st party video content.

San Jose, California, US

• Oversaw a multi-department staff of 100+ team members across six countries
• Collectively, our charge was to own and drive operations and business processes related to content and programming on Roku
• Notable achievements: o Ingested and streamed the 2024 Superbowl through Paramount+ on The Roku Channel with low latency and strong performance o Drove the buildout of a Platform experience for the 2024 Olympics.

San Jose, California, US

• Established a multi-functional operations department dedicated to onboarding, monitoring and discoverability of VOD and Linear content on The Roku Channel
• Notable achievements: o Core contributor for product and infrastructure architecture, and staff responsible for onboarding 100,000s of VOD assets onto Roku, including the ingestion, transcoding, packaging, and.

Menlo Park, California, US

Vitrina AI is a global business platform for the Video Entertainment industry – backed by Stanford Research Institute (SRI International) and led by an experienced team of media domain experts, technologists, and data scientists. Vitrina is building the world’s most powerful search engine to find content partners including studios, distributors, content.

US

• Managed internal operations for fifteen person team including the engineering, sales, marketing and content teams
• Cultivated and expanded content relationships with TV networks such as Viacom and Fox, Film Distributors such as FilmRise and digital media properties such as AOL with a focus on premium full length movie and TV show.
• Coordinated with external companies for mobile app and Roku channel development to build over 15 consumer facing video apps from the ground up with content powered by the OVGuide API
• Generated $3 million in annual revenue through advertising where I manage the sales efforts and maintain a profitable business by closely monitoring the external services and marketing
• Facilitated the acquisition of the company to FOTV Media Networks in March 2016

US

• Contextualized OVGuide’s video content and made it discoverable based on topical interests by integrating Google Freebase’s 45 million topic structured database into 20 vertical categories
• Created the concept and drove the process with developers to build a lexicon and use natural language processing to extract the relevant text from titles/descriptions of unstructured video content and ‘tag’ it to one.
• Restructured a web only business with 25 millions users worth $0.10 CPMs watching pirated movies to a cross platform business with 10 million users consuming only legitimate content and worth $2 to $5 CPMs depending on.
• Optimized user navigation on the website and built new tools to aid with discovery of content

US

• Negotiated with content owners and video syndication services to ingest over 5 million video records from over 850 video partners, then served as account manager for ongoing support
• Developed and maintained relationships with 30+ major subscription and transactional video on demand (VOD) services globally, such as Amazon, Hulu Plus, and iTunes
• Brokered deals with Film Distributors to amass a catalog of over 10,000 ad supported movies
• Monetized the service through ad networks for banner and video inventory and affiliate programs for content promotions

US

• Attracted more than 25 million visitors to the website through SEO and viral marketing tactics
• Utilized Google Analytics and AdWords to optimize marketing campaigns and keep management informed for future web development project prioritization and bug identification
• Developed and organized the Nationwide University Street Team program from its inception
• Managed interns, developed promotional materials and facilitated online marketing

* Cultivated new relationships to acquire live content - defined as any online event that has a start time* Managed the direct relationship with the Facebook Live team and their Live Streaming Directory application

• Produced 90 minute award winning feature film “Echoboom”
• Nurtured film from script to distribution, while locking down more than10 shooting locations
• Managed 11 person film crew and actor logistics before shooting and on-set
• Circulated the project to 30 film festivals and facilitated grass roots distribution

New York, NY, US

• Coordinated publicity and promotions at USC for Fox Atomic a division of 20th Century Fox
• Set up screenings and events to coincide with theatrical releases
• Publicized movies releases to university publications - newspaper, TV and radio

• Assisted and accompanied Baroness Dean during her work with New Covent Garden Market, National Air Traffic Control Service and The Ministry of Defence
• Researched information for MP’s government speeches

• Organized schedules and meetings as the personal assistant for the three talent managers
• Compiled project requests to be delivered to agents, managers and studios for industry talent
• Coordinated office telephone calls and appointments