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Burbank, Ca, Us

New York City, Ny, Us

Lead engineering for encoding, packaging and quality control for all NBC Universal Video on Demand services, including Peacock, SkyShowtime, Showmax, and Telemundo. Developed strategy and roadmap for improving media processing microservices infrastructure. Led development of content adaptive encoding strategy, developing and testing algorithms to determine the product requirements. Defined and managed development of the VoD production platform; a distributed system comprised of encoding, media validation, packaging and stream validation services. Developed a service test platform, enabling new builds of microservices to be validated before deployment to production environments.

Mountain View, California, Us

Led engineering for an ultra-premium movie service, offering commercial cinema-grade movie playback in residential home theaters. Led development of new media players and servers, including SoC selection, device platform architecture. Designed, developed, and launched new home video server models, driving significant revenue growth. Oversaw architecture and development of Kaleidescape’s digital movie service with more than 14,000 titles (>1400 4K), including web, mobile and on-screen movie store apps.Led development of a new product and business strategy. Working closely with the executive team, engineering team and key stakeholders, developed long-term and near-term product roadmaps for new devices and service improvements. Implemented a transparent, agreed-upon process for capturing, evaluating, and prioritizing new opportunities (projects, feature requests, business ideas). Led migration of on-premises service infrastructure to AWS cloud, improving reliability and speed of deployment. Implemented agile development methodology, delivering scheduled platform updates on time, with high quality.Improved usability of on screen display (TV interface), mobile apps and web store, using analytics to understand user behaviors and engagement. Improved video encoding using novel content-adaptive techniques, delivering a significant improvement in perceptual quality at identical bit rates. Designed new ingest system for smaller studios. Improved movie master file storage and archive processes and infrastructure using a hybrid on-prem and cloud approach.

Herzeliya, Il

Led product and market strategy for the leading image/video compression software developer. Provide technical leadership to the R&D and product teams, defining the architecture, roadmap and technology strategy for Beamr’s market-leading video encoder SDKs and Content Adaptive Bit Rate (CABR) technology. Managed the technical relationship with Netflix and other key customers and prospects, working closely with their engineering leaders to improve video experiences and enable new capabilities. Led technical engagement with semiconductor companies licensing Beamr’s CABR encoding technology for implementation in SOC and GPU embedded video encoders. Represented Beamr through participation in industry organizations (MPEG, SMPTE, MCIF).

San Jose, Ca, Us

Managed the video business unit for MulticoreWare, developers of x265, the world's most widely adopted HEVC video encoding software. Built a profitable business unit with valuable IP, a well-known brand and recurring license revenue from within a pure software development services company. Responsible for the P&L of MulticoreWare's most valuable business unit, managing a 50 person team.Started the x265 HEVC (H.265) video encoder project, building the product and business from the ground up. x265 consistently wins customer evaluations against all competing HEVC encoders, and is licensed by many leading broadcast encoder vendors, and most of the world's largest web video services.Defined a value-added product licensing and services strategy to drive revenue around a very well known open source product. Expanded the product line to include UHDkit (a premium commercial HEVC encoder library), and UHDcode (an HEVC decoder). Established MulticoreWare as the “Red Hat” of the open source video software world, providing FFMPEG, x264, and x265 support, maintenance and video software development services to the world’s largest cloud video service providers.To accelerate worldwide adoption of HEVC, proposed and won support for a new strategy from a patent licensing body, allowing for royalty-free distribution of HEVC software applications to existing consumer devices.

Assisted the CEO of a leading customer experience software company with the development of a new business and product strategy.

Ottawa, Ontario, Ca

Led product strategy, product definition and marketing across all channels, managing one of the popular software products of all time, with more than 1 billion downloads and 100 million active users. Evolved WinZip into a powerful file sharing application, integrating access to all leading cloud file storage services. Integrated direct support for popular cloud services (Dropbox, Google Drive, SkyDrive). Designed and led development of ZipSend, enabling large files to be sent via email, integrating with Outlook, Gmail, Outlook.com and Yahoo! Designed ZipShare, a web service enabling users to share files on their social media networks (Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter). Results include record revenues, unprecedented levels of positive press coverage, and PCMag’s Editor’s Choice award. To drive awareness and adoption by a younger, wider user base, launched WinZip for iPhone/iPad and WinZip Android mobile apps. Successful launch and PR efforts generated extensive positive press coverage and more than 3 million downloads in the first 6 months.Leading internal and external development teams, architected the interaction design, application logic and API specifications for all interaction between WinZip applications and web services, managing technical and business relationships with cloud service partners.

New Taipei City, Tw

Developed Cyberlink’s connected TV software business with US cable, telecom and satellite television system operators, including DirecTV DirecTV2PC. Established strategic partnerships with all of the leading set-top box manufacturers, including Motorola, Cisco, and Samsung, and leading mobile device manufacturers. Defined products and business terms for exclusive contracts for set-top to client device software from top US television system operators. Responsible for product requirements definition and all technical and product development efforts with television customers and partners.Initiated and established industry-leading strategic relationships with key technology partners including Microsoft, Intel, AMD, and NVIDIA, leading to first access to new chip platforms, extensive financial, technical and marketing support, and exclusive positioning at new hardware platform launch events.

Responsible for Roxio’s flagship product line, the Easy Media Creator suite, with over $140 million in revenue. Managed audio, video, photo and data software product managers while providing strategic direction and oversight of all software applications in retail, OEM and enterprise sales channels. Led cross functional teams of engineers, designers, and product managers in the design, development and testing of new products, across 3 continents. Sonic Solutions was sold for just under $1 Billion to Rovi Corp (now TiVo) in Dec. 2010.

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Bs, Electrical And Computer Engineering