I've been honored to work with and visit customers as varied as NBC, ESPN, NPR, QVC, the U.S. House of Representatives, Defense Intelligence Agency, and many more.
ENCO Systems, Inc. (March 2019 - current): Maker of AI-based automated captioning & TTS products, broadcast automation and playout and Virtual Production software for broadcast, live events, government and defense.
Product Design & Solutions Manager: Reporting to the President, wide ranging responsibilities:
Lead product innovations for Cloud and AI broadcast and audiovisual products linking engineering, commercial and dev teams, fusing R&D, POC's, lifecycle planning, design & build, docs, marketing, and public presentations and industry thought leadership
Creator & Owner for ENCO's first Cloud-based in-venue mobile captions and translations product
Creator & Owner for Live Stage Captioning rental category and product offering
Head of planning & on-site execution for all conference and event captioning services (NAB, ASTC, LDI, InfoComm, others)
Provide application engineering and select key Account Management
Published Thought Leader and Presenter for ~ 75 sessions (some with AVIXA / CTS-approved credits)
NAB 2023: Here I produced, directed, was interviewee and invented the Caption Widget for ENCO's premier Virtual Production launch
LAWO AG (February 2015 - March 2019): Maker of video, audio, control and monitoring technology for broadcast, performing arts, installed sound and corporate applications. Lawo is an active member of several international technology standards bodies.
North American Radio Applications
Performed application engineering, product demonstrations, sales proposal and RFP responses
Created training videos, conduct tradegroup technology presentations (40+ cities across the US)
Sales engineer for Audio Production and V__matrix IP video systems
Prior: Configuration Engineer for L-S-B VSM broadcast control room automation systems
SVG / Sports Video Group story: Lawo Demonstrates Capabilities of AutoMix at Pittsburgh NPR Station WESA FM PDF
QVC, Inc. (employee then consultant): Worldwide innovative leader in transactional commerce across interactive platforms (television, Web, OTT, mobile...)
Director New Media Development / Technical & Executive Producer:
Primarily responsible for leading ideation, R&D and deployment of new interactive services and platforms
Produced first-ever live ecommerce streaming broadcast to include live callers with online purchasing
Owner for novel interactive products, partnerships and rollouts including QVC's first-ever Webcast, interactive TV and VOD launches (TiVo, WebTV, AOLTV, Worldgate, Microsoft, Comcast trials, InCommand, more...)
Executive Producer for live broadcasts and for premiers of interactive television and TV-commerce STB applications
CEO + EVP internal Executive Thought Leader for innovative, experiential new media for broadcast, interactive & corporate applications
Technical producer for over $3 Mil. of design, engineering, integration and content for facility A/V & interactive projects and automated audio / video / lighting and exhibits & telepresence
As Consultant:
Managed premier launch of hotel-based VOD commerce video content and transactional back-end for new interactive TV service
Developed Six-Sigma process map and improvement path for migration from "sneakernet" to integrated Media Asset Management system
Project Leader for migration to HD video (image quality, aspect ratio, technical requirements, etc.)
Many other special projects as-assigned
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