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2021
2021
• Leading the product team managing RDK Middleware, driving the Entertainment OS for Smart TVs and Stream Boxes deployed across major platforms, including Comcast, Charter, Sky, Xumo, Foxtel, and others, ensuring seamless integration and scalability for millions of users globally. • Spearheaded the launch of the RDK Hardware Porting Kit, streamlining integrations across OEM/ODM/SoC vendors, enhancing scalability and vendor collaboration with the RDK Management open-source consortium. • Presented the Middleware Roadmap at the 2024 RDK Global Summit Tech Summit, and the Hardware Abstraction Layer Roadmap at the 2024 and 2023 RDK Tech Summits.
2014
• Served 6 times as an Innovation Awards judge for the International CES (Las Vegas) and the Asia CES (Shanghai). • Each category only has 3 judges, picked from a select group of industry experts worldwide. • I judged the following categories: Video Displays, Home Appliances (2018), Cybersecurity (2018), Embedded Technologies (2014-2017), Smart Home (2017), Portable Media Players & Accessories (2017).
2018 - 2021
2018 - 2021
• Management consulting in Smart TV, IoT, AI, Digital Media and Web Technologies. • Advisor to the Seed Florida Early Stage Investment Fund (by Florida Funders). • Speaking engagements: Smart Home Summit, Accenture, Fordham University, St Petersburg Conference on World Affairs, HR Forum.
2013 - 2018
2013 - 2018
• Responsible for expanding Nielsen’s Audience Measurement Strategy to the Internet of Things and Smart TV, and augmenting Nielsen’s Consumer Intelligence with critical data previously out of reach in the physical world. • Helped sign key Smart TV and IoT data partnerships and acted as a thought leader and influencer, driving critical consumer measurement initiatives at leading IoT and AI industry groups, including the IoT Consortium, the Smart TV Alliance and the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). • Advanced the state of the Internet Advertising industry by proposing and helping launch the W3C Web Advertising Business Group, and co-heading the IoT Consortium Privacy & Security Task Force. • US patent 9,179,086 issued in 2015 on IoT consumer measurement. • IoT World and AI World Advisory Board Member. • CES Innovation Awards Judge: Cybersecurity, Embedded Tech, Smart Home, Home Appliances, Media Players. • Emmy Awards Judge, Interactive Media. • Speaking engagements: IoT World, Smart Home Summit, Parks Connections, AI World, IoT Evolution Expo, Accenture, CES, Strata, IoT Security Summit, AI Summit, Geopath, Market Research Council, TiEcon, Apps World, USF CONNECT, Tampa Startup Week. • Publications: Amazon book "AI in Business: 2018”, AI Trends, AI Business, IoT World Today, IoT Consortium, W3C, Nielsen Journal of Measurement and Harman Channel. • Named as one of “40 Internet of Things Leaders” in Forbes July 2017 (Accenture/Leadtail).
2007 - 2013
2007 - 2013
• Key founding member of the Yahoo! Connected TV business unit, and one of the core recipients of a 2011 Engineering Emmy Award for establishing and growing the broader Internet TV marketplace. • Responsible from day 1 for the Smart TV Product Strategy and Execution. Defined and built the world’s first white-labelled OTT Internet TV operating system and TV App platform for mass-market consumer TV sets. • Scaled the business with an OEM Certification Program and a 3rd Party Developer SDK, which grew distribution to 5.5M Smart TVs by VIZIO, Samsung, LG, Sony, Toshiba, TCL and HiSense, reaching 3M monthly active users. • Built Yahoo’s mission-critical Smart TV Audience Analytics System, providing one of the first real time TV measurement alternatives to Nielsen with higher accuracy than home panels. • Directly managed the entire development of VIZIO’s “VIA” Smart TVs (launched at SuperBowl 2010, over 40% market share), the original LG Netcast Smart TVs (launched at CES 2009), and the Intel Widget Channel (2008). • Launched an iOS & Android companion mobile app to interact with Internet content on Smart TVs. • US Patent 9,179,086 for the Smart TV operating system and user interface (granted 2015). • 2010 Yahoo! “You Rock Award”.
2005 - 2007
2005 - 2007
• Migrated the Emmy award-winning Moxi TV multi-room DVR software environment to the CableLabs OCAP industry standard, which was critically important to winning Comcast and Time Warner Cable’s business. • Headed all Digital TV standard activities with CableLabs, NCTA, Comcast RNG, the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA), and the High Definition Audio-Video Network Alliance (HANA).
2003 - 2005
• Built the first implementation of the CableLabs Open Cable Application Platform (OCAP) industry standard for Time Warner Cable and Comcast digital set-top boxes, managing a team of 42 engineers across 3 time zones.
1998 - 2002
• Ran large multi-million dollar projects for several large US cable TV and telco operators, delivering Internet-based set-top box middleware running Electronic Program Guides and Video-On-Demand applications. • Company went public in 1999 under ticker LBRT and reached a $12B valuation. Main competitor was Microsoft TV.
1997 - 1998
1997 - 1998
• Launched the “IBM Global Software Solutions Guide” B2B website. • IBM Gold Recognition Award.
1992 - 1997
1992 - 1997
Designed innovative multimedia algorithms, including “MPEG Seamless Branching” used on CD-i and DVDs.