Platform Engineer on the Media team, working on WebRTC, building real-time audio/video communications into the browser.

Responsible for the continuing development of the company’s core PC-based distributed high-end video and graphics playback system and authoring station, managing a team of developers in different countries. Experience developing product requirements for product management.

Accomplishments

· Project manager for “Content Manager”, the company’s web-based Digital Signage server product

· Fostered team cohesion and domain knowledge in an Agile Scrum environment across multiple teams in different time zones

· Developed functional product and workflow requirements for next-generation efforts

· Developed requirements and product designs for a stronger data-integration initiative for the company’s authoring system and core PC-based distributed playback system

Designed and built large parts of the company’s authoring system as well as central portions of its mission-critical distributed digital signage players.

Wrote the custom GUI library and menu system for the PC authoring product, the player product’s plan-execution and seamless update system, playback scheduling, and the system orchestrating runtime integration of server-fed metadata and live Python/VBS/JavaScript background processes with multiple visual frames of animated content and information. Also worked on various low-level system libraries.

Accomplishments

· Developed, and orchestrated the implementation of, an unlimited undo/redo-system retrofit to our legacy authoring product

· Introduced exception-based programming to the company, using a self-developed wrapper library around the legacy system core

· Wrote low-level drop-in file IO classes to transparently handle read/write/seek of UTF-8 files, to aid system-wide support for international text

· Optimized internal build-system tools and conventions by an order of magnitude

· Simplified the player’s sequencing timing model for end-users, in a backwards compatible way

· Developed a custom TCP-based messaging protocol with back-channel for remote player health messages

· Designed content-linking and template placeholder-substitution rules that connect content throughout all stages of transience, on authoring stations, servers, and remote players

Solely responsible for the company’s main authoring product and in charge of all user interface development (¼ of the company’s total source code), reporting directly to the CEO. Experience with integrating and interfacing with all major parts of the Scala software.

Accomplishments

· WYSIWYG editing of video-quality text and effects in a document model

· Developed a thumbnail-based sequencing board

· The company’s complete user interface library

· Ported the Scala GUI infrastructure to the PC platform

· Trained new developers in GUI development