Technology and business consultant with more than three decades of experience in the development and implementation of new digital media products and services. Has significant expertise with CD, DVD, Blu-ray, and streaming media technologies as well as multimedia encoding for CD, DVD, and web.
Formal Education
- B.S. in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, Santa Clara University
Career Highlights
- Developed an IoT solution to provide real time statistics to monitor legacy production machines for a plastics manufacturer
- Worked in the Hollywood distribution media community (packaged media and OTT) with all major studios and consumer electronics manufacturers to promote integration of THX’s high fidelity audiovisual reproduction standards
- Also launched THX’s first major iOS mobile app (THX tune-up™)
- Key leader in defining, implementing and documenting manufacturing processes for Technicolor Creative Services resulting in new process for Blu‐ray disc creation services
- Received a U.S. patent for a CD‐ROM based encryption methodology for controlled access to stored data
- Co-author of books on High-Definition DVD and Blu-ray technologies
- Defined, developed, implemented, and supported the CD, CD-R, print, assembly, kitting, and fulfillment manufacturing processes for quick‐turn, just-in-time contract manufacturing services
- Deployed a system for linking legacy systems via a database and website to monitor the state of health of a fleet of industrial batteries as well as agricultural processes
- Has hands‐on DVD authoring experience using a variety of authoring tools including DVD Maestro, DVD Studio Pro, Encore, and Scenarist
Expert Qualifications
- Prepared documentation for claim constructions, responses to motions, and declarations as well as deposed in litigations related to CD-ROM, DVD and Blu-ray technologies