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Work Experience

Work across AT&T leadership teams to define and manage the execution of the A/V strategy for content on-boarding and delivery.
Lead media architect to the multi-tenant streaming platform used for OTT delivery of 1,000+ Live channels, 65K+ VOD assets and scalable cloud DVR service e.g. AT&T TV NOW on iOS, tvOS, FireTV, Roku, Tizen, Safari and Chrome.
Define and execute the roadmap of the CMAF consolidated Live SSAI architecture with multi-DRM for HLS and DASH streaming.
Specify the A/V mezzanine packages for AT&T content providers as well as best practice documentation and in-person summits.
Lead the selection, testing and deployment of new technology features that improve the OTT and Satellite workflow efficiency and/or the customer experience e.g. optimize KPIs such as Video Start Time, Rebuffering, Video Quality etc.
Lead the development of "Skip-Intro" metadata extraction using audio fingerprints to enable "binge-watching" on VOD.
Define the architecture and lead the development of the Live Descriptive Video Service (DVS - Audio Description) for OTT.
Design the multi-layer media architecture e.g. custom drivers and Android Exo-Player of AT&T TV.

"Content Technology & Policy” role supporting Legal teams with FCC regulations and agreements with major content providers for Satellite deliveries. Owner of the CALM act compliance at DIRECTV/AT&T.
Pioneered the DIRECTV 4K/HDR/Atmos (UHD) service launch in 2018 for more than 20M subscriptions as a cross-functional initiative from strategy to execution with the collaboration of creatives, product, and engineering teams.
Technical lead for UHD Production and Delivery e.g. Live Sports (Olympic games, NBA, MLB and CFB) and features with the Audience Network and WarnerMedia studios.
Architected DIRECTV’s Immersive Media Lab from the ground up.

Responsible for the design and development of Scalable Audio Encoding Solutions for Music/Radio/Video Streaming services using DTS-HD.
CTO Award for the Next-Generation Audio submission at ATSC e.g. DTS:X.

CTO Award for innovative contributions to the G.719 Speech & Audio standard at ITU-T e.g. new audio codec built from the ground up in fixed-point C code, technical specifications, journal paper and 5 US patents granted.
Department expert for all Audio Standards and Quality measurement tools.

Research on spatial audio scene modeling and quantization of spatial audio cues at very low rates e.g. under 3 Kbit/sec. Software development and contributions to ISO/IEC standards e.g. MPEG-D and HE- AAC v2 standards.
PhD thesis entitled “Spatial cue extraction applied to multi-channel audio coding” available here.

PHD, DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY IN DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING AND COMPUTER SCIENCE

MSC, MASTER OF SCIENCE IN DIGITAL SIGNAL AND IMAGE PROCESSING

BSC, BACHELOR OF ENGINEERING

Drive cross-functional initiatives from strategy to execution with internal and external teams.
Take ownership and provide technical depth to define root cause of complex issues in simple terms with architectural designs.
Define solutions, manage the execution and ensure adoption across teams.
10+ years working experience with Agile in various roles up to Epic Owner.

Audio: Dolby (AC3, EC3, JOC, AC4), DTS-HD/-X and MPEG codecs including xHEAAC and MPEG-H. ADM BWF. ITU-T BS.1770-4.
Video: HD, UHD/4K, HDR, AVC, HEVC, ProRes, MOV and IMF.
Streaming: HLS, DASH and CMAF (Common Media Application Format).
Digital Rights Managements (DRM), encryption technologies and audience measurement ID3 of SCTE-35 marked ads.

Adobe Audition/Premiere, Final Cut and Pro-Tools.
AWS S3, EC2, MediaConvert, CloudFront, SageMaker e.g. AI/ML practitioner.
Dolby RMU, DP580/590, Media Meter and Dolby Encoding Engine running on AWS with FFmpeg.
Jira, Kanban, Excel, Tableau, Kibana, New Relic and Conviva OTT quality dashboards.

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