Greater Philadelphia
Serial innovator with over 80 patents issued, and more pending; applications and platforms spanning a diverse range of leading-edge technologies from audio/video to proximity/presence to immersive technologies and volumetric media to AI; those innovations lead to experiences that touch many millions of customers today, from their personal devices to the comfort of their homes, and even to enjoying the Olympics.
Led technical investigations of emerging technologies, including immersive virtual, augmented, and mixed reality, and cloud game streaming. - Technical director for NBC Olympics VR by Xfinity app for Quest devices, nominated for Sports Emmy in Outstanding Digital Innovation, with 150+ hours of 8K 180 / 360 degree video, live events, replays and highlights, via TVAnywhere and automatic in-home authentication. - Drove subsequent efforts for low latency streaming, mixed reality passthrough and hand tracking. - Drove cloud game streaming efforts through proof of concept, vendor selection, prototype, latency optimizations and integration to 1000-person employee trial; aided transition to production team. Also: VR/AR/MR exploration with Quest 3 and Apple Vision Pro; volumetric capture and playback integration; metaverse technologies (CloudXR, Omniverse; MSF representative); AI: nerfstudio team; NeRF, Gaussian splatting; LIFT Labs and SportsTech accelerator mentor. Collaborations with NBC, Universal Pictures, Universal Creative, DreamWorks Animation, Comcast Business, Spectacor, and Sky - as well as Olympics sponsors, major vendors and startups.
- Led technical design of patented cloud sync protocol and architecture for "Smart Internet," which is now Comcast's industry-leading xFi connectivity platform serving tens of millions of broadband subscribers. - Drove over-the-top applications and voice control for Comcast's X1 platform, powering experiences for tens of millions of subscribers, and fielding over 15 billion utterances per year. Also: immersive technologies including 180 / 360 degree video, volumetric media, and virtual / augmented / mixed reality. Collaborations with NBC, Universal Pictures, Universal Creative, DreamWorks Animation, Comcast Business, Spectacor, and Sky - as well as Olympics sponsors, major vendors and startups.
First engineer hired for the Xcalibur project which is now Comcast's world-class X1 entertainment platform, powering experiences for tens of millions of subscribers - Novel cloud-based application architecture; protocol, design, development, and multi-platform support. - Multi-vendor integration for search, service delivery and 3rd party apps. - Online video integration including architecture, design, development, process/workflow. - Network DVR architecture and design including scheduler, and recording subsystem.
Led cross platform application efforts, including: Universal Caller ID leveraging Comcast Digital Voice, High-Speed Data and Enhanced Television platforms, over 10 million households passed; Remote DVR.
Lead interoperability, integration and co-development technical efforts with other companies. Monitor industry for notable developments. Create and execute industry conference presentations. Provide technical analysis and positions on intellectual property issues. Analyze emerging technologies and determine strategic implications. Invent and investigate next-generation technologies. Create prototypes utilizing suitable candidates for further evaluation and productization. 5 patents granted. Multiple industry publications and presentations.
Lead interoperability, integration and co-development technical efforts with other companies. Monitor industry conferences for notable developments. Discover and investigate next-generation technologies. Create prototypes utilizing suitable candidates for further evaluation. Defined, designed and implemented Gigabit Ethernet VOD streaming support. Managed integration with DWDM transport, switching and headend equipment. Designed and implemented new MPEG-2 multiplexing algorithm and framework; MPEG-2 multiple-service transport stream demultiplexing and processing, including reconstruction of reference frames from infinite GOP encoding, for centralized server-based implementation of personal video recording; database import, creation and forms interface for display and selection of program guide information; dynamically generated Web-based interface, both client and server-side, for Sony set-top box; incremental trick file generation; single-trick-file rewind; business rules engine; network proxy for Sony set-top box; redesign of broad and wide software RAID file system.
Designed and implemented software for near-video-on-demand set-top box including: application framework, user interface, image assets, video device driver, MPEG-2 video decoder, XML data import, IP multicast transmission and reception. Integrated infrared remote control, MPEG-2 and AC3 audio decoders, DVD VOB and DVB transport stream demultiplexers. Investigated FEC algorithms for reliable multicast engine, optimizations to MPEG-4 decoder and improvements to MPEG-4 encoder.