Christopher R. Dawson

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Hinesville, GA 31313

971-***-****

abp3gr@r.postjobfree.com

Blog: http://webiphany.com

GitHub: https://github.com/xrd/repositories

"A unique combination of visionary leadership, highly developed communication skills and strong technical experience and expertise."StrengthsWide industry experience:

15 years of experience working with and management of designers, coders, project managers and executives.

Facilitation of large projects in a variety of industries. Universities (Univ. Michigan, UC San Diego, Suffolk University, Princeton), finance and banking (UBS Warburg), military (Sandia National Labs, General Dynamics), entertainment (CNN, MLB).

Executive Leadership

Leadership roles at both large companies and startups. Experience developing vision statements, company focus, business plans, investor pitching and relationship development. Vivoh! 7 Page Business Plan,

Broad skill-set:

Quick to adapt and learn necessary technologies for project and customer needs. Experience with multiple languages and IDEs (C/C++, Perl, Java/Servlets, Ruby on Rails) on large and small projects. Experience with multiple project management tools (3 years with Pivotal Tracker, JIRA) and processes (Agile, XP)

Complete Product Design:

At Box Populi took our Podcast in a Box product from concept inception to market; personally developing all software, creating EULAs with legal, processing and integrating customer requests, driving branding, and making sales presentations. Personally managed hand off of this project to junior engineer.Customer Interaction:

Public speaking (O'Reilly UbuntuLive Conference http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/ubuntu/view/e_sess/13494, ); RealNetworks media authoring speaker), marketing material and screencast development (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IoXFvC8pso); international business travel (BBC in UK, Globo and Terra in Brazil/Chile/Argentina, Globe and Mail in Canada); development and execution of training materials (Virage Application Server, Virage SDK, RealNetworks SMIL and Multimedia XML Authoring).SkillsExecutive Skills:

Project management, roadmap development, HR (hiring & firing), revenue accountability, financial planning and management, documentation,

reseller relationship management.Programming Languages: Ruby (5 years), Node.JS (1), Perl (10+ yrs), C/C++ (10), Java (7), Bash/AWK Scripting (3)Operating Systems: Linux [Ubuntu,SuSE,RedHat,Slackware], managed servers, setup custom Debian package repository (10+), Windows [XP/2k] (10+), MacOSX/9 (10+)Technologies: Streaming Media production and development [h264/FLV/RealNetworks/WindowsMedia/QT] (6+), Web Application Development [Ruby on Rails, Apache] (12), Mobile App Development [PhoneGap, Native Android, AppInventor] (2),

Database management [MySQL/Postgresql] (4), REST APIs [Zencoder/Last.FM/Upcoming] (2), Ajax, CSS, Javascript, Facebook and OpenSocial App Development (5 years)EmploymentOutreach Digital / Woven Media Inc., Chief Architect: (Feb 2009 to May 2011)

Startup focused on adding value through HD video in medical space. Angel funded. Woven Media was started by Susie Opare and me in 2009 and was acquired and merged with Outreach Digital in mid 2010. http://outreachdigital.com / . Personally responsible for building and integrating: custom demo HTML5 iPad application; laptop live video streaming capture solution (Java+VLC+Wowza), broadcasting via flash and to iPhone/iPad with integrated scheduling system; high capacity large file upload, sharing and transcoding (using Zencoder) management system; hand coded SOAP libraries for .NET framework authentication.

Box Populi, Inc., CEO/President: (Oct. 2003 to Jan. 2008), Acquired by 323Link in June 2010. Developed two streaming media devices (Webcast in a Box, Podcast in a Box) and our Podcast RSS Feed Management system,

managed development process,

requirements gathering for feature requests,

professional services projects,

integration of third-party software.

Responsible for revenue ($0 to $600k total in four years), hiring/firing/HR,

financial planning.

CNN: live video streaming devices used for 24/7 broadcasting at Democratic and Republican National

Conventions in 2004Naval Postgraduate School: custom built webcasting system with simple administrator control interface responsible for delivering 100 hours of video per week to students all over the world, zero downtime since June of 2005UC San Diego: worked with Supercomputer Center to design "lecturecast" system, providing webcasting services to entire University of California educational systemUSC: live streaming and podcasting architecture for largest online classical radio station in the worldPrinceton University: transcode project for 1000 hours of video, stripping metadata and converting to MP3, generating RSSVirage, Inc., Professional Services Lead Engineer: (Jan. 2001 to Oct. 2003)

Project management, development, professional services for streaming media projects,

delivery under quarterly revenue deadlines. Frequent travel.

UBS Warburg: production and search system for financial analyst videos built on top of Microsoft Publisher, COM, C++/C and PerlCisco: first webcasting solution with synchronized PowerPoint and live video available on the market, using COM,

C++Major League Baseball: created "clip editor" interface for MLB, searchable metadata and videos from every game, developed java modules and JSP files used in their WAR implementation, designed XML datafeed which was provided on top of an Apache+ModPerl architecture, date which was pulled from our Verity index using command-line tools running on Solaris.Sandia National Labs and General Dynamics: designed and taught API toolkit and application server trainings both on and off siteRealNetworks, Inc, Applications Engineer, Latin American Sales Engineer: (Jun. 1998 to Oct. 2000)

Build and support various RealNetworks showcase customer technology deployments.

Travel for sales meetings, installations, training events, both national and international.

On site customer face time.

Terra: installation and configuration of RealServer for Big Brother project in Chile, Argetina, Miami.Trainings and Customer Development in Germany, England, FranceClaris, Inc. (subsidiary of Apple Computer), Intern and full-time employee: (Jun 1996 to Sept 1997) Software developer for ClarisWorks 5.0. Cross-platform development, weekly bug and status reports.EducationBS Computer Science, BA Japanese Language and Literature, University of Washington (1992 to 1998)Recording and Music Production Certification, Portland State University (2004 to 2006)Volunteer Work

(school for girls of poverty in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil),

Sunday School teacher at First Unitarian Church,

Bus Project (tech committee),

SMART (Start Making A Reader Today) elementary school reading and literacy assistance program.

Groups

POSSE (Portland Open Source Software Entrepreneurs), Black Rock Boutique (clothing donation organization),

Portland Perl Mongers, Portland Rubyists, Portland Linux/Unix Group.

Interests and Other Skills

Fluent in Japanese, conversational Portuguese, lived in Japan for 2 years and Brazil for 1 year;

piano, electronic music composition, basketball, tennis, social justice issues

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