Three decades of hard problems, shipped

Techex has a 50-year pedigree in broadcast excellence that has resulted in a software platform for IP video delivery that is transforming the industry, quietly at first, and now boldly with products like tx.Darwin, tx.Core and tx.Edge. Simply put, Techex built a better mousetrap, and I can't wait to share it with you.

Top-producing sales engineer with pre- and post-sales account ownership for the Zixi video transmission protocol and ZEN Master control plane. Collaborated with Paramount+ on AFC, UEFA, CONCACAF and EPL football; helped AppleTV+ launch MLS with NEP and Harmonic; cut Cinedigm's cost of operation by over half a million dollars a year while improving uptime. Pioneered “reverse FAST,” taking FAST channels from HLS back to transport stream. Working daily across AWS, GCP, Azure and OCI. Industry expert in video networking, routing, firewalls, proxies and content security.

On Akamai's D2C team of content-delivery and security veterans, ensured flawless video delivery, web optimization, all-tier security and consumer identity/access management for premier OTT, film and television companies.

Solution Architect to Evergent's largest global subscriber-management and billing customers. Led the refactor of a monolithic codebase toward microservices with API-first design, an API gateway, and API-as-a-product, leveraging multi-cloud compute and ML/AI to cut operational cost.

Inaugurated Mobeon's New Media Consulting practice across content creation, distribution and consumption: live and on-demand video for e-commerce, esports and e-business on AWS (S3, CloudFront, EBS, RDS, Aurora), WordPress, Chef, Docker and Kubernetes.

Established a “video brand enablement” consultancy on the Kaltura open-source stack: an end-to-end suite for content acquisition (linear, VOD, live), OVP management, monetization (SVOD/TVOD/AVOD), syndication and consumer engagement for customers like PodcastONE, Ovation TV and TruNews.

Kaltura's primary technical representative to media & entertainment customers, helping land and expand over $18M in recurring revenue. Drove innovation in player features, content security and transcoding efficiency for Disney, ABC, Vodafone, Motor Trend, TMZ, Ellen, Paramount and the MPA.

Built Cisco Eos, a hosted social entertainment platform on Cisco UCS with elastic scalability. Designed and deployed 500+ fan/brand sites for Warner Music Group artists including Kid Rock, Lupe Fiasco, Janelle Monáe, Wiz Khalifa and Paramore, bridging customer requirements with an aggressive product roadmap.

A forerunner to Facebook and Nextdoor connecting garage-door suburban communities online: message boards, local news and events, IM, and collaborative local-business reviews, all funded entirely by targeted regional advertising.

Leveraged a Navy cryptographic-technician clearance plus network design experience to deliver threat assessment, intrusion detection and Network Access Control for customers like Fox Studios, the FAA and Bank of the West.

Created CoreDoc, the first fully Java-based, platform-independent Document Management System, running alongside AS/400 ERP for paper-intensive manufacturers and distributors (Safeway/VONS, Pulte Homes, Arrow Electronics). Managed 12 offshore developers; the company was sold to Australian investors.

Key player advancing early Enterprise Content Management, closing and implementing BMW, IEEE and Korean Air, then driving reseller/alliance partnerships with Accenture, EMC and Sun Microsystems.

One of the first employees at this DFJ/Venrock-funded startup treating time as transactable inventory. Worked QA, then Product Management, then sold the vision, closing the first training deal at $2.1M with seminal customer SimuFlite (a GE company).

Ran the web farm for San Diego's largest independent ISP, supporting Backstreet Boys, Limp Bizkit, Blink-182, the Rolling Stones and Tony Robbins. Introduced Radware load balancers and Open Market Transact; survived MTV TRL and Oprah traffic spikes.

Managed a 400-seat integrated call center, built the Telephony Applications Command Center (TACC), and migrated the center across two West-coast sites with 100% uptime while moving desktops from OS/2 Warp to Windows NT.

Cryptographic systems and advanced electronics technician with a security clearance: the foundation everything since was built on.