IPTV OTT & Headend Solutions
A professionally qualified and internationally experienced cross-disciplinary manager with extensive experience of sales, marketing and systems design of file-based media, IPTV/OTT and OTA broadcast video systems. David Smith is an expert in file-based, studio IP, video compression and HDR technologies and products with many presentations and publications at e.g. IBC, Berlinale, Munich Film Fest, MBT, WBU, 4K Summit and SMPTE conferences
An experienced business analyst for the broadcast market space, Smith can analyse product and competitive market space to prepare and implement five-year sales forecasts, marketing plans and sales strategies with a proven track record in developing business plans for startups including graphics systems. He is familiar with techniques such as Balanced Score Cards and target setting and follow up actions with distributors across Europe and Asia
Extensive sales experience of software based MPEG2, H.264 and HEVC encoding, transcoding and multiplexing solutions to FTA and pay TV operators in the terrestrial and satellite market segments including devising innovative technical and commercial broadcast architectures in conjunction with customers and product development
Devised, wrote, and presented the “Scene to Screen” and “From Ingest to iPad” seminar tours covering file-based workflows, ST2110, ST2022, JT-NMOS, UHD/HEVC/HDR, IPTV/OTT, 5G Broadcast, HbbTV and DVB-T2/S2X as well as numerous training courses and marketing collateral (web pages, videos, app notes, adverts, webinars) on SDI to IP, compression, HDR, and transmission broadcast technologies
Company: Rohde & Schwarz Munich
Period: 2005 – 2018
Positions held: Technology Manager for Broadcast and Media, UHD/4K Sales Manager
Company: Techtronix Cambridge (formerly Adherent)
Period: 1994 – 2005
Positions held: International Sales Manager, Multimedia Systems Business Manager
Company: Snell & Wilcox, UK
Period: 1992-1994
Positions held: Broadcast Design Engineer, Chief Engineer (Prisma Semiconductors)
Company: Videologic, UK
Period: 1991-1992
Positions held: Team Leader Multimedia Systems
Company: Crosfield Electronics, UK
Period: 1987 – 1991
Positions held: Senior Engineer for Colour Retouch Graphics Systems
Company: Unisys (Formerly Burroughs Machines), Scotland
Period: 1984-1987
Positions held: Computer Architect Mainframe Systems
Company: International Computers Ltd, UK
Period: 1982 – 1984
Positions held: ASIC Designer Engineer
Many MBT Papers between 2009 and 2017
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