Software Defined Survival

Thomas Walter is the Strategic Product Marketing Manager for NEC Display Solutions Europe where he also served as product manager for public display solutions. He’s also served as Product and Sales Manager for Sanyo Sales & Marketing Europe. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Bruno Napoli has a background in the Home Cinema scene in Paris, France. Which over the years, evolved into luxury smart home integration. He is a columnist for Smart Integrations Mag and served as co-founder of Krika, a remote monitoring platform for integrated AV and smart home systems.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Matt Dodd has an extended background in training and has served on the board of Cedia and as Director of Education. He was Co-founder of smart home and residential integration company thinkingbrinks and is currently Managing Director of Clavia - a coaching and training development company that creates e-learning videos and explainer animations for the AV industry. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Today’s episode is a little different. Instead of interviewing a person, we review a University project that is changing it’s traditional control systems to Raspberry Pi’s and Raspberry Pi Touchscreens. Joining us from the Brigham Young University OIT AV Services team to discuss this project are Daniel Wells: Director of AV Engineering, Brad Streeter: Chief Engineer and Joe Blodgett: Primary Developer of the open source AV control and management solution. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Andrew Page has been working at Cornell University for over 16 years and currently Manager of Integrated Audio and Video Engineering.He has experience designing and delivering for unified communications, digital signage, video conferencing, web conferencing, content delivery networks, webcasting, and video platform services as well as cloud based solutions.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Mike Adams got his start as a Sales and Support Consultant for Apple, and has held several marketing and management positions for AV manufacturers like Polycom and integration companies such as Videonations and Vega Global. He’s also served as a startup mentor and is currently EMEA channel manager at Zoom.Zoom is a software defined video collaboration solution in use by over 700,000 companies and millions of users including myself and this podcast. All of our remote interviews are recorded with Zoom and I also use it to host webinars and collaborate with customers and my development team.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Episode 23: Shane Springer On Human Centered Design And The Mythical Zero Punch List ProjectShane Springer of OneWorkplace got his start in theatre lighting and sound before moving on to be an AV technician, programmer and engineer.He is also a member of the Leadership Committee for the Association for Quality in AudioVisual (AQAV.org), where he has also served on the organizations’ Steering Committee for several yearsIf that isn’t enough, he’s also designed and implemented the Quality Assurance practices that led to achieving the first in the world AV Provider Excellence Program or APEX Certification from AVIXA. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Carlos Martinez has held AV and telecommunications positions at some well known companies like, Juniper Networks, Zynga, Tesla and Uber.He was responsible for expanding the use of software codecs into quite a large operation environment at Uber. He is currently Co-founder and Director of Business Operations at Lumibild, a custom AV design and integration company in Silicon Valley that specializes in software codecs. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Dave Hatz guest started his career at Disney World Technical Services where he learned about integrating show control with AMX systems. He’s held several other positions in lighting and sound before zeroing in on AV programming and project engineering at Roscor Corporation and currently AVI Systems. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Patrick Murray started his career as a freelance service technician. Moving up to serve the industry in various roles, as a systems engineer, a control systems programmer and finally pursuing his entrepreneurial spirit by starting an independent programming company.He has been in business for over thirteen years and he’s grown to become an educator, a software developer, an inventor, an online marketer and a podcaster. His extensive experience in major control system platforms as well as other mainstream programming languages has proved to be valuable in making his mark on the industry.He has worked in the USA and Europe and is fluent in English and German. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

David Bianciardi founded AV&C or Audio, Video and Controls in 1999 where he leads a team of designers, developers, and engineers that deliver software-driven installations to enhance storytelling, placemaking, connectivity and responsiveness. And I am really excited to hear more about what all of that means how an AV programmer like myself can start applying these ideas. Highlights From This EpisodeConversational engagement resonates more with guests than Power Point slides and how technology can be used to spark those conversations (and still show slides too).Experience design should consider the experience of system operators as well as guests.Technology is being viewed by architects less as FF&E (furnishings, fixture and equipment) and more as a raw building material.David explains the concept of Evergreen Media and how assets like print, podcasts, video and blog posts can be integrated into a storytelling environment in a dynamic way (instead of a static looping

Jason Jaworski is a veteran of the US Marine Corp and has over 20 years experience working in Government and Military Systems for multi level classification video conferencing, command, control and operation centers.He is currently VP of Federal Practice at Unassailable Solutions. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

I first met Ryan Howard while working on a rather complicated AV project at Goldman Sachs in New York City where he was playing the role of superhero programmer for AMX’s Professional Services. Since then he has held been a design engineer and consultants and most recently circling back to GS as VP technology. He recently founded Storied Systems that designs systems strategies and environments for storytelling at a human scale. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Mark Day has held many positions in the Las Vegas AV scene including installation, sales and programming. He is currentlyPresident of Idea Box, a design and installation company he founded in 2009.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Dave Silberstein has a long history working with AV manufacturers like Audio Video Corporation and Crestron Electronics where he worked as a Director for almost 20 years. I remember the first Crestron courses I attended in NJ around the year 2000, he was a big part of getting to know what that company was all about and how their technology worked.He is currently VP of Technology at Wyrestorm, a manufacturer of pro AV signal distribution and control solutions and I am really excited to speak with someone with such experience in AV manufacturing and hear their view on the changing role of software in AV. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Dave Schoenbeck has a long history in managing and operating retail stores like Toys R Us and is one of the founders of Babies R Us where he served as senior VP of operations for 10 years. So what does that have to do with software? For more than a decade he’s been helping business owners in AV and beyond reach their goals as an executive coach. When I started this podcast, I did not realise how much shifting to software defined systems affects the business models. But the words ”as a service” keep coming up, so I am really excited to learn a lot today from Dave Schoenbeck. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Paul Harris has been CEO of Aurora Multimedia for over 20 years. When I worked in AV in NYC, I remember Aurora as an independent AMX and Crestron programming company that started making interesting hardware solutions. Now Aurora has a complete line of AV distribution products, touchpanels and control processors. They were one of the first companies to adopt a software defined approach with the perhaps the industry’s first non-propriety control system, with WACI or Web Accessible Control Interface which used web pages to control AV equipment. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Jeremy West began his career in broadcast and theatre, working for Sky Australia and several theater companies as well as his own video production and software company. He’s worked as an AV engineer for AMX Australia and is currently revamping the way AV is done at Deakin University in Melbourne, Australia. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

I first met Frank Damiano in an AMX training room in Horsham PA around the year 2000. And since then, he has been Founder and CTO of Damiano Global Corporation, an independent control system and audio DPS programming company.His company has developed AV management software called DGnet that looks like a software defined solution to a hardware defined problem. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Lee Rivers talks about how programmers can guarantee AV project success by working directly with consultants and end users. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.