Twenty-five years of streaming, media, and platform engineering.

Profile

Technical architecture and ecosystem operations

Pete is particularly adept at bridging product engineering and global partner needs so integrations keep pace with the industry. His specialties are architectural alignment, scaling technical operations, and leading cross-functional teams to deliver reliable consumer media hardware and software worldwide. In all, 25 years designing and building content delivery, encoding, playback, and support solutions for streaming media and enterprise platforms.

Professional roles

1. September 2012–February 2022

   Staff Senior Solutions Consultant & Media Technical Lead

   Google Nest / Home / Chromecast

   • Led team-wide media strategy and architectural alignment across Nest and the broader Google ecosystem, bridging product engineering and global partner needs so media-product direction and integrations stayed aligned with industry trends and partner requirements.
   • Served as the primary technical liaison for Google’s largest global media partners; exercised authority to halt firmware deployments to mitigate widespread user impact and protect reliability across 100M+ active devices (including 5-nines reliability targets).
   • Personally managed several of Google’s largest media-partner accounts, providing technical troubleshooting, integration guidance, and escalation support for Cast and related platforms.
   • Managed and mentored a high-performing team of 8 Technical Account Managers, scaling Google Cast integration across premier global mobile and web platforms.
   • Architected the scaling of the Cast ecosystem from dozens to hundreds of global applications by revamping partner onboarding, technical scoping procedures, and automated QA test suites.
   • Synthesized complex technical telemetry and partner feedback into product insights for executive leadership, directly influencing the feature set and global expansion of the Chromecast and Google Home ecosystems.
   • Specialized in scaling technical operations and leading cross-functional teams to deliver high-impact, reliable consumer media hardware and software at global scale.
   • Before joining the Cast and Nest partner team, served a short stint at Google as a Technical Program Manager for internal developer tools (DevInfra).
2. 2006–2012

   Mountain View, CA

   Principal Software Architect

   Microsoft Corporation

   • Primary focus on AV delivery, with direct engagement across network operators, content providers, and encoding solutions providers.
   • Held end-to-end responsibility for the Microsoft Mediaroom Video on Demand and Live Over the Top systems.
   • Subject matter expert for Mediaroom VOD content requirements and standards compliance.
   • Wrote planning and functional requirements for new features and enhancements; drove development and test efforts to completion.
   • Wrote guides for encoding and ancillary data structure of the VOD content system.
   • Managed the in-house encoding team and content-provider relationships.
3. 2005–2006

   San Mateo, CA

   Chief Operating Officer

   Nine Systems Corporation

   Pete left in 2006; the company was later acquired by Akamai (December 2006).

   • Assumed responsibility for an additional software development team.
   • Instituted new policies to promote accountability in the development process.
   • Managed teams in San Diego, CA and Englewood, CO.
   • Owned corporate policies including the Service Level Agreement, Acceptable Use Policy, and Network Services Agreement.
4. 2000–2005

   San Mateo, CA

   Chief Technology Officer and SVP Technology

   Nine Systems Corporation

   Formerly Streaming Media Corporation.

   • Responsible for all areas of internet technology.
   • Managed external and internal technology decisions, negotiations, purchases, and implementations, in addition to prior VP Streaming Technologies responsibilities.
   • Owned a multimillion-dollar technology budget.
   • Led technology and operational integration of two acquired companies: E-Media and the Streaming Media Group of Navisite Inc.
   • Through integration of acquired technology, drove delivery costs down 80%.
   • Responsible for operation, staffing, and maintenance of the largest streaming-dedicated Ku- and C-band downlink facility in the industry.
   • Worked directly with the sales team on negotiations and contract language for premium accounts.
5. 2000

   Englewood, CO

   VP, Streaming Technologies

   Streaming Media Corporation

   • Developed best practices and procedures for encoding of live and on-demand customer content.
   • Architected and built a scalable, load-balanced, geographically distributed broadband streaming delivery network.
   • Conducted streaming software and hardware, co-location facility, and bandwidth provider evaluations, negotiations, and purchases.
6. 1999

   San Mateo, CA

   Director, Streaming Media

   MTV Networks Online

   • Designed and implemented streaming delivery infrastructure for MTV’s online streaming music presence.
   • Continued duties and responsibilities from ImagineRadio following MTV/Viacom’s acquisition of ImagineRadio.
7. 1998–1999

   Brisbane, CA

   VP Streaming Media

   ImagineRadio

   • Responsible for streaming media technology direction and implementation.
   • Designed a highly scalable streaming delivery infrastructure.
   • Worked closely with product vendors to ensure best-of-breed technology was in place.
   • Established best practices and techniques for hosting and production workflows.
   • Integrated NT, Linux, Gigabit networks, Storage Area Networks, and clustering to build robust, cost-effective online services.
8. 1997–1998

   Redmond, WA

   Program Manager

   Microsoft

   • Transitioned large media accounts from other streaming solutions to Windows Media Technologies.
   • Determined best practices for the ingress and encoding of broadcast content for IP delivery.
   • Designed production and hosting solutions; performed technology product comparisons and evaluations.
   • Made purchasing recommendations to CNN.
   • Built and tested live and on-demand streaming video delivery systems.
   • Developed solutions for key content and service providers, including Bloomberg.com, CBSnews.com, Sportsline.com, Reuters, Weather Channel, Crawford Communications, Netroadshow.com, and InterVU, to promote and implement Windows Media and Microsoft products.
9. 1996–1997

   Sunnyvale, CA

   Deployment Engineer

   VXtreme

   • Deployed VXtreme streaming video technologies for CNNfn.com and CNN.com.
   • Developed production systems and workflow for streaming video production and hosting facilities.
   • Designed and managed development of the first fully automated streaming ingress and encoding solution in a broadcast environment.
   • Produced many of the first live streaming video webcast events, including the landing of the Mars rover Sojourner and the Hong Kong handover.
10. 1993

    Santa Monica, CA

    Video Engineer / Edit Assist

    Pacific Ocean Post

    • Participated in installation, maintenance, and operation of various video edit and telecine suites.
    • Assisted with final QC of master tapes for home video replication across feature films, home video releases, commercials, network TV, music video, and industrial presentations.
    • Provided technical support for online, offline, and telecine bays; supervised on-site dubbing operations, quality control, and training of other personnel.
11. 1992–1993

    Vault Technician

    Digital Magic

    • Supported media-vault operations in a post-production environment.
12. 1987–1992

    Electronic Warfare Technician

    U.S. Navy

    • Maintained, repaired, and operated the AN/SLQ-32(V)3 Shipboard Electronic Warfare Suite aboard USS Peleliu (LHA-5), USS Leahy (CG-16) and at SIMA San Francisco.
    • Responsible for work assignments of 185 personnel, and for training and safety of junior personnel.
    • Coordinated command-wide security of classified publications.