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Technology Development Streamlining the group
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April 2013 – Digital Media Technologies Technology Development DMG Spencer Stephens EVP Scot Barbour VP Production Tech Christopher Taylor Director Digital Tech Jason Brahms VP Advanced Platforms Yoshi Takashima Director Adv Tech Briana Scarnecchia S r Coordinator Doug Chung VP DMG Glen Marzan VP DMG Tech Ops
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Responsibilities Headline: Technology Development has one person assigned to each stage of the content lifecycle. Spencer Stephens, EVP CTO – Creating a center of excellence for a broad range of technology relevant to SPE’s business. – Provide business units with technology to improve processes throughout the content lifecyle. – Technical expertise for anti-piracy, government affairs and litigation worldwide – Direct involvement in key projects. E.g. SPTI Media Center, enhanced content protection – Direct involvement with all Technology Development projects – DMG management Scot Barbour, VP Production Technology – Independent subject matter expert in production technology with hands-on experience for production – Developing new workflows (e.g. DIT-less for Clint) – Assisting productions with technology assessment and production use (e.g. camera tests, “About Last Night”) – Working with production systems vendors (e.g. Sony) to encourage development of products that better suit our needs – Education of directors, DPs, assistant camera, etc. Jason Brahms, VP Advanced Platforms – Tools that bridge production and distribution (e.g. content finishing platform) – Business analysis of technology choices (e.g. dailies system) – Manages content logging group and Blu-print developers Christopher Taylor, Director Digital Media Technology – Content protection negotiations in SPHE and SPT licensing deals (in partnership with Digital Policy) – Non theatrical content protection –deals and driving industry requirements (in-seat -> consumer devices) – Interactivity for new formats such as UltraViolet – Development of anti-piracy tools and tools that can use piracy information as business intelligence – Current and enhanced content protection – HDBaseT and HQME (revenue opportunities) Yoshikazu Takashima, Director Advanced Technology – New formats such as UltraViolet (e.g. encoding and wrapping) – Project manger for Sony F1 project (a thankless job) – Digital cinema (DCI and SMPTE) in partnership with Brian Vessa and Scott Sherr – Blu-ray disc assoc. – Subject matter expert in devices that receive/play SPE content
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ORGANIZATION CHANGES IN FY13 Technology Development
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April 2012 Spencer Stephens CTO Don Eklund EVP Kuni Takahashi Director (at SPEJ) John Ying Manager Jorge Reis SW Developer Michael Thomson SW Developer Scot Barbour VP Production Tech Christopher Taylor Director Digital Tech Jason Brahms VP Advanced Platforms Yoshi Takashima Manager Blu-Ray Dev Briana Scarnecchia S r Coordinator Zach Ruderman Assistant Blu-Print Group (Deficit Funded by SPE against new licenses and support contract revenue) (Funded by Sony)
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June 2012 Spencer Stephens CTO John Ying Manager Jorge Reis SW Developer Michael Thomson SW Developer Scot Barbour VP Production Tech Christopher Taylor Director Digital Tech Jason Brahms VP Advanced Platforms Yoshi Takashima Manager Blu-Ray Dev Briana Scarnecchia S r Coordinator (Funded by Sony) Blu-Print Group (Break even funded by DADC support contract, Sony Creative Software & outside contracts)
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