Beyond the technical expertise required, my harder to define skills of building world class design teams and leading them to build user interfaces that function as a cohesive language and underlying structure that transcends time. This makes simple work of adapting huge projects like these to evolve with new technologies and fashions.
From Initial concept to delivery of fully operation systems, I served in key roles for three major interactive television platform projects for major phone companies, cable companies and a multi-lingual digital international platform.
Keep in mind that the Tele-TV and Excite@Home designs are only now beginning to appear slighted dated, despite being twenty years old. These projects served as the prototypes for modern streaming media user experiences.
Compare Videotron's 2018 menu structure (middle image) to the 1998 Tele-TV design. (last image). The graphic skins look very different, yet notice a wireframe of the T-structure browsing are inverted, but otherwise nearly identical.
The Excite@Home Advanced Set-Top Box
Each day, each year, we have new tech, new products and new cool goals. I approach each new project with the same enthusiasm for a fresh, new solution for each new team, each new design.
Our job was to create the structure for how broadband streaming video will work in 2020 and beyond.
It worked, the structures, relationships and language of interactions we created are the foundation for modern paradigms.
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The major North American Cable TV and Broadband providers like Comcast and AT&T. invested over 500 million dollars on this project.
My role began with the project as one of two people, then I managed the Product Design team as it grew to twenty people collaborating closely with engineering as we prepared for national deployment.
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Videotron's illico Digital Television Service
When Canada's largest bilingual cable provider updated its digital offerings, I was brought in as a consultant to advise on course corrections after Videotron evaluated their initial prototypes.
The Tele-TV Project
Our mandate was to create a fully functional vision of the future of television.
Our international team included Emmy award winning video designers in addition to the stellar multimedia and engineering members.
My role was to bring the designs to life, programming the many working prototypes that the telecom engineers translated to actual delivery systems.
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