Kevin Marks

About Kevin Marks

Very experienced strategist, system architect, software engineer and standards designer. Planned strategy, managed large media and software projects, founded startups. Have shipped code from low level OS real-time video compression at Apple, to full stack web infrastructure at Technorati to multi-company standards integration at Google.A founder of Microformats and organiser of the Indieweb Interested in code and systems that make a difference to people.Looking for new projects, consulting or possibly full-time.

Experience

1. Engineering Lead

   BBC

   Mar 2018 — Present · London, GB

   Unified and consolidated multiple data projects in the Transmission group, serving coverage information to the public, and delivering real time fault and public query GIS and dataviz dashboards. Replaced legacy systems with a unified AWS solution while keeping both running. Partnered with R&D group on coverage modelling for DASH/HLS media

Education

• University of Cambridge

  MA, Natural Sciences (Physics)

  1985 — 1988

Skills

• E-Commerce
• User Experience
• Blogging
• Digital Media
• Production Managment
• Social Media
• Cloud Computing
• Software Engineering
• Management
• Integration
• Business Development
• Html
• Video
• Mobile Devices
• Open Source
• System Software
• Start-Ups
• Advertising
• Python
• Product Management
• Apis
• Fundraising
• Web Services
• Public Speaking
• Agile Methodologies
• Sales
• Editing
• Strategic Partnerships
• Mobile Applications
• Scalability
• Research
• Streaming Media
• Entrepreneurship
• Databases
• Google Apps
• Html 5
• Software Development
• Publishing
• Broadcast
• Web Development