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Business Analyst, OTT Mobile Applications

• Product development for AT&T's new video streaming service, DIRECTV NOW

•	Lead the initiative for managing, editing and ingesting digital content for DIRECTV’s first OTT application, Yaveo, the first Spanish language streaming service targeted at U.S. Hispanics. 

•	Spearheaded the qualification of video, metadata, artwork and closed-caption assets of over a dozen content providers, ingesting over 23,000 assets and adding more than 1,000 hours of VOD content to the platform. 

•	Singlehandedly edited, transcoded, de-interlaced and tested video assets that did not meet specifications prior to ingestion. 

•	Implemented vital automation scripts into the Content Operations workflow that more than tripled productivity on a daily basis, as well as decreased technical support tickets by over 90%.

•	Re-wrote asset specification documents supplied to content providers & facilitated communication between providers and DIRECTV in the preparation and life of assets.

•	Created, converted and normalized XML metadata, designed episodic key art & masthead graphics as n

Lead, OTT Content Operations

Conducted extensive research, interviewed and wrote articles regarding the work of University affiliated scientists. Articles include the work of Dr. Yi Gu (nano particles and applications) and Dr. David Thiessen (zero gravity and applications)


Scientific & Technical Writer

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Jacob Smith: Business Analyst, OTT Mobile Applications in Long Beach, CA

Jacob Smith

AT&T, Entertainment Group

DIRECTV, Digital Innovation Lab

Washington State University, Department of Physics and Astronomy

Washington State University