Eddie Drake

Current

Director, Distribution Platforms at The Walt Disney Company
Board Advisor at Raven Technology Group, LLC

Past

Chief Technology Officer at Myrio - A Siemens Company
Co Founder, VP, Software Development at Myrio Corporation
Interactive Media Specialist at SourceNet Corporation

Staff Editor / Digital Artist at Oasis Media

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Education

Brigham Young University

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Industry

Telecommunications

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Eddie Drake’s Summary

Creative and entrepreneurial technology leader with focus on IP-based media delivery and consumer technologies. 10 year veteran of the emerging IPTV marketplace with a proven track record of leading geographically and culturally diverse development teams. Strong architectural, systems and software development leadership background. Strategic thinker with the ability to balance business objectives with market requirements, technical and resource reality. Strong experience in media design and production as well as technologies related to the digital home.

Eddie Drake’s Specialties:

Expert in IPTV Architecture and middleware systems. Strong background in consumer media platforms and distribution technology, content management systems, DRM/CA systems, video on demand systems. Background in networking protocols and routing. Experience with Agile software development methodology. Media production, animation, compositing and graphic design background.

Eddie Drake’s Experience

Director, Distribution Platforms

The Walt Disney Company

(Public Company; DIS; Information Technology and Services industry)

July 2008 — Present (1 year 5 months)

Conduct research and development on trends in Consumer Media distribution and consumption technologies including Web and game platforms, consumer devices, and security solutions. Evaluate the latest emerging technologies in the Digital Home and give formal presentations in the Digital Home Lab demonstration suite. Work across Disney business units to promote collaboration and implementation of key technologies. Write product specifications and lead prototype software development of emerging Disney technology in the consumer media space.
Board Advisor

Raven Technology Group, LLC

(Industrial Automation industry)

April 2007 — Present (2 years 8 months)

RTG is focused on bringing Ethernet and IP technology to the Industrial marketplace. Advisor to the board.
Chief Technology Officer

Myrio - A Siemens Company

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; SI; Telecommunications industry)

April 2005 — April 2007 (2 years 1 month)

Responsible for defining and leading technology innovation initiatives, new application development, standards and IPR within Siemens Home Entertainment (now a part of Nokia Siemens Networks) with primary emphasis on IPTV middleware. Led a small team of software engineering professionals and architects focused on next generation solutions for IPTV based on the MHP-IPTV standard.
Co Founder, VP, Software Development

Myrio Corporation

(Privately Held; Telecommunications industry)

November 1997 — March 2005 (7 years 5 months)

Myrio was one of the pioneering technology companies of the IPTV marketplace. Evangelized IPTV as an emerging technology through speaking engagements, panels, and standards organizations. Built and Led the Software Development organization including software engineering, quality assurance, technical documentation, and source control management. Instituted software developer in test (SDET) organization, which created internal automated test and performance measurement tools. Identified, negotiated and contracted with an offshore development organization and grew the overall IPTV engineering organization to nearly 100 with 6 direct reports. Was instrumental in attracting Siemens AG as an OEM partner and ultimate acquirer through participation in product demonstrations, customer interactions and technical due diligence.
Interactive Media Specialist

SourceNet Corporation

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

November 1996 — September 1997 (11 months)

Employee #2 at SourceNet (Northern Nevada ISP, CLEC) responsible for building the Web site and interactive media part of SourceNet's business during the infancy of the commercialization of the World Wide Web. Created Web sites and multi-media CD-Roms for clients. The ISP/CLEC portion of SourceNet was ultimately acquired by ATG (now Eschelon Telecom).
Staff Editor / Digital Artist

Oasis Media

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Media Production industry)

April 1995 — September 1996 (1 year 6 months)

Edited client projects on Avid Media Composer 1000 and Media 100 non linear editing systems. Used compositing and animation tools including Adobe AfterFX, Adobe Photoshop, and Lightwave 3D to create compelling content for clients. Under the direction of the company founder, established the interactive content and Web content creation service. Created Web sites for clients.