Jake Dowie

Current

• Video & Web Consultant at dowie.net (Sole Proprietorship)

Past

• Streaming Media Consultant at BT Media & Broadcast
• Founder, Director at Tornado Productions
• Global IT Manager at boo.com

• Network Administrator at Virgin Net

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Websites

• dowie.net

Jake Dowie’s Summary

Jake Dowie’s Specialties:

Web development, streaming media, interactive electronic art, video & audio production, web services, networking & infrastructure

Jake Dowie’s Experience

• Video & Web Consultant

  dowie.net (Sole Proprietorship)

  (Sole Proprietorship; Myself Only; Online Media industry)

  October 2003 — Present (6 years 2 months)

  As a freelancer, Jake delivers streaming & web-based projects and consultancy to several industries and several leading streaming media providers at both a technical and management level.
  These projects include elements of platform & project definition & management, live webcasting, video production, video editing & encoding, audio engineering, web design & development and web & streaming hosting. Jake works with clients such as the UK Parliament, Cisco, London Business School, The British Council, Brian Eno, Servecast, World Television and BT Rich Media.

• Streaming Media Consultant

  BT Media & Broadcast

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Broadcast Media industry)

  May 2005 — February 2006 (10 months)

  Consultancy, management, operations & platform development for large international clients. Projects included 24x7 channels, live broadcasts, video to mobile and large-scale video encoding.

• Founder, Director

  Tornado Productions

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)

  July 1999 — October 2003 (4 years 4 months)

  Jake was a co-founder and director of Tornado, one of the UK’s leading providers of webcasting and streaming media solutions. Tornado worked within a broad range of UK industries. Their services also included web-based design, build, consultancy, project management and content management.
  Jake developed and managed all technical systems at Tornado including all web and streaming services, delivering 500,000+ streams per month. Jake also managed the technical delivery of many of Tornado’s most successful projects for clients such as Shell, Microsoft, BBC, EMAP, Cisco, BT, HSBC and Selfridges.
  In 2002, Tornado won the BT Openworld Award for Best Use of Broadband for their broadcast of the Glastonbury festival. Jake managed the technical delivery of this project during 2002 and 2003.
  Tornado was acquired by Servecast Ltd in October 2003, Jake was made redundant at this point as Servecast’s technical operations are based in Ireland but was still regularly employed as a consultant.

• Global IT Manager

  boo.com

  (Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Internet industry)

  June 1999 — October 1999 (5 months)

  boo.com, the international branded sports & fashion goods supplier, was the highest funded Internet start-up in Europe.
  Jake was employed shortly after the company’s inception, as Global IT Manager. He designed the company’s global IT infrastructure, network management and monitoring facilities, and was solely responsible for recruiting and managing the 14-strong, 24hr, global IT support team.
  Jake’s employment was cut short when he resigned to start Tornado Productions Ltd.

• Network Administrator

  Virgin Net

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)

  January 1998 — June 1999 (1 year 6 months)

Additional Information

Jake Dowie’s Websites:

• dowie.net

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