Founding Software Engineer at Transmission Begins
London, United Kingdom
- Current
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- Founding Software Engineer at Transmission Begins
- Past
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- Multimedia Porting Group Manager at Symbian
- Senior Technical Consultant at Symbian
- Software Engineer / Developer Consultant at Symbian
- Software Engineer at National Semiconductor
- Software Engineer at Mediamatics
- Software Engineer at Microsoft
- Education
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- Imperial College London
- Connections
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- Industry
- Computer Software
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John McAleely’s Summary
Software Engineer, who has spent twelve years building audio and video subsystems for PCs and Mobile phones. I'm now starting my own software company, Transmission Begins, to develop digital media software products.
John McAleely’s Specialties:
Audio, Video, Graphics, System software
John McAleely’s Experience
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Founding Software Engineer
Transmission Begins
(Privately Held; Myself Only; Computer Software industry)
June 2008 — Present (1 year 2 months)
First steps into the world of startup software companies.
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Multimedia Porting Group Manager
Symbian
(Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Telecommunications industry)
March 2006 — January 2008 (1 year 11 months)
Formally taking the leadership role of MMPG in March 2006, I worked to grow the team's staff and broaden the number of projects it supported. I provided software subsystems into key Symbian phone projects, that were built by my team. We also provided support for subsystems developed by Symbian's operating system group.
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Senior Technical Consultant
Symbian
(Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Computer Software industry)
August 2003 — February 2006 (2 years 7 months)
Joining Symbian's Licencee Product Development group (LPD), I was one of the three original members of their new Multimedia Porting Group (MMPG). A team of specialists within LPD, we were part of the projects shipping the first Symbian OS v9 phones. I provided architectural advice, requirements analysis and a point of contact for all multimedia technical issues to the projects I worked on.
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Software Engineer / Developer Consultant
Symbian
(Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Telecommunications industry)
May 2000 — July 2003 (3 years 3 months)
As part of Symbian's consulting and marketing departments, I provided engineering support to our partner community. I worked across the operating system, with a bias toward audio, video and kernel software. My work varied, including Q&A, training delivery, trade show presentations and custom software development.
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Software Engineer
National Semiconductor
(Public Company; NSM; Semiconductors industry)
March 1997 — April 2000 (3 years 2 months)
During this time, my work was within their Mediamatics subsidiary (see elsewhere on this profile!).
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Software Engineer
Mediamatics
(Computer Hardware industry)
September 1996 — April 2000 (3 years 8 months)
Based in Fremont, CA I was a member of the development team for the DVDExpress DVD playback software. I was responsible for the streaming software; maintaining DirectShow filters; designing plugin systems for third party vendors, and working with the Microsoft DirectShow development team. During this period, Mediamatics was acquired by National Semiconductor, becoming a wholly owned subsidiary.
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Software Engineer
Microsoft
(Public Company; MSFT; Computer Software industry)
April 1995 — October 1995 (7 months)
Internship/Industrial Placement on the ActiveMovie (subsequently renamed DirectShow) development team
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