Director Multimedia Solutions, Europe and Asia at ARC International
Netherlands
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- Director Multimedia Solutions, Europe & Asia at ARC
- Past
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- Product Marketing Manager Media Products at Silicon Hive
- Software Architect at Bosch Security Systems
- Director Applications Development at BOPS, Inc
- Applications Programmer II at University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
- Consultant at Sibbel & Van Pelt New Media Consulting
- Education
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- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Technische Universiteit Delft
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Marco Jacobs’s Summary
All round specialist in development and sales/marketing of DSP processor IP with a focus on audio, video and imaging applications.
Proven to function well in a wide variety of roles ranging from product definition and management, marketing, business development, applications engineering, project management, people management and teaching.
Marco Jacobs’s Specialties:
6+ years working for semiconductor IP licensing startups, 10+ years working with VLIW/SIMD processor architectures and development tools, 10+ years experience in audio, video and imaging applications, knowledge of 3D and voice.
Marco Jacobs’s Experience
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Director Multimedia Solutions, Europe & Asia
ARC
(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Semiconductors industry)
September 2006 — Present (2 years 11 months)
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Product Marketing Manager Media Products
Silicon Hive
(Semiconductors industry)
January 2004 — September 2006 (2 years 9 months)
Responsible for product marketing and product management for Silicon Hive’s media processing product line. Duties include: market research, defining new video/imaging products and demonstrators, identifying strategic partners and executing partnership agreements, developing marketing material and identifying, guiding and securing customers.
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Software Architect
Bosch Security Systems
(Privately Held; 10,001 or more employees; Computer Hardware industry)
April 2002 — December 2003 (1 year 9 months)
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Director Applications Development
BOPS, Inc
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Semiconductors industry)
June 1998 — April 2002 (3 years 11 months)
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Applications Programmer II
University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
(Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Research industry)
October 1996 — May 1998 (1 year 8 months)
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Consultant
Sibbel & Van Pelt New Media Consulting
(Semiconductors industry)
1995 — 1995 (less than a year)
Marco Jacobs’s Education
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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
1995 — 1996
Worked on my Master's thesis here in the field of 3D graphics (virtual reality).
See http://www.cs.unc.edu/Research/us/ -
Technische Universiteit Delft
Computer Science 1990 — 1995
- Activities and Societies:
- Participated in the ACM programming contests at the national and European level.
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Marco Jacobs’s Honors:
Holds 5 issued patents
