Peter Duke

Current

• Strategic Consultant at dukeMedia (Sole Proprietorship)

Past

• Creative Director of Technology at Playground Media Group
• Director of Web Development at Virgin Entertainment Group, Inc.
• Interactive Media Producer at Sega GameWorks

• Director of Design at 20th Century Fox
• Director of Design at News Corp / 20th Century Fox / Delphi Internet Services
• Fashion and Celebrity Photographer at Freelance

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Education

• University of California, Santa Barbara

Recommended

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Connections

306 connections

Industry

Entertainment

Websites

• My Website
• My Company

Peter Duke’s Summary

Peter is a technology veteran who has created and produced solutions for such companies as 20th Century Fox (The X-Files), Fox Sports, Sega GameWorks, Microsoft, Sesame Street Workshop, EMI Capitol Records, and Virgin Entertainment. He specializes in ground-breaking, technology solutions that effectively drive business enterprises forward.

Possessing the unique ability to communicate with both engineers and designers in their respective languages, Peter brings mission-critical collaboration experience to every project. A career highlight was creating and producing Virgin MegaStore's Digital Entertainment System that was featured by Bill Gates at the Windows XP launch event.

Peter serves as project lead for PMG's Research and Development Lab. He specializes in ground-breaking, technology solutions that effectively drive business enterprises forward. Possessing the unique ability to communicate with both technical and aesthetic designers in their respective languages, Peter brings mission-critical collaboration experience to every project.

Peter Duke’s Specialties:

User Experience Design, Human Computer Interaction, Disruptive Innovation, Computer Science, Photography.

Peter Duke’s Experience

• Strategic Consultant

  dukeMedia (Sole Proprietorship)

  (Sole Proprietorship; Myself Only; Entertainment industry)

  December 2007 — Present (8 months)

  * Widely recognized as an award-winning creative director and technical innovator in all aspects of the development process, including conceptualization, competitive analysis, requirements identification, team participation, brand positioning, client interaction and executive presentations.
  
  * High-caliber leadership experience in pitching and winning new business campaigns, along with overall business planning and industry product knowledge, for Fortune 500 customers in consumer-focused products and creative industries.
  
  * Expertise in the presentation and negotiation of services and deals with top executives, professional peers, industry leaders and key decision-makers; fully familiar with all media, including TV, radio, print, Internet and mixed.
  
  * World-class Fashion Photographer with work listed in national magazines, retail venues and mass merchandising settings.

• Creative Director of Technology

  Playground Media Group

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)

  April 2003 — January 2008 (4 years 10 months)

  In charge of overseeing the development and introduction of eleven prototype Windows Media Hi-Def DVDs, including “Step Into Liquid” and seven IMAX titles. Built and led multi-discipline teams in identify project requirements, budgets, resources and timelines.
  
  * Recognized for innovation and product excellence by Bill Gates at the 2005 CES.
  
  * Facilitated the full design and implementation of media and technology for the $300 million Las Vegas Springs Preserve.
  
  * Re-envisioned museums for the 21st century for the LA County Museum of Art in association with the AFI Digital Content Lab.
  
  * Created, developed and tested in-theater video game experiences for TimePlay.
  
  * Served as a consultant to Microsoft for six months in 2002 and prototyped contributions to the next generation of TV programming.
  
  * Also worked on major freelance projects to create a world-wide competition for a major game property, as well as on Internet strategies with a well-known Hollywood studio.

• Director of Web Development

  Virgin Entertainment Group, Inc.

  (Privately Held; 5001-10,000 employees; Online Media industry)

  February 1999 — May 2002 (3 years 4 months)

  Acted as Evangelist, Director, Producer and Team Leader in designing and rolling out a variety of cutting-edge media
  
  services. Interfaced constantly with creative talent, 3rd party vendors, in-house assets and emerging technologists. Utilized expertise in MS IIS/ASP/SQL, Apache, Solaris, Oracle, Windows Streaming Media and many other mainframe and wireless technologies.
  
  * Recognized for innovation by Bill Gates at the Windows XP Time Square launch event, and by Sir Richard Bransen.
  
  * Successfully launched the company’s online presence, VirginMega.com, as well as the Internet radio station, Radio Free Virgin.
  
  * Introduced the high-profile Digital Preview System, which allowed consumers to review and evaluate over 2.5 million songs and 20,000 movie trailers.

• Interactive Media Producer

  Sega GameWorks

  (Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Entertainment industry)

  January 1996 — December 1998 (3 years)

  Specially recruited to design and produce prototypes for advanced telecom systems which provided gaming consumers opportunities to compete across remote locations. Prepared hybrid systems with voice, video and data capabilities for such strategic partners as GTE, Intel and Sega Enterprises.
  
  * Recognized by Steven Spielberg for creative use of emerging technologies.
  
  * Deployed a full production LBE implementation of the game platform, “Quake,” which pit 8 players in CA against 8 players in TX.; also rolled out “QuakeTV” for local game broadcast.
  
  * Also tasked with developing Intranet resources for this company which allowed consumer to connect in public spaces and communicate with open standards technologies.
  
  * Featured included a branded chat system, custom browser shell and intelligent agent recommendations.

• Director of Design

  20th Century Fox

  (Public Company; Entertainment industry)

  1994 — 1996 (2 years)

  Hired to spearhead the creation of an online venture, iGuide, which produced websites for high-profile TV shows, such as X-Files, Fox Sports and other Newscorp properties. Built and managed a cross-functional team of art directors, graphic artists and HTML developers.
  
  * Instrumental in the design of object-oriented user interfaces, as well as introduction of ecommerce, news and chat forums.

• Director of Design

  News Corp / 20th Century Fox / Delphi Internet Services

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Online Media industry)

  January 1994 — December 1996 (3 years)

  Designed and built the first commercial entertainment websites on the Internet, including X-Files.com, Fox Sports.com, FoxKids.com and FXNetworks.com.

• Fashion and Celebrity Photographer

  Freelance

  (Privately Held; Myself Only; Apparel & Fashion industry)

  January 1979 — December 1994 (16 years)

  Commercial Fashion and Celebrity photography. Clients included Vanity Fair (Italy), Max (Italy), Bunte (Germany), Burde (Germany), Detour Magazine, May Company, Robinson's, Macy's, Dillard's, Bonwit-Teller, Marshall-Field's, Bullock's, Bullock's Wilshire, BMG records, Paramount and Universal Studios.

Peter Duke’s Education

• University of California, Santa Barbara

  NA, Computer Science, 1974 — 1977

  Computer Science at the college of cretive studies.

Additional Information

Peter Duke’s Websites:

• My Website
• My Company

Peter Duke’s Groups:

Playground Media Group, AFI

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