Rob DeMillo

Past

Chief Technology Officer / Co-Founder at Transpera
Chief Technology Officer at Third Screen Media
Vice President - Engineering at VeriSign, Inc. (Formerly m-Qube, Inc.)

Founder & CTO at MediaRush, Inc
VP of Engineering at Art Technology Group
Senior Director of Product Development at SynaPix, Inc.
Senior Technical Lead & Architect at Advanced Visual Systems
Director & Research Engineer/Analyst at Federal Aviation Administration / MIT - Lincoln Laboratory
Project Lead/Research Engineer/Analyst at Jet Propulsion Laboratory / Planetary Science Group, Brown University
grad student at University of Wisconsin

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Education

University of Wisconsin-Madison
University of Wisconsin-Madison

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Rob DeMillo’s Summary

o Expert level understanding of technology at both the engineering and architectural levels, and with a market place and positioning level on the business side.
o EVP & Chief Technology Officer with substantial experience in internet, media, mobile, wireless, advertising, enterprise and graphics spaces.
o Expert level start-up experience, successfully constructing business plans, fund raising, team building, devising product concepts.
o Demonstrated experience as VP of Product Development - building teams to build product, targeting product designs, etc.

Rob DeMillo’s Specialties:

C LEVEL EXEC: product development organization building, competitive analysis, architecture and design, M&A activities, fund raising, staffing, audit level management and negotiations, market conditions and trend prediction, advertising networks & ecosystems, gov. liaison

TECH LEVEL: arch & system design,
media technologies, wireless and mobile technologies, algorithm design, ad platform tech, networking
technologies, rich media, LBS, enterprise technologies, dozens of computer languages.

Rob DeMillo’s Experience

Chief Technology Officer / Co-Founder

Transpera

(Privately Held; Wireless industry)

August 2007 — November 2009 (2 years 4 months)

Transpera provides easy ways to powerfully compliment existing online video and mobile video services with experiences and features that consumers will watch, re-use, and share, all wrapped in a mobile advertising environment which rivals online video experiences. The Transpera platform ingests, transcodes and delivers video from online publishers to mobile environments, and provides a comprehensive ad platform to allow our ad parnters to create, manage and control campaigns (banner, video, text) across our network.
Chief Technology Officer

Third Screen Media

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

October 2006 — May 2007 (8 months)

Third Screen Media (TSM) is a mobile advertising company which is instrumental in defining a new market space: ad supported content delivery (text, audio, video, WAP decks) to mobile phones. TSM was sold for an undisclosed amount to AOL in May of 2007.
Vice President - Engineering

VeriSign, Inc. (Formerly m-Qube, Inc.)

(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; VRSN; Wireless industry)

December 2004 — October 2006 (1 year 11 months)

m-Qube was founded in 2001 to facilitate data communications and marketing channels between North American cell phone carriers. Successfully re-aligned the engineering organization, and grew it from 11 to 80. Created organizations for handling program management, documentation and company-wide quality assurance.

After m-Qube was acquired by VeriSign, Inc in early 2006, I was placed in charge of engineering (VP of Engineering) for VeriSign’s VCS Division (VeriSign Content Services), the mobile arm of VeriSign. At its peak, VCS Engineering had 638 persons in 5 countries.
Founder & CTO

MediaRush, Inc

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)

February 2003 — December 2004 (1 year 11 months)

MediaRush was founded in 2003 to create an in-home,
scalable platform to maintain, manage, distribute and
report on media entities within the home environment.
Closed in Q4 2004 due to changing industry environments.
VP of Engineering

Art Technology Group

(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; ARTG; Computer Software industry)

August 1999 — September 2002 (3 years 2 months)
Senior Director of Product Development

SynaPix, Inc.

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

June 1997 — September 1999 (2 years 4 months)
Senior Technical Lead & Architect

Advanced Visual Systems

(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

November 1995 — June 1997 (1 year 8 months)
Director & Research Engineer/Analyst

Federal Aviation Administration / MIT - Lincoln Laboratory

(Government Agency; 5001-10,000 employees; Computer Software industry)

April 1989 — November 1995 (6 years 8 months)
Project Lead/Research Engineer/Analyst

Jet Propulsion Laboratory / Planetary Science Group, Brown University

(Government Agency; 5001-10,000 employees; Computer Software industry)

November 1984 — April 1989 (4 years 6 months)
grad student

University of Wisconsin

(Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Higher Education industry)

1982 — 1984 (2 years )