Robin Rowe

Current

Managing Editor at Hollywood Today
Executive Director at ScreenPlayLab
Contributing Editor at Motion Picture Editors Guild

Project Leader at CinePaint
Contributing Editor at Linux Journal
Creative Technologist at MovieEditor.com

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Past

Executive Producer at COMEDY WALK
Executive Producer and CTO at Comic Strip Network
Research & Development at Asempra Technologies

Research & Development at DreamWorks Animation
Research & Development at BBC
Chief Technologist and Enterprise Manager at SAIC
Research Scientist at Naval Postgraduate School

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Robin Rowe’s Summary

Robin Rowe started his career as an NBC-TV technical director of broadcast news. From there he went to NBC WMAQ-TV Chicago where he built the most robotic TV studios in the world. After many years as a software developer and corporate trainer, he was invited to join the University of Washington as a C++ instructor.

Next, Rowe became an employee of the navy as a professor and research scientist at the Naval Postgraduate School. That led to becoming chief technologist and enterprise manager at a Fortune 500 defense company. While there he created a video editing system sold into more than 100 TV stations. He also sailed on an aircraft carrier to test at sea monitoring systems he'd developed for military analysts.

Rowe founded MovieEditor.com in 1999. For the last ten years he's provided technology and management services to companies such as DreamWorks and the BBC. He speaks as a technology expert at conferences in the U.S. and abroad. He writes for many publications.

1,100+ LinkedIn connections.

Robin Rowe’s Specialties:

Management, production, development, Linux, C++, Java, Perl, journalism, research and development, television, filmmaking, screenwriting, editing, finance, budgets, presentations

Robin Rowe’s Experience

Managing Editor

Hollywood Today

(Entertainment industry)

September 2007 — Present (2 years 3 months)

Daily news with a celebrity twist.
Executive Director

ScreenPlayLab

(Entertainment industry)

May 2005 — Present (4 years 7 months)

ScreenPlayLab is a 2,600-member Hollywood industry association that nurtures upbeat commercial studio films and network television. Its members include screenwriters, actors, producers, executives, directors, agents, managers, and composers. Events include VIP speakers, mixers, screenings and workshops.
Contributing Editor

Motion Picture Editors Guild

(Non-Profit; 10,001 or more employees; Entertainment industry)

March 2005 — Present (4 years 9 months)

Write stories about how major motion pictures, e.g., www.editorsguild.com/v2/magazine/archives/1107/cover_story.htm
Project Leader

CinePaint

(Computer Software industry)

July 2002 — Present (7 years 5 months)

CinePaint is a free open source deep paint app used in the film industry and by professional photographers.
Contributing Editor

Linux Journal

(Publishing industry)

February 2001 — Present (8 years 10 months)

Write stories about Linux in the motion picture industry, e.g., www.linuxjournal.com/article/9951
Creative Technologist

MovieEditor.com

(Entertainment industry)

November 1999 — Present (10 years 1 month)

Motion picture, Internet and mobile technology development. Writing, producing and editing.
Executive Producer

COMEDY WALK

(Entertainment industry)

December 2007 — December 2008 (1 year 1 month)

COMEDY WALK presents two dozen comedians on six stages performing in six simultaneous 90-minute shows. Comedians from comedy clubs, TV or film.
Executive Producer and CTO

Comic Strip Network

(Entertainment industry)

May 2006 — October 2007 (1 year 6 months)

Created WAP and J2ME Java apps for phones and delivered daily comic strips over AT&T, Sprint and T-Mobile networks. Created pipeline to re-format newspaper comic strips to serve to mobile phones using Perl and Apache.
Research & Development

Asempra Technologies

(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

October 2004 — December 2004 (3 months)

Development of low latency SQL Server backup software.
Research & Development

DreamWorks Animation

(Public Company; DWA; Animation industry)

April 2003 — October 2003 (7 months)

Image format conversion, renderfarm, and film color development.
Research & Development

BBC

(Public Company; BBC; Broadcast Media industry)

October 2000 — June 2001 (9 months)

Develop digital map viewer with aerial photograph fly-over display.
Chief Technologist and Enterprise Manager

SAIC

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; SAI; Information Technology and Services industry)

August 1996 — August 1999 (3 years 1 month)

Invent video technologies for defense and commercial clients.
Research Scientist

Naval Postgraduate School

(Government Agency; 1001-5000 employees; Higher Education industry)

June 1995 — July 1996 (1 year 2 months)

Created night vision simulator on Sparc20, added realistic virtual weather to virtual reality war gaming system (first-person shooter game) on SGI Irix, created integrator and solver for system of Gaussian equations for mathematical model of vision at cellular level.

Additional Information

Robin Rowe’s Interests:

Technology, finance, green/organic, cooking, travel, dance

Robin Rowe’s Groups:

Co-founder ScreenPlayLab, a Hollywood industry association.
Founder LinuxMovies.org, a Hollywood studio Linux association.
Project leader for CinePaint, open source software used to make the Harry Potter films.