Steven Allen

Current

• Director at Joost Technologies

Past

• Manger/Project Manger for Digital Media Strategy at Nordisk Film A/S
• Director/Owner at Multi-M Production
• Technical Manager at Angel DVD

• Project Manager at Oslo Kommune
• Director/Owner at S.J.A. Akustikk

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Steven Allen’s Experience

• Director

  Joost Technologies

  (Privately Held; Entertainment industry)

  June 2006 — Present (2 years 2 months)

  Responsibilities include:
  * Archive and transcoding technology, process, systems & operations
  * Video R & D team management
  * Business support team management
  * End user support team management
  * Project management

• Manger/Project Manger for Digital Media Strategy

  Nordisk Film A/S

  (Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Motion Pictures and Film industry)

  May 2004 — July 2006 (2 years 3 months)

  Developed new digital media business strategies for Nordisk Film.
  Part of team that designed, developed & implemented Denmark's first Film/TV video on demand joint venture, TV2 Sputnik.
  Defined & set up NF's pan Nordic Digital Media Department
  * Archiving process/systems for storage/retrieval of HD video assets
  * HD/SD DVD authoring, preproduction & mastering
  * Motion graphics/3D
  * Surround sound audio mastering & transfer services
  Point person for NF in World wide HD DVD alliance, in the development of tools for HD DVD & BluRay.
  Managed & built 3rd party business alliances. Adobe systems, HP, Cineform, Sonic Solutions to name a few.

• Director/Owner

  Multi-M Production

  (Motion Pictures and Film industry)

  January 1997 — May 2006 (9 years 5 months)

  Acoustic Design & Audio Mastering
  Surround sound creation & mixing
  * Audio Mastering
  * Audio restoration
  Acoustic design, studio design/construction.
  * Examples: Stype audio Oslo, Endless studio Oslo, MMI studio Copenhagen, Gronelukke Lufthavn Oslo.
  A/V equipment sales
  Computer sales & related services
  DVD authoring & DVD master production
  * Motion graphic design
  * Audio creation
  * Programming & QA
  Personal Motivation Coach
  * Work/life optimization
  * Life goal planning & advice

• Technical Manager

  Angel DVD

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Motion Pictures and Film industry)

  June 2000 — May 2004 (4 years)

  Head of DVD authoring & technology strategy/development.
  Project planning, development & negotiations.
  Responsible for future technology development at Angel.
  A/V educator, teaching of audio master & video editing skills & techniques.
  Achievements
  Co-operated on Denmark’s first commercial VOD project together with DBNet, Bibnet & DFI DBNet.
  Beta tester for Sonic Solutions Scenarist Software.
  Beta tester for DVD Studio Extra game/DVD software.

• Project Manager

  Oslo Kommune

  (Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Architecture & Planning industry)

  January 1994 — December 1996 (3 years)

  Project manager under the design & construction phase of a local culture center.
  Created the acoustic/architectural design for the facilities practice rooms & managed the project in close co-operation with local authorities.

• Director/Owner

  S.J.A. Akustikk

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Architecture & Planning industry)

  June 1994 — December 1996 (2 years 7 months)

  Acoustic design, system design, studio design, studio, construction & audio mastering.
  Studio examples; Strype Audio Mastering Studio 2, Skippergata Oslo
  Endless Sound Production; Gronland Oslo.

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•    StreetTech member
•    eOffice member
•    Executive Suite member
•    P2P Insiders member
•    LInked Business Strategists member
•    TEN - Top Executives Net member
•    Plaxo.com member
•    MyLink500 member
•    Agile Alliance member
•    Internet Technology Hub member
•    Leadership Think Tank member
•    Renewable Energy Network member
•    OpenID Community Group member
•    iptv member
•    TopLinked.com member
•    Speakers and Panelists member
•    Leading International Open Networkers (LION) member
•    Friends of Australia member
•    Friends of Japan / Nippon no Yuujin member
•    GroupLinked.com member
•    e-Scension.com member
•    Scrum Practitioners member
•    The Next Web Conference & Blog member
•    CenterNetworks Business Links member
•    Radio & Television Professionals Network member
•    Green member
•    Tweeple member

Steven Allen’s Honors:

Award from The Danish eBusiness Association on past project - TV2 Spuntik Film http://www.ehandelsprisen.dk/ehandel06/2006/#5
2005 Encoded, designed, handcoded Nordens first HD DVD (WMV) with Norwegian film Naboer
2005 Produced Europes first HD VOD with surround sound for Sputnik Film VOD service. Streamed perfectly on a 4 Mbit internet connection

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