Steven Allen

Steven Allen

Technology Executive - Director at Joost

The Hague Area, Netherlands

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 2006Present (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 2004July 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 1997May 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 2000May 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 1994December 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 1994December 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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