Fabian Meier

Current

• Project Manager / Program Manager at Abrantix AG

Past

• Chief Technical Officer at Geneva Lab Corp. / G-Lab GmbH
• Senior Engineer at BridgeCo AG
• Senior Software Engineer at Verb Inc.

• Senior Software Engineer at Burst.com
• Member of Technical Staff (MTS) at Silicon Graphics, (SGI)

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Education

• Northwestern University
• Hochschule für Technik Rapperswil

Connections

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Industry

Computer Software

Fabian Meier’s Summary

Fabian Meier’s Specialties:

System architecture, digital audio, digital video, video compression, streaming, software development, project management, managing consumer electronics manufacturing in China,

Fabian Meier’s Experience

• Project Manager / Program Manager

  Abrantix AG

  (Computer Software industry)

  November 2008 — Present (9 months)

• Chief Technical Officer

  Geneva Lab Corp. / G-Lab GmbH

  (Consumer Electronics industry)

  January 2005 — June 2008 (3 years 6 months)

  G-Lab designs, manufactures and distributes (direct/retail) the Geneva Sound System under the Geneva Lab brand. The Geneva Sound System is a complete audio system: it consists of an iPod dock, Cd player, FM tuner, digital amplifier and a speaker system - all in one box. It has a very clean look and has a very high quality piano lacquered surface. The three models (Models M, L, XL) have different output power ratings and different physical sizes.
  
  Customers like the unique look (a Geneva Sound System looks more like an elegant furniture than a hifi system), and the studio quality sound.
  
  http://genevalab.com
  
  Products are sold in the US (since 2006) and Europe (since spring 2007).
  
  The Geneva Sound System had many reviews in magazins and newspapers such as: New York Times, Frankfurter Allgemeine, Wired Magazine, PC Magazine, Robb Report, Vanity Fair, Audio (Germany), Sound & Visions, and many more.
  Awards: Home Theatre Magazine, Rave Award 2007 for Model XL

• Senior Engineer

  BridgeCo AG

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

  November 2001 — December 2004 (3 years 2 months)

  BridgeCo AG, Dubendorf, Switzerland, is a Network System-on-a-chip seminconductor company.
  
  At BridgeCo I started the Digital Media Player (DMP) product line. The DMP is a hardware and software reference design that uses BridgeCo ASICs and BridgeCo software. The DMP streams audio over WLAN or LAN from a PC (Upnp etc). It can also play Internet radios without the help of a PC. I was responsible for the system architecture, system design and software development. a wireless audio player solution, .
  
  The DMP solution is used by companies such as SMC Networks, Linksys, Denon, Philips, TerraTec for their streaming audio products.

• Senior Software Engineer

  Verb Inc.

  (Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

  November 2000 — June 2001 (8 months)

  Context based search technology.

• Senior Software Engineer

  Burst.com

  (Computer Software industry)

  July 2000 — November 2000 (5 months)

  • Developed a module in the Burstware 3.0 that enabled to stream live broadcasts.
  • Improved the core streaming algorithm of Burstware, added measuring and visualizing functionality.
  
  Burst.com developed software for streaming of video and audio over the Internet (client and servers).

• Member of Technical Staff (MTS)

  Silicon Graphics, (SGI)

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Computer Hardware industry)

  September 1997 — June 2000 (2 years 10 months)

  • Planed and implemented verification strategy in an ASIC project for a HD video compression engine using M-JPEG, MPEG-2, DV. Designed a test data generation software, an automatic test case execution framework, an ASIC simulator in C and a web-based test-case database.
  • Developed tools to analyze, synthesize and manipulate compressed data, a visual comparison tool for images and a programmable test image generator. Optimized a DV software decoder so it could run in real-time on SGI workstations.
  • Improved the performance of a software DV codec so it could run in real-time on SGI workstations.
  
  Patents:
  - Patent US 6,614,942 – “Constant Bitrate Algorithm”, patent is now owned by Microsoft
  - Patent US 6,683,980 – “System and method for compressing data”, patent is now owned by Microsoft
  - Pending patent application – “Scaleable lossless image compression”, filed on 7/28/2000

Fabian Meier’s Education

• Northwestern University

  1997 — 1999

• Hochschule für Technik Rapperswil

  FH / B.S. , Electrical Engineering , 1990 — 1994

Additional Information

Fabian Meier’s Groups:

•    Ex-SGI

Fabian Meier’s Honors:

=== Patents ===:
- US Patent 6,614,942 – “Constant Bitrate Algorithm”, patent is now owned by Microsoft Corp., Redmont, WA (patent written while working at Silicon Graphics Inc.)
- US Patent 6,683,980 – “System and method for compressing data”, patent is now owned by Microsoft (patent written while working at Silicon Graphics Inc.)
- Pending US patent application – “Scaleable lossless image compression”, filed on 7/28/2000 (patent written while working at Silicon Graphics Inc.)

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