Senior Product Manager at PacketVideo
Greater San Diego Area
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- Senior Product Manager at PacketVideo
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- Director of Consumer Direct & Professional Desktop Product Marketing at Gateway
- Senior Product Manager at Gateway
- Senior Product Manager at Cantametrix
- Director of Product Development at Liquid Audio
- Market Manager at Avid Technology/digidesign
- Education
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- University of Nebraska-Lincoln
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Rick Schwartz’s Summary
Energetic product manager with over ten years experience launching successful products and services. With a proven ability to quickly develop concepts into successful products. Excellent writing, communication and organizational skills.
Rick Schwartz’s Experience
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Senior Product Manager
PacketVideo
(Public Company; WAVE; Computer Software industry)
October 2007 — Present (1 year 10 months)
Packet Video was the first company to play video on a cell phone back in 1998. Our software is embedded on more than 300 million mobile devices including all Android phones.
- Brought the first DLNA-complaint media manager software to market. Since January, TwonkyMedia manager has been downloaded more than 100,000 times and won a 2009 CES Innovations Award.
- Worked with Program Managemenet to reduce the development cycle for consumer software from almost a year to only 3 months.
- Authored several patent submissions -- including one for a mobile media manager
- Wrote an industry-first DLNA Best Practices document, which is proving to be popular on the Web
- Played a major role in the creation of the “Works with TwonkyMedia” testing and certification program.
- Responsible for the creation of numerous product requirement, use case, product description, sales training and other product marketing documents.
- Logged more than 700 tickets in our JIRA bug tracking system
- Wrote over one hundred pages of technical documentation for TwonkyMedia manager (User’s Guide, Product Help, Installation Guide and Release Notes)
- Wrote a fifty page technical support guide and FAQ that is used by our CS&S team.
- Administrator of the TwonkyMedia Manager Product Forum -
Director of Consumer Direct & Professional Desktop Product Marketing
Gateway
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; GWY; Computer Hardware industry)
May 2004 — October 2007 (3 years 6 months)
Responsible for the pricing & configuration of all Gateway Consumer Direct & Professional desktops. Gateway is #3 in sales and the fastest growing PC company in the U.S. according to IDC.
Made changes to our most popular line of desktops that resulted in a month over month unit growth of 86% and margin dollar growth of 115%.
Responsible for dramatic product line simplification that resulted in a 57% reduction in the number of desktops, improved customer experience and significant operational savings.
Helped successfully launch more than 150 desktop PCs. Worked closely with our Supply Planning group to achieve some of the cleanest product transitions in the history of the company.
Provided Gateway executives and the Direct Business Unit with a detailed weekly competitive analysis -
Senior Product Manager
Gateway
(Privately Held; Computer Hardware industry)
August 2001 — June 2004 (2 years 11 months)
Managed an award-winning line of Gateway-branded digital cameras and helped Gateway become the fastest growing brand of digital cameras in the U.S. and 13th largest CE retailer with $2.1B in sales.
Helped the Digital Solutions group achieve year-over-year revenue growth of 269% and produce almost $100M in revenue in a single quarter.
Launched more than a hundred unique products and services – including Gateway Digital Cameras, Gateway's MP3 Jukebox, the Gateway Rhapsody Music Service and Gateway Music Vault – an innovative, industry-first program that preloaded thousands of songs on every Gateway PC.
Made changes to Gateway’s line of gaming PCs that resulted in a 120% increase in sales. Represented Gateway on all Consumer Desktop and gaming-related media coverage. -
Senior Product Manager
Cantametrix
(Computer Software industry)
December 2000 — August 2001 (9 months)
Cantametrix was a pioneer in audio fingerprinting and music recognition technologies. Although they ran out of money shortly after the .com crash, the technology we created was acquired by Gracenote and lives on today in many products including Apple's iTunes where it's used for their Genius playlists.
- Worked with the worlds’ largest music publisher to create a system for tracking and enforcement of music licenses. As a result of this work, Cantametrix was a selected as a technology provider by both EMI Publishing and EMI Records.
- Managed the launch of Cantametrix’s million song fingerprint database.
- Key contributor to the RIAA’s RFI for audio fingerprinting technologies.
- Managed Gracenote technical due diligence of Cantametrix technologies that resulted in a signed contract (and later acquisition) between the two companies.
- Responsible for creation of all product requirement documents for the MusicDNA Client, Cantametrix SDK and Cantametrix Data Interchange. -
Director of Product Development
Liquid Audio
(Public Company; LQID; Computer Software industry)
June 1996 — December 2000 (4 years 7 months)
Designed and helped create product and technology demonstrations that helped the company raise more than $200M in financing and go public on the NASDAQ exchange.
Served as program manager of the team that launched commercial digital music downloads for BMG, EMI and Warner Bros. Records.
Responsible for the creation of detailed market requirement documents for the first four major releases of the Liquid Music Player and Liquifier authoring software. Managed the entire product life cycle for many of Liquid Audio’s most successful products.
Supported our Sales group by creating an Intranet site containing product demos, FAQs, White Papers, product literature and competitive summaries.
Worked closely with corporate marketing to develop key product positioning, packaging, data sheets and other marketing materials. -
Market Manager
Avid Technology/digidesign
(Public Company; AVID; Computer Software industry)
February 1993 — June 1996 (3 years 5 months)
Helped establish Avid’s audio and video editing systems as the standard for both film and television post production. Product manager of AudioVision which was the first digital audio workstation with integrated digital video playback, ADR recording and compatibility with the Avid Media Composer. Helped place Avid audio products in top Hollywood post- production facilities including 20th Century Fox, ABC, NBC, Disney, Lucasfilm, Sony Pictures and Universal.
Managed all Avid West Coast Application Editors and the AudioVision Assistant Product Manager. Market Manager for all Digidesign post-production products (AudioVision, Post Conform, USD and Post View).
Responsible for the creation of all AudioVision product requirement documents, business plans and product collateral. Key presenter at trade shows and company-wide sales events.
Rick Schwartz’s Education
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University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Electrical Engineering
Additional Information
Rick Schwartz’s Honors:
- CES 2009 Design Showcase Inoovations Award
- Best Windows Home Server Software Award - We Got Served
- PC Magazine Editors' Choice Award Gateway FX510XT (Sept. 2006)
- [H]ardOCP Editors' Choice Silver Award – Gateway DX310X (Sept. 2006)
- PC Magazine – Editors’ Choice – Gateway Profile 6SB (August 2006)
- Consumer Reports' Windows Workhorse – Gateway FX510X 87/100 rating (June 2006)
- PC World – Best Buy Award – Gateway 5200XL (March 2005)
- PC World – Best Buy Award – Gateway 510XL (Sept. 2004)
- Computer Gaming World – Editors’ Choice Gateway 710G (June 2004)
- Electronic Musician – Editors Choice – Liquid Audio Liquifier (1998)
- EQ Blue Ribbon Award – Liquid Audio Liquifier (1997)
- Mix Magazine – TEC Award Nominee for Liquifier (1997)
- Mix Magazine – TEC Award Winner for AudioVision (1996)
- Telly Award – Music Engineering – Digital Discovery Series (1998)
- MPSE – Motion Picture Sound Editor
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