About me

JP Casaubon

Software Engineering Executive

Accomplished engineering leader with an extensive track record of building and managing technology teams while conceptualizing, developing and delivering software products. Worked in executive roles (CEO, CTO, VP Engineering and VP Product) as well as senior consulting advisory positions in Cable, Satellite, Broadband, Interactive TV and SaaS companies, from bootstrapped and venture-backed start-ups to Fortune 100s.

Managed hyper growth, pivots and turn-arounds assessing and remediating organizational structure and solving complex engineering challenges, as well as implementing process and methodology, driving department efficiency and performance, reducing project lifecycle times and improving software product quality. Worked on 100+ different projects in a number countries including Europe, Asia, Mexico and the U.S.

Resume

Experience

  • January 2015 - Present

    DEMAND1, LLC

    Founder, CEO, CTO, Principal Consultant

    DEMAND1 provides custom software applications development and consulting services to wireless, digital cable, and broadband operators. We were engaged by the following clients to provide a variety of senior consulting services and help them conceive, design, build, deploy and manage products and projects for their customers:

    Sling TV: Head of Software Engineering overseeing ~50 developers building and maintaining Sling's primary web site, subscriber account management, billing and various other sub-systems deployed on an AWS, cloud-based infrastructure.

    Business One Consulting: BusinessOne's acting, Denver-based business development manager helping the company break into the Denver market and secure new local clients.

    billistic.com: Conceived, designed and architected Billistic's cloud-based, bill management and payment platform. Billistic is seeking funding to launch company.

    Spectralliance: Created design and architecture for Spectralliance's cloud-based, contact center SaaS, subscriber self-care platform for enterprise clients. Spectralliance is now building this platform.

    U.S. Cellular: Provided interim engineering leadership for back-filling post departure of engineering management staff.

    Comcast: Assessed operational efficiency of Comcast's advanced advertising platform making recommendations to increase performance and reduce manual effort required to double sales in two years.
  • February 2012 - December 2014

    Charter Communications

    Senior Director, Engineering

    Charter is the second-largest cable television operator in the U.S. providing a full range of advanced broadband services, including video, internet, and phone services to more than 20 million residential and business customers across the U.S.

    Headed the re-engineering of Charter's online email portal which provided mail services via various email clients, browser and mobile devices to Charter's subscribers.

    Delivered new features and maintenance fixes for the MyAccount portal from which Charter's subscribers could manage their services, view and pay their bills and more.
  • February 2010 - October 2011

    Canoe Ventures

    Vice President, Engineering

    Canoe Ventures is a joint venture of Comcast, Time Warner, Cox, Cablevision, Bright House, and Charter that provides dynamic ad insertion for Video on Demand to national programmers, including NBC Universal, History, Discovery, and AMC.

    In my first six months at Canoe I built a world-class team of 25 software engineers, then migrated development and operations from an outsource company to the in-house team while subsequently eliminating dozens of contractor positions, improving software quality and delivery times and saving Canoe more than $1 million annually.

    Delivered two of the largest and most significant programs in Canoe's history, DAI/VOD and OSS/BSS.

    Spearheaded migration from Waterfall to Agile/Scrum and Test Driven Development (TDD) to improve and accelerate the SDLC, software quality and shorten time to market by 300%

    Handpicked to assume leadership over a previously failing dynamic ad insertion (DAI/VOD) project; pioneered vision and spearheaded implementation of all project phases, subsequently meeting all milestones.

    Delivered thousands of discrete business requirements and played role in launching the system to Canoe's customers; the system processed 10 billion transactions in 2014 and 25 billion transactions in 2015.

    Integrated open source and commercial software and internally developed application software packages via RESTful APIs and ESB with 99.99% uptime to clients.

    Implemented continuous build, integration, and deployment; oversaw integration of tools, frameworks, and platforms as well as instituted SDLC processes, policies, and procedures across the enterprise.

    Directed team through development of Canoe's enterprise architecture and coordinated the delivery of system components in a phased delivery approach, from development through implementation.
  • January 1997 - January 2010

    DEMAND1, LLC

    Founder, CEO, CTO, Principal Consultant

    Founded this Denver-based software engineering firm that develops and distributes B2B interactive video applications, including retail and ad-sales solutions for the digital television market. Led teams to create a suite of Video on Demand and content distribution products and services to meet my customers’ needs. Additionally, I provided a variety of senior consulting services helping my clients conceive, design, build and deploy products for their customers. Some of the larger clients DEMAND1 provided products and services to include:
    Arris
    Ascent Media
    AT&T Broadband
    BestBuy Canada
    Bresnan
    Bright House Networks
    CableData
    C-COR
    Charter Ad Sales
    Comcast
    CTAM
    Echostar
    FutureShop Retail Stores Canada
    Mediacom
    Mentis Broadband
    Myrio Corporation
    NBC-Universal
    Nokia Siemens Networks
    OnMedia Ad Sales
    On Command
    Playboy TV
    Rogers Communications
    Shaw Cable
    Starz
    Time Warner Cable
    United Artists' Entertainment
    United Cable Television
    WildBlue Communications
    And several dozen smaller companies...
  • May 1994 - January 1997

    The i1 Television Network

    Vice President, Product and Software Engineering

    The i1 Network was an interactive television provider that built, deployed and operated dozens of interactive, multi-player game products for several hundred thousand cable subscribers across the continental U.S. and Hawaii. Products included game shows, gambling, word games and several other genres.

    Recruited, staffed and managed a team of contract and full-time software engineers.

    Administered budgets, managed external vendors and contracts

    Deployed i1’s products in multiple trial markets in the continental US and Hawaii.

    Created more than a dozen games and entertainment titles that ran on i1's network.

    Created all infrastructure systems including interactive content delivery, customer care, billing and media-based content creation tools used to deliver interactive television products to more than 300,000 customers in several U.S. markets.

    Managed development of digital video systems, independent speaker recognition systems and interactive voice response systems, collectively used to create interactive game infrastructure and applications.

Education

  • Graduated in May of 1999

    Regus University

    Bachelor of Science, Computer Information Systems

    Computer Science & Engineering
    Completed a Bachelor or Science from Regus University with a major in Computer Information Systems and a minor in International Business. Achieved a 3.75 G.P.A., graduating Cum Laude while working full time and supporting my family.

Patents

While working on contract for Starz Entertainment, I conceived and defined dozens of concepts relating to Video On Demand. Starz purued patent protection and was eventually granted the following two patents:

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