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Kellie McKeown has been a consultant to the television broadcast industry since April 1998. Her clients include AT&T Broadband, NDS, and Sony.
Ms. McKeown is currently involved in the development of a video router management software system for AT&T Broadband (now Comcast). Her responsibilities include participation in defining the operational features and functions of the software application, user interface definition and design, ensuring that the software application can be used to its fullest capability by system operators, critiquing the application as it is developed to verify that all requirements are met and that the system architecture is robust enough to support stable system operations, as well as oversight/evaluation of the management of the software development effort.
Ms. McKeown has conducted market research for clients of Multimedia Research Group (MRG), including an assessment of television set-top box middleware vendors for Microsoft and definition of the worldwide market for digital television signal demodulator chips for Oren Semiconductor. Also for MRG, Ms. McKeown coordinated and moderated a panel discussion on Digital Rights Management at the Storage Visions conference in Las Vegas in January 2003, just prior to the Consumer Electronics Show (CES).
In the summer/fall of 2002, Ms. McKeown assisted Sony with the development of a proposal and presentation to the NFL (National Football League) for analog to digital conversion of their game analysis video acquisition, distribution and storage systems and processes. In this capacity, Ms. McKeown initiated and coordinated the Sony interaction with the NFL, documented the video requirements for the League, and participated in the development and presentation of a proposal to the NFL for a near term and long term video strategy for the League. The presentation was very successful resulting in the NFL contracting with Sony for their new digital video format.
From September 1999 through July 2001, Ms. McKeown was a representative to the TV-Anytime Forum for NDS. The TV-Anytime Forum (www.tv-anytime.org) is an international ad hoc standards organization of over 100 corporations, which is developing open specifications for Personal Video Recorders and related A/V and data services. Ms. McKeown was the editor for the Business Models Group which defines benchmark applications and features to be enabled by the TV-Anytime specifications. She was responsible for all of the operations management of the TV-Anytime Forum from September 1999 through March 2001, and was responsible for the TV-Anytime Forum exhibits at NAB and IBC in 2000, 2001 and 2003.
NDS also engaged Ms. McKeown to assist with the NTSC to ATSC conversion of terrestrial broadcast stations and cable broadcast operations. Her role was to define operational requirements and facilitate the implementation of key software interfaces involving traffic/scheduling systems as well as transmission systems. She surveyed many television stations and cable operators throughout the US, meeting with engineering, programming, traffic, and operations managers to ensure that software systems meet their requirements. She also worked with traffic, automation, and compression system vendors as part of this effort.
In addition to the TV-Anytime Forum, Ms. McKeown has participated in other committees within the broadcast industry, including ATSC T3/S8 (Specialist Group on Transport Systems) which defines the ATSC transport stream standards. From May 1999 to July 2001, she was a member of the SMPTE/ATSC Content Identification Ad Hoc Committee which is defining an identifier (called the V-ISAN) to uniquely identify all broadcast content. She also participated in all ATSC WHD Model Station meetings and activities during 1999.
Prior to her consulting work, Ms. McKeown was a software project manager in the broadcast industry. Her past responsibilities include Software Program Manager for Sony for American Sky Broadcasting (ASkyB), Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation entry into the US direct-to-home satellite television market, and for DIRECTV Latin America, a Hughes Communications direct-to-home satellite television service for Latin America. Ms. McKeown has a proven track record for developing, installing, and integrating systems for large multi-channel broadcast facilities. She had full responsibility for forming the project teams; managing budget and schedule; defining customer requirements; defining interfaces with other vendors; and installing, integrating, and testing Sony-supplied system software.
Prior to distinguishing herself in television-related endeavors, Ms. McKeown was a NASA project manager for 14 years. At NASA, Ms. McKeown had full responsibility for all aspects of the $120M Space Station Gravitational Biology Facility space flight hardware development project, which she grew from inception to an annual budget of $18M and a staff of 90. Ms. McKeown was also Deputy Manager for the Space Station Biological Research Facility Project where she participated in all aspects of this 10 year, $600M project. While at NASA, Ms. McKeown was a primary interface with the European and Japanese space agencies.
Ms. McKeown brings her skills and experience developed over 21 years of managing small ($1-5M), medium ($120M), and large ($600M) projects in advanced-technology applications, working with customers and vendors both domestically and internationally. One of her primary strengths is her unique ability to determine what needs to be done, and do it. She is focused, organized, and dedicated to achieving success. She possesses outstanding interpersonal skills, and excels at pinpointing and resolving issues.
Ms. McKeown is a graduate of Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University with a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science.
We invite you to contact us to discuss how we might be of assistance to you. For additional information or to request a proposal, you may email us or telephone us in the United States at + 508-359-0176.
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