Edward Wosleger

Brooklyn · New York, 11213 · edw@vandelayinteractive.com

With 20 years of experience in development and a demonstrated track record in leading teams to successfully deliver high-quality front end applications. My extensive background with technologies such as Media Player Engineering, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Angular, React, and Node.js, tvOS, combined with my hands-on experience in developing scalable and well-documented code, makes me a vital asset to a team.

Experience

Senior Software Engineer (Front End)

Paramount Global

- Engineered reusable Angular components ingesting media & metadata for a custom media asset and metadata management system.
- Engineered UI tools to organize media files such as images, audio, and video for efficient discovery, retrieval, and usage.
- Created UI POC application utilizing ChatGPT services enabling media metadata creation, packaging and transformation for asset distribution.
- Integrated legacy CBS and Showtime media packaging and asset distributing APIs with Paramount distribution NgRx state management system.
- Added technical documentation to Confluence facilitating smoother on boarding and systems knowledge transfer.
- Worked within a GIT mono repo system.
- Adhered to verbose code review standards before branch integration.

March 2023 - Febuary 2024

Senior Software Engineer (Front-End)

CBS Networks

- Led team (4) front end developers responsible for all aspects of the Asset Distribution System's (ADS) front-end development, for the Showtime and CBS Broadcasting entities.
- Responsible for interviewing process of new front end staff or consultants.
- Successfully delivered Asset Distribution System 2.0, including more than 1500 features over 5+ years.
- Engineered product specs based on direct communication with product owners.
- Wire framed complex technical UI components aggregating and filtering large datasets for content management asynchronous and synchronous work, increasing efficiency by 12%.
- Utilized AWS ec2 Cloudwatch capabilities for deep dives and system error logs.
- Created proof of concept application prototypes utilizing React, AngularCLI, Vue framework.
- Maintained and added feature updates to broadcast operations media player.
- Led front end technical Agile story planning and delegating tasks to other front end developers.
- Led front end scums when scrum master was not available.
- Adhered to verbose GIT code review standards before branch integration.

March 2020 - March 2023

Senior Media Platform Engineer

Showtime Networks

- Created proof of concept media players testing emerging DRM systems (ex, Widevine HLS, & Playready).
- Designed light-weight AppleTV app (SWIFT) for NOC broadcast operations quality control of PPV live events utilizing Apple TestFlight for internal distribution.
- Developed front end media key decryption system for Showtime's first POC consuming Apple HLS media for the Asset Distribution System.
- Transitioned hybrid roles between media player engineering and AngularJS front end application engineering.
- Participated in front end technical Agile story planning.
- Adhered to verbose GIT code review standards before branch integration.

Sept 2015 - March 2020

Senior Apps Team Engineer

CBS Local (CBS Radio)

- Led initiative of reengineering the media player from Flash to HTML media.
- Implemented a 'best practices' culture for developers to maintain.
- Integrated OSMF to enhance media capabilities standardized code impementation.
- Integrated multiple players platforms to a single versatile custom agnostic framework.
- Designed an agnostic Javascript foundation platform with following capabilities: - Video data consumption via JSON services.
- Generic video event listening and response delegation (pub/sub pattern).
- Designed intelligent integration with various Ad platforms to increase Ad targeting capabilities thus increasing revenue.
- Implemented enhanced media fail over workflow.

July 2013 - September 2015

Senior Apps Team Engineer

CNBC

- Led the phase II development CNBC video player platform based on Akamai's Enterprise Player API.
- Responsible for creating technology design review documents to be presented to the Director Engineering for new initiatives.
- Collaborated with product owner to hash out phase iteration features.
- Collaborated with Engineering team regarding player specific services.
- Designed early player iterations of video on demand and live broadcast streams.
- Added Multi Bitrate (MBR/VBR) capabilities.
- Integrated Freewheel ad component capabilities for pre-roll and post-roll capabilities.
- Integrated Conviva analytics component.

March 2010 - July 2013

Education

Syracuse University of Colorado Boulder

Bachelor of Fine Arts
Design / Illustrations

Concentration: Computer Programming

August 1996 - May 1999

Skills

Programming Languages & Tools
  • Angular
  • HTML5
  • CSS3
  • Javascript
  • AWS
  • React
  • jquery
  • SASS
  • Bootstrap
  • Grunt
  • Gulp
  • node.js
  • npm
Workflow
  • Mobile-First, Responsive Design
  • Cross Browser Testing & Debugging
  • Cross Functional Teams
  • Agile Development & Scrum