Broadspan / CAST.ERA / EdgeBeam Wireless
Broadcasters held valuable nationwide spectrum and infrastructure but no practical way to turn it into a commercial data-delivery business. Doing so required a platform capable of coordinating cloud services, broadcast networks, broadband systems, customer applications, and edge devices — a system with no established industry precedent.
Joined Sinclair Broadcast Group as Principal Product & Technical Architect to define the platform, then moved into the Global CTO role at CAST.ERA as the initiative became a standalone commercial platform.
Defined the product architecture, service boundaries, APIs, integration patterns, and deployment model for a cloud-native, distributed datacasting platform. Led the engineering organization through architecture, build, and commercial rollout, and represented the platform in industry forums, including a technical paper presented at NAB 2024.
Coordinating a system spanning cloud, broadcast, broadband, and edge-device domains, with cross-functional and multi-vendor engineering teams across the U.S. and Asia — building an architecture with no direct precedent to draw from.
Platform adoption expanded across 30+ U.S. markets. The work contributed to the formation of EdgeBeam Wireless, an independently backed broadcast-spectrum data company.