NanoTech Appoints Blake Brown Lead Technical Developer for its Global Media Business:
Award-winning, Multiple Video-related Patent Holder to Focus on Porting UltraFlix 4K OTT Video Service to Major 4K TV Brands and Upcoming 4K Smartphones in Addition to Providing Nuvola 4K OTT Streaming Media Player Support for Cable TV Companies
Brown holds numerous patents with Sony, Avistar, Futuretel, Emuzed and Hitachi for software development related to compression, storage, streaming, networking and 3D. While manager and senior software engineer at Pinnacle Systems, he was a primary contributor on a compression-related Technical Emmy and a significant contributor on a small team for a second Technical Emmy. Brown’s previous experience also includes software development for Amazon, DirectTV and Sonic Solutions. Brown has a B.S. in Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois and an M.B.A. in Management/Finance from Santa Clara University.
In his new role, Brown will focus on porting NanoTech’s UltraFlix 4K streaming video distribution service to several major 4K TV brands as well as the emerging 4K-capable smartphones. He will also provide support for several strategic Nuvola Multiple System Operator (MSO)/cable TV company customers.
This team will also be working with the Nuvola team to create second screen add-on apps for the Nuvola product line allowing people to use their mobile phone and tablets to interact with the Nuvola products.