Jim McNeill
Verified Expert in Product Management
Product Manager
Fountain Hills, AZ, United States
Toptal member since July 8, 2021
Jim is an experienced product manager and streaming media veteran with a wide variety of industry exposure. He delivered a cradle-to-launch service and content management system (CMS) for live content protection utilized by major broadcast networks such as Sky, NBCU, CBS, and Showtime. Jim is comfortable with agile practices and taking feedback from Fortune 500 customers, broadcasters, and major social media platforms and translating that into roadmaps for development.
Project Highlights
Expertise
- Adobe CC
- Agile
- Agile Product Management
- Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO)
- Jira
- Slack
- Video Livestreaming
- Video Streaming
Work Experience
Senior Product Manager - Partner Integrations
Socialive
- Facilitated partner integrations with this cloud-based video production platform. Integrations include LinkedIn, YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter, among others.
- Provided documentation and review of third-party APIs and requirements. Defined and wrote integrations with Google Drive, DropBox, Frame.io, Kaltura, OneDrive and SharePoint.
- Provided input from partners concerning feature requests and accelerated development as required.
Senior Product Manager - Video
Limelight Networks
- Launched Realtime Streaming (RTS), a sub-second WebRTC-based worldwide video delivery service with a pipeline of $500,000+ in the first quarter of launch.
- Managed feature requirements remotely, MVP definition, roadmap, and cross-functional team execution across a dispersed team with engineers in the US and UK and a QA team in Ukraine.
- Trained sales teams in North America, EMEA, and APAC regions. Created online demos participated in industry events, key customer calls, and technical reviews.
Senior Product Manager
Audible Magic Corp
- Introduced Agile processes and Jira. Managed scrum meetings, backlogs, and tasking. The company provides products and services used by major platforms to protect major music and media rights owners' content online.
- Produced product roadmaps and pricing strategies in conjunction with business development and sales.
- Interfaced with both platform customers and major broadcast content providers to gather requirements, demonstrate wireframes, and training on final product release.
- Launched AMLive™ product for real-time copyright monitoring of live streams on user-generated content platforms, including Twitter and Periscope. Involved in all aspects of the product from concept to launch in AWS and product evangelization.
Product Manager
Qumu
- Product managed Qumu Capture Studio (QCS) and third-party encoding and transcoding solutions including (AWS) Elemental, and Telestream. Responsible for encoding and transcoding solutions, foreign language support, reporting, and digital signage.
- Defined product roadmap and coordinated with partner development teams to ensure product success.
- Reviewed and approved product documentation, coordinate QA testing for interoperability with Qumu core products and review third-party QA procedures to confirm quality standards were met.
- Interfaced with customer support and directly with customers as necessary to resolve technical issues and gather and disseminate customer needs and feature requests.
- Provided internal training on product lines to sales, sales engineering, customer support and quality assurance through hands-on meetings and web-based video seminars.
- Designed and created product labeling, bezels, sales and marketing collateral, presentation tools, and demonstrations.
- Provided hands-on product presentations and demonstrations to key customer accounts.
- Coordinated build-out of in-house webcast production studio and served as studio manager for all internally produced live and on-demand webcast productions.
Project History
Limelight Realtime Streaming 2.0
Responsible for the second generation global roll-out of Limelight Realtime Streaming (RTS).
Provided sales and sales engineering training to a globally distributed team in North America, EMEA, and APAC. Participated in industry webinars for marketing.
Worked closely with marketing to define industry verticals review collateral and documentation.
AMLive Content Protection Service
https://www.audiblemagic.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/AMLive-Datasheet.pdfCradle to launch of a live content protection service for Audible Magic customer Twitter.
Created Balsamiq interactive wireframes and presented them to broadcasters for feedback. Trained broadcast users on final UI and best practices.
Worked closely with the development team to define the service architecture in Amazon AWS and with the UI/UX team to create a live scheduling CMS for handling live feeds.
Worked with broadcasters on a per-event basis to address any issues during events during initial roll-out.
Education
Bachelor's Degree in International Relations
University of Southern California - Los Angeles, California, USA
Certifications
Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO)
Scrum Alliance
Skills
Tools
Jira, Slack, Google Workspace, Office 365, Confluence, Balsamiq Mockups, Balsamiq, Postman
Paradigms
Agile, Agile Product Management, Scrum
Other
Video Livestreaming, Video Streaming, Adobe CC, Video Capture, Requirements, Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO), Product Management, Copyright, Feature Backlog Prioritization, Digital Production, Project Management, Go-to-market Plans, Marketing Strategy, Sales Enablement, International Affairs, Economics, Sales Training, Presales, Product Requirements Documentation (PRD), User Requirements, Web UI, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Product Owner, APIs, SaaS Product Marketing, Product Marketing, Market Strategy and Research Product Manager, Minimum Viable Product (MVP), Web & Mobile Applications
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