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Phil Smith's Resume

Bainbridge Island, WA


philstech@gmail.com linkedin.com/in/philstech github.com/philism

Skills

  • Swift
  • SwiftUI
  • Obj-C
  • CoreML
  • NLP
  • Node.js
  • Ruby
  • Java

Experience

Apple Inc.

Engineer Manager in AI/ML from 2021 until 2023

Responsible for managing a team of engineers responsible for the execution pipeline of on-device machine learning for Siri and Dictation features in support of ASR speech profile generation and Natural Language Understanding.



Fox Broadcasting Company

Vice President of Architecture from 2017 until 2021

Led backend engineering teams, client application integration, and solution architecture for the overall user experience on Fox Broadcasting and Fox Sports media properties. Directly responsible for the quality, scalability, reliability and, observability of a distributed set of microservices that enabled Fox viewers to authenticate, view live video and on demand content, purchase subscriptions, discover personalized recommendations on their mobile, desktop or living room devices.



Maker Studios / The Walt Disney Company

Director of Software Engineering from 2014 until 2017

Oversaw data engineering, web development and native mobile iOS and Android development teams. Architected a new scalable data pipeline for extracting user engagement and social media insights to facilitate business insights. Designed and led the effort to build a new white-labeling platform that gave the ability for top talent to customize their own user experience, brand, and style their mobile apps and web sites for video distribution off of third-party platforms.



RealNetworks, Inc.

Senior Director of Software Engineering from 1999 until 2014

Managed a SAAS video platform engineering team which supported mobile video services running on major US carrier networks. Developed several prototypes for innovative second screen mobile and living room video viewing experiences. Product development and design for video content editorial tools and a distributed content ingestion and batch encoding system.



Microsoft Corporation

Web Developer intern/contractor from 1997 until 1999

Designed and developed online training courses for the Microsoft MSDN Mastering Series. Converted Microsoft Backoffice documentation from RTF to HTML format for online publishing.

Education

University of Washington

Bachelor of Arts in Art History, minor in Architectural Studies

References

References are available upon request.