Co-Founder / Chief Technology Officer, 1999 – 2001

Co-Founder / Managing Director, 1991 – 1999

Digital Studio Processing (dSP) was a pioneering player in the global digital audio post-production market. Its primary product was the Postation, a combined hard disk based audio editor, video player and mixing control surface.

DSP Media was the post venture capital form of Digital Studio Processing. It was a global company with offices in Los Angeles, London and Sydney with over 40 employees.

ACHIEVEMENTS

I managed the growth of the company from 6 staff with an annual turnover of $500k (from primarily Australian sales), to a company with 25 staff and an annual turnover of over $4M from a global distribution network.

Successful capital raising to grow the company further.

Developing two new products in very fast turnaround times. The core team consisted of 6 software engineers, 4 electronic hardware engineers, 3 mechanical engineers, 2 documentation engineers and several external consultants and manufacturing and design companies.

The main product was our second generation audio production station, Postation II. It was developed in a record time of 9 months from first concept to delivery of the first production unit.

We also evolved our disk based video recorder to be a standalone product called V motion. The V motion was redesigned in a 6 month period using a newly developed hardware video board.

Winning an Australian Design Award for Postation II, April 2002.

RESPONSIBILITIES

As Managing Director I was responsible for developing the strategy for growing the company, particularly getting the company established as an exporter. I setup distribution channels in Japan, UK, Germany and the USA.

The company applied for three successful government R&D grant applications (totalling around $1.5M over four years). In addition to my managerial duties I also led the R&D team and was a lead programmer. I continued to attend trade shows and travelled extensively for both product demonstration, sales, installation and on site research and development catering for specific customer requirements.

During 1999 we decided that additional capital was required to grow the company and I was heavily involved in preparing the information memorandum and securing the deal to raise $2M capital for expansion.

Upon successful capital raising, I moved to full time CTO to allow me to focus solely on new product development.

Product germination, product and design specification, project timelines, budget and cash-flow preparation, liaison with external design and production consultants, R&D staff management, along with programming and debugging.

Main programming languages: C, C++

In addition to my technical duties, I had sales and marketing duties both in preparing technical marketing materials as well as product demonstration at both trade shows and clients facilities.

Finally, I also had boardroom responsibilities, both reporting to and chairing board meetings, and I was also heavily involved in the raising of a second round of finance (US$4M) for the company’s continued growth.