The Short (Professional) Autobiography

September 2008 -
Now

Founding Software Engineer, Transmission Begins

I've started my own software company. I intend to create audio and video products for people who value digital media. The first is My Own TV Channel.

January 2008 -
December 2008

On Sabbatical

After twelve years as a software engineer, working on various audio and video systems, I decided to take a sabbatical. There were three updates on my blog: 1, 2 and 3. I also built a model railway.

May 2000 -
January 2008

Working for Symbian

As the Multimedia Porting Group Manager, I worked with customers and partners to bring products based on Symbian OS to market.

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September 1996 -
May 2000

DVD Software on Windows PCs

I returned to London in May 2000, after living in California for just over 3 years. While I was there I worked for Mediamatics (who became part of National Semiconductor while I was there) as a key developer on the DVDExpress team.

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October 1992 -
June 1996

Masters degree, Imperial College

Before joining Mediamatics I was studying for my degree at Imperial College, where I graduated from the Department of Computing with a masters degree. I am now officially John McAleely, MEng (Hons), ACGI.

DirectX ButtonAs part of my degree I spent nine months working for Microsoft, as part of the ActiveMovie team. The product went on to become DirectShow, and is now a core part of Microsoft's multimedia architecture.

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