Cisco Flip Video job - Web Product Manager for Flipshare.com

Web Product Manager for Flipshare.com
San Francisco, CA

Description
Pure Digital Technologies, makers of the Flip Video line of easy-to-use video camcorders (http://www.theflip.com), is seeking an experienced Product Manager to play a vital role in the development of new web-based products and services. The central focus for this role is to provide cross-functional product direction for FlipShare.com, our new web-based sharing service. This contracting position will be based in our San Francisco office.

The ideal candidate is an independent, self-motivated, creative professional, capable of adapting quickly to a fast-paced environment and has significant product management experience in online and/or software applications, excellent communication skills, a strong intuitive sense of mass-market customer needs and a passion for video and social networking.

Key Responsibilities
- Define product plans based on high-level product strategy, roadmap, and business requirements
- Synthesize cross-functional input to identify tradeoffs and make recommendations, balancing capabilities, constraints, and priorities
- Define detailed product requirements to guide development teams in feature design, implementation and delivery, across the product lifecycle
- Work closely with development teams to detail features and design capabilities around an iterative functional release schedule
- Provide feature clarification throughout the development cycle, refining features as necessary
- Review milestone releases against product definition, resolving issues affecting expectations and providing direction on definition uncertainties

Experience
A strong candidate for this role will match many of these criteria:
- 5+ years successful, large-scale product management experience of consumer-targeted, technical products
- 5+ years experience working closely with interdepartmental teams, including engineering, product marketing, operations, customer service and business development
- Excellence in the creation of product requirement documents, detailing comprehensive product and feature definitions
- Excellent oral and written communication skills including the capability to extract the core essence out of complex scenarios, and the talent to motivate teams
- Experience with internationalization and localization is a plus

About the Company
Pure Digital Technologies, recently acquired by Cisco Systems, is a pioneer in developing simple, affordable digital imaging solutions for the mass market. The revolutionary Flip Video line ignited a new category of video cameras that puts the power to shoot, edit and share video into the pockets of everyday consumers. We are a dynamic, growing company with offices in downtown San Francisco.

We’re facing the challenges involved in developing a simple, intuitive, yet high quality product, and, in addition to hardware challenges, are focused on the software applications and online services that complete the Flip Video experience. Our vision is to make capturing, editing, sharing and socializing video both easy and fun.

Beyond the opportunity to work on a cool consumer electronics product, we offer competitive salaries, great benefits, and we’re even fun to work with.

Contact Information:
Email your resume to mohamali@cisco.com

Flip Video job opportunity - Sr. Audio Processing - Algorithm Engineer with Image processing experience (Firmware)

Cisco acquired Flip Video (the revolutionary flip video camera) and we are expanding.

We are actively looking for a Audio processing expert with experience in Image processing algorithms. Email your resumes to mohamali@cisco.com for immediate response.

Location: San Jose, CA (Relocation not provided)

Responsibilities:
• Developing firmware code in embedded C for digital video cameras.
• Lead development and quality of audio in “Flip” cameras.
• Must be able to capture and analyze audio and video for correctness in video processing and debugging.
• Ability to develop new algorithms for audio and video processing in an embedded environment.
• Needs to be able to work alone and collaborate well a group/team environment.
• Needs to have a familiarity with the form and function of modern imaging sensors.
• Must have some experience and knowledge of both Analog and Digital Electronics.
• Experience with miniature microphones and miniature speakers and acoustics.
• Familiar with audio filtering in both the analog domain and digital domain.
• Passionate about audio, getting it right and making it clean.

Experience:

Minimum 7 years of writing code and algorithms in Imaging and Video Processing and Audio Electronics/Acoustics or related fields that require expert knowledge in these areas:

Need to be knowledgeable in various color correction, filtering, and image/video enhancement techniques.

Needs familiarity with, and have proficiency, using imaging and video editing and analysis tools.

The candidate needs to have knowledge and experience with selecting, placing, and tuning (filtering) audio components in consumer devices.

Environment:
• Embedded, 32 bit MIPS, ThreadX OS.
• Languages: C, C++, (MIPS Assembly maybe.)

Areas:
Image and Video Processing and Enhancement, Algorithm Development, AE, AWB, Color Correction, Embedded Programming, MIPS, Image/Video Compression, MPEG, H.264, AAC, ADPCM. Audio Engineering, Microphones, Speakers, Acoustics.
Desired Skills and Experience:
• Expert knowledge in C coding and design skills.
• Excellent code organization skills.
• Ability to easily dive into existing code, learn from it, fix it, and/or improve upon the implementation.
• Good understanding of programming in real time and multi threaded systems.
• Strong analytical and debugging skills.
• Excellent high level mathematical skills (i.e. Calculus and linear algebra or related).
• Extensive familiarity with necessary audio tools, equipment and software for audio analysis and testing.

Pluses:
• Digital Audio filter for calibration, clean up and/or enhancement.
• Knowledge of sensors for purpose of quick evaluation.
• Knowledge of optics and lens fabrication for both glass and plastic can be important.
• Proficiency using Matlab, Visual Studio 2003 or later.
• Knowledge of Directshow filters, how write them and use them.
• Knowledge of video compression / decompression standards and techniques.
• Proficiency in most Microsoft Office products: Word, Excel, Power Point, Outlook.

Education:
BS, MS in any of the following fields: Computer Science, Physics, Image Processing, Video Processing, or Electrical Engineering.

Cisco and Unitedhealth to push for Telemedicine

Cisco and Unitedhealth insurance push for Telemedicine. In what is termed as connected care, Cisco will place video terminals in office building, malls, shopping complex and in remote locations which connects patients to the doctor through video.

The effort comes as President Obama and congressional Democrats promote technology as part of a sweeping effort to make health care more efficient and affordable.

Cisco all the way!!!

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Datacenter Virtualization Cisco Jobs - Senior Benchmarking Architect - x86 servers

Description:
In this role, you will have the opportunity to work in the Technical Marketing team of Server Access and Virtualization Business Unit (SAVBU) at Cisco. We are looking for a technical, dynamic, success driven and entrepreneurial TME to play a leadership role on Server performance analysis and benchmarking activities. We are looking for candidates with strong server architecture, application and Virtualization background. You will be part of a dedicated team. Open communications, empowerment, innovation, teamwork and customer success are the foundations of the team.

Job responsibilities:
Senior technical marketing engineer responsible for Performance analysis, benchmarking and solutions development in the Enterprise space.

Expertise in server performance analysis, benchmarking of Enterprise applications such as Database, Application Servers, Virtualization.

Expertise in industry standard benchmarks such as TPC, SPEC etc including hands on publication experience.

Strong understanding of x86 based Server platform architecture with hands on Performance analysis and tuning experience.

Hands-on experience on Datacenter Solution, develop technical and marketing content involving Server platform, access layer, virtualization and applications.
Proven ability in taking used case scenarios and architecting compelling solution studies for our platform with differentiation where applicable.
Creating and updating marketing collateral, including data sheets, presentations, whitepapers, ROI calculators and case studies.
Will act as the technical interface on customer sales calls, when required, and assist in preparing responses to RFP's, RFI's, and RFC's.
Participate in proof of concept, product demonstrations and presentations.
Working in the lab with client partners for product tear downs, feature comparisons, benchmarking and demonstration set up development.
Works independently without much supervision.

Skills and Requirements:
10+ years experience with server platform, blade server or rack mount server ( x86 ) in performance analysis and benchmarking.

Expertise in industry standard benchmarking for Servers.

Five plus years of Technical Marketing experience with focus on Field support
Experience engaging with Enterprise Software vendors with a strong focus on performance aspects

Ability to propose and implement solution studies based on enterprise applications.
Adept at developing solution guides, proof-of-concept studies, best practices studies.
Strong understanding of enterprise applications, database, and messaging solutions.
Excellent verbal and written communications skills.
Capable of delivering training to field sales and support staff
Partner and customer relations management
Network and Storage knowledge is a plus
Requires B.S. or M.S. in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or other technical field.

Cisco is developing a Television based home chat

Cisco is working with phone and cable carriers on products and services that let consumers hold videoconferences through their televisions. These will be based on Cisco's TelePresence corporate-videoconferencing system, and will debut within 12 months. This will include video chats, and users also will be able to exchange messages and leave videos for friends, said Ned Hooper, head of consumer business at Cisco.

Cisco plans to use Flip Video software to expand in the market for home networking gear, camcorders and video applications, a market that Hooper says will grow 50 percent to $60 billion by 2013.

"There's a big opportunity for us," Hooper said. "You will start to see very big growth numbers on top of the base consumer business we report every quarter."

For more details read these external links:

Forbes article on Cisco's plan on bringing TV based Home Video Chat

Statesman article on Cisco home Video chat on TV

Cisco Flip Video Job opportunity - Software Program Manager / Project Manager - Consumer Electronics

Key Skills: Video application software development Management

REQUIREMENTS

Appropriate candidates will have the following skills, qualifications and experience:
• 5+ years experience in project management.
• Proven ability to manage multiple, concurrent projects.
• A proactive nature and proven leadership skills that demonstrate the ability to manage a team made up of cross-department and cross-level resources.
• Strong organization and problem solving skills that include the ability to respond to changing needs and shifting priorities.
• Experience with internationalization of consumer products.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• A personality to match your intellect.
• The desire to be part of a small, talented development team.
• A passion for building top-of-the-line consumer products.

An ideal candidate would also have one or more of the following:
• Experience in both established project office and start-up environments.
• Formal project management qualifications (PMI or equivalent).
• Experience project managing the delivery of a consumer electronics product.
• Experience and knowledge of manufacturing and distribution processes.
• BS/MS degree or equivalent.
• A love of the finer things in life.