RODOLFO VARGAS
200 Sheridan Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 94306, USA
H: (650) 461.9019 M: (425) 241 9403
rodolfo_vargas@me.com
EXECUTIVE MANAGER -VIDEO TECHNOLOGY-
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Visionary video technologist with 10+ years of recognized leadership and top expertise on Advance Digital
Video Technology and Multimedia Pipelines. Represented four of the tops high-tech leading companies of the
world into technical standard bodies. Senior evangelist and diplomatic liaison skills ensure the deployment of
major innovations missions. Strong business acumen, progressive-change driver and architectural expertise
encompass the definition of clear road maps with solid Intellectual Property firewalls. Progressive and
diversification skills direct, structure and coach technical leaders. Entrepreneurial, enthusiastic, effective and
determined individual with outstanding intellectual horsepower and top awarded innovation skills used in the
execution of the “Next-Generation Experiences”.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Chief Technology Officer/ Vice-President of Technology Jun 2007 - Present
XVD Technology Holdings (USA) Inc. Palo Alto, CA USA
Japanese founded startup; Produces the most advance video compression technology available today.
Drives the technical innovation and execution of the next generation IP video delivering technology. Manages the
R&D group. Builds and mentors top specialized teams for the research, development and product-level
implementation of state-of-the-art algorithms and latest technologies on video compression, processing, forensics
and analytics. Produced extremely efficient implementations of video on PC and DSPs (for HD, 2K and 8Kp60
video). Accountable for code base quality, development process and IP documentation. Project Management and
hands up developing of prototypes, demo suits and tools for testing, stretching and quality metrics.
Major Achievements: 1080p30 @ 1Mbps low-latency codec for video-conferencing. Ultra High-Performance HD
Video-Playback for PCs; Integration of HD video over OpenGL; Secured Video Environment for DoD;
Embedding of video-player into video-stream. Ultra HighVision demonstration for NHK 8Kp/60 @ 40Mbps. HD
movies @ 1mBps with integrated real-time multi-language translation of movie subtitles (powered by Google).
Remote Desktop Video Collaboration.
Jun 2005 - May
Senior Program Manager of Video, Windows Vista & Windows 7 2007
Microsoft Corporation (MSFT) Redmond, WA
USA
Owned Digital video and legacy media cores & codecs on Windows Vista (US$2.2 Billion ecosystem). Turn-
around execution and released in 5 quarters and on schedule all commitments acquired. Received EMMY 2007
technical award for “Media Streaming Architecture”. Produced the media infrastructure for Windows Media
Center, Windows Media Player, Internet Explorer and all major third-party Media players. Senior corporate
liaison & evangelist with Intel, AMD, NVidia, Sony, Toshiba, Cyberlink, Corel and several standards bodies.
Owned the execution of DirectX VA, GPU pipelines, APIs for video capturing, encoding, processing and
decoding of VC1, H.264 and MPEG. Drove next-generation DVDs infrastructure (HD-DVD, Blu-Ray), MS-DVD
engine, and the MS DirectShow multimedia platform. Acquired ownership of core Video Infrastructures and
Content Protection on Windows 7, including: HDMI 2.0, HDCP, Macrovision, Protected Video Path, and User
Accessible Bus. Lead the innovation roadmap for new video features of Windows Media Center and Windows 7.
Responsible for the requirements of video on the “Windows Hardware Quality Labs”
Vice-President of Technology & Engineering Feb 2005 - Jun 2005
MyCasa Network Inc. Palo Alto, CA USA

Silicon Valley Startup: Designs and markets MPEG-7 streaming for video analytics and behavioral recognition.
Officer: Accountable for technology & IP development of computer vision and artificial intelligence engines for
real-time networked digital-video analytics systems. MyCasa Network was a privately held, five years old, start-
up in Silicon Valley, specialized on smart digital video surveillance and security serve gateways over the Internet.
The company closed operations in the USA and move to Singapore on June 2005. (Declined the option to relocate
to Asia.)
Apr 1998 - Jan
Technologist - Senior Staff Architect Strategist 2005
Phoenix Technologies Ltd (PTEC), Ravisent Technologies (XEDA), Teknema Inc. San Jose, CA USA
Pioneer & leader in PC BIOS software, state-of-the-art multimedia core platforms, tools and applications.
Evangelize the strategy and tactical vision of the company into Consumer Electronics industry forums. Chaired
interactive content-technology expert groups and influenced the media industry at the convergence between the
PC, CE and Hollywood. Headed tactical and strategic technology-business presentations around the world with all
major PC companies in liaison with other worldwide-corporate units. Determined business feasibility and
direction of the CE-multimedia division. Founded a set of authoritative technologies on next-generation DVD,
Internet-TV, and Digital Home Networks. Leads and mentored engineering “Tiger” teams on: R&D, technology
proof-of-concept prototyping, initial product lunching and postmortem. Dictates technical recommendations,
functional specifications & deployment best practices. Directed hardware development of interactive-TV Set-top
boxes. Received Company’s Presidential Award in 2001.
Note: Phoenix Tech. acquired Ravisent Technologies, IA division in 2002, Ravisent acquired Teknema in 2000.
ADDITIONAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS
DVD Forum Chairman: Media Streaming Expert Group & Macromedia Flash for ENAV Expert Group.
Manages the Microsoft DirectX AV Forum
Lead the Microsoft, MVP Video group.
BSEE Equivalence Seattle Pacific University & Seattle University. The Sigma-Commodore Institue: Degree in
Computer Science, Data Analysis and Video Game Programming with 100% scholarship.
Specialty training: Executive leadership, Conflict management, Project Management, Precision questioning,
Intellectual property development, Human-factors/ Graphical User Interfaces, Innovation Management.
Major awards & recognitions: Television Academy Award EMMY 2007 Streaming Media Architectures and
components. Best of Innovations Honoree for Computer Hardware at CES 2004. President’s Service Award,
Ravisent Technologies. First and second place on Design Award at SMAU 1998. Internet-TV Thrid-place award
at SMAU. Mexican Government Distinguis Visitant -500 years America Discovering commemoration.