Résumé

Updated October 24, 2006

Walter R. Klappert

310 499-4104

walt.klappert@aya.yale.edu

Skills and Keywords: Chief Technical Officer, CTO, Vice President, Consultant, Program Director, Project Manager, Software Development Manager, Technology Lead, Integration & Vendor Manager, Inventor, Intellectual Property Expert, Entertainment Technology Consultant, International Representative, Professional Engineer, Consumer Electronics Standards, Software Programmer, Java, C++, C, Perl, HTML, JavaScript, Japanese Language and Korean Language.

2001-present

2001 (April)-present

Klappert Consulting LLC (AKA ComMedia LLC) Los Angeles, California, CEO/

TV Guide Hollywood, California, System Architect (Since May 2005)

Expert—to two law firms on separate patent-related actions concerning consumer electronics.

Consultant—to Time Warner Cable in Interactive Television, 3^rd Party Applications and Other Areas.

Consultant—Proposed and executed a project for 2 AOL Time Warner divisions on the next step in home entertainment. Also, reviewed Warner Bros. Records (Burbank, CA) Video Asset Storage and Distribution System.

Program Director—Ran Liberate Technologies’ (Silicon Valley & Seoul, Korea) End-to-End System Integration Program for Interactive Television for Liberate’s customer Broadband Solutions Incorporated (BSI) with Dreamcity in Seoul, Korea. Also, completed negotiations with Samsung and did Systems Integration and Testing Planing for GNI (China).

Consultant—Consulted with Zyfer (a division of Odetics) on opportunities for their encryption technology in the Entertainment Industry. Also, consulted with iPlusTV on opportunities in South Korea in Interactive Television.

Producer—Produced a live entertainment event under an Equity Contract and video shoots for PlaysOnDVD. This involved all aspects including creative vision, business plan, negotiations with talent and union, managing the production and company, payroll, insurance, marketing and advertising, building a Web Site and attracting visitors and audience and filing all state and federal paperwork. In video, ran one video shoot, executive on two other shoots, did some editing, arranged DVD pre-mastering, manufacturing including UPC codes, distribution and fulfillment.

Board Member—Yale Cabaret Blue Theatre Company. Personally producing a Staged Screenplay reading in October ’04. Script Reviewing, casting and crew acquisition assistance and generally planning and managing the shows.

2000 (October)-2001 (August)

NeT4TV Los Angeles, California Chief Technical Officer

Net4TV catered to Internet capable consoles—like WebTV—and other Set-Top Boxes for Television. In this role, co-authored the business plan, participated in fund raising and assessed the Patent-able Intellectual Property for the company. Personally created software for networked multi-player games using HTML, JavaScript and Cold Fusion.

1996-2000 (September)

Americast Los Angeles, California

Vice President Project Management

Managed our Strategic Vendor, Sun Microsystems, in developing the Disney-designed application that provided all of the services for Ameritech’s deployment of Interactive Television primarily on Scientific Atlanta equipment including the SA3000 Set Top Box.

1995-1996

SILICON GRAPHICS Silicon Valley Nippon Telephone & Telegraph Program Manager

Program Manager on NTT deployment of Interactive Television in Tokyo. Worked schedules and myriad of issues related to the projects. Acted with the Project Manager as the interface between the client, NTT, and Silicon Graphics’ IDS Engineering group of about 100 people. Both the Head-End and Set Top Box equipment were designed and built by Silicon Graphics. The Set Top Box was based on the “Indy” computer.

1982-1995

ATARI, TIME WARNER INTERACTIVE, WARNER NEW MEDIA, The Record Group Burbank, California

Director of Technology

Led the Software Group that built the Shopping Applications for Time-Warner’s Deployment of Interactive Television in Orlando, Florida known as “The Full-Service Network.” This work as well as the work on Laserdisc and Compact Disc led to my name appearing on over a dozen patents (including foreign filings) as inventor.

Head of Technology

Wrote software and led the effort in creating “The Megillah System.” This was advanced Laserdisc with new features such as multiple audio, text and camera angles that lead directly to these features being adopted in the Digital Versatile Disc (DVD). Instrumental in developing and creating CD + MIDI, CD + Graphics, CD-ROM, & Cable TV, holding 10 patents in these fields.

Also, built a team of about 20 people to make authoring systems for the earliest CD-ROM, CD + G, titles.

Here is a list of some the titles published by Warner New Media:

CD-ROM:	Title:	CD + MIDI:	Title:
Time Magazine's:	Desert Storm	Time Warner Interactive:	Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue
Time-Life Book's:	View from Earth	CD + Graphics:	Title:
From Movie/TV	Funny, HBO Comedy Central	Time Warner Interactive:	Goldberg Variations
	Peter and the Wolf		Mendelssohn Symphonies
Also:	Hell Cab		Songs of Belle Epoch Beethoven: 9^th Symphony

Manager of Software Development

This was probably the earliest company to develop entertainment titles for CD-ROM. Worked on the authoring systems for the earliest CD-ROM titles as programmer and small group leader.

Represented the company on International — Japan and Europe — technical committees creating the CD-I Green Book Specifications under Philips.

Group Leader at Atari

Technical Leader for a group producing games and creative tools including a CD-Graphics Workstation and the game “Dance Fantasy” published by Fisher Price.

Computer Consultant on Wall Street

My clients included US Trust, Lever Bros., EF Hutton, Bache and Merrill Lynch. Worked on Technical Analysis of Equities, Mortgage Evaluation and Banking Systems.

EDUCATION

Yale University, Master of Fine Arts, Theatre Engineering

Courses included Theatre Management, Accounting and Advertising. Interned as The Subscription Manager at the Academy Theatre in Atlanta.

Texas A&M University, Master of Engineering, Industrial Engineering

Course included Organization Management, Operations Research, Quality Control and Inventory Control.

Florida State University, Bachelor of Engineering, Engineering Science

Courses included Business Law and Parliamentary Law.

Additional courses in technical and business-related subjects. For example, “Fundamentals of the Securities Industry” taken at the New York School of Finance.