Brian MacInnes
Summary
Seasoned Entreprenuer, Product Manager, Engineer, and Consumer Experience advocate with more than 15 years of experience in fast-paced hardware and software development environments. Passion for innovation and new customer experiences; thrives as an interface between the customer and the engineer, giving a voice to the end-user. Excellent functional specification gathering/defining and cross-team/cross-functional skills. Track record of achieving exceptional results in delivering software features, hardware integrations and consumer experiences on schedule and with high quality.
Overview
18
18
years of professional experience
Work History
Owner
Emergent Home Solutions
03.2021 - Current
- Founded and managed low voltage contracting business, growing revenue from $70k in first year to $220k in second year.
- Performed industry-leading installations of low voltage wiring, smart home, security, lighting and home audio/video devices in new construction and existing residential and commercial properties.
- Increased customer satisfaction by implementing efficient business processes and providing exceptional service.
- Developed and maintained strong relationships with clients, resulting in repeat business and referrals.
- Managed financial aspects of business, including budgeting, financial reporting, and tax preparation.
- Implemented marketing strategies to increase brand awareness and attract new customers.
Product Manager - Home Automation
Alarm.com
06.2016 - 03.2021
- Acting product expert and liaison to internal parties as well as external dealers and partners on all things IoT.
- Work with UX designers and engineers to define, design and implement both local and cloud-to-cloud integrations for home automation and security systems.
- Lead cross-functional projects; to date shipped 10 products across mobile and web platforms, including installation and troubleshooting wizards and device integrations with video cameras, wired and wireless speakers, lights, shades, and garage doors. Prior to shipping, led external dealer and end-user betas for three of those features.
- Oversee up to seven cross-functional projects at a time without sacrificing end-user experience or quality, with hands-on management style.
- Work with product launch and marketing teams to define new standards for functional specifications and product briefs.
- Work with engineering, support, sales and high profile partners to troubleshoot and resolve product issues.
Software Engineer - CoreGraphics and CoreAnimation
Apple, Inc
03.2014 - 07.2016
- Led a team of two engineers responsible for the integration, building, feature testing and submission of several cross-platform software projects across macOS, iOS and tvOS.
- Worked closely with end-users and customers to efficiently resolve software issues.
- Served as point-of-contact for Engineering Project Managers.
- Consulted with engineering staff to evaluate and test interface between GPU hardware and user-mode software.
- Prioritized the team's bug load and identified and assigned priority of top issues.
- Identified and routed product issues to software engineers through bug tracking tools (internal proprietary software).
- Used subversion tools to maintain up to 9 branches of source code for the team's macOS, iOS and tvOS projects.
- Wrote test cases and developed UI automation tests in Python.
Engineering Project Manager - Interactive Media Group
Apple, Inc.
03.2013 - 03.2014
- Involved in high-level framework design for the new UI in OS X Yosemite.
- Acted as the Software Engineering team's interface to upper management, communicating the state of the program for the CoreMedia (Airplay) and Games & Graphics engineering teams.
- Managed the product life cycle of macOS release 10.9 "Mavericks" from planning to implementation and worldwide release.
Program Manager II - Multimedia Platform Team
Microsoft, Corp
06.2008 - 03.2013
- Worked collaboratively with cross-functional groups to deliver multimedia frameworks in Windows 7 and 8 including media format handling, software and hardware accelerated video decode, encode and streaming (H.264, VC-1, MPEG-2, MJPEG, etc.) and video digital signal processors (DSP) for video stabilization, rolling shutter correction and super resolution, among others.
- Worked with engineering to define hardware requirements and Windows Logo Kit (WLK) testing for hardware offload chips for media playback and streaming (implemented by Intel, AMD and Nvidia gpus).
- Created specification documents and worked with engineering to design and implement pluggable and extensible Windows multimedia APIs and end-to-end platform experiences (transition from DShow to Media Foundation).
- Identified customer / end-user pain points, developed customer use cases, and designed conceptual solutions for new features / enhancements for upper management.
Founder
MediaInside, Corp.
05.2006 - 05.2008
- Created corporation with intent on pursuing funding for creation of Windows embedded TVs.
- Created multiple prototypes of low-profile televisions with embedded Windows-based media center systems.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Electronic Media, Arts and Communications
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Troy, NY05.2008
Skills
- Requirements gathering, bug management, scheduling, and resource management via JIRA and Confluence
- Hardware evaluation
- Cloud to Cloud Integration
- Agile Methodologies (Scrum, Sprints, Kanban)
- SaaS and SDLC
- Project and Product Management
- SVN and Git
- Home Security and Automation (Z-Wave, Zigbee, IoT and RF)
- Automated Testing
- Video formats
Accomplishments
- Eagle Scout - Troop 874, 2002 - Columbia, MD.
- Rensselaer Medal Award for Mathematics and Science.
- Rensselaer Leadership Award.
Outside Interests
Video analytics, home theater, 3D modeling and rapid prototyping, additive manufacturing (3D Printing), Arduino, Raspberry pi, electrical and mechanical design.
Timeline
Owner
Emergent Home Solutions
03.2021 - Current
Product Manager - Home Automation
Alarm.com
06.2016 - 03.2021
Software Engineer - CoreGraphics and CoreAnimation
Apple, Inc
03.2014 - 07.2016
Engineering Project Manager - Interactive Media Group
Apple, Inc.
03.2013 - 03.2014
Program Manager II - Multimedia Platform Team
Microsoft, Corp
06.2008 - 03.2013
Founder
MediaInside, Corp.
05.2006 - 05.2008
Bachelor of Science - Electronic Media, Arts and Communications
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute