Bill Hofmann
Education
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
BS, MS, EE, EE and CS -Work Experience
LiquidView
Current
LiquidView
Carleton Digital
Current
Carleton Digital
Fade Technology Solutions
2020-06-01 - 2023-06-01
Fade Technology Solutions
Dolby Laboratories
2013-01-01 - 2020-05-01
Dolby Laboratories
Klamr
2011-01-01 - 2013-01-01
Klamr
Sony
2008-01-01 - 2010-01-01
Sony
Sonic Solutions
2004-01-01 - 2008-01-01
Sonic Solutions
Soluziona USA (Now Miria Systems)
2002-05-01 - 2004-08-01
Soluziona USA (Now Miria Systems)
ZNOW
2001-06-01 - 2002-04-01
ZNOW
Aveo - in every sense
1996-05-01 - 2001-03-01
Aveo - in every sense
Skills
Summary
Bill Hofmann is a senior engineering and product leader and consultant who helps teams deliver and helps teams grow. He's worked with small angel funded companies, venture funded companies, and mid-size and large public companies, delivering product both B2C and B2B. Bill has managed teams in multiple countries and time zones, and has deep experience working with Asian and Eastern European engineering teams. At Dolby, Bill built the Dolby Vision Architecture Team. He drives innovation and incubates new applications of Dolby Vision high dynamic range/wide color gamut technology. He helps the Dolby Vision team scale by introducing collaboration and just enough process. His team is responsible for defining and delivering shared technologies used by content creators, content distribution, and playback, as well as core enabling technology licensed to silicon vendors, PC OEMs, and mobile OEMs. At Klamr, a mobile-social startup based in Ho Chi Minh City and San Francisco, Bill grew the development and operations team from 10 to over 40, and decreased the average time to add features from over 2 months to about 2 weeks. − Expat posting to Shanghai providing on-site leadership (270+ engineers and QA) − Directly manage teams of 70+ in 6 globally-dispersed locations − Collaborate with Sales and Marketing to represent and deliver technologies to Fortune 100 companies − 3 patents in cloud-based technical support − Advanced degrees from MIT in signal processing (EE&CS)
