- Steve Lerner
Steve Lerner is an authority on audio and video content delivery systems and works with companies on operations and business planning for content delivery, hosting, bandwidth, managed service, and e-commerce. His methods of forecasting, costing, and analysis of content delivery and internet metrics are used as standards in the industry. He is a notable trainer on internet audio/video delivery systems and was named one of the most influential people in the streaming media industry by "
Streaming Media " Magazine.Fact|date=June 2007He was a sound engineer on the Oscar winning film "The English Patient" which won an
Academy Award for Best Sound and Best Picture. He also installed the sound editing systems at Rob Filmes in Brazil- producers of "O Quatrilho ", nominated for an Oscar for Best Foreign film. His sound designed sound post production systems for theRede Globo TV network's massive South Rio television studios and supported sound and mastering facilities around the world such asSony ,BBC ,Polygram , and Abbey Road. As a cinematographer, he did a large portion of the principal photography and interviews for the documentary [http://jerichosecho.com "Jericho's Echo: Punk Rock in the Holy Land"] .Fact|date=June 2007Biography
Steve Lerner was born in 1970 in Manhasset, New York. His family moved to Long Beach, California in 1973. He attended Long Beach Polytechnic High school,
University of California Santa Cruz (BA Economics & Electronics Sound Engineering Program), and received anMasters of Business Administration fromColumbia University (Dual campus program withUniversity of California at Berkeley ).He gained notoriety during his undergraduate studies for bringing soon-to-be major name bands like
Green day for performances as well as featuring highly influential, but non mainstream, acts such asNoMeansNo andHenry Rollins spoken word.Fact|date=June 2007 His electronic sound engineering studies led to one of the firstMIDI controlled laser light shows, designed by hand before those components were commercially available.Fact|date=June 2007 He attributes his electronic music work to influences fromRobert Moog , DonaldBuchla ,Terry Riley , LeonTheremin , [http://www.omino.com David Van Brink] ,John Cage ,Aphex Twin , [http://www.sharon.net/caliban/img/me/r-buzz-tower.jpgRocky Mullin (DJ Caliban)] ,Wendy Carlos , [http://www.jessicagracewing.com/ Jessica Grace Wing] , andNeu! . Steve currently maintains a studio with current modular analog synths from [http://www.modcan.com Modcan] , [http://www.synthesizers.com Synthesizers.com] , [http://www.cyndustries.com Cyndustries] , [http://www.stgsoundlabs.com STG SoundLabs] , and a [http://www.macbethstudiosystems.com Macbeth M5N] .Career
Steve began his career in media technology as a QA and Sales Engineer at
Sonic Solutions .Sonic Solutions pioneered the use of personal computers as workstations for professional audio editing. They also invented the first proprietary high speed audio networking platform called MediaNet. Sonic was also known for the first high-end noise reduction platform for real-time audio processing calledNoNOISE . Sonic's founder,Andy Moorer was one of the creators ofFM Synthesis along withJohn Chowning .After Sonic Solutions, Steve started working with internet video technology at
VDOnet , inventor of variable bitratestreaming media .VDOnet was sold toCitrix and Steve joined TEN-TV, a business broadcast network where he built a globalcontent delivery network (CDN) to parallel the satellite television broadcasts with internet video broadcasts.Speedera Networks lured Steve away from TEN-TV (later acquired byLoudEye ) and put him to work building a global media CDN. After the launch of Speedera's audio and video CDN services, Steve took over Speedera's operations of 80 datacenters worldwide. Speedera Networks was acquired byAkamai Technologies in 2005.Upon reception of his
MBA , completed while working full time atSpeedera , Steve moved to New York and began consulting work with non profits and fortune 100 companies.In 2007 Steve launched Peer Innovations LLC and released [http://www.p2pcleaner P2PCleaner] , the first publicly distributed software to allow computer users to find, manager, or remove peer to peer software. Peer Innovations states that peer to peer software can be part of a user's day to day use but can also be used for piracy and cause significant security risks. Additionally, if multiple media companies each choose a different peer to peer software, computers and networks can sink under the load of simultaneous p2p programs demanding network bandwidth, hard disk space, and CPU.
Patent
US patent 6,801,576 [http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?u=%2Fnetahtml%2Fsrchnum.htm&Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&r=1&l=50&f=G&d=PALL&s1=6801576.PN.&OS=PN/6801576&RS=PN/6801576 System For Accessing, Distributing And Maintaining Video Content Over Public And Private Internet Protocol Networks]This patent describes a global media content delivery network with video caching, satellite feeds, live encoding, and indexing of content. The patent was one of the first in the area of CDN and is currently owned by
Nokia .Geodesic architecture
In 1997, Steve Lerner collaborated with noted computer scientist, artist, and musician [http://www.omino.com David Van Brink] to build a superior
geodesic dome useful for outdoor shelter purposes.Fact|date=June 2007 Traditional geodesic domes require custom corner connectors either manufactured form a mold or hand-welded to form. The structure needed to be inexpensive, made of easily acquired parts, shield the users from sun and wind, and easily assembled.The design that they arrived it is the [http://www.geometrydome.com Geometry Dome] built out of commonly available PVC, rope, and a surplus parachute. Custom corner connectors are substituted with rope and the structure is easily assembled by laying out the pieces in a specific order.
The [http://www.geometrydome.com Geometry Dome] was featured in the
Guggenheim Museum as well as in museums around the world both in photography and actual construction by artistMarjetica Potrc .The Geometry Dome blueprints are publicly available and can be found at [http://www.geometrydome.com geometrydome.com]
Articles
* [http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/9.05/broadband_pr.html Wired Magazine "The Future Will Be Fast But Not Free"] highlights forecasts Steve made in 2001 that came true in 2006.
* [http://ramprate.com/marketcommentary/google.html Market Commentary "$1.65B for YouTube: Why Google Did It"] by Steve Lerner
* [http://www.marketwire.com/mw/release_html_b1?release_id=114556 MarketWire: Appointment of Industry Expert Steve Lerner]
* [http://archive.salon.com/tech/log/2001/07/19/webbys2001/index.html Salon Magazine features Steve's predictions about the end of the dot.com bubble]
* [http://www.streetelectronics.com Street Electronics features electronic music and instrument designs by Steve Lerner]
* [http://www.stevelerner.com Steve Lerner's homepage]
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