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Throughout his 30 plus-year career, John Edwards has both created and managed businesses that demonstrate creativity and innovation in the development and implementation of major high-tech products and services. John’s most recent endeavor, Move Networks, brings the television experience online by streaming the highest quality video on the Internet with fast start times and smooth playback with no buffering for the largest media companies streaming premium content online today. Move delivers HD video online for ABC.com, CBS, the CW, Discovery, ESPN, FOX, and many others.

The Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year awards program celebrates its 22nd anniversary this year. Awards are given to entrepreneurs who have demonstrated excellence and extraordinary success in such areas as innovation, financial performance, and personal commitment to their businesses and communities.

Regional award winners will be eligible for consideration in the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year 2008 national program. Winners in numerous national categories, as well as the overall national Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year award winner, will be announced at the annual awards gala in Palm Springs, California, on November 15, 2008. The awards are the culminating event of the Ernst & Young Strategic Growth Forum, the nation’s most prestigious gathering of high-growth, market-leading companies.

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About Move Networks, Inc.
Move Networks, Inc. is a leading provider of online television services that drive the growth and support of online audiences for leading broadcasters and publishers including ABC, the CW, Discovery, ESPN, and Fox. The video technologies and services developed and managed by Move Networks enable leading brands to cost-effectively and reliably deliver live and on-demand HD quality programming to millions of people without the buffering, stalling, and low-quality viewing experiences common with competing technologies.

Contacts:

Mary-Kay Evans
Move Networks
801.592.5575
mkevans@movenetworks.com

Peggy M. Hayes
Move Networks
801.209.8813
mailto:phayes@movenetworks.com

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Manage a team that is responsible for the 24×7 operation of an Internet based video delivery service including video encoding and video asset management for both video on demand and live event broadcasts.  This position will be responsible for prioritizing competing issues, setting policies and making procedures that contribute to a stable, highly available and efficient service.  Ideal candidate should have experience in managing employees, network operation centers, Linux and Windows server management, systems monitoring and preferably also traditional video broadcast or PC based video experience.

This position is for an experienced web developer with strong Flash, Actionscript, JavaScript, HTML, and CSS skills. Primary responsibilities will include building test harnesses, around Javascript, Flash, and Silverlight SDKs. This position will also serve as a resource for supporting the test team by building custom web pages for supporting QA activities. Prior experience and/or understanding of software testing methodologies are preferred but not required.

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

• At least 2-5 years industry experience with Actionscipt 3, Flex, or Flash
• Flash remoting
• Experience with web based technologies (i.e. JavaScript, CSS, XHTML, and AJAX)
• Mastery of an OOP language a plus
• User interaction and information architecture experience a plus
• Good problem solving-abilities and ability to innovate
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

QUALIFICATIONS

Education and/or Experience:

Bachelors Degree or higher (CS, EE, Math, Information Technology or other technical area preferred)

Language Skills:

• Strong SQL skills
• Object oriented programming (Python, Java, C++, Ruby, and etc)
• Advanced Scripting abilities (i.e. BASH, Perl, PHP, and etc)

Other Technical Skills:

• Advanced system administration skills for setting up and maintaining testing and staging environments
• Advanced Linux knowledge (Red Hat Enterprise, Debian, SUSE Enterprise, and etc)

This a position is for an individual who has a desire to gain increased knowledge and experience surrounding web development, application development, hardware setup and configuration, and networking. This individual will primarily be responsible for maintaining desktop and server hardware in a large lab environment to support engineering’s development and testing initiatives. Opportunities will exist to automate manual processes through scripting and/or coding custom tools to manage equipment more efficiently.

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

• Ability to install various operating systems (i.e. Windows 2K, XP, Vista, and Server 2003, Red Hat Enterprise and/or othaer Linux distros
• Some exposure  with imaging software (Clonezilla, Norton Ghost, Partition Image, and etc)
• Some exposure to installation and configuration of server software (Apache Web Servers, Jboss, Tomcat, DHCP, DNS, and etc)

Qualifications

Education and/or Experience:

Student enrolled in a technical discpline (CS, EE, Math, Information Technology or other technical area preferred)

Technical Skills:

• Knowledge of computer networking (switches, routers, wiring, and etc)
• Exposure to software development practices and methodologies
• Exposure to object oriented programming and/or scripting languages (Python, Java, C++, Ruby, BASH, Perl, PHP, and etc)

This position is for an experienced software test engineer with experience in functional, performance, reliability and system integration testing across a variety of platforms. Primary responsibilities will include contributing to delivery schedules, building test plans, working with software engineers to interpret and thoroughly understand functional specifications, driving test case automation where appropriate, and delivering a well-tested product on schedule. This individual should being self-driven to execute tasks with limited supervision. Prior experience with enterprise class database management systems and data warehousing is highly preferred.

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

• Minimum 5 years experience with reliability, performance, functional, and automation testing
• Previous experience in a lead role highly preferred
• Strong documentation skills for capturing testing results, metrics, exit reports, and other needed information
• Experience with enterprise class database management systems and data warehousing
• Interpret functional requirements and design documents to develop, maintain, and execute test cases
• Experience with network architectures including, routing, switching, firewalls and security, web caches, storage area networks, clustered storage, and etc. highly preferred
• Passionate about defending product quality
• Superior written and verbal skills
• Self-motivated with good decision-making abilities
• Strong logical & problem solving skills
• Strong leadership and mentoring skills

Qualifications

Education and/or Experience:

Bachelors Degree or higher (CS, EE, Math, Information Technology or other technical area preferred)

Language Skills:

• Strong SQL skills
• Object oriented programming (Python, Java, C++, Ruby, and etc)
• Advanced Scripting abilities (i.e. BASH, Perl, PHP, and etc)

Other Technical Skills:

• Advanced system administration skills for setting up and maintaining testing and staging environments
• Advanced Linux knowledge (Red Hat Enterprise, Debian, SUSE Enterprise, and etc)

• Cisco, a Move investor, demonstrated Move’s edge caching infrastructure and set-top boxes;
• Level 3, a Move partner, demonstrated Move’s adaptive streaming;
• Microsoft, a Move partner, pushed the integration of the Move plugin with the Silverlight platform.

Move’s strategic industry involvement is growing deeper, and we’re glad to be involved with the biggest names in technology and television.

At NAB 2008, Beet.TV interviewed Microsoft’s Steve Sklepowich about the Move-Microsoft strategic partnership, and Sklepowich expressed why Microsoft is so excited to be integrating Move’s exceptional technology with Silverlight. He said, “Move has raised the bar for streaming today on the Web. They have just a really gorgeous adaptive streaming technology with some very interesting ad insertion models as well as a very interesting HD experience. [. . .] Silverlight brings a next-level of interactivity—DVD interactivity—together with [Move's] high-quality adaptive streaming experience. ”

More details about the Move-Microsoft partnership coming soon.

Last week at the National Association of Broadcasters show, the first ever integration of Move’s media player and Microsoft Silverlight was demonstrated. The following news article and video clip shows just how excited Microsoft is to be working with Move–to bring the online video experience to the next level!

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