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J. MANNY BERRIOS INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SENIOR EXECUTIVE & ADVISOR
With 30 years of progressive technology experience in Internet media, electronic commerce, financial services, business intelligence, big data, neuro-marketing, cognitive behavioral marketing and advertising industries.

"I'm passionate about innovating with technology and managing talented people to their fullest potential."

Professional Summary

SENIOR INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY EXECUTIVE with 30 years of progressive experience in Internet media, electronic commerce, financial services, and advertising industries. I have strong entrepreneurial business and technology experiences with roles covering - Founder, Chief Technology Officer, Chief Information Officer and SVP of Technology within Internet startups and top-tier public technology companies. I specialize in developing enterprise solutions for online product strategies and growing businesses intellectual property value. I have extensive leadership, team-building and decision-making skills, with excellent communication and interpersonal skills. I'm quite passionate about innovating with technologies, partners and helping teams deliver projects with cost effective results and professional quality.

  • C-suite executive with extensive software development and operational experience with market successes in a variety of industries including online consumer products, electronic commerce, financial services, mobile applications, digital media, and enterprise business to business integrations.

  • Strong emphasis on advanced distributed computing methodologies, high volume infrastructures, enterprise security, big data management and online media advertising industries.

  • Responsible for growth and management of technology operations within Internet startups and top-tier technology companies.

  • Comprehensive experience building, leading and aligning engineering teams with organizational priorities and driving intellectual property growth across various programming and architectural disciplines.

  • Responsible for multi-million dollar P&L's.

  • Passionate about innovating with technologies, partners and helping teams deliver projects with cost effective results and professional quality

  • Extensive research regarding cognitive behavioral neuro-marketing strategies with pattern recognition, big data streams and machine learning.

  • Adept at effective management of business mergers and acquisitions. 

  • Holds several advisory and board of director positions.

PROFESSIONAL 

Career Accomplishments

Created BrightLine.tv into the leader of OTT AD Tech with

Engageable, Addressable and Measurable TV Ad formats. Providing the only full horizontal OTT Household Data Graph management services.   

—  As BrightLine CTO

EXPERIENCEO

My Experiences

July 2022 -To Present

NBC Universal, Inc.
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Sr Director, of Ad Product Architecture in AT&I

 

NBCUniversal owns and operates over 20 different businesses across 30 countries including a valuable portfolio of news and entertainment television networks, a premier motion picture company, significant television production operations, a leading television stations group, world-renowned theme parks and a premium ad-supported streaming service.

NBC Universal’s Technical Operations Enterprise Product team builds products and services to organizations throughout NBCUniversal including Ad Sales, Broadcast Operations, NBC Digital, NBC News, NBC Sports, Cable Entertainment brands and local TV stations. The Enterprise Product team span 6 key verticals: Content Management, Content Sales and Finance, Scheduling and Distribution, Ad Sales, Ad Technology and Integration, Data and Analytics, and Linear Distribution. As a part of the Ad Technology and Integration team, you will develop the architectural strategy to ensure a cohesive product ecosystem across each vertical, enhance existing workflows, identify process improvements, provide strategic recommendations, and lead cross functional technical and operations teams to design, build, and launch new features and new initiatives.

January 2018 - Present

Center for Cognitive Advertising Research & Technology

 

Chairman of the Board

 

As Chairman of the BOD  for the Center for Cognitive Advertising Research. I provide leadership guidance, innovation oversight and help direct research fund

raising activists.

October 2019 - January 2020

BrightLine.tv

Lead Architect and Executive Strategic Adviser

 

BrightLine creates, delivers, and measures dynamic, interactive, and engaging ads across the entire Advanced-TV landscape using our proprietary Build-Once- Run-Everywhere platform. 

As Lead Architect, Mr. Berrios is responsible for providing management with technology and corporate development support. 

December 2020 - April 2022

 

SVP of Technology, Head of Cloud Transformation

 

LivePerson helps our lives be more accessible and works with brands everywhere helping them build trusted Conversational AI relationships. Our Conversational Cloud platform empowers consumers to stop wasting time on hold or crawling through websites and message their favorite brands instead with their direct intentions, just as they do with friends and family. LivePerson has been innovating conversational connections between brands and consumers for more than 20 years, starting with the invention of live chat on websites by our founder and CEO, Robert LoCascio, back in 1995. Today, we’re driving the new conversational era by helping the world’s largest brands connect with their customers at scale through AI-powered messaging.

 

As the SVP of Technology, Head of Cloud Transformation, I worked very closely with the Global Product & Technology leads, as I lead a team of experts focused on our global cloud expansions, Computer-Human Interfacing (CHI) innovations, building deep industry relationships, evangelizing developer communities and guiding our continuous journey towards the public and hybrid cloud.

July 2019 -To Present

CBM Holdings Inc.
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Co-Founder and Managing Director

 

At CBM Holdings our families mission is to combine domain expertise, actionable strength, world class service, and outstanding operational support by cultivating synergistic relationships between corporate entities to achieve sustainable prosperity and global equality.

We provides shared resources, infrastructure and intelligence across start-ups so they can focus on building their core products and services. We takes a tiger team approach by injecting experienced and qualified expertise across many companies, thereby reducing operational and capital expenditure. This help ensures that our investment strategies are well-positioned to meet our members needs while building long-term, sustainable practices, and platforms which benefit our family of companies' diverse experiences, prowess and technology innovations. 

October 2015 - November 2019

BrightLine.tv

Chief Technology Officer

 

BrightLine founded over a decade ago, is the first company to pioneer interactive television solutions for brands. Today BrightLine offers the industry’s most powerful Advanced TV technology suite that gives marketers a plug-and-play solution to take advantage of the entire scale of Over-The-Top (OTT), connected TV and Smart TV advertising opportunities. Fortune 100 companies rely on BrightLine’s unprecedented reach to engage their audiences with interactive ads across broadcast and cable stations, including AMC, A&E, Discovery, ESPN, CBS, ABC, Fox, NBC and Hulu, and OTT delivery platforms, including Roku, Samsung, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft (Xbox) and Sony (PlayStation), as well as leading ad networks and Demand-Side-Platforms (DSPs).

As CTO, Mr. Berrios was responsible for the day to day management of all technology operations and building innovating Advanced TV advertising products.

BrightLine.TV is based in New York, NY


Learn more about how BrightLine is revolutionizing connected TV advertising at www.brightline.tv or follow them on Twitter @BrightLine_TV.

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January 2012 - June 2015

MediaBrix Inc.

Chief Technology Officer

 

Chief Technology Officer, led overarching technology strategy, architectural design, implementation, and production support for advertising platform on social and mobile games, coupled with a proprietary suite of advertising products which deliver immersive brand experiences during dynamically targets user emotional moments, within web or mobile native SDK’s through the utilization of Emotional Targeting methods.

Managed a team of engineering responsible for all architectural design/implementation of 
MediaBrix’s global solution and AD product offerings; 

  • MediaBrix global advertising operational systems 

  • Mobile SDK/Web API advertising thin clients 

  • Mobile targeting/data aggregation facilities

  • Big data insights and business intelligence operations

  • User profiling and demographic data broker integrations

  • Real-time event based analytic solution

  • Cloud based micro service development framework

June 2009 - August 2011

Adgregate Markets

Chief Technology Officer

 

Through the acquisition of AdFast Media LLC, served as the Chief Technology Officer of Adgregate Markets.  Responsible for managing the technical vision, strategy and resources within the organization, developing the Adgregate Market proprietary SaaS platform, powering distributed commerce services for global brands and retailers across the web, mobile and social landscapes. Led the design, delivery and market roll out of;

Managed a team of engineering responsible for all architectural design/implementation of

Adgregate Markets solutions and AD product offerings;

 

  • ShopFans - Enabling fully transactional ecommerce capabilities within ad units, mobile devices, Facebook, and other forms of embeddable widgets 

  • ShopAds - Enabling full transactions within rich media advertising units across web, mobile and social channels 

  • ShopCloud - Advertising campaign management platform

  • SecureAds - Advertising units which offered proactive protection against malware and spyware. Methodology became the portable application security standard for secure transactions on non-secure pages. Truste, McAfee and Symantec certified

  • Open REST API allowing for easy integration with external applications, enabling third-party developers to utilize internal systems

Key technologies used: 

  • C#, PHP, Ruby, Rails, Java, MVC, RPC/XML, MySQL, SQL Server 2008 

  • Co-location bicoastal redundant data center facilities.

January 2004 - July 2009

AdFast Media LLC (in2apps.com)

2003 - 2004

Palisades Holdings

Chief Technology Officer

 

Helped turn around a distressed investment. Served as Chief Technology Officer of Clear Credit and led a group of a developers to rebuild a credit repair B-C platform. We developed the platform into a self-service portal and positioned it to be more compliant to rapidity changing regulations.
 

  • Provided technical and business strategies to all Clear Credit IT operations


  • Managed daily operations over a dozen developers and independent subcontractors

  • Assisted CEO with managing overall business and strategy initiatives

Co-Founder, Chief Technology Officer

 

AdFast Media create an agnostic data delivery platform that could be used for high traffic/high volume distributive rich internet applications (DRIA). AdFast media successfully brought to market the in2apps Software as a Service (SaaS) platform that enabled online publishers to leverage the in2apps platform to eliminate the time, effort, resources, and financing often required for retaining audiences and monetizing services.
 

  • Founded by Joe Robinson, Mehdi Alami and I together with 5 engineers

  • Helped raised over $3 million dollars in equity funding

  • Building an asynchronous IO micro service computing infrastructure modeled on parallel processing, distributed computing and a generic REST API pattern developer framework

  • Designed and developed framework and API’s that could be applied to the physical layer, application layer, database schema and business processing layers

  • Coordinated and executed the acquisition of AdFast Media to Adgregate Markets in 2009.


Key technologies used:

  • ASP.net, .Net C#, C++, AS2, JavaScript, SQL Server

  • Custom built Supermicro Mini 1U high density servers located in geographically redundant data centers


Mr. Berrios was directly responsible for bringing the following In2apps enterprise-level solutions to market for over a thousand online publishers:
 

  • in2community: full-featured turnkey social network

  • in2classified: customizable online classified listings

  • in2advertizing: time-based self-service advertising

  • in2ID: global access to all in2 applications

  • in2sso: secure authentication point for application access

  • in2api : API suite for development and mash-ups


These solutions consisted of a custom asynchronous IO computing platform modeled on parallel processing, distributed computing, micro service-oriented architecture (mSOA) and RESTful API interfaces developed in Microsoft .Net 3.5 and C++. AdFast Media was acquired by Adgregate Markets in 2009.

January 2001 - January 2004

InTrust Technologies

Co-Founder, Chief Technology Officer

Co-Founded and served as Chief Technology Officer of inTRUST Technologies, a technology solutions service provider offering a complete range of technology infrastructure and application development services. InTRUST Technologies was merged into the formation of AdFast Media LLC in 2005.

  • Led and managed the engineering team’s efforts on information architecture, computer security, application development and building network infrastructures for a variety of different industries.

  • Provide technical and business strategies to all inTRUST operations

  • Manage daily operations over a dozen independent subcontractors

  • Act as a Virtual CTO and Technology Manager to inTRUST clients, managing all high-level technical decisions for a wide range of clients

  • Assist and manage the overall business and sales initiatives

May 1996 - September 2001

UGO Networks.

Co-Founder, Chief Technology Officer

 

We started in 1996 as Actionworld, Inc.,a subsidiary of InterWorld.  in April, 1997 InterWorld spun off UGO Networks (Unified Gamers Online), billed as a "hand-picked network of professionally managed gaming sites and services." The largest independent gaming community on the Internet - created the prestigious UGO E3 Awards, now the Game Critics Awards, to recognize high quality video game entertainment. In 1999, UGO changed its name to UnderGround Online as part of its efforts to expand its target audience. The company streamed various forms of media entertainment on its website as well as offering articles on topics of interest to its target audience. Topics included comics, television, music and film. On July 2007 UGO Entertainment was acquired by Hearst Corporation to expand its interactive media division.

Managed a team of engineering responsible for all architectural design/implementation of

UGO Networks solutions and AD product offerings;

  • Aggregated and built e-commerce, gaming, online distribution, content-related websites targeted toward an 18 to 34-year-old male demographic

  • Chief Technology Officer for all company’s divisions

  • Helped raised $68 million in equity capital over 5 rounds of financing

  • Built UGO’s global technology infrastructure

  • Managing the day-to-day development and engineering efforts of over 150 technologists and several dozen third party consulting firms

  • Built, deployed and managed the data centers of UGO Technology Solutions, a service provider for hosting and managed services

  • Developed UGO’s advertising distribution network, which served over 8 billion ads monthly

  • Designed and developed UGO’s Affiliate Enterprise Management System (A.E.M.S)

  • Developed and oversaw UGO’s e-commerce initiatives

  • Successfully sold several wholly owned subsidiaries including: GameDealer, Playlink, ActionWorld, and UGO Technology Solutions

  • UGO was sold to Hearst Corporation.

1990 - 1994

Videograf @ctive Media

Director of Engineering

 

  • Developed computer-based training programs for several pharmaceutical companies, multimedia corporate presentations, custom proprietary database programs, and client/server applications

  • Designed, managed, and created VideoGraf’s Internet services group 

1994 - 1995

Lehman Brothers

Senior Information Technology Security Engineer

 

  • Held the Senior Security Engineer position on the advance Internet/Intranet development team

  •  Responsible for opening up the banks systems to IT private clients securely via the internet

  • Managing and configuring all internal and external security systems 

1995 - 1996

ICON CMT

Senior Security Engineer

 

ICON CMT was an Internet solutions provider that offers a comprehensive range of services and products that enable corporate customers to implement their Internet, intranet and extranet strategies. Icon's mission was to provide end-to-end solutions to its customers by facilitating the

distribution of the customers' information and applications over Icon's communications infrastructure as well as access to such information and applications. In order to provide end-to-end solutions, Icon integrates services and products in three key areas: 

 

  1. Communications services, including high quality Internet access and web/server hosting and management, enhanced by the Company's proprietary technologies;

  2. A range of professional services, including custom application and website development and design, systems integration and maintenance and support services

  3. Product resales, including hardware and software, which are an integral component of systems design and integration and serve as a means of establishing customer relationships. Icon's customers include major corporations in the financial services, telecommunications, travel and media industries, such as ABC Radio Network Inc. ('ABC Radio'), The Associated Press, Bear Stearns, Bell Atlantic Internet Solutions, CBS, Galileo International ('Galileo'), Swissair and Swissotel.

  • Worked at ICON CMT, as a Senior Security Engineer on the Advanced Implementation Team

  • Consulted several Fortune 500 companies building and managing their security technology infrastructures

I help build,

Products.   Creative.   Engineers. 

Strategy & Delivery

  • Research & Insights

  • Stakeholder Workshops

  • Analytics & Optimization

  • Product Platform Strategy

Creative

  • Brand Strategy & Identity

  • Service Design

  • Experience Design

  • Visual Design

  • Motion & Illustration

Engineering

  • Embedded Systems

  • Cloud Infrastructure

  • Immersive Experiences

  • Mobile Applications

  • Web Applications

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Mahayana Buddhism - Alan Watts (1960)
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Mahayana Buddhism - Alan Watts (1960)

Here is an episode from the 1960 season of Alan Watts' KQED television series, Eastern Wisdom & Modern Life, entitled "Mahayana Buddhism". To find out how you can purchase the entire Eastern Wisdom & Modern Life series on DVD, please visit: http://alanwatts.com/collections A native of England, Alan Watts attended the King's School near Canterbury Cathedral, and at the age of fourteen he became fascinated with the philosophies of the Far East. By sixteen he regularly attended the Buddhist Lodge in London, where he met Zen scholars Christmas Humphries and D. T. Suzuki. As a speaker and contributor to the Lodge's journal, The Middle Way, he wrote a series of philosophical commentaries and published his first book on Eastern thought, The Spirit of Zen, at age twenty-one. In the late thirties he moved to New York, and a few years later he became an Episcopalian priest. In 1942 he moved to Illinois and spent the wartime years as chaplain at Northwestern University. Then, in 1950, he left the Church, and his life took a turn away from organized religion back toward Eastern ways and expanding horizons. After meeting author and mythologist Joseph Campbell and composer John Cage in New York he headed to California and began teaching at the American Academy of Asian Studies in San Francisco. There his popular lectures spilled over into coffeehouse talks and appearances with the well-known beat writers Gary Snyder, Jack Kerouac, and Allen Ginsberg. In late 1953 he began what would become the longest running series of Sunday morning public radio talks, which continue to this day with programs from the Alan Watts tape archives. In 1957 he published the bestselling The Way of Zen, beginning a prolific ten-year period in which he wrote Nature, Man and Woman; Beat Zen, Square Zen and Zen; This Is It; Psychotherapy East and West; The Two Hands of God; The Joyous Cosmology; and The Book: On the Taboo against Knowing Who You Are. By 1960 Watts's radio series Way Beyond the West on Berkeley's KPFA had an avid following on the West Coast, and NET television began national broadcasts of the series Eastern Wisdom in Modern Life. The first season, recorded in the studios of KQED, a San Francisco television station, focused on the relevance of Buddhism, and the second, on Zen and the arts.
All channels of knowledge in one single awareness is the goal of Atma-based Vedic Education
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All channels of knowledge in one single awareness is the goal of Atma-based Vedic Education

http://www.tm.org All channels of knowledge in one single awareness is the goal of Atma-based Vedic Education 1. Dr. Hagelin: Maharishi, I appreciate the value of your Vedic Education for expanding the awareness of the student, but does this Vedic Education also include the study of such disciplines as math, computer science, or economics-practical knowledge to prepare a student to earn a living and to function in today's technologically driven world? 2. Does the tiger remain alive due to the education of mathematics or physics or chemistry? Man's liveliness on the basis of what you teach him in the schools and colleges is a wrong notion. 3. The other kind of answer is that if a man can earn his living by knowing mathematics or physics, what will be deficient in his earning if he enlivens in his awareness the basis of all mathematics, the basis of all physics, the basis of all chemistry, the basis of all physiology? 4. Another fundamental level of answer is that Vedic knowledge is the knowledge of Atma, knowledge of the Self. 5. Second level is swara of Atma. Swara means reverberation. That means Atma, itself, reverberating into sound value. And so it is called shruti. And the Ved reverberating into the meaning of the language: And that meaning is substantiated in seeing, hearing, touching, smelling, the five senses and five senses of action. 6. Vedic education, education of Ved means education of Atma. Education of Atma is called nitya aparusheya. Nobody made Atma. It is eternal reality. Atma, or Self, is not made by someone. Veda is not made by anyone. It is picked up on the level that it exists on its own. 7. When we say Vedic education, we are opening that reality to the awareness of the student. Education is to unfold. Vedic education, is what contains all mathematics, all physics, all chemistry, all physiology, everything, all trigonometry, all geometry, all astronomy. 8. When a man has studied mathematics so he can count numbers in the market, but here, in the unfoldment of the total Atma, all mathematics, all fields of action, all fields of knowledge, are lively in one single awareness. Knowledge of that element or that quantity which is sum total of all knowledge. If a man has total knowledge, he'll be by far more efficient in his emotions, in his thinking, in his speaking, in his action, than the one who has only one knowledge. 9. If a man can earn his living by using his small part of the brain, how much a man who knows how to use the full brain will earn? Very much more. 10. This total Natural Law works for him whose awareness is awake in Atma. We are emphasizing the knowledge of Atma because if the Atma is awake in one's awareness, then total knowledge is awake in one's thinking, in one's speaking, in one's behavior. Infinite diversity of the galactic universe is governed by that power, which begins to work for any intelligence which is in tune with Atma. This is Vedic education. 11. If one has grown, even then he has a chance, through regular morning, evening meditation; or has a chance for his children to get into that. 12. All these poor people in the world, quarter population of the world, they are living life, they're eating, they're growing, but they don't have mathematics or anything. All these fields of knowledge are a mockery. 13. Vedic education will make a man lord of all he surveys. Modern universities give all knowledge in one campus. Vedic education gives all knowledge in every brain. 14. Atma. One word contains the total knowledge. And that word is one's own existence: 'a'. The whole Veda flows from 'a'. 'A' is the first word of the Veda. And the whole Veda, all those 40 values of the Veda, hundreds of books, they are all the flow of the syllable 'a'. 15. That is Vedic education. Everything else is a trash. When you have the ability for all the channels of knowledge in your single awareness, that is education for man. Don't waste your children's time by engaging them in partial, fragmented field of knowledge. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi is widely regarded as one of the foremost scientists in the field of consciousness.
Alan Watts ∞  How Your Mind Controls Everything

Alan Watts ∞ How Your Mind Controls Everything

Alan Watts:How Your Mind Controls Everything For donations: https://www.paypal.me/YourUniverse ∞ ∞ ∞ For More Videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqgdoN2vPWc&list=PLO1BuQjupi73-GcVhchy1LuJ5FhR8xfxx ∞ ∞ ∞ Alan Wilson Watts was a British philosopher who interpreted and popularised Eastern philosophy for a Western audience. He is best known as an interpreter of Zen Buddhism in particular, and Indian and Chinese philosophy in general. He authored more than 20 excellent books on the philosophy and psychology of religion, and lectured extensively, leaving behind a vast audio archive. Watts wrote more than 25 books and articles on subjects important to Eastern and Western religion, introducing the then-burgeoning youth culture to The Way of Zen (1957), one of the first bestselling books on Buddhism. In Psychotherapy East and West (1961), Watts proposed that Buddhism could be thought of as a form of psychotherapy and not a religion. He considered Nature, Man and Woman (1958) to be, "from a literary point of view—the best book I have ever written."[2] He also explored human consciousness, in the essay "The New Alchemy" (1958), and in the book The Joyous Cosmology (1962). You Universe is a Channel that produce motivational and inspirational videos from the most important philosophers of our Planet. Please activate the bell to receive notifications of the new videos! ∞ Subscribe to YOUR UNIVERSE ∞ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9kujKe8IQnR4vSAR7RHfbg
Anil Seth: How your brain invents your "self" | TED
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Anil Seth: How your brain invents your "self" | TED

Who are you, really? Neuroscientist Anil Seth lays out his fascinating new theory of consciousness and self, centered on the notion that we "predict" the world into existence. From sleep to memory and everything in between, Seth explores the reality we experience in our brains -- versus the world as it objectively might be. This talk and conversation, hosted by TED science curator David Biello, was part of a TED Membership event. Join TED Membership for access to exclusive monthly members-only events, including special conversations with some of the most brilliant TED speakers. Visit https://ted.com/membership to learn more. Visit http://TED.com to get our entire library of TED Talks, transcripts, translations, personalized talk recommendations and more. The TED Talks channel features the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes (or less). Look for talks on Technology, Entertainment and Design -- plus science, business, global issues, the arts and more. You're welcome to link to or embed these videos, forward them to others and share these ideas with people you know. Become a TED Member: http://ted.com/membership Follow TED on Twitter: http://twitter.com/TEDTalks Like TED on Facebook: http://facebook.com/TED Subscribe to our channel: http://youtube.com/TED TED's videos may be used for non-commercial purposes under a Creative Commons License, Attribution–Non Commercial–No Derivatives (or the CC BY – NC – ND 4.0 International) and in accordance with our TED Talks Usage Policy (https://www.ted.com/about/our-organization/our-policies-terms/ted-talks-usage-policy). For more information on using TED for commercial purposes (e.g. employee learning, in a film or online course), please submit a Media Request at https://media-requests.ted.com
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