Kirk Marple has over 25 years of experience in the software industry. Marple has founded Candela Software Technologies, LLC to pursue new business opportunities in the media and entertainment space. Looking to align emerging cloud architectures with broadcast, post-production, and OTT workflows, and develop scalable, innovative solutions for a wide set of customers. Marple was the Chief Software Architect of RadiantGrid, a Wohler Technologies Brand. Marple was responsible for the RadiantGrid platform vision, strategic business development, and management of product development. Marple was the founder, President and Chief Software Architect of RadiantGrid Technologies, LLC, before its acquisition by Wohler Technologies in April 2012. Before that, Marple was the co-founder and Chief Software Architect of Agnostic Media for over 7 years. Marple was responsible for architecting the company's technology solutions and building and managing Agnostic Media's development team, and supporting an elite set of Fortune 500 customers. Marple holds five US Patents (#6,049,805, #6,166,732, #6,173,404, #6,212,436, #6,349,301) for his work in object-oriented virtual environment platforms. Marple has a master’s degree in Computer Science from the University of British Columbia. Specialties: Object-oriented architecture, distributed systems, n-tier web development, media services platforms, metadata structures.

Manager, Founder @ Building Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) solutions, which speed the time to market for a wide variety of ISVs who want to cloud-enable their existing on-premise applications, and build new, unique cloud-native SaaS applications. From May 2015 to Present (8 months) Chief Software Architect @ (Acquired RadiantGrid Technologies, April 2012.) Architected and developed the RadiantGrid Platform which provides an industry-leading level of support for media transcoding, digital asset management, metadata handling, workflow integration, and digital distribution. Architected and developed Tachyon Wormhole, an industry-first media retiming solution for file-based workflows. Tachyon Wormhole enables a run-time adjustment of media assets while preserving not only video and audio quality, but also closed caption integrity. Responsible for technology vision, product planning, and business development with executive leadership in broadcast, online, and media production markets. Primary developer on frame-accurate multi-track transcoding pipeline, which supports multi-format ingestion and multi-format encoding in HD and SD formats. Architected and developed grid-enabled multi-format transcoding technologies, as well as transwrapping and partial ingest capabilities. Experienced with closed-captioning specifications and technologies, such as EIA-608, EIA-708, SMPTE 334M, SMPTE 2016 (AFD), SMPTE 328M, SMPTE-TT, and SAMI. Implemented integration of many codecs, containers and media processing libraries, such as JPEG2000, H.264, MPEG-2, QuickTime ProRes, MXF, GXF, audio loudness correction, video standards conversion, audio and video watermarking, and graphics insertion, Responsible for development of broadcast server integration (MPEG-2, Pinnacle, MXF, GXF, LXF), large-scale shared storage (SAN, NAS) integration, workflow integration (API-level, web services: REST, SOAP), and quality analysis software (Interra Baton, Nexidia QC, Metaglue MXFixer). Technical interface with remote development teams building Microsoft Silverlight, WPF and ASP.NET user interface components and applications. From April 2012 to May 2015 (3 years 2 months) President, Chief Software Architect, Founder @ Architected and developed the RadiantGrid Platform which provides an industry-leading level of support for media transcoding, digital asset management, metadata handling, workflow integration, and digital distribution. Responsible for technology vision, product planning, and business development with executive leadership in broadcast, online, and media production markets. Primary developer on frame-accurate multi-track transcoding pipeline, which supports multi-format ingestion and multi-format encoding in HD and SD formats. Architected and developed grid-enabled multi-format transcoding technologies. Responsible for development of broadcast server integration (MPEG-2, Pinnacle, MXF, GXF, LXF), large-scale shared storage (SAN, NAS) integration, workflow integration (API-level, web services: REST, SOAP). Interface with remote development teams building Microsoft Silverlight user interface components and applications. From June 2008 to April 2012 (3 years 11 months) Chief Software Architect @ Architected and developed a robust set of frameworks (Agnostic Media Frameworks) which provide an industry-leading level of support for digital asset management, metadata handling, workflow integration, transcoding, digital distribution and digital rights management. Architected and led development of several enterprise products (DMMP, GridCoder, VODFLOW) which are in production at Fortune 100 broadcast and media companies. Primary developer on frame-accurate transcoding pipeline, which supports multi-format ingestion and multi-format encoding in HD and SD formats. Architected and developed grid-enabled multi-format transcoding technologies. Responsible for development of broadcast server integration (MPEG-2, Pinnacle, MXF, GXF, LXF), large-scale shared storage integration, workflow integration (API-level, web services: REST, SOAP). From February 2001 to June 2008 (7 years 5 months) Director of Development @ From August 2000 to January 2001 (6 months) Software Development Manager @ WindowsMedia.com: Development Manager for WindowsMedia.com and architected the WindowsMedia.com compact disc metadata database for the Microsoft Windows Media Player 7.0. Virtual Worlds Group (MS Research): Development Manager for the Microsoft Virtual Worlds research platform - an object-oriented software platform for developing 3D virtual environments. "Blackbird" (MSN Dev Tools): Development Lead for the Blackbird project - a multimedia publishing system for the Microsoft Network v1.0. From August 1994 to July 2000 (6 years) Software Developer @ From 1991 to 1992 (1 year)

M.Sc., Computer Science @ The University of British Columbia From 1992 to 1994 B.Sc., Computer Science @ Kutztown University of Pennsylvania From 1984 to 1988 Penn State University From 1985 to 1986 Kirk Marple is skilled in: Digital Asset Management, Transcoding, Streaming Media, Software Development, Distributed Systems, Digital Video, Integration, Video, HD Video, H.264, Architecture, Broadcast, Multimedia, IPTV, Digital Media