Steve Lerner

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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.[citation needed]

He 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 the Rede Globo TV network's massive South Rio television studios and supported sound and mastering facilities around the world such as Sony, BBC, Polygram, and Abbey Road. As a cinematographer, he did a large portion of the principal photography and interviews for the documentary Jericho's Echo: Punk Rock in the Holy Land.[citation needed]

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[edit] Biography

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 an Masters of Business Administration from Columbia University (Dual campus program with University 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 as NoMeansNo and Henry Rollins spoken word.[citation needed] His electronic sound engineering studies led to one of the first MIDI controlled laser light shows, designed by hand before those components were commercially available.[citation needed] He attributes his electronic music work to influences from Robert Moog, Donald Buchla, Terry Riley, Leon Theremin, David Van Brink,John Cage, Aphex Twin, Rocky Mullin (DJ Caliban), Wendy Carlos, Jessica Grace Wing, and Neu!. Steve currently maintains a studio with current modular analog synths from Modcan, Synthesizers.com, Cyndustries, STG SoundLabs, and a Macbeth M5N.

[edit] 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 called NoNOISE. Sonic's founder, Andy Moorer was one of the creators of FM Synthesis along with John Chowning.

After Sonic Solutions, Steve started working with internet video technology at VDOnet, inventor of variable bitrate streaming media. VDOnet was sold to Citrix and Steve joined TEN-TV, a business broadcast network where he built a global content delivery network (CDN) to parallel the satellite television broadcasts with internet video broadcasts.

Speedera Networks lured Steve away from TEN-TV (later acquired by LoudEye) 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 by Akamai Technologies in 2005.

Upon reception of his MBA, completed while working full time at Speedera, 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 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.

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US patent 6,801,576 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.

[edit] Geodesic architecture

In 1997, Steve Lerner collaborated with noted computer scientist, artist, and musician David Van Brink to build a superior geodesic dome useful for outdoor shelter purposes.[citation needed] 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 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 Geometry Dome was featured in the Guggenheim Museum as well as in museums around the world both in photography and actual construction by artist Marjetica Potrc.

The Geometry Dome blueprints are publicly available and can be found at geometrydome.com

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