Jonathan Oliver's Biography

Immediately after university I started work for Inmos, just before it was bought by ST Microelectronics. They had the dubious pleasure of teaching me everything I now know about silicon, software, embedded systems and real time OS. During the course of the 8 years I worked there I saw the same CPU architecture progress from an element in a massively parallel super computer to a component in a consumer electronics set top box. The last project I worked on for ST was their first port of the OpenTV operating system to the ST20 core.

I then moved to OpenTV to experience a silicon valley startup company. Over the next five years I shuttled around the world helping to launch digital terrestrial, cable and satellite broadcasters. During this time I ported OpenTV 1.0, EN, EN2 and 1.2 to a large number of platforms, wrote a number of OpenTV applications (games & EPGs), made sure we had working demos and platforms for the many trade shows and was called in to troubleshoot and speed up many manufacturers STBs and applications. In short I learnt more than is safe about OpenTV, DVBSi, DVB, MPEG (transport & decoding) and to always check what’s in the soup when dining in Beijing.

For the last year I've been woking as a consultant for JeoTV during this time I've worked on a couple more EPGs, some games for BSKYB and a few more specialised projects. I've worked in Holland, Paris and the UK as part of a larger team and individually.