Bill Helms Joins Alticast to Lead
Continued Product and Technology Innovation
Alticast, a global partner for the delivery of media entertainment,
announced today that Bill Helms has
joined the company as Chief Architect and Senior Vice President of Technology. As
a cable industry veteran with more than 30 patents to his name, Helms brings a
wealth of knowledge and experience to help Alticast continue innovating new
products and applications for delivering increasingly interactive, multiscreen
TV Everywhere services.
Helms
joins Alticast from Time Warner Cable (TWC) where he spent more than a decade
as the operator’s Vice President of Subscriber Engineering and Technology. At TWC, Helms was responsible for leading the
specification and development efforts of architecture, applications and
services for the company’s video product line as well as overseeing the entire
development process of the equipment used by TWC subscribers for video, data
and telephony. Among his many notable
accomplishments at TWC, Helms led the internal engineering teams responsible
for the launch and integration of the TWC navigation application into over 10
million STBs and was also the lead technical representative on the Downloadable
Conditional Access System (DCAS) joint efforts with Comcast and Cox
Communications.
Prior
to his tenure at TWC, Helms held numerous technical positions with Scientific-Atlanta,
DiviCom and Harmonic. In his new role,
he will report into John Carlucci, Alticast’s Chief Technology Officer (CTO).
“Over his 20 plus
year career, Bill has earned a well-deserved reputation in the industry as a
leader who can innovate and solve problems across the video service provider
and supplier community,” said John Carlucci, CTO for Alticast. “Bill’s technical
and business expertise, especially when it comes to understanding complex consumer,
technology and operator trends, makes him an excellent addition to the Alticast
team where we continue to pioneer industry-leading solutions.”
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