Matthew Brooks
Principal Product Manager, BBC Product Group
Stevenage, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolMatthew Brooks is a Principal Product Manager at the BBC with 13 years of R&D expertise and 11 years of professional experience shaping media technology and production workflows. He leads multidisciplinary teams to innovate audience-facing playback features—chapterisation, interactivity and personalisation—while driving adoption of object-based and flexible media across commissioning, editorial and production. His background spans hands-on engineering and technical direction in games and media, giving him a rare combination of systems-level technical fluency and product leadership. He specialises in metadata-driven solutions that both improve viewer experience and streamline production pipelines. Known for convening diverse stakeholders, he translates editorial needs into practical end-to-end technical directions across the media supply chain. Based in Stevenage, he pairs academic computer science training with a career-long focus on making complex media systems usable and valuable for audiences and producers alike.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc Hons,M.Sc, Computer Science, B.Sc Hons,M.Sc, Computer Science at The University of Manchester
English
Github Skills (27)
vtt8
json-simple8
typescript8
microsoft7
electron7
media-queries7
vscode-extension7
player7
vscode7
editor7
media-player7
matchmedia6
visual-studio6
media-library6
visual-studio-code6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
bbc/object-based-media-schema
Dec 2020 - Aug 2021
The Object Based Media schema models interactive and personalised media experiences in a simple JSON format.
Contributions:1 review, 11 commits, 1 PR in 8 months
matchmediajson-formatexperiencesjson-simplemedia-queries
bbc/storyplayer
Dec 2017 - Aug 2021
Contributions:6 reviews, 82 commits, 10 PRs in 3 years 8 months
playersopticvttrd-section-fxtbbc
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