Thomas Mason
Director Standards Development at Society of Motion Picture & Television Engineers (SMPTE)
New York City Metropolitan Area United States
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Top SchoolThomas Mason is an international media technology executive with 25 years of experience designing and operationalizing file-based and streaming workflows across Europe and the U.S., currently leading standards development at SMPTE. He combines deep hands-on engineering (cloud migrations, AWS/Azure, REST APIs, platform automation) with standards leadership—chairing and contributing to numerous SMPTE committees and cross-organization workshops that shaped Media-over-IP and ST 2110 adoption. Known for translating complex technical requirements into practical, cost-saving platform migrations and bespoke collaboration tools, he bridges vendor, member, and product teams to accelerate standards-driven innovation. His background spans codec and format expertise, quality assessment and analytics, and patented R&D efforts from major studios, giving him rare domain depth across production, post, and distribution. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic roadmap-setting, public advocacy at international events, and turning standards theory into operational systems used by thousands of professionals.
10 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
Masters Degree, Media Technology, Masters Degree, Media Technology at Cologne University of Applied SciencesInformationstechnische Assistenten, Information Technology, Informationstechnische Assistenten, Information Technology at Rheinische Akademie Koeln
English, German
Github Skills (9)
naming8
rdd7
packaging4
dm4
reduction3
pdf3
hdr2
delegates2
reference-implementation2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
SMPTE/smpte-skn-platform
Oct 2020 - Jul 2022
Contributions:16 commits, 7 pushes, 36 comments in 1 year 9 months
SMPTE/rdd59-1
Jul 2021 - Dec 2024
Public CD of SMPTE RDD 59-1
Contributions:1 PR, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 5 months
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