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Bill Brown

Director of IOT Cloud and Connected Products, Rheem Manufacturing

A proven Leader with experience in Software/Product Development & a strong history of

innovation. Bill has filled the roles of Developer, Architect, Development Manager and Director.

He has experience working in startup environments, with large corporations and as a consultant.

Bill spent most of his career in the IoT space, including both the Industrial Internet of Things

(IIoT), MultiMedia IoT formally known as Converged Services or the 3 screen strategy, and

Consumer IoT such as wearables AppleWatch, Connected Car, Smart Home, etc... 

In addition to working in the IOT space, Bill has designed and developed OTT (Over The Top)

Video Distribution and Management Systems, IPTV and iTV application, various Ad

Management Systems and now WebRTC. Perhaps his greatest contribution to AT&T is the Uverse Enabled platform. An API which enables developers to build second screen applications for the U-verse platform..

With over 23 US Patents awarded, Bill has demonstrated the ability to find unique solutions to

complicated and simply problems.  www.linkedin.com/in/billbrown30114 

Latest from Bill Brown

Just this past week I found myself discussing the merits of yet another IoT Platform as a Service (PaaS) offering with a sales representative. It did not take too long for the conversation to take the obvious turn toward the number of connected devices the platform could support and how well it scales. The typical discussion starts out with the vendor saying that a...