Digital Barriers
Mike Copperwhite has a diverse work experience of over 30 years, dating back to their time as an Engineer at Cryogenic Consultants in 1989. Mike then worked as a Software Developer at Finnigan MAT before moving on to work at Eidos Technologies as a Software Developer where they were involved in writing video compression codecs in C/C++ and assembler. Mike then worked as a Software Architect at Avid Technology for over a decade where they worked on Sibelius, a music notation software, where they led the codebase transition from low-level platform APIs to Qt, and from 8-bit ASCII to a fully Unicode application. Their role as Senior Software Engineer at Telestream involved working on ContentAgent workflow automation software development, mainly focusing on driving the transition from CPU to GPU processing and low bit-depth to high bit-depth colour capability. Finally, they were hired by Digital Barriers as a Senior Video Codec Engineer to work on video compression and decompression algorithms.
Mike Copperwhite attended Imperial College London from 1986 to 1989, where they obtained a Bsc Hons degree in Mathematics.
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Digital Barriers
Digital Barriers is a world leader in edge-intelligent solutions for the global surveillance and security markets. The company is headquartered between the United Kingdom and United States, with regional operations covering Europe, the Middle East and Asia-Pacific.We provide software solutions and cloud services to manage the capture, analysisand streaming of live video, enabling actionable video intelligence to be delivered where it’s needed, when it’s needed. Our software-based solutions, supplied with highly-performant hardware where required, readily integrate with video management systems, cameras and sensors, and have been sold to flagship defence, security and law enforcement agencies in more than fifty countries around the world. We also resell through large commercial channel partners and on a licensed basis to leading technology companies and service providers.Digital Barriers established its reputation by providing integrated mission-critical surveillance and security solutions to some of the best known surveillance and security agencies in the world. We reinvented the art of the possible through the deployment of new, proprietary technology – our favorite customer references all contain the phrase “game changing”. Digital Barriers solutions are in use around the world every day keeping people safe, at the heart of national security operations and the fight against terrorism and serious and organised crime. We can deliver our software-based solutions as SDKs and licenses, on standard COTS hardware, or on bespoke hardware designed to meet the needs of the most demanding customers across defense, security and law enforcement.