Technology Expert Profile

Steven C. Bilow

Product Marketing Manager, Grass Valley Group

Steve Bilow is currently responsible for management of the ContentShare media asset management platform, the Profile API tools, and the Profile Applications Developer's program for the Grass Valley Group.

During his 13 year tenure at Tektronix, and subsequently the Grass Valley Group, Bilow has served in a variety of capacities in Marketing, Applications Engineering, and Software Engineering. His responsibilities have included strategic marketing, application partner development, and tactical marketing for newsroom computer systems; video editors; media management and video networking products; and sports production tools. He has also contributed to the development of strategic alliances with both Sony and Avid Technology.

Bilow has extensive experience in video and computing technology including Unix, X Windows, NT, multimedia, and 3D graphics. He has been extensively published in both the software engineering and broadcast communities and has over 60 articles, journal publications, and book contributions to his name. He is a member of SMPTE and The Association for Computing Machinery, and a past member of the Audio Engineering Society and IEEE. Bilow is also a frequent member of the executive committee for the ACM Object-Oriented Programming Systems, Languages, and Applications conference and past vice-chair of the Computer-Human Interaction Forum of Oregon. He was book review editor for the Journal of Object-oriented Programming, a columnist for The X Journal, and has served as a speaker at numerous industry events, including SMPTE, Broadcast Asia, and the National Broadcasters' Convention. He is listed in Who's Who in Media and Communications (1998), Personalities of America (1990), and Who's Who in the West (1989).

Bilow completed his undergraduate studies at California Institute of the Arts in 1982 with studies in music technology, audio engineering, and video production. Subsequently, he pursued graduate studies in computer science at Portland State University with research interests in computer graphics, object-oriented methodology, and software metrics.

Bilow's current focus is centered on making broadcasters, and other producers and users of video, optimally effective through tools and techniques for media asset management.