Bruce Gilham Jr.

All work · Media & entertainment

Fox Networks

A Silverlight application for the advertising side of the network — managing and scheduling the advertisements that go to air.

Years
2010–2011
Sector
Broadcast advertising
Role
Developer
Outcome
Ended

What was wrong

The network's advertising operation needed a tool to manage and schedule the spots going to air.

What I built

The Silverlight application that did it.

What happened

The engagement ended when the position was cut in a round of downsizing.

Stack

Silverlight C# .NET
Running something like this? What I do about Silverlight

Have a system like this one?

Tell me what it does, what it is written in, and what breaks when it goes down. I will say plainly whether I can help.

Tell me what it runs on

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