Bruce Gilham Jr.

All work · Media & entertainment

Fox Networks

A Silverlight and C# application for the network's advertising operation, managing and scheduling the spots 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
Maintaining something like this? What I do about Silverlight

Inherited 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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