Sherry Warburton — CTO

Enterprise Technology Executive with 20+ years of leading innovation—whether as a fractional CTO, co-founder, or VP Engineering. I’ve built products that drive 100M+ in revenue, advised CEOs on 150B opportunities, and made AI actionable for thousands of engineers. My expertise spans enterprise AI solutions, with significant/noticeable cost and time savings, embedded systems, cloud media workflows, and SaaS platforms and I’m just as comfortable leading a 100+ person team as I am guiding a startup through its first market entry. What matters most? Transparency, quality, and delivering results that align with your business goals. Key Achievements: ▸ Founded and lead Comcast’s Global AI Chapter; Advised and lead teams across the business to find AI solutions to every day business tasks and operations; Managed the Chapters AI Platform (in-house open-source models + Azure), ensuring 1000+ engineers had access to tools that drove tangible business impact. ▸ As Fractional CTO for iMSGer - CacheIt, evaluated a $150B marketing tech market, led microservices platform architecture, development, and recruited key talent to scale the business. ▸ Grew Imagine Communications’ media solutions revenue to $60M+ annually, leading a cross-functional team of 160+ engineers across 12 product lines, whilst transitioning legacy physical solutions to cloud based services. (Cost efficiency and savings - Modenization) ▸ Delivered SeaChange’s IPTV division growth (from 12M to 20M) by delivering a new powerful modular middleware (Mediaware)a forerunner to Opensource RDK. (explain further what the modular middleware gave) Are you a small, medium or enterprise business wondering if or how AI could help you super charge your business? ML, DL, NLP, and Generative AI can impact numerous business areas—even previously overlooked ones. Some processes benefit immediately from existing (commercial or open-source) Generative AI with minimal changes, while others require custom ML/DL models tailored to unique business needs and workflows. In fact, a survey of small business owners implementing AI technologies reveals significant benefits: enhanced operational efficiency (82%), improved competitiveness against larger firms (77%), mitigated cost increases (69%), and sustained growth even under challenging conditions (69%). (Orion Report) Let’s Connect: If you need AI strategy for enterprise systems, help scaling media infrastructure, or guidance on building a high-performing tech team, let’s connect—I turn vision into reality.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and MarTech expert with extensive experience in AI-driven solutions.

Location: Hidden Valley Lake, California, United States

Experience: 40 yrs

Skills

Ai Strategy & Leadership
Team Management
Product Management
Communication
System Architecture
Product Vision

Career Highlights

Led AI initiatives impacting thousands of engineers.
Grew revenue to $60M+ annually at Imagine Communications.
Pioneered Comcast's Global AI Chapter.

Work Experience

Comcast

Sr Director - New Device Lifecycle, Special Projects, Initiatives and Ai Project Strategist (3 yrs)

Technical Program Manager (0 mo)

Nomo Smart Care™

Project Manager (1 yr)

Jaspur.eco

CTO & Co-Founder (4 yrs)

iMSGer® Inc.

COO/CTO & Co-Founder (6 yrs)

Omniquity Inc.

Advisory Board Member (5 yrs)

Imagine Communications

VP Engineering (3 yrs)

Self-employed

Independent Consultant (7 yrs)

SeaChange International

Chief Technology Officer (5 yrs)

Various Companies

Prior to 2005 (22 yrs)

Sherry Warburton

CTO

Hidden Valley Lake, California, United States40 yrs experience

Highly StableAI Enabled

Key Highlights

Led AI initiatives impacting thousands of engineers.
Grew revenue to $60M+ annually at Imagine Communications.
Pioneered Comcast's Global AI Chapter.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and MarTech expert with extensive experience in AI-driven solutions.

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Skills

Core Skills

Ai Strategy & LeadershipTeam ManagementProduct ManagementCommunicationSystem ArchitectureProduct Vision

Other Skills

MiddlewareSet Top BoxEmbedded SystemsIntegrationIPTVMPEGDRMTeam LeadershipDOCSISInteractive TVSoftware EngineeringSoftware DevelopmentLinuxOral CommunicationVoIP

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Experience

40 yrs

Total Experience

6 yrs 10 mos

Average Tenure

Current Experience

Comcast

2 roles

Sr Director - New Device Lifecycle, Special Projects, Initiatives and Ai Project Strategist

Promoted

Jan 2022 – Jan 2025 · 3 yrs

Most recently, as Senior Director of New Devices Lifecycle & Initiatives/Special Projects at Comcast, I combined hands-on leadership with strategic vision.
▸ Globally managed a team of fifty embedded software engineers, coordinating 200+ resources across 7 key partners to successfully integrate vendor code and core RDK components.
▸ Spearheaded the delivery cycle, overseeing multiple successful launches of new broadband/entertainment devices annually while maintaining legacy systems.
▸ Launched the "THE Playbook" – a foundational cross-functional project management tool for device lifecycles. (Note: While not the headline, this role demonstrated significant cross-org coordination skills).
Crucially, as Head of Comcast's new AI Chapter:
I pioneered and led the strategic adoption of generative AI across diverse Comcast business units.
▸ This included foundational work like establishing our high-level Enterprise Azure OpenAI (GPT-4, o1) access, LLM-based in-house vector stores (PostgreSQL, Milvus, Chroma), and robust GPU (50x) infrastructure, plus diverse local models (Llama, Mistral, Granite, All_mini, SFMistral) and supporting tools.
▸ Directly managed dozens of strategic AI projects, driving direct savings in the tens of thousands of hours previously spent on tasks involving translation/summarization/empathy detection, generating significant positive ROI.
▸ Developed key operational systems – including our custom multi-model chat platform powering hundreds of daily queries, custom NLP tools for customer sentiment analysis & topic discovery, and embedded WIFI client steering models.
I continue to combine large-scale hardware integration project management with the foundational, hands-on leadership required to build and scale a cutting-edge AI strategy & delivery capability from the ground up.

MiddlewareTeam ManagementSet Top BoxEmbedded SystemsIntegrationIPTV+17

Technical Program Manager

Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 · 0 mo

As a Technical Program Manager, I had a joint responsibility for European entertainment devices deployed by Sky UK, Sky Ireland, Sky Austria, Sky Italy and Sky Deutschland. These devices included Sky's award winning smart tv's (Glass) and their entertainment streaming boxes.
▸ Maintain Jira hygiene across multiple projects – Regularly audit issue statuses, labels, and workflows to keep the board clean and provide a single source of truth for all teams.
▸ Facilitate daily cross‑business/region scrums – Act as the communication hub between UK, Ireland, Italy, Germany, India, and US squads. I coordinate agenda items, capture decisions, and circulate minutes so every region stays aligned on product roadmaps and key objectives.
▸ Own and participate in War Rooms during trial rollouts – When critical feature failures arise, I set up a focused incident space with engineering and stakeholders, drive root‑cause analysis, and track remediation steps until resolution.
▸ Drive sprint commitments and deliverables – Before each sprint kickoff, I participated/lead capacity‑planning sessions, assess historical velocity, and negotiate realistic story points. This ensures every squad commits to what they can realistically finish, keeping the overall agile cadence on target.

Atlassian ConfluenceIPTVStreaming MediaCommunicationInventory Management & DistributionAtlassian Jira+3

Nomo smart care™

Project Manager

Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 · 1 yr · Marin County, California, United States

1 in 4 seniors experiences a fall that sends them to the ER. 1 in 5 doesn't take medication as prescribed.
These are just a few of the statistics that illustrate how vulnerable elders are—and how necessary it is for caregiver that helps families stay one step ahead.
Nomo Smart Care is an eco system of IoT devices that together allow care givers to un obtrusively monitor and communicate with their senior family members living in the home they love.
▸ Standards research: provided guidance based on research of UL, FCC, NFPA, ACTA Part 68 and HIPPA as to product applicability.
▸ Project scheduling, created, maintained the product HW production schedule, this was critical for first product introduction into the US market.
▸ Jira project management: Created multiple projects to reflect the Hardware, back office and mobile application projects. Created Epics, stories, tasks to appropriate team members and prioritized reported issues and changes.

IPTVAI Strategy & LeadershipSoftware Project ManagementProduct VisionCommunicationTeam Leadership+4

Jaspur.eco

CTO & Co-Founder

Jan 2020 – Jan 2024 · 4 yrs · San Francisco Bay Area

Jaspur was an attempt to change the mindset of young shoppers eager to save the planet though conscious retail purchases. We formulated a methodology which score products not only on the materials within a product, but also on the ethical, humane, social responsibility and human responsibility of the brand manufacturer.
▸ SaaS B2C, at Jaspur I architected and oversaw the building or a micro services based platform, that allows brands to capture their eco ethics, ingest sports apparel for publishing. The platform also enabled Jaspur to score each brand and each product through a eco algorithm created and implemented by Jaspur. The eco score advised the Jaspur members (consumers) to make informed purchase decisions as part of the Japur mobile engagement experience.
▸ Evaluated and advised on business concept and competitive landscape for a $150+ billion dollar market opportunity.
▸ Advisor to CEO/Founder on all technical aspects of the platform. Jaspur's founder came from the fashion industry where he had gained a passion for both outdoor sports/activities and the impact of the fashion on the planet. My role to educate him in layman's terms the technical requirements and skills needed to deliver his vision, as well as to lead the development and delivery of both the platform and mobile application.
▸ Evaluation and recommendation of technical and advisory hires. As the CTO I brought onboard an offshore development team as part of an investment in Jaspur.
▸ Contributor to investor pitch deck. Together the Founder and I worked on the business plan, including the member membership model, the brand onboarding model and campaign model. These were used to build and support the Jaspur pitch and ask.

Team ManagementStart-upsSoftware Project ManagementProduct VisionSystem ArchitectureStrategy+11

Imsger® inc.

COO/CTO & Co-Founder

Jan 2019 – Jan 2025 · 6 yrs · San Francisco Bay Area

Early stage startup in the direct marketing technology, looking to disrupt a $100+ billion market sector.
COO (Aug 2020 - Present)
▸ Developed iMSGer's business execution plan, using Liveplan, inc. Executive Summary, Opportunity, Execution Plan, Company Ownership, including CapTable, Financial Plan. Critical data required for the investor pitch deck
▸ Validated the business concept and plan with real business owners and consumers
▸ Pitch, Marketing & Technical Deck development
▸ Oversaw key personnel recruitment, bringing in the CEO and CMO
▸ Spearheaded investor relationships and discussions
CTO
▸ Formalized the architecture, design and development of the micro services B2C and B2B Platform.
▸ Oversaw the development and execution of offshore RFP process.
▸ Delivered the MVP Architecture, requirements and roadmap, captured in JIRA as Epics and Stories, for both the back office and Angular mobile client UI/UX
▸ Contributed to the company patent portfolio, iMSGer holds 5 key patents that surround its core technology.
▸ Authored White Papers, including "After The Cookie Crumbles"
Technologies: AWS, Java(Spring) micro services, ELK, Docker, Kubernetes, RDS PostgreSQL, AWS Secrets Manager, Kafka, Druid, Trino, Superset, Prometheus, Grafana, Angular 2+, Flutter

Team ManagementStart-upsSoftware Project ManagementProduct VisionSystem ArchitectureStrategy+11

Omniquity inc.

Advisory Board Member

Jan 2017 – Jan 2022 · 5 yrs · San Francisco Bay Area

Omniquity strives to solve the need to timely orchestrate, actions and management of incoming bulk files. The platform is a B2C, B2B SaaS platform solution.
▸ Contributing Technical Board member
▸ UI/UX Design and Developed: Worked with offshore and on shore team to design and develop an MVP product, encapsulating IP.
▸ Contributed to ongoing IP development. Strengthening ip with security.
Technologies: AWS, Lambda, Node, JavaScript, Angular 2+, Desktop and Mobile
Offshore teams: Belarus

Start-upsProduct VisionSystem ArchitectureStrategySoftware EngineeringWeb Applications+1

Imagine communications

VP Engineering

Jan 2013 – Jan 2016 · 3 yrs · Sunnyvale, CA

A $330m yearly revenue, private equity founded company, Imagine Communications produces multi-screen video solutions for linear, on-demand and recorded video plus traditional and personalized ad insertion over managed and unmanaged IP networks.
▸ Supervised onshore team of 130+ engineers and 30+ offshore engineers, generating $60M product revenue yearly
▸ Managed product delivery road-maps for Ad Insertion, Transrating, Transcoding of ABR content for OTT and digital TV, 18+ diverse products both HW and embedded SW.
▸ Managed the business pivot from big iron products to PaaS on open stack, providing new opportunities and avoiding product legacy moniker.
Technologies: C, C++. GO, Java, Python, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, embedded and cloud Platforms. Offshore team: Hydrabad.

Atlassian ConfluenceTeam ManagementEmbedded SystemsIPTVMPEGProduct Vision+13

Self-employed

Independent Consultant

Jan 2012 – Jan 2019 · 7 yrs · Marin, CA - Distributed Team

Nomo Intl: Despite the recent focus on mobile platforms, it is Connected TV that is witnessing the strongest growth in media consumption. The nomo™ platform powers the distribution and discovery of content across TVs, STBs and mobile devices, targeting over a 1 billion active users. Nomo Intl was a spin out of Vidscale.
VidScale: is the first distributed edge compute platform that enables content delivery to deployed on service provider access networks.
▸ Definition and Implementation of engineering processes, including Scrum implementation, resulting in a data driven planning process.
NOMO, a spin out from Vidscale, targeted the development of a new business model Smart TV middleware. The model drove residuals back into the delivery pipeline, including advertisers, retailers and TV manufacturers, thereby encouraging loyalty in the pipeline.
▸ Instrumental in the UI/UX design of a new TV platform working with
▸ Advanced the RFP, Requirements Document production and delivery, organized and attended RFP technical meetings, resulting in scored recommendations to the Founders and CEO.
▸ Program Managed the frontend offshore engineering team based in Shenzhen China, including introducing Agile development methodology, JIRA project management.
Technologies: AWS, Kubernetes, ELK, Java(Spring) micro services, SmartTV embeded web services middleware. Offshore teams: Schenzen China
iControl Networks: was a leader in connected home technology and innovation, creating solutions that provide greater peace-of-mind, enable simple home and energy management. iControl was sold to two entities, Comcast and Alarm.com
▸ Established iControl Professional Services organization working alongside iControl's principal architect.
▸ Established the template for "Statement Of Work"
▸ Worked alongside Sales to onboard new IoT device manufacturers.
Steve Symonds Associates:
▸ Instrumental in delivery of product/solutions analysis and strategy documents for key customer projects

Team ManagementProduct VisionStreaming MediaStrategyCommunicationTeam Leadership+7

Seachange international

Chief Technology Officer

Jan 2005 – Jan 2010 · 5 yrs · San Mateo, CA

A leading supplier of Video Delivery Software Solutions to broadcasters and networks.
CTO
▸ Developed the first CTO Office mandate, for a $160m business
▸ Founded a technical forum consisting of key global customers.
▸ Instrumental in leading system and product architectures across 8 global organization divisions
Offshore teams in: Philippines, Bulgaria, India
Division Manager In-Home Products
▸ Primary sponsor of 1 business acquisition
▸ Grew revenue for division from $12m to $20m
▸ Grew the organization from 13 - 80+ resources in 5 years
▸ Responsible for 5 global cost centers (80+ and offshore resources)
▸ Full SDLC Responsibilities for 12 products and 10+ million devices supported.
Offshore teams in: Philippines and Bulgaria