Steve Lerner is an American businessman who works with companies on operations and business planning for content delivery, hosting, bandwidth, managed service, and e-commerce. Education Lerner attended Long Beach Polytechnic High school, University of California Santa Cruz (BA Economics & Electronics Sound Engineering Program), and received an Masters of Business Administration from Columbia University (Dual campus program with University of California at Berkeley). Career Lerner began his career in media technology as a QA and Sales Engineer at Sonic Solutions. After Sonic Solutions, Lerner started working with internet video technology at VDOnet, inventor of variable bitrate streaming media. Lerner subsequently joined TEN-TV, a business broadcast network where he built a global content delivery network (CDN) to parallel the satellite television broadcasts with internet video broadcasts. Later, Lerner joined Speedera Networks building a global media CDN. After the launch of Speedera's audio and video CDN services, Lerner took over Speedera's operations of 80 datacenters worldwide. After receiving an MBA, Lerner moved to New York and began consulting work. Lerner is Consulting General Manager at RampRate Sourcing Advisors where he specializes in operational consulting, business planning, and media technology strategy. At RampRate, Lerner has worked on projects raging from global financial datacenter benchmarking to digital supply chain sourcing in the media industry. Lerner's digital supply chain analysis has been covered by Henry Blodget. Sound engineering and cinematography Lerner designed sound post-production systems for the Rede Globo TV network's South Rio television studios and supported sound and mastering facilities at Sony, BBC, Polygram, and Abbey Road. As a cinematographer, he did a portion of photography and interviews for the documentary Jericho's Echo: Punk Rock in the Holy Land. Public Appearances * * * *
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