Technical excellence has earned a company headed by a Waterloo Engineering alumnus its third Emmy award for a media asset management system.
Ross Video, which is based in Ottawa and employs almost 1,200 people, is scheduled to receive its hardware at a media and technology conference in Las Vegas next month.
David Ross graduated from Waterloo with a degree in computer engineering.
The chief executive officer, chairman of the board and majority owner of the company is David Ross (BASc ’91), who joined the family business after graduating with a computer engineering degree and grew it into an international success.
Presented by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS), the Emmy Award for Technology and Engineering honours a Ross system called Primestream, which enables broadcasters to collaborate to edit video remotely and across geographically dispersed facilities via the cloud.
“We are delighted to be able to provide this production flexibility and advantage to our customers, and honored to be recognized with this prestigious award,” David Ross said in a media release.
Technical and engineering Emmy awards are given to individuals, companies and organizations for technologies that are so innovative they materially affect television. Almost 18,000 broadcasters and media professionals belong to NATAS.
David Ross has said he fell in love with technology when his father brought home one of the earliest personal computer in 1975.
His passion later led him to Waterloo, where he benefitted from “fantastic” co-op experiences and learned valuable lessons including how to deal with mountains of work and the advantages of collaborating with smart people.