Jonathan Strietzel

Startups | Experience

Cuttle Campus extends messaging beyond the web and is focused on the Digital Out of Home Market (DOOH).  Cuttle maintains a network of display screens in a number of luxury student housing facilities across the country. Their network displays important information from local deals, news, art from submitted by students and sponsored campus events. In short, Cuttle builds student communities and facilitates and inspires student collaboration, communication, creativity, and helps create success for building manages that house these students through a self-serve, web-based interface that allows advertisers to quickly target and penetrate this niche market.

 

Co-Founder and President at Big Stage Entertainment, Inc. now Image Metrics (IMGX) February 2005 – January 2011 (6 years)

 

Using three snapshots taken with a standard digital camera or a single snapshot taken from our high end Big Stage camera, Big Stage maps the detailed contours of your face to create your life-like 3-D replica, called an @ctor(TM) in seconds.

Big Stage’s 3-D capture technology stems from advanced stereo reconstruction technology funded by multiple government grants, including the CIA, as part of a nine-year cumulative research project at the University of Southern California (USC).

In 2009, Big Stage Entertainment was recognized by Forbes and Forbes.com as one of “Americas Most Promising Companies”, taking the #18 out of the top 20 companies selected.

Big Stage was acquired in 2011 by Image Metrics (IMGX).

 

Board Member, Fertile Action 2010-Present (2 Years)

 

Fertile Action is a Non-Profit organization working to ensure every woman of fertile age that is touched by cancer actualizes her dream of motherhood. Our mission is to eradicate the cost of fertility preservation for these women to become mothers. The unfortunate and unforeseen expenses associated with a cancer diagnosis affect every woman which is why we are building the nations largest discount network which will allow every woman to receive aid regardless of her financial situation, type of cancer diagnosis, stage, or genetic risk factors.

 

Founder at Cool Cloud (Pika Media, Inc.) 1999 – 2010 (11 years)

Founded and Raised $200k in Angel Capital. These funds secured our initial patent portfolio. Cool Cloud has been issued patents based on attaching advertisements to content on demand within a subscription model and multiple patents that cover the replacing of the ring tone on wireless devices with targeted and custom advertising messages.

Other IP covers the cloud storage and distribution of digital content. Cool Cloud specifically focuses on the cloud storage and distribution of music and video content.
The Cool Cloud board of directors is currently licensing its IP.

 

Partner at Stritz Studios LLC July 2004 – October 2006 (2 years 4 months)

Stritz Studios is a creative services studio designed to provide high end tech and graphics services to the entertainment industry. In our first year of operations we secured deals with and produced cutting edge technology for ABC Family, Hip-Hop Recording artist Lil Jon, NBC (Treasure Hunters), Magical Elves Productions, FX Networks (Rescue Me) to name a few. Our services ranged from graphic design to high end software and web programming.

 

Professional Societies

Beta Gamma Sigma – Lifetime Membership

Gamma Beta Phi – Lifetime Membership

 

Inventions | Patents

Cool Cloud Inc. (Pika Media Inc.)

Method and Apparatus for Telecommunications Advertising (2000) – Issued

Method and Apparatus for Telecommunications Advertising (2000) – Issued

Method and Apparatus for Telecommunications Advertising (2000) – Issued

Systems and Methods for distributing targeted multimedia content and Advertising (2001) – Issued

 

Mega Battles Corporation

Systems and Methods for Providing Player Skill Rankings in Server Based Video Gaming Environment (2005) – In Examination

Systems and Methods for Providing Virtual Camera Views in a Server Based Video Gaming Environment (2005) – In Examination

Systems and Methods for Developing Video Games in a Server Based Video Gaming Environment (2005) – In Examination

Systems and Methods for Server Based Video Gaming (2005) – In Examination

 

Big Stage Entertainment Inc.

Systems and Methods for Voice Personalization of Video Content (2007) – Pending

Systems and Methods for Creating Personalized Media Content having multiple content layers (2007) – Pending

Systems and Methods for Interactive Advertising Using Personalized Head Models (2007) – Pending

Systems and Methods for Voice Personalization of Video Content (2007) – Pending