Andy Pilon Email & Phone Number

Toronto

- Working in a live control room environment, performing various roles: from robotic camera, graphics and master control operations. - Operating robotic cameras during the live house proceedings for the morning and afternoon sittings which includes following the speaker and the Sergeant at arms when they enter the chamber in the morning and walk up to the speaker's dias; question period switching back and forth from the government and opposition MPPs as they ask and answer questions which involves quick framing of various medium and close up shots of all members; routine proceedings etc. - As a master control operator, responsible for monitoring the primary Legislature Network - Switching into and out of the Live Parliamentary Daily Proceedings- Sub- Clipping the morning and afternoon sessions of the house and committee meetings- Recording daily Live meetings of The House

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Working at the Atlantic Desk in Mega Master; overseeing the following channels: CTV Halifax, CTV Moncton, CTV Sydney, CTV Winnipeg, and CTV Comedy Network. Editing of all stations playlists, timing to the top and bottom of each hour.Rolling breaks for CTV National News at 11pm Atlantic time on overnight shifts.Doing daily fax checks before all live Newscasts for Halifax and Winnipeg local newscasts.

Toronto, Canada Area

Working in MPC at the Front Desk of Atlantic, Eastern&Western time zones; monitoring live programming, Studio News Feeds across the Country.- Allocating control of my front desk to Studios and locations across the country using ITX Automation. - Editing and appending of ITX Automation playlists daily.-Performing line up checks of various TV and Radio stations Test Signal Patterns. -Trouble Shooting any technical issues that might occur at the MPC Front Desks; example loss of audio, or closed captioning.

1090 Don Mills Road, Toronto On

-Responsible for the on air transmission of AMI-TV EAST & WEST & AMI-Audio Broadcast Channels. -Ensuring the continual presence of scheduled video, audio, closed captioning, descriptive video, Satellite and Cable Returns from Shaw, Rogers and Bell.-Running of Vector 3 Automation through Raid Server; on air playback & off air ingesting of programs, promos, psa's entering in all the meta data; Example: SOM/EOM, program segment #'s titles, etc.-Timing out of Vector 3 on air play lists, for AMI-TV's EAST and WEST Channels and next day's play lists as well, looking for any discrepancies, omissions etc. -Quality Control of all programs, psa's & promos for AMI-TV, ensuring the presence of close captioning, proper audio and video levels for both HD and SD content according to CRTC Standards, as well as continual descriptive video for the visually impaired. -Editing of AMI-Audio files through iMedia Touch Software; timing out each hour block for both the EAST and WEST Networks

-Responsible for on-air/on-line presentation and the signal monitoring of TVO - Ensuring the continual presence of scheduled video, audio, closed captioning, secondary events on the output of Master Control, Satellite and TVO Cable return - Working with Harris Automation/Omneon Server; on air playback & off air ingesting - Amending automation files and branding to suit client needs - Working with Softel Captioning Software copying cap files for on air - Recording of the Ont.Legislature's "Question Period" for playback overnight - Monitoring the accuracy and quality of closed captioning -Digitizing HD Cam Video content and P2 Card transcoding through Avid Media Composer - Deleting of Media through Avid Interplay Access Monitoring of live web events for quality - Digitizing content from multiple sources as needed for broadcast and production - Ensuring that Digitized content meets SMPTE Technical and in-house quality standards according to procedures - Close Captioning recording - Reporting all on air faults according to standard procedures - Updating/and confirming metadata information about the physical/technical aspects of media files, Example: SOM/EOM, audio tracks, aspect ratio, CC status; in the Digital Asset Management System - Keeping the equipment and software in good working order, by ensuring its cleanliness - Reproducing various types of media

-Responsible for the daily monitoring of close to 700 channels, various Broadcasters across the Country. Ensuring the continual presence of quality audio and video. -Performing Sim Subs for vaious Canadian Broadcasters with Current American Affiliates; example: ABC, NBC, CBS, Buffalo, Vermont and Seattle. - Checking Sim Subs of Canadian over Canadian Networks; emaple: CTV Montreal with CTV Toronto, or Global Montreal over Global Toronto.

-Monitoring of 'Live' on air signal; Vision TV, ONE (The Mind, Body & Spirit Channel) and The Christian Channel Harris Automation/Omneon Server; both on air playback & off air ingesting - Editing Harris on air playlists; creating crawls for on air using Pixel Power - Segmenting programs and digitizing programs for playback through Imedia Creating Lo-Res files of all programs through Flip Factory and copying them to the Diva Archive System - Performed internal and external dubs from various formats (Beta-DVD; VHS-DVD)

-Responsible for on air look of 14 different channels - Working with Harris Automation/Omneon Server; on air playback and off air ingesting - Live programs; from studio/on location sporting events Microwave Live Eye hits/setups - Daily news records and playbacks for York/Durham Regions - Daily Dubs for customers (internal/external) - Close Captioning recording

Diploma, Television Broadcasting

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General Arts