Manage 24/7 support team for broadcast news editing environment. Team responsible for front line edit support, documentation, and technical training for news production & editorial personnel.Internal “Level 2” support escalation for end users and interdepartmental workflow & technical consultation. Vendor Account Rep & Professional Services Liaison.Technical project planning and implementation; architecture, budgeting, design, management and implementation of digital media workflows, systems, and infrastructure. Integration of news editing infrastructure and workflows with other CBS divisions (CBS Interactive, News Archive Division, Multi-Platform Distribution). Work closely with CBS Operations and Engineering & Corporate IT Security teams. On-air system administration and support for all news broadcast post-production operations, including digital ingest, craft & day-of-air editing, playout, & archive and restore systems and operation. Subject matter expert for news post-production technologies and workflows.

Expanding personnel: interviews, hiring, and management. Technical project planning and implementation.Successfully planned, budgeted, and executed rollout of Avid MediaCentral into existing Interplay editing environment for CBS News Division (300+ users), including division-wide end user training.Upgraded news editing backbone from 1Gb to 40Gb switch infrastructure: budget planning through implementation within a highly restricted broadcast schedule.Integration of news editing infrastructure and workflows with other CBS divisions (CBS Interactive, Archive Division, Global Media Operations).Developing end-to-end closed captioning workflow for broadcast and webstreaming in advance of new FCC regulations.Providing internal “Level 2” support for end users and interdepartmental production workflows.

System Administrator for CBS News Operations. Configured, upgraded and administered ISIS Media Network for entire national CBS News broadcast; CBS Evening News, CBS Early Show, CBS Weekend News & CBS Sunday Morning. Comprehensive changover from linear to non-linear workflow and infrastructure for entirety of CBS News post-production and broadcast, from ingest to digital archive.

Setup & configuration of shared editing Unity MediaNetwork for re-launch of daily nationally-syndicated news magazine program.Media Management & System Administration; Avid desktop support.Facility recommendations and implementation, cost analysis & budgeting.

Oversaw Non-Linear Department expansion from 3 offline Media Composers (1999) to 6 Symphony finishing systems, five Media Composer systems, 2 Avid Xpress Pro offline systems and a shared Unity MediaNetwork (2003).Facility recommendations and implementation, cost analysis & budgeting. In-house post-production supervision and training. Project and media management. Clients included ABC Monday Night Football, NFL on CBS, NBC Olympics, NCAA College Basketball Championship on CBS, Atlantic Records, ESPN, VH1.

Creator and manager of rental editing department, facilities and equipment, including marketing, sales, scheduling and client relations.Tech-support manager and network administrator for editing staff and facilities.Trainer and supervisor of production, transcription, and dubbing staff; including hiring. Maintenance, upgrade and repair for 5 Avid Media Composer systems (MC4000 to MC400s).

Location P.A., linear tape assistant editor, and schedule coordinator for office and clients. Clients included Pfizer, Merck, and Burroughs-Wellcome.

Production coordination, acquisition of stock footage for the FIREPOWER! series for The Discovery Channel.

Troubleshooting and maintenance of video-production equipment and post-production facilities for all NYU video courses.