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Bloomfield, Nj, Us

Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey

Working in the Global Media Operations to leverage SRE methodology to manage a fleet of Telestream Vantage transcode farms servicing a variety of content outlets including the launch of the Peacock streaming platform.Leveraged modern DevOps techniques to achieve goals including Github, Docker, Python, PowerShell, Ansible, PQD and others. Used Confluence and Jira to manage and communicate scheduling, work and documentation in an Agile framework.Used Splunk, Op5 and Cloud Watch to monitor products in our environment. Supporting on prem and cloud native products.Service, maintain, and upgrade using automated technologies a full complement of Avid enterprise level systems including Nexis, Interplay, and Media Central. Deployed cutting edge PCoIP systems to virtualize Avid and Adobe editing workstations for use on premises and remote operations.

New York,Ny

Supporting, administrating and customizing NBC News specialty applications including iNews and Media Central. Interacting with a variety of business units to enhance product functionality and user experience.Creating custom workflows and applications using off the shelf technologies. Created a web based archive application for legacy iNews material for use by national news divisions.

Managed services unit charged with scheduling, service and support for dozens of edit rooms and workstations. Served as main point of contact for all in-house production units in regards to post-production workflows. Projects included many custom workflows for high value projects.Lead project to plan and purchase a next generation file system for plant wide content creation. Designed, and maintained Apple based content creation platform including over 50 Final Cut Pro workstations. Integrated media serving assets with plant-wide media asset management infrastructure. Administered enterprise grade file transcoding system providing day-of-air content to PBS online and mobile media platforms. Supported daily and weekly near live-to-air news programs. Managed and maintained 600+ TB of fiber based spinning disk storage for edit. Maintained a dozen Avid Media Composers and an Isis drive sharing unit.

Managed post production for a variety of shows, including Emmy award winning 'A Baby Story'. Provided editorial and graphic design services.

Lead graphic designer for Comedy Central's TV Funhouse.

Worked on a variety of national advertising campaigns.

New York, Ny

Tape duplication services. Overnight dubber for various national ad campaigns and record companies.