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New York, NY, US

Stamford, Connecticut, United States

Stamford, Connecticut, United States

Stamford, Connecticut, United States

Stamford, CT

• Manages day-to-day operations of digital video operations team consisting of 15+ Video Streaming Coordinators.
• Optimizes staffing of coordinators to ensure all events are covered.
• Creates operational playbooks for tier one events, including SNF, F1, NBC News, Chivas, etc.
• Acts as primary point of contact for outside vendors and internal teams for tier 1 events.
• Oversees testing of new player and app builds and assigns JIRA tickets for upcoming projects and testing.
• Interviews, hires, and trains new coordinators in technical procedures and operational workflows.

Stamford, CT

• Produce marquee Tier 1 events: Olympics, The World Cup, Sunday Night Football, Super Bowl LII, NASCAR, NHL, Formula 1, and Premier League Soccer.
• Collaborate and test with Ad Sales group to ensure proper commercial pods operate during live streams.
• Analyze and report viewership metrics to management for individual assets as directed.
• Support Project Managers with testing new player builds and mobile application updates.
• Produce and monitor live streaming and 24/7 events across NBC Sports mobile initiatives: NBC Live Extra, Golf Live Extra, and En Vivo Live Extra.
• Leverage proprietary Content Management System to create unique desktop mobile and OTT experiences (e.g. HLS and HDS platforms) for live sporting events across entire NBC Sports platform: NBC, NBCSN, Telemundo, Golf.

Stamford, Connecticut

• Monitor feeds of live RSN events, such as NBA and NHL events.
• Listen to commercial control room directors to support digital advertising operations.
• Insert advertising pods into RSN's digital livestream.
• Produce highlights and other short-form clips in conjunction with RSN broadcast.
• Publish clips and deliver digital files to appropriate RSN partner.

Stamford, CT

• Emmy Award Winner for Outstanding Trans-Media Sports Coverage for the Games of the XXI Olympiad. Emmy Award Nomination for Outstanding Digital Innovation
• Created in-pattern streams for all time zones including Eastern, Mountain and Pacific times.
• Produced Live Streams for over 40 different sports
• Prepping, maintaining and QC of live streamed sporting events.
• Incorporating quality control processes into workload – i.e. testing, smoke testing.
• Working with outside vendors and internal resources such as developers, designers, editorial and advertising operations in a cross functional capacity.

Bristol, CT

-Plot & track statistics of sporting events for usage on live ESPN broadcasts, SportsCenter, and other ESPN platforms.-Generate ideas and perform historical research in order to give context for statistics and storylines for television broadcasts. -Seek and record any notable statistical/analytical trends or highlights in assigned games to escalate to.

Brookfield, CT

• Responsible for leading groups of 30-40 children from ages 5-13.
• Maintaining the YMCA code of ethics while providing safety, entertainment and management to each child.
• Planning and organizing daily activities within my specified group and assisting other counselors and CIT's in their activity plans.
• Provided problem solving skills for the various situations that arose daily.

Ridgefield, CT

• Administration and tracking of bids outstanding; assigning trades and breaking down scope of work; coordinate any needed job site meetings between estimators and subcontractors.
• Log, review, and update responsive subcontractors per bid; contacted new subcontractors to obtain information in database.
• Update weekly status report; assist estimator with other miscellaneous duties

Danbury, CT

• Acted as Team leader in implementing a major marketing project for a new spirit product.
• Contacted and sold-in accounts; confirmed sales and product installation calls; updated schedules for installation crews and field sales personnel; tracked and updated field performance.

Danbury, CT

• Supported marketing and on-field activities; scheduled telephone service and setup and tested internet broadcast equipment in support of daily broadband and audio of each home game;
• Provided sales and operational support for critical games with Team USA, Team China, Team Russia, etc;
• Helped recruit and secure Celebrity speakers for annual breakfast; met and accompanied celebrities like Roy White and Mike Torres to the intro/pre-Breakfast Dinners and to the Breakfasts.

Danbury, CT

• Assisted pharmacist where needed.
• Interfaced with customers; calling insurance companies about individual customers' prescriptions, co-pay costs, etc.
• Ran the back area of the pharmacy to restock shelves, check expiration dates, reorganization and eliminating discontinued products from shelves, etc.

Bs, Management

Activities and Societies: Intramural Basketball, Softball, and Football

Education record

Activities and Societies: Wrote own column on schools newspaper. All-Conference Track and Field