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Iroquois, Ontario, Ca

Business Development Manager, Production Workflow. Ross Video

Plano, Tx, Us

Solutions Architect. Pre Sales. Solution Architecture and Sales as part of a large Presales Engineering and Solutions Architecture team.• Broadcast and Post Production based solution design and architecture for the M&E market.• Discovery calls with resultant delivery of Bill of Materials, Quotes, customer reviews, Product demonstration and System Proof of Concept design, deploy and demonstrate.• Partner/OEM 3rd party vendor integration for storage, Asset Management, MOS, as well as Automation (Master Control and Production) environments.• Business strategy and co development of product suite solution focused on End-to-End Newsroom environments.• Launch of new product suite for News, Post Production and other Asset Management centric vertical markets.• Consultation, with focus on potential efficiencies for Master Control, Live as well as Post Production Asset Management based workflows based on product portfolio offerings.

Montreal, Quebec, Ca

Senior Support Systems Engineer for both the Quantel (SAM) and Grass Valley Production and Master Control products. Extensive knowledge of Master Control, Integrated Playout, Automation and Production products, including solution design, deployment and support.• Customer Support: Day-to-day local and remote system support of master control, virtualization and production based server, editing, systems.• Field Service Engineering: Greenfield deployment of large live sports based production system with focus on system design, data center and visualization infrastructure build out and optimization.• Root cause analysis; Technical advice to help customers establish probable root cause, even where an issue was complex and had many possible dependencies on third party vendor products

Newbury, Berkshire, Gb

Senior Support Solutions Engineer at SAM

Plano, Tx, Us

Member of a team tasked to design, install, build and commission multiple 'Centers of Excellence' Demonstration Centers, both in New York and Los Angeles. These Centers of Excellence provided for covering any demonstration or project scenario and utilized Imagines’ complete portfolio of product, including Comprehensive Newsroom and Asset Management workflows, data-center virtualization and cloud storage and compute, both integrated and server based Master Control Playout with graphics and automation, large baseband and IP based routing infrastructure as well as Software Defined Networking Orchestration. Primary Focus on Master Control based solutions deployed on either hardware or cloud based infrastructures. End-to-End MOS based Newsroom implementation and management.• Sales Solutions Architecture/Engineer (Complete end-to-end product portfolio solutions architecture and system value engineering)• System design and proposal (Scope both Greenfield as well as system upgrade/overhauls) supported by Bill of Materials, Quotes, Drawings, Solution Presentations and training.

Melbourne, Florida, Us

Product Specialist in News and Production environments.

Ca

Management of pre and post-technical product sales support for Leitch's news based server products. Emphasis was on product demonstration and post sales management with direct reports and demonstration team.• Extensive Project Management and training of post-sale projects with primary focus on newsroom projects.• Design and deliver marketing and other related release and training and trade show materials.• Design and deliver complex, workflow driven system concepts and designs to fit customer’s news and playback requirements.• Liaise with OEM partners and 3rd party manufacturers for Storage, Server and MOS specific product integrations.

Ca

Roles and responsibilities as a product specialist and subsequent Product Manager included extensive international travel to support the sales effort on the editing and server product portfolio. Customer service, inside sales, sales forecasting, project, and Product Management role was both on a technical engineering/R&D as well as Product Line Marketing basis. • Product vision and strategy. Conceptualize, propose, define, procure, project, manufacture and launch the NewsFlash™ product to market.• Product position and forecasting. Marketing and technical publications.• Delivered product support, demonstrations, nurture direct sales, OEM, dealer, integrators and installer relationships, as well as deliver end user training, trade show and partner alliances.

Ca

Joined Leitch as a Product Specialist for their recently acquired ASC Server Company. Skills used and acquired as a product specialist included extensive international travel, supporting the sales effort as the sole expert on the various editing and server products. Customer service, inside sales, sales forecasting, project and semi-product management skills were learnt during this phase of my career. Initiated formal training mandates for the various server product lines.Hired and managed a second VR Product Specialist to assist the ever growing demand for this field of expertise.Developed and honed skills for public speaking and presentations due to my participation on multiple international trade show conventions. Participated as a member of forum lead talks and meetings.Various Leadership Roles and

Full product certification for training. Full product certification for support. Built, launched and ran Africa's first official training school for this company's products.

Avid Certified Support Re. Avid Certified Instructor.

Staging and Events Manager. Event Liaison and coordinator.

Staging and Events Manager. Event Liaison and coordinator.

2-year conscription service.

Electronic, Audio, Visual and Television Systems. Satellite and RF Systems.

Product Management And Communications

Certification, Radio And Television Engineering

Education record

Education record

Science, Mathematics, Language, Technical (Drawing; Electrical, Electronics

Cetification-Project Management, Project Management