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New York City Metropolitan Area

• Oversaw live event and studio shoulder programming for NBC Regional Sports Networks, including spearheading return-to-play and new remote and hybrid workflows for NBA, MLB, and NHL game productions with professional.
• Revamped… Show more Oversaw live event and studio shoulder programming for NBC Regional Sports Networks, including spearheading return-to-play and new remote and hybrid workflows for NBA, MLB, and NHL game productions.
• Revamped remote production workflow for 2021-22 NBA, MLB and NHL seasons utilizing technology enhancements which included creation of cloud based, in-house control rooms keeping with industry trends, creating.
• Led project to reinvent shoulder programming for NFL and NHL pre/post broadcasts, including leading weekly meetings, ideation, sharing best practices, deck creation and final presentation to NBC senior management team.
• Coordinated and led sport-specific seasonal content summits for production groups across all regional networks, bringing together all basketball, baseball, and hockey production teams from across the country to NBC HQ.
• On-site Super Bowl LVI Coordinating Producer responsible for NBC owned stations and NBC regional network coverage combining operational resources with game broadcast production team for numerous live shots and.

Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics (Summer 2021)

• Produced 125+ live event remotes and 120+ hours of live Olympic programming in addition to daily supervision of 25-person production team.

Greater New York City Area

• Created and supervised production of live 3-hour weekday NFL morning show which experienced 15% rating increase in 18 to 49-year-old demo during show’s debut season.
• Received 2017 Sports Emmy nomination for Outstanding Daily Studio show.

Bristol, Connecticut

• Emmy nominated supervising producer for SportsCenter, and multiple NFL Studio shows, including NFL Primetime, NFL Live, NFL Insiders, Fantasy Football Now and Fantasy Football Kickoff. Provided editorial direction to.
• Developed, staffed, and supervised… Show more Emmy nominated supervising producer for SportsCenter, and multiple NFL Studio shows, including NFL Primetime, NFL Live, NFL Insiders, Fantasy Football Now and Fantasy.
• Developed, staffed, and supervised 2 new studio shows for NFL studio group, NFL Kickoff and Fantasy Football Kickoff which included creating production teams, long-term planning, and daily oversight of personnel and.
• Managed editorial process for daily studio shows which included oversight of show content, hosts, analysts and show personnel, generating new ideas and planning for future content.
• Supervised multiple show staffs and numerous direct reports across the company with a high promotion rate and exemplary performance reviews.
• Oversaw NHL sport coverage and management of analysts on the ESPN family of networks, including but not limited to the regular season, NHL Playoffs, Stanley Cup Final as a non-rights holder which included leveraging.

New York, New York

• Coordinating Producer for multi-camera remotes, live events, and red-carpet shows, including The Grammys, MTV Video Music Awards, MTV Movie Awards, Presidential Town Halls and Live 8 Concert Special. Supervised all.
• Developed… Show more Coordinating Producer for multi-camera remotes, live events, and red-carpet shows, including The Grammys, MTV Video Music Awards, MTV Movie Awards, Presidential Town Halls and Live 8 Concert.
• Developed workflow of 2007 Video Music Awards pre-show and post-show Las Vegas remote in addition to production of 367 sponsored news segments over 36 hours of programming with extremely limited budget and resources.
• Created systems of operations for remote events, including The Grammys, MTV Video Music Awards, Presidential Town Halls and Live 8 Concert Special which included IP-based systems to stay within budget constraints.
• Served as Coordinating Producer for Presidential Town Hall Specials targeting under 25-year-old demographic and served as control room Coordinating Producer for election night coverage. Show less