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Englewood, CO, US

Golden, CO

• Direct all technical operations while reporting to the CEO, providing strategic insights regarding product ideas, customer interactions, and overall corporate functions.
• Add valued input while actively participating in recruitment processes for various departments, leading/conducting interviews, creating job listings, and preparing job profiles for the direct team and other units.
• Optimize manufacturing processes by managing operations effectively, ensuring product reliability, and driving process enhancements across all technical departments to increase departmental efficiency.
• Spearhead the design adaptation of legacy products to align with modern technologies and systems, ensuring their continued relevance and competitiveness in the market.
• Lead a high-performing team managing special projects focused on emerging technologies and innovative product design.Notable achievements while in the position included:- Formulated a strategic roadmap to enable.

• Maintained oversight of 75 high-performing team members, managing organizational broadcast and technical operations, including technical integration of 2 global content streaming platforms as part of the due-diligence.
• Led in-depth research operations to design and implement scalable integration and migration plans supporting domestic and international facilities pertaining to operations systems/processes, mission-specific broadcast.
• Managed post-acquisition technical operations encompassing direct oversight of broadcast engineering, software engineering, and multiple operations teams.
• Conducted system reliability and operational process analysis, replacing legacy systems and equipment, overseeing project budgets, and steering key processes for increased system reliability.
• Actively addressed operational challenges that impacted departmental functions across all management levels to ensure seamless and efficient departmental operations.
• Directed the team overseeing the planning and execution of a state-of-the-art signal acquisition MCR facility while responsible for the reception of live content via satellite, fiber, and IP, content-encoding.

Centennial, Colorado, United States

• Managed 3 distinct engineering functions within the company, including ensuring uninterrupted satellite broadcast services across multiple countries, overseeing quality control for offshore contract manufacturers, and.
• Oversaw and supported end-to-end product development functions, including offshore manufacturing team/facilities oversight, product reliability, and product validation.
• Served on the product review board, responsible for creating and optimizing product solutions.
• Selected to oversee manufacturing and product development in Asia, managing the full production cycle, local contacts, and vendor relationships.
• Assessed OEM/ODM designs covering PCB configurations, schematic layouts, and mechanical blueprints, focusing on ensuring electrical safety, top-tier reliability standards, and strict adherence to EMC regulations.
• Responsible for executing schematic design, formulating mechanical hardware designs, and conducting PCB designs, emphasizing optimizing for manufacturability.

Centennial, Colorado, United States

• Designed and implemented broadcast systems architecture and broadcast operations monitoring environments.
• Implemented standardized cabling and systems documentation, escalations processes, and trouble tracking.
• Participated in strategic technology decisions with senior management teams as a lead engineering resource.
• Leveraged an in-depth understanding of satellite technology to develop satellite receive/back-haul and origination systems for leading organizations, including Comcast, DirecTV, MultiChoice-South Africa.
• Maintained and developed vendor relationships, including negotiating project costs, project expectations, and project timelines.
• Engineered a tiered redundancy platform through the custom design of automated alerting, routing and monitoring systems decreasing response time to outages and allowing for improved issue tracking and problem resolution.

Centennial, Colorado, United States

• Led a high-performing team of broadcast operations technicians, overseeing seamless 24/7/365 coverage to manage and ensure consistent, reliable content delivery across a network of 6 satellite uplinks.
• Project managed, designed and implemented multiple architecture reviews and broadcast system re-designs.
• Implemented a standard operating procedure for the preventative maintenance of mission critical systems, documentation of processes, and serialized hardware tracking.

Centennial, Colorado, United States