Michael Kane Email & Phone Number

United States

Directly manage a staff of 13 Operators and Supervisors + co-manage a staff of over 120 while overseeing day-to-day operations for 22 full-time and 46 part-time Regional Sports Networks. Liaise with corporate clients, regional programmers and internal partners to ensure correct delivery of materials, minimize down time and outages across 70-120+ Live events daily. Strategize with corporate and internal partners and third-party vendors to modernize Master Control Operations to SMPTE 2110 and Linear Distribution to HEVC during 5G transition and C-band repack. Maintain conditional access of distribution market switching for over 3000 RSN affiliates as well as non-linear fiber hand-offs to internal partners. Create, deploy and update training materials and curriculum for onboarding of new hires and internal promotions. Create tools and streamline communications and workflow processes to maximize efficiency and improve operational focus- making day-to-day operational objectives understandable and actionable for Operations teams and third-party vendors.

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Install and maintain all Distribution Technology lab and rack equipment including MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 receivers, A/V analysis equipment, In-house IPTV TELCO gear, network servers and Fiber/IP routing gear.Update and create network drawings for existing and future system layouts.Work with Operations Coordinators on trouble tickets requiring tier-2 and tier-3 support. Coordinate with Affiliate Engineers to diagnose and resolve signal and equipment-related issues- minimizing affiliate down time and reducing overall ticketing times.Draft new training SOPs and update existing technical and procedural documents. Lead technical training of staff during all new software and hardware deployments and upgrades.Maintain receiver and equipment inventory databases and stock. Responsible for shipping, receiving and repair of equipment for WM affiliates and in-house partners.Fill in as needed during periods when Technical Manager is out of office.

Greater Atlanta Area

Central point of contact for Cable and Centralcasting Clients.Managed day to day operations across up to 10 different network originations as well as staff -including Master Control Operators, Ingest QC, Traffic Coordinators and Apprentices.Responsible for all new hires and their training, tracking and mentoring.Responsible for leading all new initiatives including network launches/rebrands, cross-training, disaster recovery and drafting of Net Ops Procedures.Project lead for all live events on ABC affiliates and cable networks.Managed all incoming syndicated feeds, programming and commercial deliveries from multiplesources and vendors for HD and SD cable and affiliate networks.2011 - Present

Greater Atlanta Area

Managed day to day operations of network origination, as well as on-air quality for fivedifferent cable clients.Coordinated all traffic movement and inventory as well as log edits and changes.Managed all live events for networks and maintained a 5000+ hour digital and tape archive.Partnered with Network Management Team on all new hires and training initiatives.Worked with software vendors to network and integrate 3rd party PCs between broadcastuplink centers, in-house monitoring and network ingest.Worked with vendor IT/Engineering to maintain daily QC logs and upgrade software andhardware.

Greater Atlanta Area

Responsible for after-hours and weekend supervision of 13 different cable networks andassociated Master Control and Traffic staff.Managed all incoming materials, feeds and live events during primetime and weekends.Coordinated with Network Manager on all client and department-wide initiatives and training.

Greater Atlanta Area

Aggressively monitored 13 Cable Network originations, ensuring consistent discrepancy freeon-air quality.Ingested, edited and QC'd all incoming long-form, paid and promotional content.