Ryan Key Email & Phone Number

Knoxville, Tn, Us

• Partner with Sales to design and implement high-value solutions, leveraging Grass Valley’s Agile Media Processing Platform (AMPP) and addressing customer-specific media workflows.• Serve as the technical subject matter expert in media and entertainment, presenting cutting-edge solutions that span SDI/IP, HD/4K/HDR, and hybrid cloud environments.• Develop innovative strategies and technical architectures to meet the evolving needs of media organizations, enabling them to maximize operational efficiency on AMPP.• Conduct deep technical discussions and field trials (Proof of Concepts) with customers, documenting results and building business cases for solution adoption.• Build and maintain high-level customer relationships, providing architectural guidance and advocating for the implementation of scalable, cloud-based workflows.• Oversee pre-sales technical support, including solution design, cost estimation, and ensuring alignment with customer requirements for technical and business needs.• Lead and mentor Solutions Architects across North America, driving strategic objectives to support complex customer engagements and long-term business growth.• Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, including Sales, Engineering, and Service, to ensure seamless customer handoff and project execution.• Stay updated on the latest media and broadcast technologies, maintaining expertise in live production, media asset management, and playout solutions.• Travel domestically and internationally to meet with customers and support the delivery of solutions, ensuring a hands-on approach to driving successful engagements.

Hartford, Connecticut Area

Key Accomplishments:• Directly manage multi-year multi-million capital and operational projects.• Manage teams of infrastructure, software, and platform engineers for capital and operational projects.• Develop business and technology strategies as well as execute those strategies.• Design new architectures to fulfill gaps and provide futureproofing for the changing media landscape.• Provide development, support, and maintenance to our in-house end-to-end production and post-production resources through the content pipeline.• Create synergetic partnerships across a wide array of both engineering and non-engineering groups.• Form strategic relationships with clients, key vendors, and manufacturers to develop new technologies.• Train and provide documentation to support personnel on newly installed software and equipment.• Oversee control rooms, linear and nonlinear editing suites, mobile production, file-based workflows, on-air facilities for networks distributing domestically and internationally, storage, and management of technical facilities.• Manage various company-wide engineering initiatives domestically and in partnership with international regions.

Knoxville, Tennessee Area

• Facilitate cloud migrations to AWS for various services using S3, EC2, storage gateway, snowball, cloud formation, CloudFront, RDS and various management tools. • Manage multiple large-scale SAN/NAS. • Manage systems configuration, troubleshooting, workflow development. • Administer the networking, cabling, configuration, workflow design, and related hardware and software needed to support each system. • Perform storage capacity\performance measurements and forecasting. • Ensure each system is supporting the users and functions intended. • Document system architectures, configurations, benchmarks, and suspected workload. • Ensure best practices for Servers, SAN\NAS, Tape Libraries, and Switches. • Automate system usage reports, alert notifications, and general statistics. • Train users on system procedures and engineers technical background operations. • Research new market technologies and evaluate their applications in the environment.• Liaison to vendors and communicate technical business requirements.

Knoxville, Tennessee Area

• Responsible for providing leadership on multiple projects requiring that I manage personnel as well as outside vendors.• Directed numerous capital projects with project value exceeding $500,000.• Reduced capital expenses on several projects through negotiations with vendors resulting in savings over $100,000.• Responsible for rebuilding the post-production infrastructure in 2016.• Develop architecture and integration of systems and network infrastructure for Broadcast Operations. • Formed strategic relationships with vendors for development of new technologies, and integration of future hardware/software systems.• Responsible for Windows, Linux, and Mac system administration. • Full working knowledge of baseband and digital data production integrations.• Trained personnel on newly implemented equipment.• Interfaced with operations to ensure that their technical needs were met in a timely and costly manner.• Managed 1.2 petabytes of spinning disk storage and LTO libraries.• Provided integration solutions and design to new storage migration initiative for Knoxville facilities.• Managed project and maintenance needs in the Knoxville facility.• Implemented a maintenance routine for all Graphic and non-linear edit systems.• Identifying and Implementing new technology necessary to automate the maintenance process resulting in significant reduction in time and money.

• Implement and support Final Cut and Avid systems• Manage Apple OS X server & Xserve• Maintained network infrastructure, and active directory• Archive projects to LTO• Develop how-to procedures• Beta testing, implementation, and support of workflows• Monitor and enforce technical standards and policies • Troubleshoot technical discrepancies and remedy problems• Ingest, encode, and digitize video material• Quality Control• Media asset management• Create video standards for internal and external clients• Improve organization and workflow• Aid in the education of best-practices• Resource management and scheduling• Project management

B.S., Computer Science

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Organizational Leadership, 3.75