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New York City, US

Collaborating with international partners, my team and I develop innovative media supply chain solutions enabling Warner Bros. Discovery to comprehensively manage its vast intellectual property portfolio.

New York City, US

• Directed a team of product managers working in the title, inventory, and descriptive metadata space, accomplishing key outcomes for Warner Bros. Discovery, including:
• centralizing and consolidating inventory and descriptive metadata across legacy companies (Warner Brothers, HBO, Turner, Discovery) in preparation for linear convergence and the launch of the MAX streaming platform
• defining and implementing a new entity-based canonical model for vending rich catalog datasets to a variety of clients and consumers (including MAX), distinguishing our content product capabilities
• collaborating with MAX customer migration, recommendation, and search teams to align legacy platform content identities against newly reconfigured consumer facing hierarchies
• coordinating with 7 other Media Supply Chain Product and Program leads to keep 67 development teams moving forward in concert

New York, US

• Managing a product team to drive the collective needs of the Discovery global content supply chain forward, including:
• Introducing a consumer-facing content structure to unify and clarify distribution metadata sets used for the Discovery+ global roll out
• Orchestrating the migration and alignment of content hierarchies and metadata for D+ regional launches, including D+ Brazil, D+ Germany, D+ Philippines, and D+ Canada
• Spearheading the design and implementation of a custom global asset management solution for marketing and promotional materials
• Facilitating applying for and receiving dispensation from regional ratings authorities as part of a content re-platforming effort within the EMEA region
• Establishing foundational solutions for tracking global operations activities, streamlining media workflow for technical evaluation, video edit, and localization

New York, US

• A member of the Content Solutions team, accomplishing key outcomes for Discovery Inc, including:
• Partnering across a newly formed joint engineering team to design and execute on a unified content system supply chain that merged the existing Discovery and Scripps Networks Interactive systems and consolidated them.
• Designing, implementing, and maintaining synchronization agents to deliver promotional content to two distinct playout environments during the Scripps Networks to Discovery playout migration
• Designing, implementing, and maintaining a traffic log translation system to allow two disparate playout environments to maintain perfect on-air synchronization regardless of differences in playout style and content.

• Key responsibilities included:
• Facilitating the delivery of IT services to enterprise wide media and content delivery stakeholders
• Prioritizing the business needs of those stakeholders into manageable tasks
• Working with various IT teams and System Architects on sizing and implementation planning
• Collaborating with various IT and Media Logistics teams to design future media solutions
• Assisting in the design of a larger media roadmap, providing an ideal stakeholder “future state”

• A member of the File Based Workflow and Cloud Storage teams. Key contributions include:
• Converting 100% of episodic video and caption delivery to cloud based automated ingest workflows
• Increasing the intelligent use of video file interrogation techniques to populate asset metadata and drive workflow automation
• Replacing the current on-air caption embedding management system, including integrations to multiple broadcast automation and embedding systems to allow for smooth workflow transitions between legacy and future workflows
• Placing social content under the management of our enterprise MAM, while providing an appropriate mix of speed to market and asset management
• Migrating 100% of our media assets (multiple petabytes of content) to cloud based storage platforms, within a hybrid cloud/on-premise asset management framework

• Responsible for building and maintaining systems to support Media Logistics, with an emphasis on digital integration and file based workflow. Key contributions include:
• Creating a database driven sign-off procedure for Network Operations, simplifying resource allocation for the management staff
• Providing a management platform for tracking asset readiness and content preparation around the more complicated multi-step non-linear distributions
• Establishing a fully digital broadcast automation ingest process for episodic content, removing the baseband encode from the on-air processThese changes save the company over five thousand hours of work a year and.

Responsible for building and maintaining digital processes, workflows, and integrations to support the day to day needs of broadcast and non-linear distribution; as well as third tier support on analyzing encoder / transcoder profiles and video content to determine the potential root causes of video artifacts. Significant milestones include: expansion of.

Responsible for supervision of day to day operations of the Media Center as well as asset management, including: physical media, metadata, and digital assets, with an emphasis on workflow efficiency and data accuracy. A member of the Digital Asset Management team, a group tasked with developing and implementing digital workflows (content ingest.

Responsible for day to day Media Center operations, including: deliverable processing, asset management, physical media inventory and cataloging, tape evaluation and recycling, and assisting staff with media searches. Instituted procedural changes that save more than 750 hours of work annually.

Quality control checked and cataloged digital transfers of archived 3/4". Cataloged raw materials (b-roll / interviews / stock footage) for every Oprah show 1986-2005. Performed basic library tasks: cataloging, footage retrieval, stock recycling and evaluation. Created an air-date driven database for easy historical reference.