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Nashville, Tn, Us

Franklin, Tn, Us

Senior Streaming Engineer responsible for all aspects of designing, implementation, integration to EMF and external applications, cloud deployment, DevOps, and IT Support of EMF - Educational Media Foundation K-LOVE & Air1 Media Networks Next Generation Cloud Live and OTT Streaming Platform. Systems include audio processing, encoding, streaming, SSAI - Server Side Ad Insertion, Just-In-Time Transcoding-packaging and distribution (CDN) to streaming outlets (K-Love & Air1 websites, Mobile Apps, Streaming Players, Apple TV, ROKU, TuneIn, iHeart Radio, Amazon Alexia, and iTunes.

Providing media and broadcast consulting, systems engineering, pre-sales proposal services.Video & Media Systems Engineering, Video Solutions Consulting and pre-sales proposal services for broadcasters, media companies, video productions and OTT and live streaming providers. 2018 Project - Provided pre-sales proposal generation, established sales processes and best practices for an OTT and Live Sports Streaming Startup Company.

Responsible for the Live Streaming (encoding servers) to Facebook, YouTube, Mosaic Mobile Apps, and to our four Mosaic Remote Campuses for South Pasadena, Santa Monica, Orange County and Mexico City. Engineering support and for 4K Broadcast Systems, including: 4k Video Servers for 4K ISO recordings and 4K video playback, 4K SDI router and infrastructure, live streaming monitoring, broadcast communications systems, production video / audio monitoring, operations of production computer systems. Provides broadcast systems, live streaming and communications support for the Mosaic Broadcast Team, Hollywood, CA. Writing Live Streaming and Systems Engineering Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and escalation procedures. Continuously improving and refining our workflows and systems thus increasing stability, improving efficiencies and improving our quality of experience to our live social media and digital audiences.Consults, mentors, and trains new broadcast and live streaming systems engineering volunteers.

Consulting with houses of worship to provide live video-audio production and live streaming solutions. Raising the production level of live events for Broadcast, Live Streaming, VOD (OTT) on Social Media and digital outlets, growing viewership, and live attendance. Refreshing the Live & broadcast production technology stack with new digital equipment, digital consoles, new generation of video switchers, live streaming encoders, ISO recorders, and social media interfaces while optimizing digital workflows. Provides consulting services, project planning, solutions & engineering design, project management, project integration systems deployment, commissioning, training, documentation and systems turnover. Operating Live Streaming Events and Equipment: video switching (Technical Director), operating live streaming applications, live streaming encoders, social media Live Streaming – Facebook, live audio production – live stage & venue mixing, live camera directing and video production. With over 25 years of production broadcast systems and solutions engineering this is an area of expertise that I can give back to my community.

Paramus, New Jersey, Us

Senior Solutions Architect, Consultant, Business Analyst, Solutions Project Manager, Business Development, Pre-Sales (Solution Proposal Development) and Post-Sales Engineering for Sony PSA Project Management Office (PMO).Instrumental in consulting and closing PMO, and National Account (NAO) customer solutions business opportunities. Created end-to-end solutions across market verticals in Broadcast, Media & Entertainment, Corporate, Government, and Educational customer opportunities for the Sony Professional Solutions Americas’ National Accounts. • PBS – Public Media Management (PMM). Created, engineered and launched a new cloud content distribution and PBS Network Playout Services Business. Consulting for PBS resulting in a new Sony PMM Business delivering PBS National Programming content to PBS member stations.• LONDON OLYMPICS. Successfully deployed a virtualized orchestration workflow platform for Olympics content distribution for NBC Olympics Website, NBC Social Media Outlets, CDN, You Tube, iTunes, to multiple cable TV outlets. Dramatically reduced the distribution time for Olympics Media.• UNITED NATIONS (UN) Enterprise Media Asset Management (MAM) System. United Nations General Session Live Encoding, Enterprise MAM, Secure UN Content Distribution and UN Archive Solution. Enabled secure distribution of UN General Session Meeting Content to UN Members across the UN enterprise. • NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER - International Space Station (ISS) Video Capture and Enterprise Media Asset Management (MAM) Solution. Conceptualized, developed and brought online the International Space Station multi-stream video capture and Enterprise Media Asset Management System enabling new ISS research capabilities to NASA and to international research scientist organizations.• DISNEY - ESPN. Designed, built and commissioned the Disney / ESPN Wide World of Sports Broadcast Facility and Digital Signage System at Walt Disney World in Orlando, FL.

San Diego, Ca, Us

Managed and delivered all engineering design aspects of the Trinity Broadcast Network (TBN) New York and TBN Dallas HD Production Projects which included engineering designs, implementation and deployment that spanned the entire TBN NY & Dallas production campuses. • Significantly enhanced the production capabilities and quality of the broadcast productions at Trinity Broadcast Network NY, Dallas and Nashville sites. • Designed, installed and commissioned: HD Production Control Room, Audio Production Control Room, Engineering Machine Rooms, Video QC, Video & Camera Shading Control, Tape & Server Operations, Production Studios, Post Production facility. • Acted as the Project Manager for the TBN NY Project while performing all of the design and engineering roles while successfully meeting aggressive timelines. • Directed the install team in the implementation of all project and system designs.

Culver City, Ca, Us

Media Technology Executive, Principle Systems Architect and Technical Project Manager creating and managing MAM, Digital Content Security systems e.g. forensic watermarking, Set Top Box DRM, secure LAN delivery systems, etc. • Directed consulting services, design, development, and deployment of MAM systems (CineShare), digital dailies and media solutions for the SPE Studio Business Groups. • The Digital Media Group is responsible for converting manual film and video tape based workflows into efficient file based workflows. • Integrated and deployed SPE Media Asset Management (MAM) Systems (CineShare) with Post Production, Production, Sales and Marketing, serving media users across the SPE enterprise. • Awarded two US patients and several international patents of the Digital Dailies and Secure Content Distribution System for SPE & Sony. US Patents US 8,166,501 B2 & US 9,196,304 B2.

Paramus, New Jersey, Us

SONY ENTERPRISE IT SOFTWARE AND STORAGE DIVISIONo Successfully implemented and delivered Media Asset Management / Archive / Storage Solutions. Successfully designed, implemented and commissioned customer archive systems. Principal Sony System Architect for Dispatch News Archive (Ohio News Network) & A&E Network Archive Projects. Responsible for numerous roles and responsible for contract deliverables on customer engagements.

Paramus, New Jersey, Us

Was instrumental in closing customer deals of MAM and archive related systems. Created end-to-end solutions for Broadcast, IP Security, Teleconference Storage and IT customers enabling sales and business opportunities for the Enterprise Storage Group. Help secure new technology partnerships that built new business strategies. Designed new systems for digital media applications for broadcast, motion pictures and corporate customers.• CNN MAM / Archive. Successfully designed, implemented and commissioned the CNN archive system. Principal Sony System Architect for CNN Archive Project and had numerous roles on the engagement.

Paramus, New Jersey, Us

The Sony Systems Engineering Center developed software and systems for Sony Professional and Enterprise Customers. All software was developed, tested and released from this Sony facility to our enterprise customers.Successfully designed, built the DirecTV-Japan and A-SKY-B Multi-channel Broadcast Systems (MBS) lab and software test facility in San Jose, CA. Completed and commissioned the MBS lab in a critically tight schedule. The MBS facility was used to successfully test and release all of the DirecTV-Japan and A-SKY-B system software to their broadcast centers. The Multi-channel Broadcast Systems (MBS) lab provided all aspects (end-to-end) of the DirecTV Broadcast facility in Ibaraki Japan, Castle Rock, Long Beach Broadcast Centers and well as the A-SKY-B Gilbert, AZ broadcast facility.

Successfully delivered large scale systems designs used for building, integration, and deployment of customer solutions. Performed Media Asset Management (MAM), broadcast and archival consulting activities, including system design, deployment and integration of a Media Asset Management Systems at N.Y. Broadcast Network Customer Solutions included new digital workflows, sub-system designs, introduction to new technologies, improved labor efficiencies, reductions in operating costs with new technology implementation and vendor management were important aspects of the position. Consulting responsibilities ranged from requirements definition; use case analysis, workflow analysis, metadata analysis and modeling, system and infrastructure architectural design, vendor technology selection, integration, software development, deployment, training and support. Responsibilities also included vendor price negotiations and vendor relations management.

San Diego - Us | Tokyo - Jp, Us

Successfully designed, implemented and commissioned the CNN archive system.Principal Sony System Architect for CNN Archive Project and had numerous roles on the engagement including, working on implementation planning, definition of functional requirements and project scope, detailed architecture systems design, sub-system and network design, Storage Area Network (SAN) design, digital archive system design, workflow analysis and design, metadata modeling and analysis, vendor selection, technology research, baseband infrastructure design, Digital Media Archive and Media Asset Management (MAM) and workflow platform.

San Diego - Us | Tokyo - Jp, Us

Responsible for all AMAC (CineNET-Medical Archive System) architectural designs and implementations. Successfully designed, installed and commissioned the first CineNET Beta-site at Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina. Successfully designed, built the first CineNET product site at St. Vincent’s Hospital, Indianapolis, Indiana. Responsible for the development of the real-time device control software for the AMAC (CineNET) system using “C” language and the Sun O.S. (UNIX) and employing a light-weight thread implementation.

Personalized Compatibles (Custom and High Performance Workstations).Providing high performance Personal Computers (UNIX & Windows) for software development, graphics, editorial production, etc.

Bs, Computer Science And Business Administration

Graduate Studies In Computer Science Masters Program