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Greater Los Angeles Area

Liaise with Product and Engineering teams to operationalize new initiatives. Represent Operations on Agile Release Train for all value streams related to premium video customers, ensuring that projects in development meet acceptance criteria. Ensure accurate and timely reporting of operational KPIs, including development of Tableau dashboards for data visualization.

Greater Los Angeles Area

Leader for a 24/7 operations team charged with the effective handling of provider-supplied media according to strict quality requirements, including Marketing, Ad Sales, and VOD for U.S. & Latin America. Work with business units to develop metrics for measuring quality and workflow performance. Manage relationships with content partners and distribution labs for delivery of title inventory to DIRECTV specifications, and periodically evaluate deliverables and lab pricing for cost reduction opportunities.Created a specialized team tasked with maintaining technical documentation, on-boarding of new providers to DIRECTV platforms, workflow design, and collaborating with engineers on product or service improvements to ensure successful integration of these into production.Ensure that workflows and content complied with FCC requirements. Administer DIRECTV’s relationships with all ad sales content aggregation services. Develop the capital budget plan for Operations. Research, evaluate and select vendors to provide services or equipment to achieve workflow improvements. Maintain outstanding professional relationships with internal business units, engineering partners, and content partners to identify solutions and efficiently meet objectives.RECENT ACHIEVEMENTS:• UHD for Broadcast and VOD, content workflow orchestration, dynamic advertisement insertion for VOD, Latin America VOD expansion, addressable advertising, OTT, EST.• As a member of the broadcast center leadership team, responsible for 24/7 crisis management response, coordinating resources across the organization to investigate, diagnose, and resolve events based on impact, urgency, and priority. Guiding the process through a post-event root case analysis and formally publishing closure documentation to executive management.

Long Beach, Ca

Oversee a team of technicians performing ingest and quality control for movie features, ad sales, and sporting events for broadcast to DIRECTV’s Latin America regions. Tech ops oversight of production for live sporting events, particularly EPL and La Liga soccer, MLB, and NFL. Direct the design and build of a small studio for live pre-show and wrap-around inserts for sporting events.Spearhead the design and integration of a workflow to perform live capture of sporting events, including real-time editing of these events for rapid turnaround. Budget for the capital purchases on this project and delivered it to production in time for a new season of soccer events.Work directly with DIRECTV’s Latin America regions for daily ad sales deliveries, and develop process improvements for standardizing these deliveries to achieve consistent results.

Greater Los Angeles Area

Conduct spend-reduction efforts of $15M across the enterprise, particularly in Marketing, Telco, and IT. Develop an RFP process to guide bidding discussions, and write RFP documents on behalf of CBRE business units. Serve internal business partners for each RFP by evaluating their requirements and objectives, packaging all documentation, managing discussions with participating vendors, and assisting final contract negotiations.Advance the concept of reciprocal business in all contracts over $10 million, driving new business to CBRE service arms.

Greater Los Angeles Area

Negotiate post production contract agreements with service providers on behalf of on-air promotions and production departments, and manage relationships throughout the contract term. Supervise the technical execution of live events for Fox Cable Networks, including crew management, preparation of production documents, segment pre-production, facility checks, rehearsals, and post-event follow-ups.Principal intermediary between Fox Sports Net and Fox Sports International for the pre-transition division of broadcast and post production capital assets. Design, budget and lead the build-out of a small post production facility for FX Network on-air promotions.

Greater Los Angeles Area

Lead a large and diverse internal post production operation supporting Fox on-air promotions. Identified and developed skilled creative teams, comprised of 100+ professionals, to support demanding on-air promo operations. Develop relationships with peers at Fox Filmed Entertainment, Fox Print Marketing, and IT, to share knowledge of content acquisition and asset management technologies affecting the industry.Lead conversations between creative staff, facilities, and engineering for the effective integration of new systems, including facility improvements, system architecture review, production impacts, and training. Developed annual capital plan for the facility.

Greater Los Angeles Area

Key logistics contact for all internal production units during the design and construction of a new broadcast center at the Fox studio lot in Century City, and transition of production and post production facilities from the old Hollywood lot.Introduce new post production technology within the new broadcast center and institute a thorough training program for editors and producers during the transition. Develop a style guide for the use of special effects software. Develop a master plan and schedule to transition Fox Sports Net live studio production to the new facility. Negotiate post production facilities for Fox Sports throughout its relocation during NFL playoffs, enabling it to sustain professional editing services of NFL interstitial content and delivery of that content to the game site for insertion into live production.