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LTNVP Solutions Engineering
Oct. 2024California, United StatesLeveraging LTN's award-winning technology, the Solution Engineering team works closely with customers and our internal teams to strike on enterprise-grade, resilient media transport and enrichment workflows. My fantastic team and I work closely with Sales and Product to architect the best solution that meets the demands of the media industyr's technological edge. We work with the very best in the industry and strive with each project to exceed in both quality and performance.
LTNVP Media Engineering
Aug. 2023 - Oct. 2024LTN’s Program Management team, reporting to the CTO, works across industry-leading teams to drive results in LTN’s award-winning channel distribution technologies. LTN is the preeminent live event and content distribution solution over IP - with a portfolio of solutions to drive efficiency, scale, reliability, and cost optimization for premier media clients. The Program Management team successfully realizes strategic initiatives into reality - working around the clock across our highly effective technologists, converting client expectations into reality. We collaborate persistently on projects - not only deploying LTN’s best-in-breed solutions but striking for ongoing innovation and scaling for continued phenomenal growth and tech portfolio integrality.
Disney Entertainment Technology & ProductVice President, Media Platforms Engineering
Mar. 2019 - Jul. 2023Burbank, CAAs Vice President of Media Platforms for Disney General Entertainment, my global teams ensured that media workflows for automated play-out of linear networks were fulfilled - meanwhile persistently challenging my teams to transform process and performance for media workflows. These abstracted workflows culminated in the consolidation of play-out and media operations at The Woodlands, TX DC-3 facility for Disney Cables, Freeform, FX Networks, National Geographic, ABC Broadcast, and ABC Owned Television Group's HUB. In parallel, our global teams collaborated with domestic teams to consolidate both linear media asset management workflows and VOD assets, aiming to achieve a DMED Technology workflow and application standard. This work has an ever-present eye on both audience and brands, ensuring content performance and quality are at the highest of industry standards.
Disney Direct to Consumer / InternationalExecutive Director, Media Engineering
Oct. 2018 - Mar. 2019Burbank, CATo transform our Media segment as it innovates the industry with its own direct to consumer model, the Media Engineering team will employ its best minds in the design, deployment, origination, and distribution of Disney's worldwide assets and technology. We ensure the best practices of the maturing broadcast cloud platform, application virtualization against the framework of instantaneous response to the consumer globally.
Disney EntertainmentExecutive Director, Broadcast Operations
Oct. 1999 - Mar. 2019Burbank, CALeading a bi-coastal broadcast operation teams in support of 24/7/365 Disney ABC Television Cloud Operations. My team's mission is to tame industry disruption with peerless focus, dependability and innovation. We tirelessly seek the absolute best tools to further the creative experience to our viewers. We have migrated away from the decades-old hardware model of broadcast and implemented bleeding edge tools - finding novel approaches to migrate broadcast operation workflows with the extensibility of a cloud approach. We work in alignment with our network partners and technical teams on an hourly basis to ensure their creative vision is intact and the experience for the user remains unparalleled. We are mitigating risk to our multitude of streams as they are handed off to service providers in the field. As a team, we work in tandem with new technologies, reshaping the very foundation of broadcast through increase of interactivity, engagement and retention.
Orange County NewschannelTechnical Director/ Master Control
Oct. 1997 - Oct. 1999As Master Control, ensured the integrity of the live shows and tape play-out were seemless. Worked closely with Production crews on a daily basis for the live-centric nature of that channel.
As Technical Director, worked in close alignment with Producer and Production crew in the creation of 1/2 hr and 1 hr news shows. Shows required integration of audio, graphics, camera, tape and live remotes.
Time Warner CableLive Production
Aug. 1995 - Sep. 1997Orange County, California AreaAs part of internship, which later led to day hire status, worked on studio and field productions in and around Orange County. Typical duties included set-up/breakdown, camera, live switching, audio board, and basic electrical wiring.
US Army31C - Single Channel Radio Operator
Jun. 1990 - Apr. 1992As attached to a joint-nation heavy artillery unit in USEUR (US Europe), operated and maintained 24/7 communication site for the 365th Signal Brigade (5th Signal Command) with a DoD Security clearance. Part of the 31C role was to move command site from fixed, to tracked, to remote site. Training included Basic, Advanced (31C) and certifications in other technical areas. Received commendations as well as Honorable Discharge.
Disneyland ResortCulinary Host
Jun. 1989 - Jul. 1992Anaheim, CAWorked in food server and host role at four locations in and around Main Street, including Plaza Inn, Plaza Pavilion, Tahitian Terrace and Aladdin's Oasis.
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