Senior Solutions Architect in the Media & Entertainment vertical at AWS.

In this role I had the responsibility of managing a small team while still being hands on as a solutions architect. As a team, we worked with the business to solve complex problems. We served internal clients across the CBS News organizations and supported the solutions we implemented. We worked with external vendors daily to do things like: drive initiatives, solve complex issues, provide feedback and manage project timelines.

The main difference between my previous Solutions Architect role and this is I had a team to help with the workload. Now the internal clients were able to get their problems solved faster which gave us more time to focus on complex issues. I made sure the team had time set aside each week to perform training and perform consistent working sessions showing off new workflows. I also did project management for the team and ran daily stand ups.

My primary focus in this role was to help solve complex problems across CBS News. With a cloud first mentality, I worked on the migration of on-premises workflows and infrastructure to the cloud. One of my largest projects I worked on was for CBS News Archives to Digitize all of its tape library. It was my responsibility to design, develop and support all of my solutions I came up with.

Another part of this role was documenting everything and providing training on the new workflows. Which I’ve done for multiple different CBS News departments and educated a range of users from editors to engineers.

Products used in the role: Telestream Vantage, Lightspeed Live, VMWare, AWS, Asana, Lucidchart, Avid PAM/MAM, Adobe, Teradici, TrueNas, Synology, Samma, Venice, MOG, Aspera, Signiant, Sony Ci and more.

At my short time at HBO, I’m proud to say I helped with House of the Dragon release. My main focus was helping troubleshoot subtitle issues and educate users on how to use custom in-house software.

Solutions Architect role at CBS News, focusing on solving complex technical problems across the organization.

As an Archives Technologist, my primary goal was to improve the workflows and processes that affect day to day operations. These improvements would be anything from automating file movement to migrating infrastructure to virtual environments (VMWare/AWS). I dealt heavily with Avid MAM/MCUX and utilized Telestream Vantage to help orchestrate the automation. One of the core projects I did involved using robots to digitize tapes in a mostly automated fashion. This was to help speed up the digitization of CBS News Archives tape library.

Fast paced environment with the primary focus of making sure the content gets to air. Was responsible for supporting, maintaining and upgrading over 100 AVID workstations in an Interplay/ISIS environment.

• Created documentation and SOPs on current/new processes
• Worked as a team to upgrade from Avid ISIS to NEXIS
• Developed new workflows to adhere to the change of workplace due to COVID

• Created workflows to automate file delivery to clients and vendors across the globe using Vantage, Mediator and Faspex
• Second level support to issues involving transcode failures and video format questions/concerns
• 24/7 environment that sometimes requires extra hours for events/outages (E.: Olympics, Superbowl, network outages)

• Managed assets for fast-paced live production
• Troubleshooted technical issues promptly and created workflows to speed up daily tasks
• Normalized RAW, LOG and high resolution footage for AVID systems
• Managed the archiving of footage to LTOs and ODAs
• Trained employees on both entry level and advanced tasks

Encodist role at Golf Channel supporting live production workflows.

• Promptly ingested footage, edited game highlights and sports packages using Grass Valley Stratus and Edius software
• Assisted the engineering department with general studio maintenance
• Served as camera operator for multiple live sporting events including: football, soccer, baseball, etc.

Advanced repair agent providing technical support and computer repair services.