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SUMMARY

Experienced video engineer and integrity driven professional with multi-cultural background offering over 10 years of business success on national and international levels. Media specialist with strong concentration in video technology, communications, and media workflow. Highly technical and analytical with proven experience in the digital supply chain. Unique ability to combine creative solutions and quantifiable data to accelerate improvements and precisely target business objectives.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Proficient in Adobe Premier, Final Cut Pro, Video Analysis, NTSC, PAL, IBMS, Broadcast Television, VOD, Live Streaming, Encoding, XSAN, Shell Script, XML, MySQL, Aspera, Signiant, Excel, and PowerPoint. Able to speak English (native), Japanese (fluent), Spanish (proficient), and Portuguese (basic)

EMPLOYMENT

DOCLER MEDIA
Director of Post Production & Fulfillment | Los Angeles, CA | 2016

• Launched a television network with a small broadcast team of seven.
• Responsible for entire media process from ingest to delivery. Worked closely with programming and IT leads to develop most efficient processes for content delivery.
• On-boarded linear channels for Dish Network and Sonifi. Worked with partners to ensure all technical specifications are met and delivered on time.
• Developed and implemented post production and fulfillment workflows and trained employees.

PLAYBOY ENTERTAINMENT | COMCAST | DIRECTV
Manager of Fulfillment Operations | Burbank, CA | 2014-2016

• Responsible for domestic and international fulfillment operations. Accountable for video encoding closed captioning, quality control and delivery of 4,200+ media assets per month to ensure scheduled videos are available on over 500 million set-top-boxes for linear, VOD and OTT services.
• Consolidated media service operations from Miami, FL to Los Angeles, CA. Was expected to relocate media and integrate into existing media ecosystem, train new employees, communicate technical requirements to engineering and IT, and coordinate workflow with post production.
• Conducted weekly meetings with executives, satellite office in London, and partners to report issues, improvements, and trends based on metrics.
• Managed on-boarding and media related issues. Gathered specifications, coordinated with engineering, analyzed file integrity, established fulfillment workflows, created timelines and trained employees.
• Exceeded expectation of executives by improving department delivery results by 10% despite resignation of key management.

WORLDNET MEDIA | DIRECTV | DISH NETWORK
VOD Manager / XSAN Administrator | Miami, FL | 2009-2014

• Successfully launched VOD division for the company.
• Worked closely with programming and post production managers to develop media and metadata workflows for VOD platforms on DIRECTV, DISH Network and Sonifi.
• Designed and co-developed applications to automate metadata extraction and XML creation. Streamlined metadata workflow by eliminating manual errors and cutting down process time by 80%.
• Deployed and administrated cutting edge media file systems at multiple locations.

NEWLONG LATIN, INC.
Technical Interpreter / Field Service Engineer | Miami, FL | 2007-2009

• Guided vendor/client relationship by bridging language barriers between engineering teams from Newlong Japan and Intel Corp.
• Played a key roll manufacturing and installing million-dollar robotic tool at Intel’s manufacturing factory. Implemented cost-effective solution that saved the company over $70K.
• Trained Intel engineers on operations, maintenance, safety and troubleshooting procedures.

EDUCATION

University of Southern California (2002)
Thornton School of Music
Bachelors of Music in Music Industry (BMMI)