IT Manager
IT Operations – Production – IT Disaster Recovery
Flexible, proactive IT Manager with 15 years’ experience providing senior-level technical infrastructure team leadership, including hands-on support and development. Self-starter with collaborative leadership style to create strong teams that innovate and drive success. Strives towards continuous process improvement to provide project scalability, risk management, disaster recovery, and efficiency. Manages projects through strategic planning including research, project cost analysis, proposals, and stakeholder engagement. Proven proficiency in remote support.
A true measure of understanding is the ability to explain in a way everyone can understand.
With over a decade of IT experience ranging from time-sensitive media productions to helping local startups make the most of every penny. I've learned no one knows everything, and it's more about having the passion for learning, the ability to evolve, and a network of resources that determine how fast a problem is solved..
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Key Competencies & Skills
Start-ups • Compliance • Technology Services • Team Building & Leadership • Budgets • Project Implementation • Planning • Scalability • Service Management • System Architecture • Efficiency Monitoring • Software Development • IT & Data Security • Productivity KPIs • Root Cause Analysis • Network Administration • 3rd Party Vendor Management • Continuous Policies & Procedures Improvement • Automation • Testing • Communication • Collaboration
Technical: Apple – Tiger, Leopard, Snow Leopard, Lion, Mountain Lion, Mavericks, Yosemite, El Capitan, Sierra, High Sierra, Mojave, Catalina, iOS • Linux – Debian, Ubuntu, CentOS, Mint, Raspberry Pi • Windows • Other – Android, Asterisk, Xen Server, VMware vSphere, Untangle, pfSense, DD-WRT, Tomato, StorNext, Quantum • Services: AWS, SpeedFusion cloud, GitHub, Aspera, Slack, Trello, DoubleClick, Asana • Hardware: Peplink, Cisco, Brocade 6505 FiberSwitch, SuperMicro, DOTHILL Assured SAN, EchoStreams FlacheSAN, HP 6480L Autoloader, Codex Vault XL, Mac Pro, iMac, MacBook Pro, iPad, iPhone, AppleTV, Sonnet Expansion Chassis, Teradek, Ubiquity, CineVue • Software: MS Office Suite, QuickBooks, FileMaker, Adobe – Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere, Affinity, Final Cut Pro, Davinci Resolve, LiveGrade, Silverstacks, YoYotta
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Current Chapter
IT Manger at Setnet, Burbank CA
Collaborate with filmmakers to bridge gap between set and production. Create custom data workflow designed to give each project required tools to deliver final product while maintaining creative control on set. Communicate decisions through postproduction pipeline. Pioneer, manage, and maintain the implementation of DIT data management and services. Provide R&D and testing for every situation, from software to hardware, sprinter vans to DIT carts, VPNs to server racks and everything in between. Drive pandemic pivot to allow remote management, programming, and design across bounded cellular Peplinks and remote camera control.
Life Moments
Bringing 360 Videos Back to iOS Exclusively for ThirdLaw: The PlatePros Story
When Apple phased out the 360 video viewing feature from Safari, it posed a significant challenge for those of us dedicated to providing immersive experiences through ThirdLaw products. Not one to shy away from a challenge, I took it upon myself to bridge this gap with a solution: PlatePros, a SwiftUI/RealityKit iOS app designed from the ground up to enrich the way we engage with 360 video plates.
Meeting Client Needs with the 360CraneCam Switcher: A Development Story
Imagine you're on the back of a moving follow car, a crane towering above you, with a 360° camera array perched on top. Your mission? To switch views seamlessly, capturing every thrilling moment of the action. This was the challenge presented by ThirdLaw, and here's how I developed an innovative solution using Arduino technology to meet their needs.
The Challenge: ThirdLaw needed a robust, responsive system to switch camera views on the fly—on the back of a moving vehicle, no less. Traditional methods were too slow, too clunky, or just not up to the task. They needed something fast, reliable, and capable of handling the dynamic environment of a follow car.
Innovative Storage Solution for ThirdLaw: Building a High-Capacity NAS System for Raw Driving Plate Footage
In the realm of digital content creation and storage, ThirdLaw embarked on a significant project to enhance its data storage capabilities, particularly for raw driving plate footage. This initiative led to the development and deployment of a bespoke 30 bay NAS (Network Attached Storage) system, designed to cater to the company's specific needs. A key component in the success of this project was the selection of storage drives - a decision that profoundly impacts the system's performance, reliability, and capacity.