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..
Featured Chapters
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
Pioneering On-Set Communication: Developing a Remote-Controlled Tally Light for SetNet
In the fast-paced and highly coordinated world of film and television production, maintaining clear and precise communication between directors, camera operators, and performers is critical. Recognizing a specific need within this intricate ecosystem, a solution was conceptualized to streamline communication and improve efficiency on set. The objective was to create a system that could signal to actors and crew members when a camera was live, traditionally indicated by a tally light. The unique challenge was to enable this functionality remotely over an Ethernet connection, all the while ensuring the solution remained discreet and versatile for use in various production settings.
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.