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 the Game to the World: The Role of a The Unsung Heroes of Live Sports: A Transmission Engineer's Take on the Argentina vs. Costa Rica Match
As a transmission engineer during the Argentina vs. Costa Rica friendly match at the Los Angeles Coliseum, my role was pivotal in ensuring fans worldwide enjoyed a seamless live streaming experience. Armed with advanced broadcasting technology like Hivision encoders and LiveU units, our team tackled the challenge head-on, streaming to 25 SRT destinations through a mix of fiber, cellular, and satellite connections. This technical ballet was performed behind the scenes, starting in the early hours of March 27, to guarantee a flawless viewing experience from kickoff to the final whistle.