Project Manager Quality Assurance

Location:

7087

Posted:

March 23, 2011

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Objective Entertainment industry broadcast and broadcast systems

professional seeking position in Miami. Extensive experience in

process improvement and systems implementations for media.

Professional Experience

Senior Business Analyst New York, NY 03/2010 -

Present

HBO, Inc.

. Core activities include:

. Analyze current state; gather and produce business requirements for

future state

. Perform ROI analysis, risk assessment, and cost/benefit evaluation for

software and business process enhancements

. Solicit and manage third party consultants and vendors

. Capture 'as is' workflows and create 'to be' process flows

. Train business units on software enhancements

. Data definition, data migration and data conversion

. Highlighted activities:

. Member of the HBO application development team working as a liaison

between Broadcast Operations, Studio Production, Affiliate Sales and

Marketing, Original Programming and Creative Services

. Actively working on the Task Force defining a strategy, refining a

roadmap and architecture for an enterprise-wide transition of HBO to

end-to-end file-based workflows

. Create and maintain Microsoft Project plans and project charters.

. Juggle multiple projects concurrently and proactively prioritize to

execute effectively.

. Provide management with steering committee and project reports.

. Communicate with diverse cross-cultural teams and with stakeholders at

multiple organization levels, including executives.

. Problem solving for complex projects and systems with multiple

integration points including rights, financials, scheduling, encoding,

product management and playout

. Customarily create business cases, flow diagrams and presentations for

justification and approval from executive management

. Work with IT Program Governance and Software Process Advisory group to

define best practices, develop playbook and create templates for SDLC

. Serve as Project Manager for projects in $100k to $2.5M range;

maintaining project plan, controlling scope and oversight of

outsourced development

Senior Video Engineer, Consultant New York, NY 07/2009 - 03/2010

Sony Music Entertainment

. Manage artist and repertoire content components of Sony enterprise media

asset management system. Responsibilities include ingesting audio-video-

image files, verification of label copy, creating metadata, mezzanine and

proxy files.

. Identified inefficiencies in process flow and refined workflows.

. Created training documentation.

. Capture and edit master recordings from various tape standard and high-

definition sources as well as digitally delivered content.

. Utilize tape decks, switchers, monitors, scopes, converters, and other

broadcast equipment.

Director of Technology & Operations New York, NY 12/2004 -

05/2009

VidiPax

. Core activities included:

. Led technology group in development of systems to support business

needs and execution of projects specializing in complex, multi stage

media archive content management

. Core activities included :

. Led the gathering of requirements and the delivery of written

specifications and business requirements for workflow systems,

business processes and technical solutions

. Focused on identifying opportunities and creating strategies for

streamlining and integrating processes

. Acted as liaison between internal and third party technical

operations, information technology and production personnel

. Data definitions for purposes of data conversion and data migration

. Highlighted activities:

. Created documentation for operations, workflow, and training programs

. Transformed informal and labor intensive processes into single

integrated digital operations allowing for greater automation and

higher quality assurance

. Assessed content management lifecycles, and provided solutions to

allow more efficient management, search and access of content

. Advised clients on migration to file-based media operations

. Consulted clients on appropriate architecture, workflow, and

operations to achieve an all digital end to end media workflows

. Implemented asset management, project tracking, knowledge management

systems

. Prepared PowerPoint presentations and presented to staff and clients

for training purposes

. Developed project plans in Microsoft Project, Word and Excel to

communicate to clients, executives and staff

. Worked both as a third party vendor to large organizations and as well

as an entity which hired vendors to create solutions

. Led both internal and external meetings when launching solutions

. Clients Included: HBO, Showtime, Ralph Lauren, NBC, Coca-Cola, Stanford

University, Harvard University, Department of Defense and Library of

Congress

Project Manager, Post Production New York, NY 11/2003 -

01/2005

TAJ Productions

. Managed responsibilities related to urgent production components and

ensured timely delivery of aggressive deadlines to high profile media

distribution channels

. Oversaw quality assurance of production projects to satisfy television

network requirements

. Modified file-based digital production workflows to achieve greater

efficiency and quality

. Provided technology and process solutions for non-linear editing suites,

recording studios, and back office applications

. Resource allocation and scheduling of personnel and workflows

. Liaised with producers, directors, talent and client representatives

AV/IT Systems Admin New York, NY 11/2002 - 11/2003

CameraPlanet & BNNTV

. Within Technical Operations division managed roll-outs of IT, production

and broadcast technologies for multi-floor audio-video facility

. Selected technology solutions to achieve better digital operations from

creation to final broadcast master delivery

. Modified media management workflows and production processes from capture

to broadcast

. Maintained servers, routers, switches, non linear editing suites and

production applications

. Managed outsourcing of support contracts

. Managed the build-out of a cutting edge multimillion dollar master

control room

. Physical and digital asset management, development of metadata taxonomy

and nomenclature

Technical Support Murfreesboro, TN 10/1999 - 05/2002

Middle Tennessee State University

. Maintained technology in recording studios and media labs such as non

linear audio & video editing systems, workstations, servers, switches and