William J. Barbour III

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Executive Manager . Information Technology . Broadcasting

Profile of Qualifications

. Results-oriented, highly motivated IT Manager with over 30 years of

experience in design, implementation and troubleshooting of broadcast

systems, enterprise information systems, internet/LAN/WAN/SAN/NAS,

security technologies and highly available clustered solutions.

. Regarded for ability to leverage subject matter expertise to build

highly productive teams and departments.

. Founding member and original concept designer of the largest video

streaming network in the world, providing best video viewing

experience for 1M simultaneous users.

. Dynamic communication skills instrumental to interfacing with staff,

upper level management and third party vendors to ensure on time and

within budget project completion.

Key Areas of Technical Expertise

. Microsoft Windows Family, Mac OS, multiple Linux platforms, AIX and

Solaris. Specific expertise in High Availability Clustering of

Servers.

. Expert: EMC Clariion & Symmetrics, IBM ESS & FastT, StorageTek, SAN,

NAS and tape libraries.

. Brocade, McData, QLogic and other Fiber Channel Switches.

. Arista Networks, Force 10, Extreme, and Cisco Catalyst switched

routers and enterprise switches.

. Microsoft Back Office, MS SQL, Apache HTTP Server, MySQL, PHP, Oracle,

VMWare and many others.

. Primary support for Quantel, Avid, EVS and Adobe Creative Suite video

media editing solutions

. Support various Studio/Video/Shading, Production Control, Master

Control and Transmission systems, including Evertz, Thompson/Grass

Valley, Snell and Sony.

. ESPN's ESuite and Control Layer (ESPN developed JBOSS Application).

. Network monitoring solutions Spectrum One-Click, VL Pro and HP

Openview.

Professional Synopsis

ESPN, Inc. 2003-Present

Senior Broadcast Technology Engineer/Manager

. Fulfill critical role managing daily operations by implementing

subject matter expertise of remote broadcast systems infrastructure,

transmission, and information technology systems as designed by

Systems Engineering and Emerging Technologies.

. Leveraged resources, as well as hands-on experience, to effectively

implement necessary change management for multiple platforms during

designated change windows.

. Conduct market trend research, regarding technology, broadcast,

networking and systems engineering, resulting in enhanced product

knowledge and increased efficiency.

. Develop and implement effective training processes for all digital

archive and computer based systems.

. Cultivate positive relationships with senior management, peers and

staff, key to maintaining open lines of communication and escalating

issues to appropriate parties.

. Provide integral support to audio, broadcast, video, VOD, IPTV

videotape machines and tapeless multimedia systems.

. Contribute extensively to operation and maintenance of content

acquisition, origination, production and distribution systems.

. Streamline SupportCenter (NOC) operations, resulting in 99% up time of

production related equipment.

Systems Engineer

. Assumed lead role as Engineer and Project Manager for portfolio of

simultaneous projects, including creation of budgets, SOWs, RFPs, work

orders as well as determining ROI throughout pre and post

implementation phases.

. Envisioned, designed and implemented strategies for content

acquisition, origination, production and distribution systems.

. Lead full cycle design efforts of large scale, complex broadcast and

IT engineering projects.

. Accurately documented weekly and ad hoc reports, critical to tracking

and presenting project progress.

. Collaborated with business units, including installation engineers,

ESS engineers and technical operations staff.

. Chief responsibilities included development and documentation of

technical procedures, creation of support plans as well as

implementation of strategic training systems.

. Successfully produced and revised detailed AutoCAD engineering

drawings, technical documents and Work Orders for installation.

Media Systems Engineer

. Leveraged subject matter knowledge to successfully envision, design

and implement ESPN Digital Broadcast Technologies, utilizing multi-OS

clustered servers and SANs, tape libraries and enterprise class

network switching.

. Streamlined technical and procedural processes, instrumental to

maximizing efficiency and training highly productive staff.

. Conducted critical testing, development and implementation of new high-

end workstations for on-air, real time graphics.

. Gained invaluable exposure to new technologies as well as the design

and implementation of complex render farms, SANs, networking and

remotely deployed hardware solutions.

Innovative Information Solutions, Inc. 2001-2003

Senior Technology Engineer

. Assumed integral role providing end to end solution engineering,

including server consolidation and enterprise SAN/NAS design and

implementation.

. Served as project lead, fulfilling key role mentoring and training

junior level associates in installation and support.

. Spearheaded issue resolution initiatives by successfully designing

high availability clustering solutions, as well as logical

partitioning in multiple servers and operating systems.

. Monitored backup and disaster recovery initiatives.

Microcast, Inc. 1999-2001

Director of Network Engineering

. Fulfilled critical role as architect, co-creator and manager of

world's largest internet streaming network.

. Managed $150M annual budget to effectively ensure success within all

aspects of company.

. Utilized several Tier 1 ISPs to arrange unique co-location

agreements for a fully distributed network with an aggregate

bandwidth exceeding 50 Terabits.

. Successfully directed and co-developed original design for large

scale multimedia streaming matrix, supporting 1 million simultaneous

clients, using both Real Server and Windows Media on dual OS

platforms of Red Hat Linux and Windows Servers attached to 50+TB

SAN's at 66 remote co-location facilities throughout the U.S.

Education & Professional Development

Masters of Business Administration, Post University; Anticipated Completion

2015

ITIL Foundations; 2014

Bachelor of Science Computer and Information Systems, Post University; 2014

PipelineFX Qube Render Farm; 2014

Arista Networks 7000 family; 2013

Quantel (Level 3); 2013

EVS Video & Media Servers; 2011

Sun Solaris and ACSLS; 2010

MAC OS X; 2009

Avid Storage/Media; 2004

IBM TotalStorage DS4000/ESS; 2004

StorageTek SAN and Tape Certified; 2003

EMC Clariion Certified; 2003

IBM Certified AIX Technical Expert (CATE), HACMP, pSeries 690 LPAR; 2002

Microsoft Windows NT Server MCP; 2000

Novell CNE; 1999

United States Air Force: Honorable Discharge; 1983-1987

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