Tech Production Leader

Todd Junkin

Technical Production Consultant

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Summary Over 20 years of media production management/engineering experience including advanced technical knowledge in current media production /engineering / systems design and management. I have helped accessibility programs integrate live captions and ensured live broadcasts improve quality and lower costs. I thrive in a technical management role with an expertise in advanced system management for video labs and broadcast facilities that focus on new ways to enhance media production, work flow and distribution. I am a problem solver. Currently doing new and advanced training via streaming events and web content. I am focused, great at working with client issues; technical, yet able to speak clearly to a novice user or non-technical management associate when required. I believe in getting the job done professionally while still having some fun. I strive for a low conflict, high success coefficient in whatever I do. Success is about effort, attitude and teamwork. I value all three. Specialties & Skills

● Live Event Tech Manager/Tech Producer. (15+ years experience)

● Streaming Media (22+ years experience)

● Training development with focus on live streaming and web distribution with creative technical and focused content.

● Motorsports Timing and media distribution. Race Control Broadcast Television(25+years experience)

● Large event project director/manager and producer of broadcast events up to 4k UHD resolution.

● Successful Production/Technical Engineering Manager with a customer/team focus

● Advanced video systems development and project manager - technical lab innovator, management including systems usability and advanced technologies deployment

● Professional Broadcast Integration: expertise in advanced technical account management, Apple FCP, XSAN2 performance, Broadcast engineering.

● Experienced with vendor management and advanced project development.

● Former AppleCare T3 support engineer for Xsan Pro Apps, On Xsan team that worked with Promise and StorNext weekly.

Experience:

ASG LLC Consultant 2020 - Present

I have been working for ASG on innovative special projects that include remote production support and a heavy emphasis on staffing. Finding the right fit for the flow of the show and skills to make it fun for the client and all involved. Staffing for shows for small events and building the Cloud staff protocol sheets for new projects. A new focus on advanced Training and streaming of these segments using a website i maintained and updated weekly. Was the EP of the technical training program.

Circuit of the Americas - Director of Media and broadcast 2019 Was back to COTA to bring all the systems into the modern era. Just in time for a final race with WEC (World Endurance Challenge) and then bam, Covid. The last F1 race had 140k a day watching the systems we helped design and build.

Event Production Technical Manager/ Tech Producer/TV Systems Engineering Verizon Media Group Studios team (formerly Oath, Formerly Yahoo) Oct 2014 - 1/15/2019 I was responsible for the weekly CEO world wide web-cast technically and crew. This event used a hybrid 4k/3G Snell Wilcox I helped develop with input from Snell allowing smooth weekly productions. I crewed all shows and worked on integration of new technology and trained directors and staff to meet the high standards of this show and weekly event. I was the manager and owner of this space. In addition, I have done live remotes using Sat/Fibre and was the key Tech manager of events such as Berkshire Hathaway Live stream (yearly), SXSW, Yahoo Politics/Tech Conference 2015 from Iowa and NFL worldwide Stream and Bill Ford from Detroit 2016 live over the Yahoo network. I ensure quality products and oversee the systems production and design end to end. I have recently helped manage live closed caption feeds for many events using iCap and local steno operators. Recently I have moved to a roll assisting in the transformation from 3G to UHD tv studios.

Manager of Broadcast Media Distribution Circuit of the Americas (COTA) August 2012 – October 2014 (2 years) Austin Texas

I helped open one of the newest F1/FIM tracks designed by Herman Tilke of Germany. The facility located in Austin has had its second very successful USGP F1 race and MotoGP. I work very closely with FOM, DORNA, United Sports Car, WEC and all visiting teams. I support all international broadcasters to ensure all media is supported and is of the highest signal quality using low latency IPTV, SMATV, SDI to the hundreds of TV and media wall screens. The COTA production team produces track announce/commentary and added LED screens localized content for all events to enhance each event. COTA as a venue includes international motor sports such as, MotoGP, United Sports Car, US Vintage racing, summer XGames with ESPN, World Endurance Challenge, Solar Challenge within the facility is a world class events center that hosts multiple events such as TedX and hosts all international media during a motor sports events. We maximize media content using Cisco StadiumVision IPTV and have extensive encoding and modulation for our internal QAM, LED Screens and used a local DAS for storage of all broadcast media. .

T3 Enterprise Support Engineer at Apple Computer Inc. November 2008 - 2011 (2 years 11 months) Member of Apple's Enterprise Technical support team with a focus on XSAN/Pro Apps Enterprise support

● Using my background and experience in broadcast engineering and production, successfully completed on-site and advanced lab and bomgar remote support with NBA, NFL and other top tier companies

Principal at TJMedia Consulting LLC January 1983 - Present (28 years 9 months) TJMedia Consulting LLC has been a Video Production and Media Engineering company working for Cisco, Google, HP, IBM, Apple and the SF 49'rs, etc.

● Designed and developed Cisco Systems "Accessibility lab”. This unique Video Engineering Design project helps Cisco determine if their current products work in non-standard environments and are accessible for individuals with certain disabilities. This Lab is currently in use at Cisco Systems in San Jose, Ca.

● Designed systems for: Google, Apple, ETC productions, automotive retail clients and various retail groups.

● Technically Directed/Directed/Produced many rock videos with Bill Graham Presents.

● Assisted FOM team at COTA broadcast TV compound.

● Project Managed and consulted for many productions and shows/events.

Systems Design/Support Engineer at ASG LLC March 2008 - November 2008 (9 months) Part of the design and support team that completed many of ASG's computer-based broadcast systems.

● Specialist in XSAN, FCP and FCS. Deployed systems worldwide with a focus on installation and daily technical support. Customers included Google, San Francisco Giants, and various broadcast and post production facilities. Technical Director/ Engineering Manager at Thresher Communications/Google January 2007 - March 2008 (1 year 3 months) As a full time on site vendor, I worked on many high profile confidential projects and co-produced and directed TD/engineered many live broadcast events worldwide for the Google executive team and worldwide marketing.

● Project manager of the Charlies redux. Picked ASGLLC as the integration vendor and supervised build. Had overall budget responsibility answering to Sean Stinson Google FTE.

● Designed the full HD upgrade of the main presentation HD-SDI systems, including usability workflow and technology.

● Consulted on multiple media projects within Google in the UK, USA and Zurich,including international live broadcasts. Was the PM for technical international projects.

● Helped define the look of many of the larger Google broadcast events and broadcast systems designs.

Sales Executive at The Cobalt Group June 2004 - June 2005 (1 year 1 month) At Cobalt, I successfully sold solutions such as Websites, phone automation, CRM pre-sales, and began to uncover the need for SEM and SEO for this market. I was laid off in 2005 along with 10% of the company.

Western Region Sales Manager at Pixelmetrix, Inc. January 2001 - January 2002 (1 year 1 month) As the RSM

I sold MPEG2 & IP TS monitoring devices, DV-Station into broadcast and film markets.

● I used a consultative sales approach to recommend appropriate monitoring solutions for streaming technology as well as methods for broadcast including satellite, terrestrial and fibre transmissions.

● I helped clients design QA systems that integrated our monitoring and IP MPEG2 filtering equipment

● Customers included Fox Digital, ATT Broadband, DIRECTV and Tribune Bcst. Director Broadcast Operations at iBeam Broadcast June 1999 - January 2001 (1 year 8 months)

I directed a team of contract and full time staff to successfully stream media worldwide while enhancing the engineering aspects of this IP broadcast network. I set up various streams and helped troubleshoot complex network and encoding issues.

● In addition I set up business operations in Europe for joint venture between iBeam Europe and SES-Astra. During this period, I promoted iBeam Europe at major customer and trade events including: Streaming Media 2000 UK, IOC New Media Conference Lausanne, and Broadband 2000 Paris.

● Did business development to establish co-marketing agreements with key European partners including: Level 3 and VYVX (Williams Communications). Production Operations Director at presenter.com 1999 - 2000 (1 year) Helped develop production workflow based on the patented technology. This start up was focused on streaming media content delivery. Eric Chen founded with John Scully. The company was purchased by Web-ex for its technology only. Business Dev/SR Account Mgr at Wamnet! Entertainment March 1998 - June 1999

(1 year 4 months) Managed key strategic accounts as well as a team of account managers. In addition I set up and managed beta accounts worldwide for delivery of media via Wam!NET’s secure IP Network.

● One such account was Mill Film UK/Ridley Scott used to share digital dailies between the UK and Los Angeles for the film "Gladiator". This MPEG-based digital dailies is now offered as a product from www.beam.tv

● I also supported Marketing efforts that included NAB, IBC and other special projects. Business Development/Virtual Sets/RPA at Silicon Studio/SGI April 1995 - March 1998 (3 years)

● Virtual Set/Real Time Performance Animation vertical market expert for Silicon Studio; SGI’s creative link to Hollywood.

● Hosted “Entertainment Authoring Conference,” chaired New Technologies Futures session, presented futures and white paper on new convergence of IP and TV.

● Technical events manager for NAB, IBC and numerous SMPTE shows for SGI.

● Produced and directed Video News Releases to increase sales in our vertical market on our Virtual set partner products running on Reality Engines and Real Time performance animation. Media Lab, Protozoa, BBC studios.

● Successfully technically managed the first live virtual set at NAB. In addition was a real-time virtual set expert and Ultimatte expert for our market including the first virtual sets used in US broadcast for the 1996 US Elections at CBS, NBC and ABC.

● Designed trade show sets and worked with engineers in broadcast worldwide. Manager of ATG Labs operations at Apple Computer, Inc April 1991 - April 1995 (4 years 1 month) Recruited from HP to manage a team to design and construct the ATG (the Advanced Technology groups) Hybrid media labs (where QuickTime, QuickTime VR, Voice Recognition and WebTV began at Apple)

● Managed all video lab operations and technical support for the Advanced Technology group under Dr. David Nagel and helped to meld emerging technologies to more standard broadcast devices, Digital Video systems and experimental systems such as object maker and streaming media codecs.

● Working with a team of engineers, I helped design all infrastructure and fibre optic ATM Video and RS422 control routing.

● Worked on the first QTVR of the Apple store at Infinite Loop and Star Trek QTVR project. Each researcher was trained and assisted by my team and me. This included all ATG users in advanced TV post production and advanced IT applications.

● In addition I technically supported Apple Worldwide Developer Conference including all media related ATG presentations. I helped Jean Luc who was interacting with Dr. Nagel in real-time. I produced most video roll-ins for these events and some VNR for AppleTV.

● I was also a user QA on new Apple pre-release products such as FCP and QTVR. (ATG).

Manager/Senior Producer Media Services at HP/Worldwide customer support March 1986 - April 1991 (5 years 2 months) I was the main technical Engineer for the HP media center studio originally designed by Larry Frame.

● Managed a group of freelance production staff

● Helped further the design and construct a larger Broadcast TV studio for the media services group

● Served as the technical manager of all media systems at this location and remote locations. This included complex live shoots, utilizing steady cams, Dolly on track, international video production of customer stories and systems.

● Produced, directed, shot and edited hundreds of HP corporate videos that aired on HPTV, and various other distribution systems.

Senior Editor/Technical Director at Breene Kerr Productions January 1983 - January 1986 (3 years 1 month) Senior Editor on Ampex ACE system. TD on many live broadcasts including the first Apple TV broadcasts, Businessland TV, using uplinks via PSN. Rental Manager at VMI Inc.

1979 - 1983 (4 years)

As rental manager often went with our Broadcast gear as a EIC, TD, Editor Camera op. Did many live shows for BGP ( Bill Graham Presents). Including live sex pistols gear loaner at Winterland, U2 1981, Humble Pie partial tour sites and many more. Did work with MLB, Nasa and Ford Aerospace to name just a few. A very unique role. I also assisted in the development and operation of the VMI edit controller. Did many a demo at NAB and was an inhouse editor for clients.

Education Foothill College Film/Broadcast, 1977 - 1979 Activities and Societies: Editing, Hand held camera work, Video engineering, Radio Broadcast KFJC 89.7, News director, Program Manager for Jazz and Progressive Rock weekly show.

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