Manager Operator

Stephanie M. Triplett-Sefia

Qualified Broadcast Event Production professional demonstrating effective facilitating and coordination skills in fast paced high stress arena.

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Employment History/Positions

- Supervisor Transmission / Ingest - Aljazeera International -Washington, DC

- Ingest Coordinator/Transmission Operator - Fox News Channel, Washington, DC

- Floor Director/Camera Control Operator – Techniarts, Silver Spring, Maryland

- Production Manager - Montgomery Cable Television Rockville, Maryland

- Stage Manager/Camera Operator - WJZT-13 Baltimore, Maryland

- Studio / Field operations consultant - Jacaranda Productions - Lagos, Nigeria

- Field Audio Operator/Editor/ Master Control Operator - WJLA-TV Washington, DC

- Tape Playback/Camera Control – WTTG/Fox 5,Washington, DC

- Tape Playback / News Editor - WRC-TV (Comcast) Washington, DC

- Engineering Trainee –WUSA TV 9,Washington DC

Professional Highlights

- Contributed ,coordinated and determined operational and technical requirements expected of the transmission staff with Aljazeera International in support of Directors, Producers, Reporters ,Anchors, and guest assigned to broadcast. Organized field logistics, remote satellite production trucks and video production sources for international coverage of the Presidential Campaign and 2009 Inauguration. Technical guest coordinator and transmission operational support for 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011 State of the Union Address.

- Responsible for training all freelance employees with Fox News Channel assigned to digital tape Ingest area. Developed initial operation procedures used for daily record system and organized workflow of staff within Ingest area. Contributed to the selection and archiving of video for news library. Initiated staff collaboration of written operational procedures for ingest area. Playback Coordinator for Presidential Inauguration Coverage.

- Studio production and guest booker coordinator in broadcast production facility for "Telenoticias Marti", a daily one-half hour live news broadcast to Cuba. Primary operator as floor director, studio camera operator and camera control for daily broadcast as needed. Integrated daily live feeds into edited format that were obtained and downlinked by Techniarts from the Mideast, Moscow, and Central and South America.

Leadership Qualities

- Entrusted with developing the production workflow, of transmission staff to achieve team performance for high profile broadcast events

- Monitored daily HD transmission facility operation and submitted equipment recommendations to engineering for budget to accommodate recognized work increase in broadcast production .

- Managed studio and field staff assigned to satellite trucks, developed production schedule, hired vendors as needed for various remote assignments.

- Created evaluations to assess technical strengths and weaknesses of employees throughout all bureaus of the Nigerian Television Authority.

- Developed and implemented lesson plans of workshops for employees assigned to studio preparation and field audio production.

Technical Knowledge and Abilities

Secured connection to AVOC fiber lines and uplink, downlink facilities .Establish and organize IFB and PL for remotes. Reconciled technical paths of all satellite bookings while troubleshooting incoming video sources for live events.

Utilized HD/SD converters for incoming and outgoing feeds. Set up Skype remotes for quality broadcast , coordinated the integration of live studio elements for broadcast when using interpreters.

Grass Valley Scheduall - 8 record port server. Digital tape decks: Sony XDCAM PDW-F-75, Sony HDV 1080i DV Recorder -mini dv, Sony HDCAM HDW-M2000p alternate input / output on decks to 1050i, 1080.59,29p ,DVCPRO HD1400 . Video Converters: Teranex , Miranda ,world top Routers: Grass Valley multi bus control panel, Spectrum Analyzers , Snell &Wilcox Roll Call Program ,Aspect Line standard controller for all AVOC fiber lines, Aurora editor,K2 news browse server .

Education and Volunteer achievements

Project Management/Event Planning, Anne Arundel Community College graduation 2013

Volunteer Hotline Counselor, House of Ruth Baltimore, Maryland 2007-present

Certified Mediator, (State of Maryland) Howard Community College 2005- present

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