Media Traffic Control Manager Resume

SUMMARY

Professional with two decades of experience working within all divisions of the Broadcast Television Industry. Works easily in fast - paced, demanding news, sports and entertainment environments, both independently and as a team player.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Media Traffic Control Manager

Responsibilities:

Managed On-Air, Live control room support for Confidential Universal entities, such as Confidential ’s daily news line-up and Confidential Network’s Nightly News and on demand department media content.
Booked (ScheduALL), coordinated and troubleshooted transmission traffic and facilities for Media Traffic Control (MTC) - including satellite space, fiber services, IP transport systems, Network and Bureau Lines, Remote field and SNG transmissions via in-house resources and outside vendors.
Collaborated with Futures\Planning Desk, National News Desk, Confidential NewsChannel, program Technical Production Managers, Digital Production Systems’ (DPS) Ingest Producers and NBC’s Transmission Operation Center (TOC) Engineers.
Maintained operational needs and technical monitoring of NBC’s Affiliate Exchange Network (AXN) utilizing NBC’s system of remote uplinks at national stations (PUPs).
Operated Utah Scientific’s Soft Panel Remote-Control Routing Switcher and Maxview’s Teleport Control System software.

Confidential

Freelance Satellite Desk Coordinator

Responsibilities:

Booked national and international satellite trucks, studio facilities, fiber and transport transmissions, as well as new media technologies Dejero, BGAN\Quicklink, AviWest, Skype, as requested by News Desk, Planning\Futures, Interview Producers and Media Management.
Coordinated and deployed field crews as needed.
Addressed Quality Control issues with MCR and Engineering.
ScheduALL and iNews.

Confidential

Overnight Producer

Responsibilities:

Produced and News Gathered Satellite and web-based Remote Transmission on behalf of Confidential Affiliates, and the morning newscasts " Confidential This Morning”, "Morning News” and "Up To The Minute. ”
Supervised correspondent Live shot paths and provided newswire updates to correspondents in real time.
Collaborated with Producers and Editors on Correspondent Packages, Inserts, Teases, Custom Audio Closes ensuring content shot, edited and ingested into main digital server for affiliate access on deadline.
Converted and Distributed Newspath’s daily media content to FLASH.
Streamed live news coverage on Confidential LiveFeed’s channel and Ustream’s website.
Supported affiliates’ requests via Newspath’s LivePerson Chat software.
Improved relationships with morning news affiliates and increased Newspath s live shot sales.
Maximized daily news distribution for inter - departmental usage in tandem with Confidential National and Foreign desks.