SKILLS:

MS DOS BMC Remedy MS Office Suites

MS Windows 7/8/10 ServiceNow Adobe CC(Creative Cloud Suite)

MS Windows PagerDuty Cisco/Brocade IOS

Server(x64/x86) Oracle Fusion Middleware

Legacy SGI/IRIX 6.xVirtual Systems Apple Final Cut Pro

MacOS X VMWare Hypervisor HTTP WebServers (Apache/Tomcat)

RHEL/CentOS/OEL/SUSE VMWare vSphere 3.x/4.x Web Services (WSDL, SOAP, REST, XML, JSON)

Solaris 2.x(Sparc/x86) Oracle VM Network Protocols(TCP/IP/UDP, SSH, HTTP, DNS, SNMP)

Google Workspaces(Enterprise) A10 Load Balancers

Repositories (BitBucket, Git)

Cloud Platforms Monitoring/APM Tools Charles/Ngnix Proxy

Amazon Web Services Splunk Smartbear SOAPUI

Microsoft Azure Oracle OEM/Weblogic Console Brocade ADX 10k Load Balancers/FC Directors

Dell Foglight F5 BIG - IP Load Balancers (LTM/GTM)

SDLC methodologies VMWare vCenter/vCOPS

Waterfall AppDynamicsSecurity StandardsStorage Servers

Agile EMC SMARTS BS 7799/ISO 17799 NetApp(ONTAP) HP

Iterative Development NetScout ISO 27000-series NetApp(Block) Cisco UCS

Infoblox NETMRI CSA STAR Isilon(OneFS) IBM

Collaboration Tools Grafana MPAA Content Security Quantum Stornext Dell

Atlassian Trello/JIRA/Confluence Extrahop Pure Storage(Purity) SuperMicro

Zoom DataDog Hitachi(Block)

MS Sharepoint/Teams New Relic OpenDrives(ZFS)

Slack NagiosXI/CoreFacilities

Asana Conviva HVAC(Up/Down Flow, In-Row)

Projectmanager.com Omniture(Adobe Analytics) Electrical(120V/208V, IG, PDU, NEMA L6, C13/19)

Solarwinds Fiber Optic(MMF/SMF, LC/SC/FC/ST/MTRJ)

Ethernet(PoE, Cat 5-8, RJ-45)

Audio(AES/EBU, SPDIF, BNC, XLR, TRS, Speakon)

Lighting(DMX 512)

Ability to obtain security clearances if required

Media File Wrappers/Standards/Codecs/Essences DRM

MXF(OP1a/AS02) JPEG2000(Lossy/Lossless) H.264/H.265 Apple FairPlay

MOV XDCAMEX/XDCAMHD MPEG2/4 Microsoft PlayReady

AVI DVCPRO/HDV IMX(30/D10) Google Wideview

AVC Intra SMPTE IMF HLS Cisco NDS(Videoscape)

DNxHD MPEG-DASH SCTE-35 Adobe Primetime

AppleProRes Cablelabs ADI FourCC(v210, YUY2(UYVY))

PCM/LPCM SMPTE 2021(BXF) CALM Act

Media Image Sequence FormatsContent Watermarking TechnologiesQA/Encode/Transcoding Systems

DPX Civolution(Kudelski Grp) NexGuard Harmonic Rhozet Carbon Coder

TIFF Fortium Tech Patronus Digital Rapids StreamZ/Transcode

TGA Rovi(TiVo Corp) FFMPEG/VirtualDub/AviSynth

Nielsen VOD TIC Interra Systems Baton

File Transfer Tools Marquis Broadcast Medway

IBM Aspera on Cloud/ATS/ OrchestratorPost Production Color Space Evertz Mediator 8.x/RenderX

IBM Aspera Console/Orchestrator DCI-P3 Telestream Vantage/MacCaption

IBM Aspera Managed/Unmanage Nodes REC 709/BT 709

IBM Faspex/Cargo REC 2020/BT 2020/REC 2100

FTP/SFTP REC 601/BT 601

SmartJog

Signiant

EXPERIENCE:

Technical Consultant

Confidential, San Francisco, CA

Responsibilities:

• Gather customer requirements, white boarding/presenting solutions, developing a Bill of Materials (BOM) and preparing project Statements of Work (SOWs)
• Analyze Reserve Instances (RIs) and Savings Plans to ensure maximum utilization for maximum net savings on existing $1.5M - 2M Monthly Recurring Revenue (MRR) portfolio for AWS clients
• Facilitate planning and summary reporting for RI projects spanning multiple agile teams within the portfolio, and be responsible for artifacts reflecting plans, progress, issues and risks utilizing Trello, Creatio and JIRA.
• Implement the adoption of agile development methodologies, focusing on improving the velocity and quality of delivered work products through Jira, Confluence, and the Atlassian suite of tools.

Confidential, Burbank, CA

Media Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Root Cause Analysis (RCA) and Post-Mortem Corrective/Preventative Reviews for complex orchestrated VOD Distribution
• Provide hands-on experience and technical support for multiple clients including but not limited to Editorial Services, Media Services, Broadcast Engineering, Marketing, On-Air Promotion, Traffic, TV Mastering, Non Linear VOD Distribution and Broadcast Operations in the following areas: Transmission, Post-Production, and Digital Asset Management Systems of 1.5+ PB Hitachi Stornext.
• Supported for Disney XD, Disney Junior, Disney Channel, Freeform, ABC Family and other networks, handling all digital and file-based media engineering needs for satellite, IP and cloud-based delivery.
• Provided and supported broadcast and non-linear workflow automation solutions(i.e., Promo,Long Form, Commercial, Paid-Programming, SVOD) in place from post production through to airing 140k+ cable and satellite assets(320TB) each month to 89+ affiliates
• Set-up, configuration, maintenance, ‘manually’ debugging and operation of a broad spectrum of broadcast systems and equipment(Evertz Mediator 8(core, browse, gateway, ui, automation, transfer), Evertz Render X, Aspera Orchestrator, FFMPEG, Telestream Vantage/MacCaption, Imagine Nexio Farad, Stornext File Systems) in production and going into production.
• Serve as a Tier 3 escalation & on-call participant in supporting a large non-linear broadcast infrastructure in-house developed software, 3rd party products and hardware.
• Work with 3rd party, domestic or offshore technical support suppliers to troubleshoot equipment issues, install system updates and version upgrades
• Collaborative approach to plan, design, develop and verify complex lifecycle balanced system of systems and system solutions to to troubleshoot equipment issues, install system updates and version upgradesMaintain efficient file based workflows for distribution of digital media to no-linear outlets (Disaster Recovery, C3 VOD, Canoe DAI, Time Tailoring, etc…)
• Standarized APM, RUM, SUM, monitoring metrics, and logging capabilities of critical systems using Nagios, Extrahop and DataDog to predict, quickly diagnose and resolve abnormal systems behavior
• Lead the migration of existing monitoring coverage based on the current configuration.
• Responsible for the execution of team monitoring, proactive engagement, problem identification, analysis, reporting, coordination, tracking, and resolution facilitation before an incident
• Configure and extend monitoring, alerting, and performance tools to satisfy engineering teams needs, including media delivery, infrastructure, database administration, etc.
• Applies interdisciplinary operational plans and procedures covering change control, maintenance events, intergroup communications, and downtime response
• Resolves cross-functional technical issues for 23.98, 29.97 and 59.94 media files(HD/SD ProRes, 720p XDCAM MXF and SD IMx) issues using media based tools, Baton, Mxf Fixer, Manzanita, Atom viewer etc.
• Maintain and troubleshoot complex IBM Aspera and Signiant environments consisting of multiple tenants of Files, Shares, Agents, Clusters, Faspex, Enterprise, Transfer Servers and Aspera on Cloud, and affiliate catcher systems.
• Provision and Implement a watermarking/fingerprinting media streaming workflow from primary production truck feed to respond to illegal distribution of the main Oscars 2019 live telecast on content aggregation and social media sites.
• Deploying, managing and supporting a mixed Macintosh, Linux and Windows physical/virtual client ecosystem on top of a Microsoft technology stack
• Integrate, transition, and configure Datadog monitoring for On Premise(Burbank,CA/Prospect, CA/ Kings Mountain,NC/Las Vegas,NV) and/or Cloud assets from legacy monitoring.
• Supported Editorial: 10 Avid Composer Suites, 6 Adobe Creative Suites, 2 HD Screening Rooms, 0.5 PB Isilon NAS, and 0.5 PB OpenDrive ZFS NAS.

Consultant, El Segundo, CA

Solutions Architect

Responsibilities:

• Develop Multichannel Video Programming Distribution(MVPD) roadmap for the Production Site Reliability Engineering and Production Integration Testing Teams
• Prepare and execute plans to enable delivered software and hardware systems from Design Engineering and E2E testing into the production broadcast environment (Los Angeles, CA/Castle Rock, CO/Sterling, VA/ Newark, NJ) with over 4000 racks of equipment.
• Assess/Validate software and infrastructure changes needed to ensure systems are accurately installed and integrated into Multichannel Video Programming Distribution unobstructedly.
• Establish and continuously improve a complimentary lifecycle process that provides successful deployment of new systems with respect to current and future infrastructure support, including load balancer(F5/Brocade ADX), server(Baremetal/VMware), database(Couchbase), storage(NFS/Hadoop), microservices, pod/containers(Auto-Scaling), legacy applications and middleware architectures (JBOSS/Oracle AMP)
• Perform Brocade/F5 load balancer configuration validation, including traffic distribution type, SSL termination, pool members, session affinity, source and destination IPs, Ports and Transport Protocol for DevOp Application Releases.
• Act as a team with Operations, Design Engineering, Network and IT teams to collaboratively solve problems encountered during production validation.
• Develop training program for the team to have an enterprise understanding of all delivered systems
• Adopted DevOps practices such as CI/CD, Canary Pushes/ Blue-Green deployments, Software Defined Infrastructure and tools.
• Performs various analyses to optimize for high availability, scalability, proactive monitoring / alerting, operational capacity planning, performance (reducing latency and increasing efficiency) to include testing for technical platforms
• Build effective monitoring solutions that evolves with the software and infrastructure releases in production(customer-facing)
• Collaborative approach to plan, design, develop and verify complex lifecycle balanced system of media systems and infrastructure system solutions
• Certify all Change Management initiatives being introduced to the production environment have been sufficiently examined or tested whenever possible and approved by the proper personnel before the change is implemented.
• Review, comment, support, and maintain such program documents as Change Management Plans, Primary Design Review (PDR), Critical Design Review (CDR), Interface Control Documents (ICD), and Change Orders for Engineering/Developmental Engineering Proposals.
• Leads, develops designs and conducts research that results in new reliability requirements/ management methodologies or result in unique approaches that mitigate assessment/review performance findings.

Enterprise Capacity Architect

Confidential, El Segundo, CA

Responsibilities:

• Interface with stakeholders in related needs, and integrate into overall view.
• Models complex systems using large, unfiltered data sets in clarifying requirements, revealing bottlenecks and fragmented activities, reducing cost and exposing duplication of efforts.
• Hands on expertise is needed to handle Capacity Simulations (i.e., Failure Mode Effect Analysis (FMEA) and Reliability, Availability, Stability) for the System, Design, Process, Service, and Software.
• Collect and Validate key performance data using APM Tools such as Splunk, EMC SMARTS, Dell OpenManage/Foglight, Oracle Enterprise Manager, VMWare vCenter, SL RTView, Infoblox NETMRI, NetScout(nGeniusONE/UMC), AppDynamics and other monitor statistics(i.e., application/system logs) to provide recommendations and develop capacity plans.
• Measure, analyze, and report on the performance optimization and capacity of virtualization hosting environments that have been built on solutions designed, engineered, and delivered as part of a centralized platform showing current product load/performance (i.e.. disk I/O, CPU usage, load, and network connections, tps, cps, JVM Heaps, Garbage Collection Cycles) against predicted load and target performance goals, capacity headroom in Multichannel Video Programming Distribution(MVPD).
• Develops, maintains and identifies improvements for growth and scalability projection work plans for Multichannel Video Programming Distribution such as tasks, durations, resources estimates, & checkpoints.
• Evaluates consumer/operational needs to define and coordinate application performance requirements
• Develop complex Splunk dashboards and visualizations using queries and simple XML
• Develop and maintain customization Oracle Fusion Middleware standards to ensure that all application design and code produced with proper integrity, security and performance criteria.
• Responsible for leading root cause analysis for operational service nonconformance.
• Design and develop Splunk Searches, Reporting and Dashboards Creation, and Alerts to meet analytics requirements point for 24x7 operations support.
• Performance test using SOAPUI with Amazon Web Services EC2 environments to validate the performance requirements as per the system/performance ORT(Operational Readiness Test)specifications
• Ensuring quality performance and SLA for CDN services (Limelight/Level 3/Akamai) including caching parameters, video streaming quality and failover.
• Creates and implements strategic approaches for program capacity and business area decisions.
• Worked on the following projects: AAV (Anywhere Anytime Video), Mobile and Web 72 Hour Content Restart and Look Back. Live TV Streaming for PC and MAC, NFL Sunday Ticket 2014, Universal Profile

Digital Media Group Consultant

Confidential, Culver City, CA

Responsibilities:

• Use Agile (ScrumMaster) principles, standards, and procedures to ensure the quality of the results, timely delivery and the management of scope, schedule and budget of projects.
• Develops project plans, various project management and/or Agile (Scrum) documents, and level of effort estimates.
• Develops and translates improved business processes and business requirements into specific software requirements, functional specifications, and system design specifications for client engagements.
• Communicates with internal teams and business units to deliver functional requirements like rapid prototyping, lo-fi/hi-fi wireframes, UX/UI screens, integrating data into an EDAM (Enterprise Digital Asset Management System), customization and interface designs.
• Establish SaaS Engineering Support requirements adoption of ITIL and ISO 20000 standard practices for Amazon Web Services monitoring and alerting metrics, 24x7 call center processes, L-1 to L-3 support/escalation, security/InfoSec, BCP, RTO, RPO, DR, IDD, and PSG.
• Analyze Amazon Web Services performance monitoring statistics (i.e., application/security/system logs) using AWS CloudWatch and Splunk.
• Develop and Execute UI/Webservice(SOAP/REST) automation test suites using WATIR
• Develop and perform AWS Benchmarking for:
• VirusScan Tasks
• Checksum(MD5, CRC) Task
• Transcoding/Image Conversion Task
• Usage Scenarios with use of REST/SOAP APIs
• Media Specifications (AVI, MOV, MP4, ProRes, MPEG-2, JPEG-2000, MXF (op1a, as02), TIFF, JPG, PNG, PDF).

Senior Systems Engineer

Confidential, Century City, CA

Responsibilities:

• Perform Digital Video Engineering duties including creation of ETL specifications, data dictionaries and workflows for incoming media, creation of delivery specifications and workflows for recipients and emerging distribution outlets, review digital video issues and non-standard workflow issues and provide analysis/recommendations.
• As a Digital Video Subject Matter Expert participate in R&D activities including the ptimization/creation of MDM/Metadata specs, research new video/audio technologies and solutions in the marketplace, work with video leads throughout the company to create, establish, and adopt technical standards, and work with external vendors to validate configurations, solutions, and outputs.
• Work with software development teams in software analysis: code analysis, requirements analysis, software review, identification of code metrics, system risk analysis, software reliability analysis for Dev(VMware)/POC(VMware)/QA(VMware)/Production environments, assist in trouble shooting and corrective actions as necessary.
• Advanced experience troubleshooting video encoding, transcode and playback issues, to include:
• Technical file evaluation.
• Bitrate optimization for playback and delivery.
• Schedule / perform maintenance of all data systems, (Servers, Storage(Stornext/NFS/CIFS), Tape, Fiber Channel)
• This includes Operating system, Storage array integrity including RAID controllers, Metadata drives, Storage drives, reformatting of volumes, adding storage, system integrity is required 24/7
• Configuration and Tape system integration of Library SAN/NAS system for near-line and long term data integrity(Oracle StorageTek SL8500s LTO Tape Library)
• Perform functions regarding Folder / file level access and permissions of operators / users
• Perform Active Directory, DNS, access / security functions relative to machine IP distribution, control and LDAP log on to servers
• Perform switch configuration for Production Ethernet/FC switches, 1Gig/10Gig Ethernet(i.e., Deployment, VLANs, etc.) and 4G/8G Fibre Channel(i.e., Deployment, Zoning, etc.).
• Leads analyses for reliability, maintainability, testability, system security, and other specialties quality factors into a preferred configuration to ensure project success
• Monitor Network performance and make adjustments, recommendations or policies to maintain maximum speed, integrity and security at all times (requires 24/7 system notifications)
• Develop, document, and validate/extraction quality test methods used for Digital Vault Archiving Processes (i.e., JPEG2000s, v210s, YUY2s, XMLs, PNGs, WAVs).
• Manage technical quality processes and systems with the aim of eradicating International Versioning Mastering (Localization) process and output errors.
• Maintaining the equipment and systems required for the 24/7 operation of International Versioning Mastering System, Digital Copy, EST VOD, and the infrastructure of various audio, video and computer hardware and software including, but not limited to, audio/video routing systems, Macintosh, Linux, and PC computer hardware and peripherals, and basic audio and video reproduction systems, interfacing other audio, video and network engineers to develop integrated systems of signal distribution throughout several adjacent facilities.
• Setup, QA and Deploy SOA(Service-Oriented Architecture) Processes using Web Services, WSDL and SOAP for Media File Algorithms(Image/Audio Match), Digital Media Asset Management System, Video Transcoding Workflows.
• Supported 7 Avid Composer/Apple Final Cut Suites, 2 ADR Stages, and 4 Mixing/Dubbing Stages

Production Engineer

Confidential, Burbank, CA

Responsibilities:

• Manage technical quality processes and systems with the aim of eradicating supply errors and output errors.
• Present recommendations for the organization, its’ suppliers and customers for the adoption and/or in corporation of technical systems, standards, or processes.
• Lead projects and troubleshoot on tactical matter in all areas related to audio visual media ingestion, storage processing, and distribution of both analogue and digital formats.
• Develop and maintain Wamnet, Aspera DigiDelivery, Aspera SCP, Aspera Faspex, Aspera Connect, Signiant and SmartJog standard security standards/polices corporate-wide and vendors to include security awareness metrics, risk assessments, and audits.
• Propose and Implement 470+ Automated File-Based Orchestration Workflow processes in migrating all digital assets in MAM(Media Asset Management)/DAM(Digital Asset Management) onto a Centralize Depository that was decommissioned on December 2018.
• Resolve ongoing serving pain points in MAM (Media Asset Management)/DAM(Digital Asset Management).
• Establish Automated Library Strawman Workflows for Archiving Rec. 709 DPX Files.
• Assist in normalizing archive methods for DIs (i.e., 10-bit 4K Scans, Color-Timed 2K Scans, and Rec709 DPX Files).
• Establish/Implement Automated Workflows for MAM/Technical Services (Optical Disc(DVD/BD Authoring, Encoding, Replication)/EST/Mastering/Dubbing/Media Archiving) /Creative/Home Entertainment/Non-Theatrical
• Maintaining the equipment and systems required for the day-to-day operation of DVD Authoring, Menu Localization, Character Voices, Pre-Media Localization and the infrastructure of various audio, video and computer hardware and software including, but not limited to, audio/video routing systems, Macintosh, Linux, and PC computer hardware and peripherals, and basic audio and video reproduction systems, interfacing other audio, video and network engineers to develop integrated systems of signal distribution throughout several adjacent facilities.
• Project managed the digital studio initiative project (e.g. IMF or Interoperable Master Format (Digital Studio Workflow/Digital Video Package).
• Establish ISO 9000 policies and procedures that ensure the integrity of the systems, services and data worldwide.
• Maintain IT infrastructure compliance and SOP within the Worldwide Technical Services, Disney Character Voices International and Media Asset Management Services at Confidential .
• Assist with Anti-Piracy in qualifying new content protection technologies such as Rovi(Macrovision), Fortium, etc.
• Develop, document, and validate the quality test methods used to qualify, and improve the quality of the optical discs (DVD, Blu-ray) from replication facilities worldwide for Home Entertainment.
• Buildout/Supported 6 HD/SD Broadcast Screening Rooms