Responsible for supporting the technical operations of 5 television channels producing 20 hours a day of live programming using 2 studios.

Duties include:

• Providing on-site and on-call technical support to our production, transmission and studio technical operations teams.

• Planning and implementing system and infrastructure upgrades.

• Maintaining and configuring the broadcast infrastructure equipment, ensuring they are operating normally and fixing faults when issues develop, including the following equipment and systems:
 - Pebble Beach: Marina Playout Automation, Dolphin Integrated Channel Devices
 - Ross: Carbonite Ultra vision mixers, NK routers
 - Grass Valley: IP Edge router, IQ Modular interfacing and processing, sQ Server, LiveTouch, MV Multiviewer, Go! Production Suite, FileFlow
 - Harmonic MediaGrid archive storage
 - Cisco and Juniper IP network switches
 - Pixel Power LogoVision graphics
 - Yamaha QL1 audio mixers
 - Trilogy Gemini intercom talkback
 - Adobe Premiere, Audition and After Effects edit suites
 - Windows Servers and MS SQL databases
 - Open Source: FFmpeg, x264

Responsible for operating multichannel playout for 5 broadcast television channels and carrying out day-to-day operations in the transmission department.

Duties included:

• Operating and monitoring multichannel playout for 5 channels, three of which broadcasting up to 20 hours of live programming a day, ensuring the correct programmes are airing and reacting to any technical issues to rectify them.

• Building and managing playlists for both live and repeat programming on the Pebble Beach Marina playout automation system.

• Handling channel scheduling outside weekday daytime hours, including updating the Electronic Programme Guide on all platforms.

• Recording and ingesting content to server ready for transmission, carrying out quality control to ensure technical and editorial standards have been met.

• Updating and maintaining departmental databases and reports.