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Rodrigo A. Fernández [email protected]
http://cl.linkedin.com/in/rodrigofernandez1968
CNN Chile Networks, Santiago de Chile (November 2012-Present)
-Senior Director of Technology & Operations for CNN Chile, Vive Deportes (Sports Network), Falabella TV (Shopping Network) and 3TV (Broadcast Channel)
Coordinate with the News Department improvements for daily and long term workflow
Manage a group of more than 120 operators, engineers and technicians that include audio/video maintenance, production trucks, BIT and R&D.
Manage all capex and opex technology budgets as well as vendors relationships
Reduce operating expenses through optimization of resources and more efficient solutions, bringing savings to the yearly operating results.
Create new businesses to add new sources of income for the network
Technical Director for External OB and Multi-Paths Transmissions services such as: Copa America Bein Sports 2015, BBC World/Intelligence Square; BeIN Sports USA; Torneos & Competencias Argentina; etc.
Evaluate, Develop and Implement new projects including a full equipped broadcast network reaching 90% of the TV commercial market
Improve News Gathering fleet to Multipath/HD transmissions, MAM systems, Downlink infrastructure and HD studios
Renovation and Expansion of Production Studios
Evaluation and Incorporation of new IP based news gathering and contribution systems
Lead the renovation of Hosting services for cnnchile.com and mobile platforms
Consulting on workflows and technology solutions
Canal 13 SpA, Santiago de Chile (January 2011-October 2012)
Oldest TV Broadcast Network in Chile -Director of Engineering Systems
Manage a group of more than 40 engineers and technicians that include audio/video maintenance, production trucks, BIT and R&D
Manage all capex and opex technology budget
Design and Improve production workflows in news and entertainment divisions with the implementation of new infrastructure that included the following:
o Network News o Reality Shows o Olympics Games o Soap Operas
Main architect of the first Centralized Ingest and Editing Center for the entertainment division with more than 500 clients
Responsible for the renovation of ENG/DSNG vehicles
Lead the decision of new codecs and infrastructure for News and Entertainment that conveyed the acquisition of 80 HD state of the art cameras.
Lead the growth on the MAM system (we have an Ardendo with more than 400 clients)
Maintain constant relationship with vendors and support platforms
Lead all projects related to full HD production and transmission with respect to implementation and systems integrations (Control rooms, servers, field acquisition, mam, etc.)
-Corporate Project Manager Broadcast Technologies, Strategic Planning and Management Division (until June, 2011)
Responsible for creating, planning, managing and implementing all the projects related to new technologies applied to content creation and transmission for this broadcast network reaching 99% of the country.
Management of all new capital investments and operating expenses of new technologies
Provide guidance and planning for the re-organization of the Engineering Division
Provide solutions for new workflows in the news and entertainment division
Negotiation with overseas vendors on capital investments and operational services.
RF Media Consultant, LLCC, Miami, EEUU (Diciembre 2009-Diciembre 2010)
-Free lance Project Manager for Avid Professional Services Group. Project Management for: WBZ (CBS Boston), KSAZ (Fox Phoenix), Time Warner Cable News (Rochester), MTV Networks (NYC), KRCA ( Burbank, CA), WHA-TV ( Madison), Big Ten Networks (Fox in Chicago) y la Fish & Wildlife Foundation. -Consultant for the Voice of America in evaluating current workflow and technology as well as providing solutions to improve its multiplatform operations.
CNN CHILE, Santiago, Chile (April 2008-July2009)
First 24/7News Network in Chile (owned by Liberty Media and Turner Broadcasting International) / Launch Team and Executive Member -Director of Technology & Operations (promoted from my previous job at VTR Globalcom):
Responsible for the technical launch in five months. Some of the tasks included: facilities construction, systems integration, negotiations with vendors and telecom services providers, uplink, contracts, hiring technical and operations personnel, training of more than 120 people, supervision of satellite trucks construction in US factory, elaboration and implementation of Standard Operations Procedures.
Assessment of Technological Platforms
Technical Evaluation for potential new businesses for the network
Workflow design
Establish all the mechanisms for signal transport for SNG and Distribution
Design and manage capex and opex budgets
Coordination with CNN Atlanta for worldwide operations
Responsible for 50 full time people plus another 50 that provided external services
Responsible of the daily Operations: quality control, schedules, traffic, advanced planning, technical training and improvements of existing procedures.
VTR, Santiago, Chile (January 2007 – March 2008)
Largest Cable Operator in Chile Owned by Liberty Media -Manager of Special Projects for the VP of Product and Client Satisfaction that included news channels, technical improvements for local sports channel, new multimedia production center, infomercial channel and the launch of the first HD channel in the country.
CHILEVISION , Santiago, Chile (January 2005 - 2007)
-Manager of Digital Projects Responsible for developing new initiatives to improve production workflows for all the network divisions: entertainment, sales, news, and telefilms, including the following responsibilities:
Changing the entire ENG equipment from DVCam to Panasonic P2
Automation on ingest, editing, graphics, mam, playout and archive systems.
Introduction in Latin America of Avid Instinct (application that incorporates editing, nrcs and search tools)
Construction of a new production center that included: control room, edit rooms, media ingest and equipment center.
Elaboration of PDD (Production Description Processes) and RFP documents
Acquisition and contractual processes with vendors
Coordination with architects, acoustic engineers, construction, air conditioning and systems engineer the execution and completion of the Project in 45 days.
Budget and expenses control
Coordination and evaluation for the training of more than 120 employees
Manage and Implement a tapeless workflow for the Entertainment Division.
Monitoring daily operations
ROI in less than a year
-Consultant for this national network which has more than 8 hours of news programming a day. The consultancy covered a full assessment of the current operations, workflows and infrastructure in order
to set the ground for a new technology platform that would renew the entire news division. The most important achievements of these projects were:
First time in this market that a network changes its entire newsgathering, production and archive infrastructure from top to bottom in such short period of time.
Chilevision became the first network whose new production centre is 100% tapeless and digital.
Chilevision became the first network in using P2 technology.
Training and implementation of the news project in 45 days.
Local News Group Time Warner Cable, Stamford CT. (July’00-December 2005)
Stations: New York City, Rochester, Austin, Albany, Syracuse, Charlotte, Raleigh, Tampa, Orlando, Houston and San Antonio.
-Director of Operations 2002-December 2005
Responsible for overseeing the operations of TWC news channels
Create and develop initiatives that could improve news channels operations
Project Manager for news channels expansions (including control room, studios and master control transmissions) and consolidations of regional operations or hubs.
Coordinate the launch process, as project manager, of all 6 new stations between 2002 and 2003 in Raleigh, Charlotte, Albany (NY), Houston, San Antonio, and Syracuse (NY).
Coordinate the implementation of training plans for all the operations personnel
Consultant for the launch of NY1 Noticias (first Spanish speaking channel of the group)
Evaluate Capital Budgets of all the stations pertaining to the group
Create and evaluate operations procedures for all stations
Evaluate and approve Corporate Support Contracts
Coordinate with vendors the testing and implementation of new news gathering and automation production technology
Design a new operations platform that could support multicasting environments
Coordinate and evaluate the work being done by our systems integrators AF Associates.
Upgrade original design for the Milwaukee news channel with multicasting infrastructure.
Provide corporate support to all the stations with external vendors
Review hiring of employees for the new channels in Houston, Syracuse and Milwaukee News Channels
-Manager of Newsroom Technology 2000-2002
Evaluate and select automation systems, production systems and field acquisition for news production for the launch of news channels in the top 20 markets where Time Warner owned and operated cable system. Between 2002 and 2003, Time Warner launched 6 stations in Raleigh, Charlotte, Albany, Houston, San Antonio, and Syracuse becoming the most aggressive plan ever implemented in the business.
Design Production and Transmission Areas for all the news channels
Create, coordinate and implement the training plan and documentation with more than 9 vendors to prepare more than 480 people in 7 stations in less than 14 months
Manage a multimillion acquisition of ENG and production from SONY for each news channel
Develop automated processes for traffic and weather reports for all the stations
Canal 13 TVUC Television Network, Santiago-Chile (July´99-June’00)
-Strategic Planning & Special Projects Producer for this national network -Project Manager for the development, budgeting, on-air promos and construction of new facilities for the news department -Coordinator of Logistics for the Panamerican Games in Winnipeg and Chilean National Presidential Elections -Evaluation of projects concerning corporate booking, joint ventures, internet services, and airlines programming
CNN/CNN+, Madrid-Spain (January´99-June´99)
-CNN Consultant and Operations Coordinator for the launch and development of the first private 24 hours news channel in Spain -Responsible for the technical launch -Responsible for establishing operations workflow and creating procedures for the operations department -Train personnel on automation platform and production equipment
Megavision Television Network, Santiago-Chile (November´97-December´98) -Consultant for the news department -Television Director for news programming
CNN en Español/ CNN International , Atlanta-US (June´96-November´97) Launch Team -Television Director of prime time programming including news, business and sports shows for CNN en Español -First director that put a live show on-the-air for this network with digital technology -Trainer on Switchers SONY DVS 7000 and Grass Valley 3000, Digital Effects DME 7000, Quantel Newsbox, Robotic camera systems and audio boards -Technical Director and Director for CNN International Spanish newscasts
Canal 13 TVUC Television Network, Santiago-Chile (November´95-May´96)
-Television Director for the national newscast -Director for news remotes and truck operations (ENG)
Telenoticias del Mundo/Telemundo, Miami-U.S. (August´94-November´95) Launch Team (1st US based Spanish News Speaking Network) -Technical consultant for the launch and development of this 24 hours news network -Senior Technical Director in charge of production personnel (training, schedules, job performance evaluation) and daily operations of the network
New York 1 News-Time Warner, New York-U.S. (July´92-August´94)
Launch Team -Technical Director/Director for the largest regional 24 hours news channel in the US -Operations assistant in charge of audio, still store and robotic camera systems (we used the first See & Select system of Radamec EPO in the US) -Master Control Operator in charge of a SONY LMS BVC 1000, on-air rundowns, microwave/satellite/fiber feeds, multiformat recording/playback and quality control.
Television Center Hunter College-CUNY , New York-U.S. (December´89-June´92)
-Technical Coordinator of Operations for this center that had a studio, 2 control rooms and 2 on-line edit suites.
INTERNSHIPS -Univision, Inc., NYC Research & Marketing Assistant Jan.´91-June´91 -Equitable Production Group, NYC Operations Assistant Sep.´90-Dec.´90 -LBS Communications, NYC Programming Assistant July´90-Sep.´90 -HITN (Hispanic Information & Telecommunications Network) , NYC Operations Assistant May´90-June´90 -ITV, Instructional Television, Yonkers, NY Operations Assistant Aug.´88-Dec.´88
EDUCATION/ SEMINARS - B.A. in Media Studies, Hunter College of the City University of New York (1991) Magna Cum Laude - Commercial Television Station Operations, CBS-CUNY Seminar, NYC (1990-1991) - News Technology Leadership Summit, Atlanta, October 2015 - Technology Leadership Summit, Orlando, March 2015 - NewsTech Forum 2015, NYC, December 2014 - Boston University, Effective Communication Organizations, December 2015 - NAB 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006,2007,2008,2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 - Broadcast Engineering in HD Systems, Production Workflows, Transmission systems & Multicasting, April, NAB 2007 -IBC 2000, 2004, 2011, 2012, 2014 - Kagan VOD Summit, October 2004 - Kagan Cable Networks Start-Ups, October 2004 - Broadcasting & Cable/ Broadcast Engineering’s Competitive Television Industry and News Technology Summits: Atlanta-Oct. 2002, Washington DC- Feb. 2003, Dallas-Oct. 2003, Atlanta-Feb. 2004, Chicago-Oct. 2004.
-Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers Conference and Exhibition on Digital Production Systems NYC 1990, 1991 -Society of Motion Picture & Television Engineers: HD Conference & Demonstration NYC, 1991
REFERENCES Joseph Truncale, GVP Engineering & Operations, Time Warner Cable News 212 3793700 [email protected] Robert Hesskamp, SVP News of Broadcast Engineering & Systems Technology at Turner Broadcasting/CNN Networks 404-878-1514 [email protected] Steve Paulus, SEVP Time Warner Regional News Group, NY1 News 212 3793700 [email protected] Christopher Lemire Executive Vice President Operations, Origin Digital, An ACCENTURE Company 201 537 8591 908 566 8892 (cell) [email protected] Edgar Spielmman, CEO LAPTV, Atlanta, E.E.U.U. [email protected] Rolando Santos, CEO CNN Chile [email protected] Cristian Nuñez, VP of Engineering Canal 13 SpA [email protected] Alexis Collao, Director of Innovation and Technology, Mega TV Network; Chile [email protected] Harlan Neugeboren, President & Owner The Workflow & Technology Group LLC (Former VP of Technology & Engineering Time Warner Cable , Local News Group) [email protected] Gordon Castle, Managing Head of Industry Area Mediacom, Ericsson (Former SVP, CNN Technology at Turner Broadcasting) [email protected]
OTHERS -US Citizen with legal residency in Chile -Fluent in both English and Spanish (native) -Enjoy Traveling
