Christopher Mckenzie-Sands
New Milford,Connecticut
Summary
Highly skilled and enthusiastic professional with more than 21 years of experience managing operations in Digital Video Media production. Successfully oversee production team, develop workflows, trouble shoot and resolve VOD systems play back issues. Develop and lead productive and efficient production team. Contribute best practices for high-volume digital media deadline driven business.
Overview
28
28
years of professional experience
Work History
Director of Digital Services
CMI Media Management
Stamford, CT
10.1993 - Current
- Direct day-to-day operational functions for the production team of 25 team members.
- Spearheaded the expansion of the Stamford CT facility, for parent company Premiere Digital East Coast location. This includes hiring and training 20 digital media technicians to perform duties related to digital media processing for major streaming services - Disney +, Amazon Prime, Apple TV, HBO Max.
- Designed and implement digital video workflows for Inflight Entertainment VOD servers.
- Collaborated with client services team to ensure day to day orders are completed timely and client deadlines are met.
- Designed and introduced leadership development, coaching and team management model, resulting in promotion of employees into increased levels of responsibility.
- Collaborated with national and international Inflight Entertainment companies to develop encoding and transcoding standards that are currently being used on several major Airlines worldwide.
- Trouble shoot and resolve incompatibility (playback) issues for various Inflight Entertainment and OTT (streaming platforms) systems.
- Identified new technologies in automated digital video workflows to implement in company's infrastructure and provide necessary training.
Education
Associate of Arts - Electronics Technology
Technical Career Institutes
New York, NYBachelor of Arts - Electronics, Communications Technology
CUNY New York City College of Technology
New York, NYSkills
- Employee Recruitment and Hiring
- Employee Supervision
- Employee Training Program
- Critical Thinking
- Employee Work Scheduling
- Risk Management
- Decision Making
- Problem Resolution
Additional Information
Proficient In Systems - See Below.
Telestream Vantage - (Design and build Automated Workflows)
CatDV
Digital Rapids - (Design and build Automated Workflows)
Baton
Adobe Premiere
Microsoft Excel
Timeline
Director of Digital Services
CMI Media Management
10.1993 - Current
Associate of Arts - Electronics Technology
Technical Career Institutes
Bachelor of Arts - Electronics, Communications Technology
CUNY New York City College of Technology