Spencer Miles
Verona,NJ
Summary
L1 Post Tech Support, Technical Media Manager, and Video Editor possessing extensive expertise in broadcast post-production
Overview
21
21
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Post Tech Support
Versant Media
Englewood Cliffs, NJ
10.2025 - Current
- Provide front-line L1 Technical Support to editors and editorial staff
- Act as liaison between Editors, Editorial, Engineering, Graphics, Acquisitions, Control Room Operations, NOC/MOC teams, in a live production environment
- Manage deletions and organization of projects, folders, master clips, and SEQs
- Troubleshoot and resolve technical issues in collaboration with editors, engineers
- Test and validate new workflows and applications prior to deployment
- Monitor post-production systems to ensure optimal performance
- Perform routine maintenance tasks, system checks, and compile data
- Execute archive and restore functions
- Ingest camera files and download external media into production servers
- Onboard and manage users for Avid systems, Frame IO, Media Shuttle, Latakoo, Telestream Vantage, and other third-party applications
- Create and maintain workflow SOPs; train users on all relevant systems
Technical Media Manager
NBC Universal
New York, NY
04.2011 - 10.2025
- Provided front-line L1 Technical Support in broadcast news post-production for NBC's The Today Show, Nightly News, Dateline, the MSNBC network
- Provided advanced technical knowledge to efficiently resolve Avid edit issues
- Managed hundreds of terabytes of media across multiple servers - including daily deletion and organization of media and server space in a shared server
- Provided database administration, along with ingest and workflow solutions
- Coordinated sending and receiving of media to/from NBC's bureaus and the field
- Mixed down, exported, and converted sequences for screening using Media Encoder, Frame.io, among other tools, to custom video/audio specifications
Video Editor/Graphic and Sound Designer
NBC Universal
New York, NY
11.2010 - 04.2011
- Edited raw footage into cohesive narratives for NBC's acclaimed Today Show
- Designed graphics and animations using Adobe Photoshop and After Effects
- Conducted color correction and sound design to achieve polished final products
Lead Video Editor
Bloomberg TV
London, UK
01.2010 - 11.2010
- Edited news segments for worldwide broadcast utilizing Adobe Premiere Pro
- Collaborated with producers to develop compelling video content
- Promoted from Junior Video Editor in April 2010 after 3 month contract
Assistant Video Editor
NBC Universal
New York, NY
04.2005 - 10.2009
- Digitized a wide variety of tape, drive, and card formats
- Transcoded, ingested, organized and managed video files
- Ran up to 7 Avid Newscutters at once in a deadline-driven news environment
Skills
- Avid Media Composer
- Avid Cloud UX
- Avid MAM
- Avid Access
- Adobe Premiere Pro
- Adobe Photoshop
- Adobe After Effects
- Adobe Media Encoder
- Telestream Vantage
- Root6
- MIMIR
- Latakoo
- Grass Valley Stratus
- Frame io
- Media Shuttle
- Logic Pro
- MacOS
- Windows OS
- Media Asset Management
- Digital Asset Management
- L1 Technical Support
Certification
Certified Broadcast Technologist (CBT) - Society of Broadcast Engineers (June 2019)
Timeline
Post Tech Support
Versant Media
10.2025 - Current
Technical Media Manager
NBC Universal
04.2011 - 10.2025
Video Editor/Graphic and Sound Designer
NBC Universal
11.2010 - 04.2011
Lead Video Editor
Bloomberg TV
01.2010 - 11.2010
Assistant Video Editor
NBC Universal
04.2005 - 10.2009