Victor Rosa-Branco Resume

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Victor Manuel Rosa- Branco Yanes Laguna Seca St. House. El E-mail: [email protected] Topito Phone: +58-212-963-9914 Sector: Alto Hatillo +58- 412-245-4444 Caracas- Venezuela CITIZENSHIP Dual citizenship, Venezuelan and Portuguese. Portuguese Passport NUMBER R519430 Portuguese Document ID 14722583 WORK EXPERIENCE

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Victor Manuel Rosa-

Branco Yanes

Laguna Seca St. House. El E-mail: [email protected]

Topito Phone: +58-212-963-9914

Sector: Alto Hatillo +58- 412-245-4444

Caracas- Venezuela

CITIZENSHIP Dual citizenship, Venezuelan and Portuguese.

Portuguese Passport NUMBER R519430

Portuguese Document ID 14722583

WORK

EXPERIENCE

VC Medios C.A. Apr 2014 — Current

Director, Content Processing and Distribution

Responsible for all QC, content processing, distribution and localization of all

programs.This includes

delivering to vendors, web pages, VOD with its xml metadata file,also responsible for all content

for

TVEverywhere, along with its metadata. QC involves all promos, commercials, programs and

also live

events for all networks:A&E, Lifetime, History Channel and E! Entertainment.

Localization is changing English graphics to Spanish and Portuguese graphics (about 1900

hours per year).

ONAIR performance in Q1 2014 is at 99.999% with 10.2 minutes of failure compared to 3.5

hours in Q1 2013.

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Responsible for 51 employees.

Localization Department had a 25% rejection rate and since I took over on

May 1st

2014, it has gone down to 7.3% as of July 31st.

Went from 6.1 hours of ON AIR failures in

2013 to 22 minutes as of July 2014.

Process over 50,000 promos, over 3000 new hours of programming, over 7000

commercials, 260 live

events, over 2,500 hours OTT/SVOD a year among E!, History, A&E, H2 and Lifetime

VC Medios C.A. Dec 2012 — Mar 2014

Senior Manager, QC and Content Distribution

Manage all Quality Control aspects of the company, as well as, distribution of all content (OTT,

Web

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US Vendors, TVE, and all metadata input and packaging)

Went from over 84 hours of ONAIR failures in 2012 to 6.1 hours in 2013.

First time (2013) in 6 years the Department performed at 99.99% ONAIR reliability.

Overhauled all QC workflows

VC Medios is responsible for preparing, evaluating, dubbing, subtitling all content for Latin

America

for E!, History Channel, Biography Channel and A&E.

Responsible for 31 employees.

VC Medios C.A. May 2011 — Nov 2012

Engineering Manager

Managed all engineering aspects of the company. Handled budget and personnel.

Was responsible for 12 employees, 3 reported directly to me from three different areas: Post

Production, Quality Control

and Master Control.

Overhauled Master Control and QC Areas and implemented more dubbing booths.

Restructured and redesigned engineering aspects of Quality Control and Post Production

areas.

Implemented DTH feeds for Latin American Region for A&E and History Channels for

DirecTV.

Spearheaded an initiative to help out Operations by taking over procedures for weeks at a

time and

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reporting back with findings in order to optimize efficiency. Co-

leader for new MAM project for 2013.

Had 99.99% ON AIR reliability

Responsible for the correct technical operation of Master Control, Post-Production and QC

systems:

Dalet MAM

HP switches with 12 VLANs

Qlogic Fibre Channel switches

Telestream FlipFactory and Vantage systems

Grass Valley K2 servers

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Tektronix Cerify system

Masstech Topaz Media Asset Management system with IBM Library storage

SmartJog server

Pipeline/Launch systems spread all over Latin America for commercial content delivery to

A&E, History, Biography, E! Entertainment, HBO, Sony, AXN, Animax and MGM Latin

America offices.

Sony Betacam Digital VTRs

Wohler audio monitoring

Sony video monitors

Harris rasterizer systems

Sony HDCAM VTRs

Harris Media Client software

15 Avid Media Composer editing stations

SoftNI subtitling systems (GXF DV25 file based subtitling)

MXF XDCAM HD MPEG2 4:2:2, GXF DV25, Hi Res file based workflows. Quicktime H264,

ASF low res file based

workflows.

Avid ISIS 7000 and ISIS 5000 storage systems

Harris ADC-100 Automation system

22 Downlink feeds

CATV system for two buildings

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Main and Backup Power Generators and UPS system

VC Medios C.A. Apr 2009 — Apr 2011

QC Technical Supervisor

Oversee all engineering and technical aspects of QC operations for A&E, History,

Biography and E! Latin America

feeds. Two telecommunications engineers report directly to me. 24/7 availability.

Restructured QC department for VC Medios (fired and hired employees) Implemented

tapeless workflow for commercials and web based content. Implemented VOD workflow

using a no cost option, saving the company over $50.000

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Designed and set up A&E and History HD file based workflow using Avid Media

Composers, Unity file system and

Interplay Transfer

Restructured and optimized all network connections for QC department (over 120

connections)

Integrated a 25 Mbps MPLS circuit for 4 Latin American offices so they can do promo work

by accessing our MAM, and

delivering the finished promo directly into our Unity system.

Reduced by 68% the number of technical failures in 8 months.

Took the initiative to work with the Post Production Department to design a workflow for

shows and promos, reducing

the processing time from 6 hours to 3 hours per show.

Self-taught how to troubleshoot all our systems so the time it requires to fix issues is

greatly reduced, as waiting for an on

field tech specialist is not required.

SoftNI Corp Dec 2006 — Sept 2008

New Developments Engineer

Designed customizable systems based on client needs.Integrated our systems with other

manufacturer's equipment.

Installed, tested, and gave 24/7 Tech support to all our clients worldwide on all our

products.

Was hired to translate user guides for all of SoftNI’s products, from Spanish to

English, and within two months was promoted, and ultimately became:

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Project leader for satellite subtitling transmissions systems for A&E. Project leader for

satellite subtitling transmissions systems for NET Brazil (8 headends, DCII to DVB).

Project leader for satellite subtitling transmissions systems for Telefónica in Perú (2

headends, DCII to DVB)

Project leader for satellite subtitling transmissions systems for Sky Brazil, Fox channel.

Project leader for satellite HD subtitling transmissions systems for DirecTV Latin

America.

Project leader for satellite subtitling transmissions systems for Wind Telecom in Santo

Domingo (1 headend, DCII to

DVB).

Head engineer for implementing and designing satellite HD subtitling transmissions

systems for HBO Latin America.

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EDUCATION Systems Engineer 1989 — 1995

Universidad Metropolitana

Thesis on Neural Networks applied to Artificial Intelligence for song recognition.

REFERENCES Juan Rodríguez (General Manager & EVP): 58-412-6216050

Tonny Marquez (VP of Engineering): 58-414-2557744

LANGUAGES English: speak and write perfectly (Native speaker).

Spanish: speak and write perfectly (Native speaker).

Note: Lived for 5 years in Natick, Massachussetts, USA (1979-1984).

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