What I have done
OWNER 2012 – Present
GeoNavigator, LLC
Providing management consulting and project management services. Consulting via analytic assessments of alignment across and throughout organizations for Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate re-structuring and venture capitalists.
Pre-assessment interviews with leadership to target the engagement.
Measure, interpret & present findings of the assessment to leadership for review.
Collaborate with leadership to incorporate findings of alignment assessment into
actionable plans.
Deepen engagements through the adjustment of Balance Score Cards, Annual
Goals and KPIs
ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR 2008 – 2012
ERNST & YOUNG LLP
Global Lead, Voice & Video Telecommunications. Manage globally dispersed & culturally diverse Unified Communications teams in solutions delivery for IP Telephony, Telepresence, Audio/Video Conferencing and Webcast Engineering. Led transitional engineering work for the adoption of Microsoft Lync, Cloud Services and global Kontiki upgrade.
Created and implemented strategy for webcasting, video & audio conferencing
throughout the world.
Redesigned webcast streaming architecture to save over USD$7.5 Million in 3
years.
Proposal and design of new streaming architecture for global deployment and
USD$2.5 Million per year savings.
Created global standards for enterprise-wide engineering solutions delivery.
TECHNICAL DIRECTOR 2007 – 2008
UN/UNICEF- NY
Managed technical operations & projects for the Film, Television, Internet, Image & Radio Division. Re-designed workflow processes to optimize production efficiencies, migrated television to HD and internet-based video to Flash. Additional projects included upgrading digital asset management systems and contracting with National Geographic to integrate all historic UNICEF media with NGS archives. Management of 15 personnel.
Designed & implemented lower and higher level production processes by
upgrading and standardizing post-production software across all edit suites,
upgrading SAN systems to handle HD traffic and introducing workflow software
tailored to the UNICEF production environment.
Removal of legacy systems for more efficient ones, e.g. Real Media to Flash; SD
to HD.
Management of UNICEF lobby experience- replacing poster media with digital
signage.
MEDIA DEVELOPMENT AND TECHNICAL MANAGER 2004 – 2007
Pfizer Inc.
Managed business programming projects and a studio production team of up to 25 personnel. Needs assessment, followed by issue of RFPs to vendors, final selection of vendor relationships while integrating best business practices, authoring of SOPs for satellite and terrestrial media delivery systems to the US Pfizer Field Force and World HQ.
Implemented significant cost saving methods ($2 Million+) and technologies, such
as the reduction of business programming transmission operating costs while
meeting bandwidth and reliability requirements.
Led the migration from traditional to new media technologies, providing
telecommunications savings of 30%-50%, while increasing the number of
distribution channels.
Negotiated and reduced costs with multiple service providers while aligning
internal stakeholders.
Provided design and budget for webcasting platform as well as the implementation
of quality procedures. Expedited productions’ turnaround time after writing new
SOPs. Reduced Help Desk calls to 3 per 5000 viewers.
Project managed the deployment of a 3 months business communications
strategy, while coordinating the removal of home office satellite television systems
simultaneously. Project finished early and under budget. Sold off removed
equipment to further reduce cost of project.
GeoNavigator, LLC
Providing management consulting and project management services. Consulting via analytic assessments of alignment across and throughout organizations for Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate re-structuring and venture capitalists.
Pre-assessment interviews with leadership to target the engagement.
Measure, interpret & present findings of the assessment to leadership for review.
Collaborate with leadership to incorporate findings of alignment assessment into
actionable plans.
Deepen engagements through the adjustment of Balance Score Cards, Annual
Goals and KPIs
ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR 2008 – 2012
ERNST & YOUNG LLP
Global Lead, Voice & Video Telecommunications. Manage globally dispersed & culturally diverse Unified Communications teams in solutions delivery for IP Telephony, Telepresence, Audio/Video Conferencing and Webcast Engineering. Led transitional engineering work for the adoption of Microsoft Lync, Cloud Services and global Kontiki upgrade.
Created and implemented strategy for webcasting, video & audio conferencing
throughout the world.
Redesigned webcast streaming architecture to save over USD$7.5 Million in 3
years.
Proposal and design of new streaming architecture for global deployment and
USD$2.5 Million per year savings.
Created global standards for enterprise-wide engineering solutions delivery.
TECHNICAL DIRECTOR 2007 – 2008
UN/UNICEF- NY
Managed technical operations & projects for the Film, Television, Internet, Image & Radio Division. Re-designed workflow processes to optimize production efficiencies, migrated television to HD and internet-based video to Flash. Additional projects included upgrading digital asset management systems and contracting with National Geographic to integrate all historic UNICEF media with NGS archives. Management of 15 personnel.
Designed & implemented lower and higher level production processes by
upgrading and standardizing post-production software across all edit suites,
upgrading SAN systems to handle HD traffic and introducing workflow software
tailored to the UNICEF production environment.
Removal of legacy systems for more efficient ones, e.g. Real Media to Flash; SD
to HD.
Management of UNICEF lobby experience- replacing poster media with digital
signage.
MEDIA DEVELOPMENT AND TECHNICAL MANAGER 2004 – 2007
Pfizer Inc.
Managed business programming projects and a studio production team of up to 25 personnel. Needs assessment, followed by issue of RFPs to vendors, final selection of vendor relationships while integrating best business practices, authoring of SOPs for satellite and terrestrial media delivery systems to the US Pfizer Field Force and World HQ.
Implemented significant cost saving methods ($2 Million+) and technologies, such
as the reduction of business programming transmission operating costs while
meeting bandwidth and reliability requirements.
Led the migration from traditional to new media technologies, providing
telecommunications savings of 30%-50%, while increasing the number of
distribution channels.
Negotiated and reduced costs with multiple service providers while aligning
internal stakeholders.
Provided design and budget for webcasting platform as well as the implementation
of quality procedures. Expedited productions’ turnaround time after writing new
SOPs. Reduced Help Desk calls to 3 per 5000 viewers.
Project managed the deployment of a 3 months business communications
strategy, while coordinating the removal of home office satellite television systems
simultaneously. Project finished early and under budget. Sold off removed
equipment to further reduce cost of project.
ALPHANET INC. 1993 – 2004
As Embedded Journalist & Special Projects Manager (NBC News, NY) – presented
& produced news stories live from warzones; responsible for budgets, acquisition,
research and design of new portable telecommunications technologies for news-
related media.
Lecturer (Yale University School of Medicine) to the Section of Anatomy and
Experimental Surgery, with an emphasis on Telemedical Applications. Project
manager with financial responsibility for high-tech medical projects. NASA
Principal Investigator- biometric monitoring in high altitude environments (Mount
Everest).
Pioneer and Provisional Patent Holder of the Live by VideoPhone solution used by
television networks globally to report breaking news events.
Created and trademarked the GeoNavigator Interactive Distance Learning
solution.
Program Manager (Mount Everest 1997-01) for yearly live video transmissions
and news stories from Everest Base Camp, for ABC, NBC and CBS. Required
mission planning, cost analysis, financial disbursement and delivering on timeline-
established milestones. Awarded Ahli Mangku Negara (Order of Chivalry for
Supreme Gallantry) from the King of Malaysia.
Developed guidelines for scalable growth of UNICEF global internet presence
PRODUCER 1990 –1996
Des Bartlett Productions
Won the Coveted EMMY Award from the National Academy of Arts and
Sciences for National Geographic Television’s Survivors of the Skeleton
Coast.
Negotiated corporate sponsorship of computer and satellite technologies,
as well as expedition clothing.
Constructed and managed production budgets, managed disbursements
of for various television programs.
Produced natural history documentaries. Developed storylines and
sequences and handled logistics.
As Embedded Journalist & Special Projects Manager (NBC News, NY) – presented
& produced news stories live from warzones; responsible for budgets, acquisition,
research and design of new portable telecommunications technologies for news-
related media.
Lecturer (Yale University School of Medicine) to the Section of Anatomy and
Experimental Surgery, with an emphasis on Telemedical Applications. Project
manager with financial responsibility for high-tech medical projects. NASA
Principal Investigator- biometric monitoring in high altitude environments (Mount
Everest).
Pioneer and Provisional Patent Holder of the Live by VideoPhone solution used by
television networks globally to report breaking news events.
Created and trademarked the GeoNavigator Interactive Distance Learning
solution.
Program Manager (Mount Everest 1997-01) for yearly live video transmissions
and news stories from Everest Base Camp, for ABC, NBC and CBS. Required
mission planning, cost analysis, financial disbursement and delivering on timeline-
established milestones. Awarded Ahli Mangku Negara (Order of Chivalry for
Supreme Gallantry) from the King of Malaysia.
Developed guidelines for scalable growth of UNICEF global internet presence
PRODUCER 1990 –1996
Des Bartlett Productions
Won the Coveted EMMY Award from the National Academy of Arts and
Sciences for National Geographic Television’s Survivors of the Skeleton
Coast.
Negotiated corporate sponsorship of computer and satellite technologies,
as well as expedition clothing.
Constructed and managed production budgets, managed disbursements
of for various television programs.
Produced natural history documentaries. Developed storylines and
sequences and handled logistics.
The Beginning
I go live with my GeoNavigator Virtually There system on October 31, 1996. Essentially a "TV Truck in a Suitcase", this work began a disruptive change in how breaking news would be reported around the world, by all news agencies. I eventually decreased the size from several suitcases to one backpack.
Counter to conventional wisdom, television audiences soon came to see "internet quality video" not as a reason to change the channel, but to lean forward and listen. Today, news agencies now receive video from mobile devices for broadcast. Hail the Citizen Journalist.
Counter to conventional wisdom, television audiences soon came to see "internet quality video" not as a reason to change the channel, but to lean forward and listen. Today, news agencies now receive video from mobile devices for broadcast. Hail the Citizen Journalist.
