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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.
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
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
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:
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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