Timothy G Taylor

 What do I do?

• Media Assets Engineer; VOD, streaming, broadcast.
• Streaming Media Services Technical Specialist: specify, design, implement, support. Live, low latency & reliable.
• Innovator: Analysis of challenges and opportunities result in high-performance and cost-effective solutions. 
• Closed captioning conversion, preparation and delivery expert; Pre-recorded, Live. Broadcast, VOD. 
• Workflows - Create, analyze, and optimize asset transcoding profiles/presets. AWS, SDVI Rally. 
• AWS liaison. Bug resolution, new features. 
• Develop and implement new technologies and techniques to improve processes and increase efficiencies. 
• Solutions & Sales Engineering, pre and post support to clients and team members. 
• Project management from RFP and POC to delivery, client acceptance and support. Proposals, budgets. 
• Cloud & Facilities integration for live streaming and for traditional broadcast. 
• Broadcast Television and Cable networks. 
• Ambassador and representative for the company. 
• Uncommon solutions to uncommon problems.
• 24x7x365 availability. Global support of all teams (NA/NAM, LATAM, EMEA, APAC). 

My Tool Bag

• Media encoding, transcoding tools; Preset/profile authoring; Cloud, premise.
• VOD, Broadcast audio/video/captioning technologies SME. 
• Video compression and analysis tools; FFmpeg, FFprobe, Adobe Media Encoder, Premiere Pro, MediaInfo, Switch.
• AWS Elemental MediaConvert SME. 
• Workflow analysis, design; efficiency and cost reduction.
• SDVI Rally workflows.
• Closed Captioning/Subtitling SME; Formats, analysis, creation, conversion, compliance.
• Closed Caption Converter SME; API, CLI, GUI. 
• Work-around SME.
• Development and Tech Support environments.
• Streaming media protocols, Compression technologies/codecs.
• API’s, SaaS solutions.
• Tech Support; analysis, ticketing, and tracking (Atlassian Jira)
• Documentation, project replication. RFI/RFP/RFQ’s and POC’s.
• Communication; verbal, written, interpersonal; Technical, business and C-Level audiences.
• Broadcast facility operation. Liaison to broadcast clients.
• Streaming appliances, webcasting applications.
• Culturally competent.