Responsibilities
- Maintain and handle various stakeholder screenings in the post-production capable screening room, a state of the art projection Atmos theater with diverse sources, color spaces, and settings
- Maintain wide variety of AV/Multi-Media/Video Tele-Conferencing solutions and standards including control systems, collaboration systems, and streaming
- Collaborate with Media Engineers from other divisions to determine standards, needs, and staying abreast of Production’s needs
- Work with AV contractor(s) in the designs of new products and processes and improve and maintain existing products
- Interpret facility and AV/MM drawings, specifications, and other related documents from architects and AV contractors
- Manage daily activities of configuration and operation of AV/MM/VTC and provide hardware maintenance support, both preventative and remedial
- Provide assistance to studio users in accessing and using AV/MM/VTC systems, especially in-advance of and during Presentation and review meetings
- Document hardware and software configuration management processes/procedures and operational guides
- Design, document, and develop code for programmable devices while streamlining control system interfaces to be fully automated and maximize user experience
- Conduct analysis on AV/MM/VTC systems by ensuring designs are cost efficient, able to be integrated, and reliable
- Communicate with other engineering personnel to coordinate the interrelated design and assure project completion
- Analyze hardware systems, hardware design, architecture, network design and other technical hardware issues
- Develop costing proposals working with IT leadership and the program manager
- Acts as equipment custodian and performs inventory asset management and accountability functions
- Implement hardware and software version control processes, policies and procedures
- Execute AV/MM installation schedules based upon equipment delivery, integration complexity, and customer priorities
Requirements
- 3-5+ years of experience in an enterprise-level technology environment
- 2+ years of experience in IT support of non-technical users
- Demonstrated ability to positively and professionally interact with frustrated users; excellent communication skills with both technical and artistic groups
- Demonstrated ability to manage multiple competing priorities and tenaciously solve unfamiliar problems
- Ability to read AV system drawings
- Experience with screening rooms, collaborative media environments, video conference, multi-site media-review systems
- Experience with Analog, SDI and HD SDI signal processing and conversion
- Experience with scalable video coding, compression and decompression techniques, and encoding/decoding of TV standards such as ATSC, QAM, NTSC, PAL
- Experience with Crestron environments and code
- Experience with HD/SD broadcast equipment (switchers, cameras, etc.)
- Integration of audio and video teleconferencing systems
- Installation and maintenance of IP based television
- Operation of audio mixers and wired/wireless microphone systems and configurations
- Must be able to stand, kneel and/or crouch for long periods of time; climb ladders and scaffolding; lift in excess of 50 pounds; work in high places, as well as small cramped places
- Experience with Adobe Creative Cloud, Autodesk products, Zoom, Avid, Shotgun, Foundry Flix, and Animation/VFX applications a plus
- Experience in the Visual Effects, Animation, or media and entertainment industries a plus
Top Skills
What We Do
About Skydance Media
Skydance is a diversified media company founded by David Ellison in 2010 to create high quality, event-level entertainment for global audiences. The Company brings to life stories of immersive worlds across its feature film, television, and interactive platforms. Its feature films include Mission: Impossible - Fallout, Annihilation, LIFE, Jack Reacher: Never Go Back, Star Trek Beyond, Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation, Terminator Genisys, World War Z, Star Trek Into Darkness, G.I. Joe: Retaliation, Jack Reacher, Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol, and True Grit. Skydance’s upcoming film releases include Top Gun: Maverick, Gemini Man, The Old Guard, 6 Underground and the nwe untitled Terminator film. In 2017, Skydance formed an animation division to develop and produce a slate of high-end feature films and television series in partnership with Spain’s Ilion Animation Studios. Skydance Television launched in 2013. Its current slate includes Emmy-nominated Grace and Frankie on Netflix, Altered Carbon on Netflix, Jack Ryan on Amazon, and Condor on AT&T Audience Network. Skydance Interactive launched in 2016 to create and publish original and IP-based virtual reality experiences and video games. Skydance Interactive recently debuted its first original title – Archangel, a story-driven VR shooter.
About Skydance Interactive
Skydance Interactive creates and publishes original and IP-based virtual reality games. The division of Skydance Media was launched in 2016 through the acquisition of The Workshop Entertainment. Skydance Interactive’s first VR offering is Archangel, launched on July 18th 2017. Skydance Interactive in 2017 partnered with Skybound Entertainment to develop a number of original virtual reality video games based on the expansive world of The Walking Dead universe. The Walking Dead VR game will be the inaugural co-developed title from both companies. The studio is located in Marina del Rey, CA.
About Animation
In 2017, Skydance formed an animation division to develop and produce a slate of high-end feature films and television series in partnership with Spain’s Ilion Animation Studios. Skydance’s first three animated features are Luck, Split (working title), and Powerless (working title). Luck, directed by Alessandro Carloni (Kung Fu Panda 3) and written by Jonathan Aibel & Glenn Berger, is a comedy that pulls back the curtain on the millennia-old battle between the organizations of good luck and bad luck that secretly
