TV Producer, Graphic Designer, Production Trainer

Entrepreneur and executive (or senior) media professional with over 15 years’ experience in production, design, recording, finance, and IT management.

• TV Producer, on-site and remote.
• Live event sound, lighting, and video.
• Current recording & editing technologies.
• Expert Adobe Production Suite Programs.
• Expert-Closed Captioning software.
• Expert-Microsoft 365.
• Proficient-WordPress Websites.
• Workstation & Server building.
• Routers, Switches, Encoders/Decoders.
• VPN Configuration.
• Entire Production Team Trainer.
• Broadcast Media.
• Audio Boards.
• Multi-Camera Program Processes.
• Live Broadcast Direction.
• Schedule Coordination.
• IPTV, OTT Production.
• Product Determination.
• Camera and Video Staff Direction.
• Video Production Oversight.
• Production Standards Conformance.

ReJOYce IN JESUS Ministries

Los Angeles, CA & Richmond, VA, January 1992 – Present

TV Producer: (https://cmcdee.com/c-mcdee-portfolio).

• Innovator and producer of the flagship Bible teaching TV show for RJM, “Time In The Word (TITW).”
• Directed live broadcasts, films, and recordings, and non-broadcast programming for public entertainment and education.
• Video Asset Management including archiving and maintaining a digital library of 1000, 2-hour long form productions, and 1600, 30-minute episodes (formerly a physical library of tapes), currently digital on-air files and the distribution to Broadcast points.
• Supervised weekly pre-recorded and remote (virtual) production of three long-form and 10 episodic messages for broadcast and streaming.
• Edited and added sourced materials, such as illustrations, into messages to enhance final production and increase viewer experience.

Live Event Coordinator:

• Supervised and coordinated staff of 12 personnel including an On-site Producer, Technical Director, Camera Operators, Floor Director, Sound/Audio Engineers, and Lighting Technicians.
• Supervised event set up, hard wiring of equipment, live production, recording, editing of recordings, and duplicating final product for distribution.

Closed-captioning Technician:

• Synchronize written transcripts to each individual episode and encode the file for broadcast station use.

TV Production Acquisition Manager:

• Researched, identified, and procured all equipment including cameras, cables, Videotape Recorders, Digital Video Recorders, tripods, lights (including wattage, dimmer packages) resulting in 80% savings in overall equipment costs.
• Transitioned entire setup from Analog equipment to High-Definition equipment (linear to non-linear) resulting in modernization and increased quality of broadcast products with a 75% in cost savings.
• Researched closed-captioning solutions and determined the most cost-effective software that meets FCC standards and improves viewer experience.

Financial Analyst:

• Oversee flow of cash up to $80,000 including reporting and coding of tithes, donations, and fund-raising projects, and execution of disbursements utilizing Quickbooks, Microsoft Excel, Word, and Outlook software.  Approve local costs and distribution. View and oversee bank activities and statements.
• Prepare budget using Excel and reports to executive staff for review and approval.
• Participate in annual audits including review of costs, spending, budgets, and systems resulting in quality assurance and improvement and up to date on latest standards of accountability.
• Facilitator of weekly and quarterly departmental meetings including delegating responsibilities, planning and coordinating events, and budget requisitions. 
• Utilized Auto Cad engineering software in planning use, purchase, and renovations of structures and buildings.

Hosanna Broadcasting Network

Long Beach, CA, July 2017 – Present

• Broadcast Producer:

  • As Producer, analyze performance data to inform executive leadership on decisions for future productions, marketing, and personnel.
  • Set up the remote studio, directed the recording of 40 original shows, and edited shows for airing on network and YouTube for two seasons.
  • Remotely direct and produce quarterly four-hour live show broadcasted on Facebook, YouTube, Hosanna Broadcasting.com website, and their over-the-air channels.

   

  Broadcast Engineer:

  • Build-out of Broadcasting Server including identifying and building two on-premise compute servers, one as the play-list host, the other as the streamer, and connecting via digital transfer, high-resolution, Network Devise Interface (NDI). This solution saved the network over $45,000 in costs.
  • Selected the appropriate power supplies, storage, memory, and “Playdeck.TV” play-out software.
  • Configured IP addresses on the network cards.
  • Programmed the encoder for the encoded high-resolution stream to connect over the internet to a matching decoder at the 10 over-the-air broadcast points.
  • Configured the Redundant Array of Inexpensive Drives (RAID) to provide over 30TB of media storage with redundancy.
  • Trained six Broadcast Engineers to remotely access the play-out software for streaming of network content.
  • Comprehensive testing and analysis of new and existing systems to ensure quality and performance.
  • Encode and create settings for broadcast programs using Internet Protocol TV (IPTV), including use of Over the Top (OTT) internet channels.
  • Facilitated OTT streams to App providers.

  Graphic Designer:

  • Creatively design flyers, social media posts, publicity tags, developing of logos, web banners, video overlays, proposal (slide-deck) for seminars and presentations on a monthly basis resulting in effective advertising, sponsorship, support and increased viewership of the network.
  • Design 5 to 15 second video transitions including music, scriptures, and station identifications.
  • Create Station ID “overlay” graphics that are displayed over the video.
  • Updated the network’s website (hosannabroadcasting.com) using WordPress including choosing and adapting the template, adding and editing content.