Nicholas Er

Experience

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  Television Cooperation of Singapore

  Jan 1994 - Jan 1995

  Broadcast Operation Executive

  Broadcast Engineer of the Engineering Team

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  Walt Disney Television (Singapore) Pte Ltd

  Jan 1995 - Jan 1997

  Broadcast Maintenance Engineer

  Broadcast Engineer of the Engineering Team

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  ESPN STAR Sports

  Jan 1997 - Jan 2000

  Broadcast Maintenance Engineer

  Broadcast Engineer of the Engineering Team

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  Ascent Media Pte Ltd

  Jan 2000 - Jan 2007

  Senior Baseband Engineer

  Team Lead of the Engineering Team- Led planning, design, and setup of High-Definition equipment, Tapeless facility, and high-profile playout operations.- Managed a team ensuring 99.999% SLA reliability for broadcast signals, including mission-critical equipment, facility UPS power, air-conditioning, and ancillary services.- Played a key role in facility consolidation and the installation of digital broadcast equipment.

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  MediaCorp Pte Ltd

  Jan 2008 - Jan 2008

  Principal Engineer

  Principal Engineer in Broadcast Division- Contributed to the acceptance stage of the Newsroom Tapeless facility.- Maintained state-of-the-art digital broadcast equipment and provided engineering support for on-air and Newsroom transmission.

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  The Walt Disney Company

  Jul 2008 - Dec 2023

  Director Engineering and Media IT Infrastructure | Asia Pacific and Middle East

  Lead of Engineering Function Team for APAC and Middle East- Directed Media IT specialists in implementing engineering projects and providing support.- Set up and managed a new engineering team overseeing APJ and EMEA mission critical facilities in incidents and change management.- Led and collaborated on regional projects, ensuring front-end technology and innovative solutions.- Led the planning, design, and implementation of various projects, including Media Asset Management systems, broadcast application hosting, post-production facilities, disaster recovery sites, and cloud storage migration.- Worked with Global Information Security, Global Security, and Content Security teams to implement necessary controls and compliance measures.- Migrated 50+ channels across Singapore, Australia, Japan, Dubai and Taiwan from on-prem to Cloud PAAS solution- Led in planning, design and implementation for facilities consolidation in APAC and Middle East. Show less

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  Singtel

  Aug 2024 - now

  Lead Specialist, TV Engineering & Ops

  Lead the initiatives for the end-to-end TV (OTT, IPTV. Broadcast) architecture design, technical planning and cloudification initiatives. Responsible for budgeting, tender and business planning functions.