Leo Kearns

Experience

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  Avnet

  Jan 1999 - Jan 2002

  Inside Sales Specialist

  Managed the IGS/Honeywell account for Rex Wald. The IBM Global Services, worldwide refresh project for Honeywell's midrange equipment project was a 6 million dollar a year account and the largest in Avnet's Enterprise Solutions division. I solely managed this account with the assistance of the Avnet integration unit, to send racks of servers, sans and switches all over the world.

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  Voice of America

  Sept 2004 - Sept 2012

  Craft Video Editor

  Assembling news packages and entire 1-hour news shows in many different foreign languages. Working with producers from around the world cutting in Avid Media Composer, Final Cut Pro, and Premiere in a fast-paced deadline-driven environment.

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  NBC Universal

  May 2011 - Mar 2018

  Video Editor (NABET)

  Lead video editor for Meet the Press Sunday Mornings. Crash video editor for Nightly News, and The Today Show. Many of my graphics templates are still used in these programs today.

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  NBCUniversal

  Jul 2018 - now

  DevOps Engineer | Video Workflow Specialist-Specializing in Ansible for Linux, Windows hosts systems automation.-Design and manage automated IT and video operations.-Develop containerized solutions with Docker and Kubernetes (K3s).-Support video workflows with Antmedia, Kilo Systems, Vantage, EVS XSquare, and FFmpeg.-Solutions monitoring, Prometheus, deploying custom scripts. Supporting all production systems, Avid or otherwise, throughout Washington DC, NBC Bureau. Including, Telemundo, NewsChannel, CNBC clients across two independent Avid Work Groups.

  • Post Production Engineer

    Mar 2022 - now

  • Avid Certified Video Engineer - ACSR

    Jul 2018 - Jan 2025