Aidan Carr

Aidan Carr

IT Technician Apprentice

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  • Timeline

  • About me

    Content Systems Engineer at Sky

  • Education

    • Cardinal Newman Sixth Form College

      2008 - 2010
      A Level Business Studies, Information Technology
    • Cardinal Newman Secondary School

      2003 - 2008
      GCSE A*-C
  • Experience

    • University of Bedfordshire

      Sept 2009 - May 2010
      IT Technician Apprentice

      As an apprentice my main duties were to maintain computer systems and assist students to use various software systems such as Final Cut Pro and Photoshop.

    • MCC Lord's Cricket Ground

      May 2010 - Sept 2013
      Security Officer/ Pitch Protection

      I worked as part of a team to ensure the safety of spectators and players during international cricket matches, this included crowd control, body searching and pitch protection for high profile games.

    • B&M Retail

      Oct 2011 - Sept 2012
      Security Officer

      My role was primarily to create a safe environment for both staff and customers, whilst preventing profit loss through theft and damage.

    • Sky

      Sept 2012 - now

      - End to end MAM integrated workflows (OTT, PDL, UHD, TX, Outgest).- Transcode triage Elemental, Rhozet, Ateme, Metadata analysis, Auto QC and Encryption.- Strong knowledge of transport wrappers and video/audio codecs.- Content delivery support via Signiant/Aspera workflows.- Analysing codec and metadata in accordance to company spec.- Dart recordings, Omneon – MAM.- Storage monitoring and maintenance.- Linux system admin.- Sky News Support (Viz One, RIO, SAM, Quantel)- Networking analytics. Show less Providing first line support to the Sky DTH and On-Demand platform.- First line Headend equiptment support.- Incident management of service affecting outages.- Maintaining Apps utilising Linux operating systems.- Interrogating log files to ascertain system error’s.- Reducing platform outages with fast triage implementations.- Reviewing planned work to identify service affecting conflicts.- Documenting issues and creating procedure guides.- Liaising with third party channel providers to identify issues and put long term resolutions in place.- Health Checking AdSmart components and live splices.- Analysing network faults. Show less

      • CSE Specialist Engineer

        Oct 2021 - now
      • Content Systems Engineer

        Apr 2018 - Nov 2021
      • Platform Controller

        Dec 2015 - Apr 2018
      • Media Operator - Encoding

        Sept 2012 - Dec 2015
  • Licenses & Certifications

  • Honors & Awards

    • Awarded to Aidan Carr
      Team Believe In Better Award 2013 BskyB My team were awarded with a Sky "Believe In Better Award" in recognition of our work for Sky Go & Now TV