Aidan Carr

Experience

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  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.

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  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.

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  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.

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  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