After college, I wanted to pay off my loans and my car. So I found a spot at NBC Universal and did just that. I was a Post Production Technician, which is a fancy way of saying “TV Production Hatrack.” Main responsibilities were Standards and Practice verification which entailed timings were correct, ensuring there were no editing errors, fixes were made and consistent between the different episode versions, nudity blurred, curses bleeped/censored properly (they varied between networks), slurs and problematic topical content flagged, personal information was properly blurred, CC was accurate, on time and censored correctly, PLUS all the specs were correct and our data sheets prepped and released for automation. My proudest moment I got a kudos for was flagging an episode of Prisoners where a transgender inmate was deadnamed and misgendered throughout the entirety of the episode. I'd also write and develop SOP (training guides) and I’d train new hires on the more difficult networks (Bravo and Oxygen). There were some other technical operations I did such as applying CC, recording feeds, delivering files and promo materials, but that was fill in as needed.

Due to my Animation/Illustration background, the plan was to move me into our Creative Editing Department. I spent a week learning After Effects from a coworker and some YouTube videos, and then I was unofficially running our snipes department. I instructed new hires, edited and simplified templates, and outputted hundreds of lower third graphics a day while making and maintaining our Smart Sheets with conditional formatting. Eventually, management let me create end credit squeezes for shows and also appointed me the lead of maintaining our internal portfolio site for our creative department. I self-taught myself a little HTML to customize it a bit, but I also made a quarterly email check-in for work submissions and organized/managed our Mediasilo database so the editors always had their best sizzles, promos, and teasers ready to show.

However, our Creative Editing Department was unfortunately disbanded, and I no longer had a position or place at NBC to grow into. So I began to dip more into freelancing before amicably parting ways in 2023.

I still talk to a good chunk of my old coworkers, though. A lot of good, hardworking people there.