Forrest Hart

Background

About Forrest Hart

Seasoned bilingual (Spanish) Production Engineer seeking a strategic role to build upon years of tactical experience with high profile clients. Aspiring to drive strategic results with cross-functionality that deliver outstanding client service while ensuring that the achievements of my team are aligned with the larger organization’s goals and objectives. Expert knowledge across all aspects of audio, video, and graphics workflow make me a ideal candidate for a wide range of engineering roles. I pride myself on being a driven, results-oriented, and creative leader, equipped with the experience, knowledge and interpersonal skills that have empowered me to succeed in delivering outstanding engineered solutions and client service. Current work experience is 15 years Engineering with NBCUniversal at 30 Rockefeller Plaza, including 10 years working closely with Saturday Night Live, aka “SNL”. Design, Build and Run of high performance workgroups, workflows, and infrastructure with fibre channel SAN storages is a core function. These large creative workgroups total over 200 workstations. I supervise a fleet of over 30 Pro Tools workstations and mix rooms at 30 Rock. I develop support and communication protocols for our B2B partner News, Ad Sales and Analytics teams. I’m experienced in Project Management, developing Standard Operating Procedures, Service Level Agreements, B2B relations, implementation of compliance and regulatory requirements, software governance, audits, reports and presentations for stakeholders and leadership. Late Night Entertainment Engineering - SNL Engineering and Ingest assignment, 2012 - present - SNL 4K/UHD HDR Engineering and Ingest, 2020 - present - Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, 2009 - 2014 - Late Night with Seth Meyers, 2014 - present - The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon, 2014 - present - Meyers and Fallon traveling road shows Cable Brand Engineering - Consolidation, 2007 - present - Oxygen, Bravo, Syfy, USA, E, UKids, LXTV - Short and Long range budget planning - Design, Build and Run of tech infrastructure Oxygen Channel Engineering, 2007 - 2009 - Led Engineering of SD to HD facility upgrade - Planned, built and moved Oxygen facilities from Chelsea Market to 30 Rock