Laki Muliaumasealii

• Led API development squads to the successful delivery of product features for TVNZ+ (streaming platform)
• Developed user stories and defined acceptance criteria for new features serviced by the internal API infrastructure.
• Authored comprehensive product confluences and documentation to support team alignment.
• Prioritized and managed product backlog to maximize value and align with stakeholder expectations.
• Led stakeholder collaboration to identify and prioritize product requirements, ensuring alignment with business objectives.
• Led agile ceremonies including sprint planning, reviews, and retrospectives to ensure team alignment and continuous improvement.
• Facilitated sprint cycles, proactively addressing bottlenecks to maintain strict adherence to project timelines.
• Collaborated with the UX design team on backend capabilities to service designs.
• Facilitated communication between development teams and stakeholders to ensure clear understanding of product requirements.
• Key Highlight: Led team of developers across the implementation of new digital platform features/content hubs, resulting in the increase of user engagement, leveraging data driven decision making. Example TVNZ+ platform content hubs Movies/TV Hub, Sport Hub, News Hub

• Supported Product Lead by facilitating and prioritizing product requirements for our team of Developers, UX Designers and Automation testers in an Agile environment.
• Managing product releases across Neon’s user endpoints: CTV, Web, Mobile Apps

• Led external Vendor across development requirements & implementation for NEONs streaming platform and associated endpoints
• Led sprint planning and agile ceremonies for our squad
• Supported Product Lead with stakeholder collaborations and facilitated business requirements.
• Key highlight: Led the establishment of NEONs new price point change for subscriptions and product development across all platforms and endpoints. Providing developer technical requirements for implementation, facilitating internal business stakeholders requests, and managing external billing partner requirements.

• Managed the digital supply chain of content and media operational functions for Neons streaming platform.
• Ensured the delivery of content to it’s scheduled on air/streaming time
• Managed MAM & CMS operations in relation to NEON content.
• Key highlight: Managing the migration and merge of approx. 5,800hrs of content between Lightbox and NEON platforms during the merge of the two entities.

• Managed live OTT feeds of major international sporting events (F1, Wimbledon, EPL, NFL) for Spark Sport's streaming platform
• Managed VOD content across the CMS for the streaming platform
• Key highlight: Senior operator during the live 2019 Rugby World Cup - First live RWC on an OTT platform streamed in New Zealand

• Managed the media supply chain of streaming content for Lightbox.
• Oversaw the delivery of content and ensuring the efficiency of the supply chain and daily operations, whilst guaranteeing the delivery of content to air on time.
• Managed relationships external studios and aggregators.
• Key highlight: Launched New TVOD Movie catalogue to the platform offering hundreds of hours movie content that supplemented Lightbox’s SVOD TV subscription.

• Team Lead for Media Controllers with direct reports
• Managed live transmission in a multichannel environment, ingest, QC and MCR
• Supported wider business with advance understanding of MAM (Ardome and Viz One) Consulted on various project deliveries
• Managed performance objectives for direct reports
• Key Highlight: 1 of 3 staff members to be promoted to newly created Team Leader roles
• Managed team through various breaking news events

• Key Senior operational role, providing support for TVNZ's transmission across digital channels in it's multichannel environment
• First point of contact for staff during exceptional circumstances i.e
• Breaking News events, Breakdown/System outages
• Co-ordinated file delivery via HDD and Internet based sources for import into MAM (Ardome)
• Key Highlight: First member of staff to be promoted to newly created Senior Media Controller Role in 2010

• Implemented & facilitated live on air broadcast schedule for newly launched digital channels TVNZ6 and TVNZ7, followed by TVNZ Heartland
• Executed Server ingest of program content
• Final Cut Pro Non-Linear editor for program content – Censor cuts, program compiles, HD edits
• Key highlight: Launched TVNZ's former analogue mainstream channels (ONE and TV2) into new digital multichannel suites

• Operated multi tape for duplication and conversions
• Line content QC
• Commercial and promo ingests
• Linear editor for sporting events
• OB EVS editor for live sporting events (Netball, Tennis, Hockey, K1 Kickboxing) as well as NZ Idol S2 and S3
• Key highlight: Sports EVS editor for 2004 Olympics in Athens, 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, 2008 Beijing Olympics (based in Auckland TVC)