People · Continuity
Technical direction on demand
Your TD leaves for eight months. Your systems don't.
A postproduction or broadcast infrastructure doesn’t stay alive on its own. When the person who knows it leaves — parental leave, vacation, departure — that’s when updates slip, backups drift, and a small failure becomes a big one.
Two ways to work together
The replacement. A DXM technical director takes over for the duration of the leave. They step into your systems, your workflows, your world — not the other way around.
The recurring visit. A fixed presence — one day a week, two a month, depending on the fleet — for maintenance, updates, backup supervision and the technical calls that can’t wait for the next breakdown.
What it replaces
A full-time specialized in-house resource is a senior salary for a need that, in many shops, fills two days a week. Technical direction on demand is the same level of expertise, sized to the actual need.
Why us
Our technical directors spend their weeks in real broadcast and postproduction environments — not in slide decks. When they show up at your shop, they’ve already seen your problem somewhere else.
How a mandate unfolds
Taking the post. We document on arrival: systems, routines, vendors, passwords, failure histories. If your TD is still there, we do the handover with them; if not, we rebuild the knowledge — slower, but that’s exactly why we document everything.
Operations. Your production carries on as if nothing changed. Priorities get managed, vendors get coordinated, failures get fixed — with DXM’s full bench depth behind the person in the chair.
The handback. A successful replacement is measured at the return: your TD comes back to a documented, up-to-date house with no skeletons in the closet. And the documentation stays — it’s your asset, not ours.
Questions we get asked
“One day a week — what does that actually get us?” A systems review, technical files kept moving, decisions that were waiting — and above all, someone who sees problems coming before they show up on air. Many organizations don’t need a full-time TD; they need a regular one.
“What if something breaks between visits?” Recurring presence comes with a direct line. The person who knows your systems is reachable — and behind them, there’s the whole team.