Steven Niedzielski

Steven Niedzielski is the Director of Solutions Engineering - Americas, where he helps post-production facilities, broadcasters, and in-house creative teams rebuild their workflows around cloud storage. His work sits where infrastructure meets craft: how an editor in Los Angeles, a colorist in London, and a designer in a third time zone all work on the same media at the same time without waiting on transfers, duplicating terabytes, or shipping drives. With 25 years in the industry, Steven approaches the technical side of the business from the production side first, starting with what the timeline needs rather than what the storage spec sheet says. He has watched creative production move from tape to file-based to shared SAN to the cloud, and has helped teams through each of those transitions — including the uncomfortable middle stretch where the old workflow still works and the new one is not quite proven. At LucidLink he supports projects spanning broadcast, episodic television, featu