The Challenge
The Career Center faced two related but distinct concerns. Staff and students had raised equity issues regarding programming access across Fordham’s multiple campuses; in-person-only workshops meant that a student’s physical location determined which career content they could access. Separately, there was a recurring desire to archive live programming as on-demand video, but the team consistently ran into bandwidth and turnaround issues trying to edit and upload recordings quickly after each event.
The Pitch
I recognized that both concerns pointed toward the same solution and pitched a first-of-its-kind livestream workshop series for the Career Center — a format that would solve the cross-campus access problem in real time, while the recordings themselves would resolve the archiving bottleneck without requiring post-event editing.
The Approach
I owned the technical execution end-to-end: designing custom broadcast graphics, configuring OBS, and managing the technical setup across colleagues’ devices so the series could run consistently regardless of who was hosting. I also built the YouTube integration, creating a direct pipeline from livestream to permanent on-demand archive — eliminating the editing and upload delay that had been the original bottleneck.
Outcome
The series reached more than 150 students across six sessions in its initial run. Just as importantly, it established a permanent on-demand library on the department’s YouTube channel, turning what had been a recurring operational pain point into a built-in feature of every future session, fundamentally changing how the department delivers career content to students.
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