The UFC paid tribute to their employee- late Heather Ceballos, on social media
The UFC paid tribute to one of their employees, Heather Ceballos who recently passed away. The promotion posted a Tweet bearing her photo and year of death, with the caption: “In memory of Heather Ceballos.”
For unknown reasons, the Tweet has been deleted by the promotion’s official Twitter handle. It was very well there on their page for more than 12 hours, until they decided to remove the Tweet.
Ceballos was the manager of the offline captioning workflow for the MMA promotion. She had been in this role for more than 15 months.
Just a week ago, the UFC mourned the death of their makeup artist Suzy Friton, who had lost her battle with cancer.
Heather Ceballos was born in 1975. There is not enough information available about her parents and childhood. She only had a Twitter account.
She did her education in Dutchess Community College – Associates, Liberal Arts during the time period 2003-2005.
Ceballos then got her Bachelor of Science degree from State University of New York at New Paltz, 2005-2007.
Ceballos then began working as a substitute teacher for Pine Plains CSD. She worked for almost 5 years, after having started in May 2007.
She left her job in January 2012 and joined Bell Services Group Inc. and worked as a Scheduling Manager. She stayed with Bell Services Group until 2015.
Her bio also reads: “Since 2012, I’ve provided high quality closed captioning to the Deaf and hearing impaired communities and the production companies aiming to reach and serve them.”
While working with Bell Services Group for three years, Ceballos also worked with Video Caption Corporation. She joined the company in May 2012.
Ceballos worked as a caption editor and a transcription manager, captioning videos according to client specifications. She has mentioned it as a job that requires excellent grammar, hearing and judgement skills. She also was open to working under any captioning software.
She left the company in March 2015.
After having been a part of Video Caption Corporation for three years, Ceballos joined the UFC in March 2015.
She began working as the offline captioning coordinator. Her job was to make sure all the productions of the UFC were close-captioned according to FCC regulations.
After spending 5 years as the offline captioning coordinator, Ceballos was promoted to the role of the manager for offline captioning.
She took up the post in February 2020 and remained in the role until her death in 2021. She spent a total of 6 years and 7 months with the UFC.
Ceballos was not very active on social media, and hence there is only a little info available.
Heather Ceballos’ full name is Heather Santiago Ceballos.
Heather Ceballos was born in 1975.
Heather Ceballos obtained her Bachelor of Science degree from the State University of New York at New Paltz.
Heather Ceballos joined the UFC in 2015.
Heather Ceballos was the manager of offline captioning for the UFC.
Heather Ceballos passed away in 2021.
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