Al Jaffe is ESPN's vice-president of talent (official title: Vice-President of Talent Negotiation and Production Recruitment), a position he has held since 1996. He was also one of the judges on all three seasons of the network's reality series Dream Job.A native of Pittsfield, Massachusetts and a 1968 graduate of Emerson College, where he majored in Mass Communications, Jaffe previously served as a news producer at WHDH-TV and WCVB-TV in Boston, and as News Director at KNTV-TV San Jose, California, and KOVR-TV in Sacramento.