Steven Brant Email & Phone Number

Bangor, Maine

ABC TV and FOX TVBrought ABC and FOX stations into High Def Television. Rebuilt studios, news set, Master Control, Studio Control, Built new HD transmitter and Antenna for Ch 22. This spring we are rebuild the entire IT network with windows 2012 server, new server systems and fiber linked hub with multiple V-lans. We have rebuilt the old news server systems for speed and performance by moving to a new HP server and using windows 2012 with HyperV virtual server technology. Exciting times and the owners are very supportive of ideas and concepts. Moving ahead rapidly. Winter here this year was wicked bad. Never have had so much cold!The cold has caused many systems failures due to power surges, even the generators were complaining!

Responsible for all technical systems and transmission systems for CBS and FOX news in Jacksonville FL.Updated all News systems and field trucks to HD,Changed all master control systems from analog to full HD systems, new routing systems from Utah Scientific, servers from NexGen, HD news editing from BitCentral, transmitters from Thomson, New multi view montioring systems from Apantac. remote control systems from Burk. Microwave systems from MRC,. 15 trucks in the fleet 4 ENG and 2 Satellite trucks. Now investigating portable news gathering systems using 3g and 4g systems.

Travel with Field Sales, help grow clients from a engineering and technical view. Assist sales with technical presentations, create Visio drawings and layouts of proposed Newsroom systems. Determine integration with existing plant and systems. Make recommendations as to engineering and operations. Create proposals based on discovery missions with clients.Responsible for all North America. Some clients are ESPN, DirectTV, Fox Sports, major television groupsMovie studios, Rogers Canada, US Navy, Homeland Security,Americas Most Wanted, and many others

127 Television stations.Designed and built all digital Master Control, manages 57 stations via satellite. Provides all daily content for all stations from one location. All production and news and local insertion of commercials from one location. 12 major networks, live sports,and news in english and spanish. Large realtime video server systems, video encryption systems, multiplexing systems, network management, traffic management, production and editing systems, transmission systems.$27 Million contract, work with multiple vendors, scheduling systems installation at studio and transmitter locations nationwide.Monitor and comply with FCC regulations, advise senior management of engineering and technical issues, create budgets and proposals for technology advancement, promoted to CTO for the group.