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- Maintains equipment used in the production of several newscasts a day including, Vinten Camera robotics, Bit Central video ingest, editing and playout systems, a Wheatstone D-10 Audio console and - Sony MVS-7000 video switcher.- Also maintains equipment used in airing daily programming including Imagine Broadcast Automation, Imagine Nexio Video servers, all different manfacturers of satellite uplink and downlink equipment.- Helps maintain station transmission facilities including a Gates ULXTE and UAXTE DTV transmitter and Vislink/MRC Microwave equipment.

- Manages and maintains DTV transmission facilities for WBZ/WSBK including 3 Gates Air ULXTE DTV Transmitters and 2 Gates Air UAXTE Transmitters.- Conducts weekly load tests of studio and remote site backup power generators and coordinates repairs if needed- Oversees the stations's 2-way radio system and conducts repairs as needed.- Oversees 2ghz ENG receive sites and remote beauty cameras as well as the microwave/fiber connections between the sites and the studio- Oversees and maintains the station's remote facilities at Gillette Stadium including beauty cameras and fiber interconnects within the stadium.- Oversaw the installation of two Gates Air ULXTE and one UAXTE transmitters during the FCC Repack project as well as helped with testing and repair of the shared RF system at both transmission sites.

• Maintains three DTV Broadcast transmitters and make sure they are operating within required FCC specifications.• Arranges and supervises repairs to transmitter site facilities including HVAC, Generator and other items as needed.• Orders and oversees installation of fiber circuits to be used as studio-transmitter links.• Selects and installs equipment for transporting ASI streams over an IP fiber link as well as configures Harmonic DTV Encoders and DTVi PSIP Pro / Triveni Guidebuilder PSIP Generators.• Installs and maintains Nevion J2K over IP video transport equipment for use in transporting video to channel share partners.• Oversees the repack project for NBC’s Boston stations, including the installation of two Rohde and Schwarz DTV Transmitters.• Installed and configured an Anywave DTV transmitter when WNEU’s Comark Ultimate failed.

• Maintain and troubleshoot broadcast equipment used in the day to day operation of the station, such as cameras, fiber optic gear, switchers, microphones.• Manage engineering expenses such as transmitter repairs, utility bills, equipment purchases.• Work with station and company management to facilitate long term projects.• Work with organizations that are renting space on our towers to facilitate their needs as well as safeguarding company property such as the towers themselves.• Arrange and supervise any required facility repairs, tower light replacement, HVAC repairs, and work with the property management company to have any repairs made to the rental property that might be needed, made.• Maintain a DTV Broadcast transmitter and make sure it is operating within required FCC specifications.• Make sure all FCC paperwork such as EAS logs, operator logs and transmitter logs are correct, signed and filed appropriately.• Maintain the stations IT infrastructure such as file servers, network switches, workstations, as well as Macintosh and PC based video editing workstations running Final Cut Pro and Adobe Premiere.

• Maintained equipment involved with the production of television programming with the Cortland Video Club at Cortland High School.• Performed engineering duties for remote productions, including providing power to the remote production truck, connecting camera cables and audio cables, troubleshooting and camera shading.• Edited recorded events using Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 and created DVDs or Blu-Rays of said events with Adobe Encore CS4• Designed a new television studio as part of a capital improvement project and worked closely with construction contractors during the construction of the new studio.• Selected, bid, purchased and installed the equipment for the new studio including Sony HXC-100 cameras, A Ross Carbonite video switcher, A Ross Xpression graphics system and infrastructure.• Completely rebuilt the remote production truck as a high definition production facility.• Constructed and maintained computers for use with Adobe Creative Suite 4

• Assisted in the upgrade of the station into a HD Production facility, including installing new JVC GY-HD250 studio cameras, Ross Vision 4 switcher, Ross Xpression graphics system and several other pieces of equipment.• Maintained editing facilities using Avid Media Composer and Grass Valley Edius nonlinear editing software as well as several Panasonic DVCPro linear editing suites.• Assisted in the selection of new equipment for several projects as well as coming up with ways to utilize surplus equipment in new ways to keep project costs down.• Built a satellite uplink system into a Ford F-150 for mobile operation• Outfitted one Wolf Coach Benchmark 3 Microwave truck and one Frontline ENG/SNG Hybrid.• Maintained several microwave and satellite uplink trucks.