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OCCASIONAL CONTRACT / FREELANCE

International Olympic Committee / Olympic Broadcasting Services (worldwide Host Broadcaster):

Manager, Venue Engineering, Planning & Operations: Italy, Paris, Sochi Russia, London, Vancouver, Beijing, Atlanta. Managed overall deployment, operations and transmission of venue broadcast technical systems, signals, facilities, telecom, control room and staff, including multi-month / mulit-year onsite commitments for two Games.

Milano, Italy 2026 International Broadcast Centre

Highlights

7x Olympic Games (Engineering, Planning & Operations): Managed construction and/or overall deployment, operations and transmission of venue broadcast technical systems, signals, facilities, telecom, control room and staff for worldwide commentary feeds
Award-Winning Product Innovation: Ongoing design and product leader for creation and launch of award-winning software products for AI captioning, speech synthesis, translation and messaging, and Virtual Production tools for Unreal Engine-based platform
Audiovisual for Experiential and Facilities: Have owned and managed the design and build-out for millions of dollars of highly automated media-rich audiovisual, data display and PA systems for corporate public tours, Mall of America, hospitality, auditoriums, churches
Planning & Logistics Management for field operations via two careers in onsite event technology production management (laser display)
Innovative Interactive Products: Lead the creation of premier interactive interactive video and TV commerce & VOD products for e-commerce pioneer QVC Network
Familiar with many technologies & competencies spanning software-defined media systems, IP/IT media networking, datasec, Cloud, Saas and desktop applications and OS's, construction drawings, electronics, robotics & mechatronics, optics & lasers
Business bonafides span administration and management with strong experience in legal & contract negotiations, accounting and resource management

Current Employment

ENCO Systems, Inc. (Product Design & Solutions Manager), March 2019 - Current: Maker of broadcast automation and AI captioning & voice synthesis and Virtual Production tools via Cloud, on-prem and SaaS architectures; Reporting to the President, many responsibilities:

As Product Manager: Create new product, manage lifecycle and dev teams, R&D, prototype, document, demo and provide application engineering consulting
- Creator & owner for award-winning products:
  - enTranslate Mobile, ENCO's first mobile captions and translations product
  - AIM (award, product), an integrated platform for automated bi-directional voice messaging, respeaking, translations and signage
  - Stage Captioning (award, product), ENCO’s first portable and rental product
- Manage Qimera Unreal Engine-based VR/AR/XR Virtual Production offering & demos
As Event Production Manager: Lead planning, deployment and ops for all conference and event captioning services (NAB, InfoComm, IBC, ASTC, LDI, more)
As Thought Leader: Published dozens of articles (TVB Europe, TV Tech, SCN, S&VC, Radio World, RBR, more)
- Presenter for over 75 technical sessions (some with AVIXA / CTS credits)

NAB: Where I produced, directed, was interviewee and invented the Caption Widget for ENCO's premier Virtual Production launch

LAWO AG (North American Applications Manager), February 2015 - March 2019:
Maker of audio production and video & control infrastructure products for broadcast, performing arts, audiovisual

Configuration Engineer for VSM broadcast control room automation systems
Performed application engineering, demonstrations, wrote proposals
Created training videos, conduct trade group technology presentations

Sports Video Group story: Lawo Demonstrates Capabilities of AutoMix at Pittsburgh NPR Station WESA FM

QVC, Inc.
Worldwide television commerce leader

Director New Media Development / Technical & Executive Producer (later returned as Consultant), several roles:

Product Manager:
- Lead the creation, R&D and deployment of new interactive services and iTV / VOD platforms
- Produced first-ever live e-commerce streaming Webcast to include live callers
- Owned interactive products, partnerships and launches with Comcast, Microsoft, TiVo, WebTV, AOLTV, Worldgate, InCommand, more...
Technical Producer:
- Responsible for design and build-out for millions of dollars of highly automated media-rich audiovisual systems for various public tours and flagship Mall of America store
Executive Producer:
- Oversaw live broadcasts and premiers of iTV and related consumer products
Corporate Projects:
- Internal Thought Leader to CEO + EVP teams on innovation, new media and corporate applications
- Developed Six-Sigma process map for migration to integrated Media Asset Management system
- Project Leader for migration to HD video from SD 4:3 format
Many other special projects as-assigned

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