
Broadcast Engineer / Software Development at HA Design Group LLC
Washington D.C. Metro Area

Broadcast Engineer / Software Development at HA Design Group LLC
Washington D.C. Metro Area
Highly experienced digital radio/television specialist. Work flow design, software development, plant build-out, end user training, systems administration and automation integration.
(Broadcast Media industry)
June 2008 — Present (1 year 6 months)
Design and integration consulting. Specializing in digital television/radio automation systems, newsroom production, video archiving, and control room operations. Hands-on design experience in Miranda products including iControl, Imagestores, Densite. Omnibus automation, Omneon servers, Media Grid, Dalet 5.1, DaletPlus content management, Masstech archiving, Harris Nexio video servers, Platinum routers, IRD's, Centrio multi-viewers, Neilson encoders, CC, Legalizers.
(Commercial Real Estate industry)
November 2005 — June 2008 (2 years 8 months)
• Create and update analysis tools to aid in weekly go/no-go decisions on new acquisitions.
• Perform and report rent surveys.
• Analyze current and estimate future expenses for all properties under contract including taxes, insurance, utilities, labor, repairs, supplies, management, marketing, incentives, etc.
• Analyze current rent rolls and other incomes and estimate future rental and “other income” increases.
• Create marketing presentations/brochures for asset sales.
• Travel on-site to make specific recommendations to management on how to best improve numbers.
• Coordinate with construction engineers on rehab budgets. (Making sure the #’s work.)
• Coordinate with financing team on acquisitions and refinancing terms. (Again, making sure the #’s work.)
• Examples of my analysis work: (http://www.uible.com/analysis.html)
• References: (http://www.uible.com/references.html)
(Public Company; Commercial Real Estate industry)
2003 — 2005 (2 years )
(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
May 2002 — November 2005 (3 years 7 months)
Independent Consultant (June 2004 – November 2005)
• Provide digital broadcast services to large digital media networks.
• Clients included Voice of America, ABC Radio Networks, XM Satellite Radio, IBB, NPR.
Multimedia Systems Engineer (May 2002 – June 2004)
• Design, install, train end users and administrators on the use of digital broadcast networks.
• Lead install technician for a complete desktop replacement at the U.S. Supreme Court.
• Spear head documentation efforts at the IBB for our digital broadcast initiatives.
• References: (http://www.uible.com/references.html)
(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Broadcast Media industry)
January 2000 — May 2002 (2 years 5 months)
• Install, configure, maintain and troubleshoot networks, Dalet workstations, servers and databases.
• Develop a software test bed for “bug” analysis and deployment due diligence.
• Design and install archiving and disaster recovery solutions.
(Educational Institution; 501-1000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
May 1998 — January 2000 (1 year 9 months)
I was a network administrator for a 300+ user Windows NT network.
1995 — 1999
digital televsion, live news production, automation systems, internet radio, real estate, travel.