Engineering Manager at Viasat Broadcasting UK
Twickenham, United Kingdom
- Current
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- Engineering Manager at Viasat Broadcasting UK
- Owner at Hire Definition (HD camera hire)
- Web designer at GonMad / No Original Thought (Sole Proprietorship)
- Past
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- Transmission Engineering Manager at MTV
- Shift Engineering Supervisor at MTV
- Systems Specialist at NDS
- Field Service Engineer at NDS
- Engineer at Border Television
- Education
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- Lancaster University
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Dan Gibson’s Summary
A broadcast engineer since the early 1990's when I started out in engineering/operations. I have worked through the transitions from analogue to digital broadcast and production and now the moves to IP/Broadband delivery and High Definition.
Wide experience from operations through support, engineering, project management and department management.
Dan Gibson’s Specialties:
Broadcast: System integration and design, engineering and operational processes. MPEG, DVB, general broadcast technologies and methodologies including analogue and digital, SD and HD technology.
Internet: HTML, PHP, Perl, JavaScript and SQL.
Dan Gibson’s Experience
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Engineering Manager
Viasat Broadcasting UK
(Public Company; Broadcast Media industry)
April 2007 — Present (2 years 8 months)
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Owner
Hire Definition (HD camera hire)
(Partnership; 1-10 employees; Media Production industry)
May 2005 — Present (4 years 7 months)
I started this company with an ex-colleague to offer low cost high definition camera hire to productions on a tight budget by offering the equipment at the same rates as standard definition equipment. More info on the company can be found at http://www.HireDefinition.co.uk
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Web designer
GonMad / No Original Thought (Sole Proprietorship)
(Sole Proprietorship; Myself Only; Online Media industry)
1993 — Present (16 years )
I have been working in web design since the beginning of the 1990s, building my first professional site for a Border TV (UK ITV regional broadcaster) programme in 1995.
Since then my portfolio of sites has grown to include award winning sites such as www.GigPics.co.uk and www.BabelSheep.com which has attracted interest from the BBC and the press.
In addition to HTML and JavaScript, the design and build is generally PHP based these days, although many sites were originally written in Perl. Database functionality is with MySQL. I also have some experience in ASP and MSSQL Server applications.
The many GonMad / No Original Thought sites I have designed and built can be accessed via www.GonMad.co.uk and www.NoOriginalThought.com -
Transmission Engineering Manager
MTV
(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Broadcast Media industry)
July 2003 — April 2007 (3 years 10 months)
Managing a team of 8 maintenance and 4 project engineers looking after studios, post production and a broadcast center transmitting more than 60 TV channels to Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
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Shift Engineering Supervisor
MTV
(Public Company; Broadcast Media industry)
January 2003 — July 2003 (7 months)
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Systems Specialist
NDS
(Public Company; 201-500 employees; NNDS; Telecommunications industry)
August 1999 — January 2003 (3 years 6 months)
Project management and engineering of broadcast systems, and trouble-shooting of systems integration issues.
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Field Service Engineer
NDS
(Public Company; 201-500 employees; NNDS; Telecommunications industry)
February 1997 — August 1999 (2 years 7 months)
World-wide on-site engineering and technical telephone support for digital broadcast systems.
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Engineer
Border Television
(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Broadcast Media industry)
July 1993 — February 1997 (3 years 8 months)
Transmission, MCR, studio (sound and vision) and outside broadcast operations and engineering.
