My educational background is Engineering at the University of New Orleans. I have also studied in specialty schools such as the National Radio Institute. This background led to my eventual expertise in repairing, designing and building electronic equipment.
My experiential background began in the 1960's with the Boeing Company Launch Systems Division. I was an RF telemetry specialist for video and status telemetry for the Saturn Launch Vehicle.
After that program was phased out, I became Chief Engineer for several radio and television stations in the New Orleans Area, i.e., WCCL channel 49, WMXY 95.7 FM, WLTS- FM 105.3 and others. Duties included repairing and maintaining the studio equipment, as well as maintaining the transmitter facilities, and repairing all failures within the transmitter(s). This repair work included the silicon control rectifiers. These are large gated diodes that provide a pulsed direct current from the incoming three-phase alternating current.
I branched off into specialty radio functions as I began work with a company building a worldwide telecommunications network based on the use of the 57 kHz sub-carrier of FM radio stations. I was Chief of Engineering and Design.
I have also done work on live television and Imag (Image Magnification) for a large staging company. The duties included repairing video projectors and professional and broadcast level Beta recording units, under active show conditions. I also maintained video switchers, audio boards and amplifiers along with lighting consoles and dimmer systems up to DMX level.
When items were not available off-the-shelf I have designed and built them to meet specification for the job(s) at hand and client requirements.
I have worked closely with Multi-Media Corp. for the past sixteen (16) years, providing production and technical support for countless multi-image/multi-media corporate productions staged all over the country. The most interesting to me were the museum projects such as those at the Old State Capitol Building in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and the Center for Biospheric Education and Research in Birmingham, Alabama. For each of these systems I performed the rough computer programming and I designed and built the automation systems to meet the project requirements.
My latest design is a unit that interfaces with a computer to operate Power Point Programs with an old style Kodak pickle switch.
For the last four (4) years I have serviced and maintained two (2) Barco mL-50 video walls of the Seuffert design for the United States Navy's Space and Naval Warfare Information Technology Center at its Lakefront Facility in New Orleans, Louisiana. This work is performed for the sub-contractor: Alliance Business Products, Inc of Pontchatoula, LA.
For the past year I have also maintained the Avocent switching equipment for the computer networks for the same naval facility for the same sub-contractor.
Certified in repair and installation of Barco Projection Systems
Active Member of the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE)
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