Hello and welcome to my resume page, where you can learn more about my activities, hobbies, accomplishments and job related experience.

  • Respected and established television broadcast engineer and manager with almost 20 years experience.

  • Avid electronics hobbyist and embedded control designer.

  • Philatelist (stamp collector) specializing in US, Great Britain, Canada, France, Germany, USSR and Iceland.

  • Genealogical Researcher, successfully traced Barnes family to 1634, Day family to 1200 AD Wales. Society of the Descendants of the Founders of Hartford.

  • Founder & Partner, Sublime Geek Radio, internet radio station.

  • Researcher, Meriden Waterbury & Connecticut River Railroad.

  • Website creator, administrator.

I have been working in the television and radio broadcast fields for over 20 years with expertise from signal acquistion to final broadcast / distribution and everything in between.  Areas of expertise include;

  • Satellite reception (analog, digital, DC-II, PowerVue, VSAT, DBS, Simulsat)
  • Video Servers (including 360 Systems, Omneon)
  • Automation systems (including, Google/Maestro, Rivendell, VCI, TM/RT, Crispin)
  • Audio and Video Distribution
  • Audio Consoles (including Radio Systems and Wheatstone)
  • Transmitters, including MSDC IOTs, Television, AM and FM Radio.
  • Multiple tape formats (including Beta, D-Beta, DVC-Pro, uMatic)
  • All manners of IT assets.
  • FCC Regulations including Public Inspection File compliance.
  • Facility documentation.

I specialize in studio and transmitter site construction as well as ongoing maintenance and repair.  Services can be provided on a one time as-needed basis or complete contract engineering services.

Additional services include FCC compliance checks, proof of performance measurements, website and social media administration, due-diligence inspections, EAS training and programming, EAS/CAP readiness and disaster preparedness and facility hardening.
 
Webgeekery

This site is a perfect example of but a few of my capabilities as a webgeek.  This site is built upon the Joomla Content Management package, with many extensions and modifications.

Since the mid 1990s, I have always had a webhosting account somewhere, and since 2003, I have had my own domain, ka1kjz.com.  This has always served me well, but I always wanted to be able to do more.  I also found traditional hosts to be restrictive.  Send them alot of traffic suddenly, and you can find yourself throttled or shut off completely.
 
Genealogy Now Online!

I've gotten phpgedview working finally and uploaded my latest gedcom file for your viewing pleasure.  I have been working on the Barnes / Doucette family history since high school.  Back in the early 1980s, genealogical research had to be done the "old fashioned" way, sitting in libraries, writing for records and spending time with reels of microfilm.  With the advent of the internet and sites like Ancestry.com and the Mormon Church, great strides can be accomplished with little effort.  One still needs to know what they are looking at and if a record found is correct or wild speculation.
 
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