Broadcast and Audio Engineering Résumé
Tim Po ar
San Francisco CA 94116-1001
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Objective:
Audio / Broadcast Engineering position
Highlights of Qualifications:
Excellent skills in communication and collaboration.
Managed very large projects and teams with studio, transmitter and IT infrastructures.
Highly skilled in all phases of broadcast engineering.
Highly skilled in all phases of IT.
Experience:
Owner of Tim Po ar Telecommunications Engineering, 1981 present
Consulting and contract broadcasting engineering company with present and past clients including:
Pacifica
Foundation and -
Developed current MP3 streaming system, technical consult for
various shows and station build outs.
The Grateful Dead - Produced for a number of years the
locally (KPFA originated) and nationally distributed (via NPR and
ABC satellite systems) New Year's Eve shows.
- Designed
their audio studios.
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Produced a nationally distributed New Year's Eve show.
- Developed
their streaming and various web features.
- Developed various
web features.
- See below.
- See below.
- Acted as consultant for the audio processing of the air-chain
and studio design.
- Acted as consultant
for the current studio construction, web and streaming presence.
Director of Engineering for Weaver-Davis-Fowler's
and then The Brown Organization's stations in San Francisco;
(was
1984 1987) and, 1993 1996
Provided strategy for the technical direction of the company.
Designed, built and maintained state of the art, world-class studio
installations (1985 and 1994). This included live sound stages,
talk-show and combo studios. Equipment included,
Intraplex
T1 STL channel banks, PR&E,
and
consoles.
Put the first commercial radio station web site on the Internet Designed and installed new main and auxiliary antenna systems
for KKSF.
Maintained and
Continental FM transmitters.
Designed and installed FM booster sites.
Did the engineering required for station construction permit
and license of boosters and antenna systems.
Consulting and Chief Engineer of
at California
State University, Fresno, 1983 1984
Designed and installed new studios and transmission systems.
Did the engineering required for station construction permit
and license.
Consulting and Studio Engineer of, 1981 1984
Designed, installed and maintained new studios.
Consulted and architect for current streaming system
Consulting and Studio Engineer of
KSJV-FM (Radio Bilingue),
1981 1984
Designed, installed and maintained new studios.
Chief Engineer of KTAC-AM (now KHHO-AM) and
Asst. Chief of KBRD-FM (now ),
1980 1981
Maintained studios.
Maintained three tower directional 5Kw AM including a
Continental
316F transmitter.
Maintained 100Kw FM on a very remote site (Three Sisters
Mountain) including a Wilkinson 20Kw transmitter, multiple diesel
generators, etc.
Chief Engineer of KKIS-AM (now KATD-AM) and KDFM-FM
(now KFJO-FM), 1979 1980
Designed, installed and maintained new studios with McCurdy
and Autogram consoles.
Maintained 5Kw three tower directional AM including a Harris
MW-5A transmitter.
Engineer with R.L. Stover Broadcast Engineering Consultants,
1974 1979 and 1981 1984.
Assisted with studio and transmitter design, installation
and maintenance of various AM and FM stations under contract.
Engineering work in the startup of
.
Certifications and published works:
Current holder of a
lifetime General
Class Radio Telephone Operator License # PG-12-21907.
Originally a First Class Radio Telephone Operator License granted
in 1979.
Panelist and Lecturer at National Association of Broadcasters
main conventions on the Internet and broadcast engineering in
1993 and .
Other papers can be found at
http://www.lns.com/papers.
Please see my IT, Networking and Strategy resume at:
http://www.lns.com/house/pozar/resume.html