Broadcast Engineer Technology Manager
Resume:
Lake Oswego, OR *****
www.linkedin.com/in/procastavllc
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BEN CAMPBELL
PROFILE
Audio, Video, and Networking Professional with over twenty years of IP Media Transport experience in corporate, live-portable, and post-production environments; ten additional years of large format show production, including Public Radio broadcast engineering.
Key strengths include team leadership, emotional and cultural intelligence, cross-functional collaboration, and conveying technical concepts to nontechnical persons.
EXPERIENCE
SMALL-FIRM OWNER, IP BROADCAST ENGINEERING
PROCAST AV, LLC
LAKE OSWEGO, OR
2008 - Present
Video Contribution and Webcasting
Successfully executed over 500 live transmission events throughout North America and Western Europe.
Assembled and trained a team of freelancers to execute high-profile events and multi-site events.
Created high-performance video contribution workflows for venue class video feeds viewed live by thousands of attendees.
Sales Engineering / Web User Experience Project Management.
Proficient with Linux CLI and GPU-accelerated HLS transcoding servers and content distribution networks.
CWDM / DWDM / Dark Fiber Video Transport.
Developed and deployed two remotely operable SDWAN-enabled streaming systems into third-party studios, making for a timely Covid win in 2017.
Seven years of hands-on experience with large-format Audio / Video, DSP, and Enterprise Networking engineering.
Response to client RFP’s / RFQ’s / RFI’s.
Acclimated to extensive and multi-leg travel.
VIDEO TECHNOLOGY MANAGER
MCDONALD’S CORPORATION
CHICAGO ILLINOIS
2003 – 2008
Significant Contributor, President’s Award Recipient 2007.
Accountable for three direct reports and five freelance engineers to cover all corporate relations infrastructure, spanning five buildings.
Fully accountable for all CEO broadcasting and media workflows between Creative Services, Staging Group, and marketing agencies.
Managed a combined annual CAPEX and OPEX budget of $1.4 Million.
Spearheaded a two-year $2.7 Million technology overhaul of Corporate Communications infrastructure that was conceived, approved, and implemented. This involved a new five-site SONET, a rebuilt MDF, a new Genset, and a new 128 x 128 video routing core.
Integrated a Grass Valley ViBE (Harmonic) video transport system over SONET, allowing for world-class video transport between five locations at very low latency.
Thirty-two retiring CAD systems slated for recycling were repurposed as an After Effects render farm. The no-cost project profoundly yielded new creative freedom for video editors by minimizing video rendering time across nine post-production suites.
EDUCATION
CURRENT - 12/2023
GEORGE FOX UNIVERSITY, NEWBERG, OR
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE, PROJECT MANAGEMENT
2005 - 2009
Benedictine University, Lisle IL
BACHELOR OF ARTS, BUSINESS MANAGEMENT (NO DEGREE, 84/120)
CISSP Candidate Completion goal June 2023
SKILLS & INTERESTS
IP Media transport • Zixi • Linux • C#, Python • Network Engineering, • Visio • IP Compression • Wireshark • AoIP, •VoIP • SIP• Forward Error Correction • Multicast • Kubernetes Clustering • Aruba CLI • ZT Firewalls
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