Ennes Workshop Presenters 

Note: Presenters vary from workshop to workshop.

Paul Adrian, CEO

latakoo

Paul Adrian is an award-winning investigative journalist and a graduate of the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. He founded latakoo, Inc. with Jade Kurian after spending nearly two decades as a television reporter. His final stop as an investigative reporter was KDFW-TV in Dallas, TX where he spent 7 years. Adrian is a specialist in computer assisted reporting, who conducted analysis on major corporations as well as politicos. latakoo emerged from a journalism startup that needed to deliver high quality video fast from the field over the Internet. latakoo now provides a low-cost software-as-a-service solution to many television stations across the country.

Madison Batt, PE, SE, Director of Tower Engineering

KPFF Consulting Engineers

Madison J. Batt, PE, SE has over 37 years of experience as a Professional Engineer in the field of Structural Engineering. He has managed a wide range of projects, including educational facilities, office buildings, tunnels, bridges, hospitals, industrial facilities, and a wide variety of towers. For the past 30 years Batt has specialized in the design, examination, evaluation, analysis, site design, and permit assistance for Television, Radio and telecommunication towers and facilities. He has served as Principal-in-Charge and Project Manager for over 1,000 tower projects and has climbed and observed the condition of over 800 towers, ranging in height from 50 feet to 2,000 feet. He is licensed in 48 states, the District of Columbia, Guam and Puerto Rico.

Patrick Campion, Director of Product Development

ENCO Systems, Inc.

Patrick Campion has spent his entire professional life in and around radio stations. He has run multi-station clusters in a top 25 market, hosted talk shows, been a music DJ and caught the technology bug. Since originally joining ENCO in 1999 Campion spent countless hours trying to find ways to make studio software reach its full potential. He's been to hundreds of radio stations, trained thousands of operators, installed countless automation systems and learned a lot about what people want from this niche technology. At ENCO, Campion puts this knowledge to work as the Director of Product Development, continually striving to keep ENCO at the forefront of the digital audio delivery software industry.  

Sean Edwards, Test and Development Engineer

Shively Labs

Sean Edwards has been with Shively since 1997 where he started as a production test technician and field representative servicing all of the US and abroad. He is working currently in new product development where he assists in the design and analysis of new products. Improvements and innovations to existing products is a continuing priority for him as well because the performance requirements for RF broadcast equipment are forever changing.

Edwards is returning to his studies this fall for his EE after taking a short 4 year break while starting a family with his wife in the mountains of western Maine.
   

Jon Hanson, Electrical Engineer

SPX Communication Technologies

Jon Hanson received his BSEE from North Dakota State University before going on to earn an MBA from Liberty University. He joined SPX Communication Technologies in 2008, bringing an expertise in software design and quickly developing a proficiency in electromagnetic simulation. Hanson is responsible for the simulation of R&D projects and new coax power dividers, as well as antenna systems with special requirements. In addition, he champions the custom software library which SPX has developed for designing and testing broadcast antenna systems.

Kirk Harnack, VP, Telos Products

The Telos Alliance

Kirk Harnack brings over 35 years of hands-on experience in broadcast engineering and education to his position at Telos. His expertise in putting technology to work in broadcast facilities has driven notable expansion in IP-Audio and other new technology adoption.

Harnack maintains an active, hands-on role in broadcast engineering through his positions as a partner and VP-Engineering of South Seas Broadcasting, Inc., licensee of KKHJ-FM and WVUV-FM in American Samoa. He is also partner and Director of Engineering for Delta Radio, LLC. Harnack is a certified meteorologist, private pilot, and licensed General Class Amateur Radio operator (KD5FYD). He has served as Chairman of the SBE Chapter in Memphis, Tennessee, and program chair and vice-chair of SBE Chapter 103 in Nashville, Tennessee.

Harnack founded the Internet netcast, “This Week in Radio Tech” or “TWiRT”. This 1-hour weekly video netcast features regular contributors and guests from the world of radio engineering.

Steve Lampen, CBRE, Multimedia Technology Manager

Belden

Steve Lampen has worked for Belden for nineteen years and currently is Multimedia Technology Manager. Prior to Belden, Lampen had an extensive career in radio broadcast engineering and installation, film production, and electronic distribution. He holds an FCC Lifetime General License (formerly a First Class FCC License) and is an SBE Certified Radio Broadcast Engineer. On the data side, Lampen is a BICSI Registered Communication Distribution Designer. His latest book, "The Audio-Video Cable Installer’s Pocket Guide" is published by McGraw-Hill. His column "Wired for Sound" appears in Radio World Magazine.

Jon Landman, VP of Sales

Teradek

Jon Landman has 20 years of experience in the broadcast and IT industries. He was responsible for designing and deploying end-to-end solutions for all segments of the broadcast market, including the design and integration of the first DVB-C and DVB-S systems in Israel (both 200+ MPEG 2 channel services) and in the design and installation of the largest terrestrial datacasting system in the USA. Landman is currently the VP of Sales at Teradek and has been previously certified as a Microsoft Avid and Tandberg engineer.
    

Matt Leland, Sales Manager, FM Systems

SPX Communication Technology

Matt Leland spent over 10 years with Microwave Techniques, Inc., a manufacturer of RF components for applications including Aegis and Patriot radar systems, TV, FM, high energy physics, and industrial heating. He held positions such as Product Designer, Design Group Manager and Production Manager. Leland also worked for Shively Labs, Manufacturer of FM antennas, filters and combiners. As the design department manager he was responsible for the design of RF and dehydrator products. He also contributed to the development of high pressure air dehydrators for the U.S. Navy FM radome redesign, and a line of MMDS broadcast antennas. Currently, Leland is the Radio Product Line Manager / Sales Manager for Dielectric Communications, SPX Corp. Dielectric manufactures Radio, TV and Mobile Media broadcast antennas, as well as RF products. Part of his work entails introducing new products, including high power broadband antenna designs DCR-Q broadband sidemount antenna and FMVee top mount, a new technique for reduced downward radiation in side-mounted antennas, and six patented IBOC antenna and RF products.

Darryl Parker, Senior Vice President

TFT, Inc.

Darryl Parker has worked with federal, state and local officials and stakeholders to develop the Emergency Alert System and promulgate CAP (Common Alerting Protocol) into the broadcast industry; responsible for Marketing and Administration of TFT EAS, STL, and monitoring products in the USA, Canada, and over 75 countries worldwide.

Parker was a founding member of the ECIG (EAS-CAP Industry Group) and presently serves on the FCC’s CSRIC (Communications Security, Reliability and Interoperability Council) Working Group 9, chartered with EAS-CAP Migration.

Prior to TFT, he owned a sales and marketing company in Dallas, Texas; was Vice President of Martin, Zienkosky, Browne, and Associates in Dallas; Director of Engineering and Network Affiliations Manager for Texas State Network.

He attended Southern Methodist University in Dallas, where he majored in Mathematics and holds minors in English and Classical Languages.

Tony Peterle, CSRE, Technical Support Manager

WorldCast Systems

Tony Peterle grew up in Central Ohio and began taking things apart at an early age to find out how they worked. Fortunately for his parents' sanity, he quickly learned how to put things back together, and graduated from the College of Wooster in 1981. He has been involved in radio broadcasting continuously since high school, working in Ohio, Kansas, Hawaii and Washington State, both on air and engineering. Peterle has held Chief Engineer positions in Honolulu, Kansas City, and Wichita. After attaining his commercial pilot’s license, Peterle spent several years as a traffic reporter in Kansas City, Honolulu and Seattle before receiving CSRE certification from the SBE in 2005. Shortly thereafter, he came to work for Audemat, and enjoys helping customers solve problems, traveling, contributing to the design of new products, and seeing familiar faces at NAB and SBE events.

Brad Plant, Assistant Marketing Product Manager – Routers & Gear

Ross Video

After 3 years of systems integration work in both broadcast and telco industries, Plant enrolled in the Broadcast Engineering Technology program at the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology (Calgary, AB) where he earned a CBT certification. After graduating, Plant accepted a role in tech support with Ross Video, and quickly transitioned to the field service engineer for OverDrive Automated Production Control System. In 2009, Plant accepted a new role as a product and application specialist for Ross Video Terminal Equipment and currently holds the title of Assistant Marketing Product Manager. Plant lives in Ottawa where he is also currently working part time towards a degree in Marketing at Ryerson University.
  

Mary Ann Seidler, Director of North American Sales

Elenos

Mary Ann Seidler is the Director of North American Sales for Elenos, a manufacturer of FM transmitters. With over 25 years’ experience in the broadcasting industry, her previous positions include VP of North American Sales at Tieline Technology, and 11 years as Director of International Sales at Telos.

Seidler began her broadcasting career as an on-air news and sports reporter. She eventually transitioned to the technical side of the business, developing a specialization in audio compression. She was one of a handful of “Expert Listeners” for the initial MPEG tests that developed MP2 and MP3 as international audio coding standards. She has presented and published many papers on audio compression, and was a long-time contributor to Radio World with her column on DAB-Eureka147.

Finally, Seidler has made an unusual contribution to our industry: The developers of MPEG2 deemed her voice a “codec buster,” and as a result her voice has been used by companies worldwide to test the robustness of their audio compression schemes.

Lynn Strube, Application Engineer

Bird Technologies

Lynn Strube acquired RF experience beginning with the United States Navy Submarine Service. His career grew into 34 years of experience with a major transmitter manufacturer. He held positions in research and development, design, in AM, FM & TV transmitters and antennas. Strube designed, built, tested and installed antenna systems, some including the Sears Tower, Empire State Building, Time Square, and the World Trade Center. Strube moved into System / Project Engineering with national and international projects, ranging over 5 continents and 75 countries. He was the project engineer for Italy, Romania, Egypt, Sudan, Iraq, Greece, and Vietnam, just to name a few. As project engineer, he worked with multiple government contracts involving a variety of agencies. Strube is currently an Application Engineer for Bird-Technologies, supporting the broadcast industry, military and many special order RF projects. Bird Technologies consists of Bird Electronic, TXRX Systems and the government division X-COM Systems.
          

Frederick M. Baumgartner, CPBE, CBNT, Ennes Moderator, Trustee

Ennes Educational Foundation Trust

Fred Baumgartner, CPBE, CBNT, is a fellow in the Society of Broadcast Engineers, and a trustee of the Ennes Foundation. Fred works on Emerging Business Opportunities and Managed Services for Harris Broadcast. Fred was Director of Broadcast Engineering for Qualcomm’s MediaFLO project, and before that, he directed Leitch’s (now Harris) Systems Engineering group. Up to that time, he served as Director of Engineering for the Comcast Media Center in Denver, its Director of New Product Development through the center’s AT&T ownership and Director of Broadcast Satellite Operations during its TCI ownership era. Before joining the satellite and cable origination world, he held the position of Engineering Manager at KDVR-TV and KFCT-TV, Denver, WTTV-TV, WTTK-TV, Indianapolis, KHOW AM & FM, Denver; WIBA AM & FM, Madison, Wisconsin, and Operations Manager at KWGN-TV, Denver; and others beginning with the overnight gig and a newly minted FCC 1st Class license at WBIZ AM & FM, Eau Claire, Wisconsin in 1972. Fred was also heavily involved with the development of EAS, and has authored several hundred articles on Radio and TV engineering.