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My Broadcasting and Production Resume
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AFTRA (Pittsburgh local).
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Experience • Skills • Education
Experience
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03/07—
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11/07— Present |
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Station
Manager
WWNL-AM
• Pittsburgh,
PA
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Maintain
on-air performance of station
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Ensure
receipt of and transmission of programming
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Write,
voice, and produce commercials
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Maintain
studio and transmitter equipment
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Work
with corporate office on business issues
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04/00—
11/07 |
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On-Air
News/Traffic Reporter
Metro
Networks •
Pittsburgh, PA/Boston, MA
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Gather traffic
information from scanners, cameras, state police, and radio listeners
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Write
and deliver news stories
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Prepare and give
reports for several TV and radio stations, Sirius satellite, and the Internet
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Station
list includes WBZ, WRKO, WAMO, WTZN, WDUQ, several others in New England and
Western Pennsylvania
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07/06—10/06 |
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Operations Manager/Production Director
Westport
Communications •
Beverly, MA
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Maintain station
equipment for WBOQ-FM and WNBP-AM (studio, transmitter, computer network)
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Write, produce, and
edit commercials
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Set-up and act as
talent for station remotes
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10/04—07/06
and
06/97—10/03
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Assistant Operations
Mgr/Production Director
Salem
Communications •
Boston, MA
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Oversee operations department
(on-air/production staff) for three stations (WEZE, WROL, WTTT)
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Maintain employee
schedules; coordinate shift work; enforce policy and procedure
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Hire and train new announcers
and producers
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Daypart
announcer/producer/host
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Assistant/fill-in for
traffic manager; assist in troubleshooting engineering/equipment issues
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Write, produce, and
edit commercials
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Serve as a liaison
between sales staff, traffic, and production
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Also
worked with Salem's Pittsburgh stations WORD-FM and WPIT-AM in 2007
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Traffic Manager and Creative
Services Director
WEIB-FM
• Northampton, MA
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Reconciled, built, and
exported commercial logs
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Maintained affidavits
of commercial runs for clients
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Oversaw daily
production and commercial production for the station
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Wrote, produced, and
edited commercials
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Created and maintained
station website
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Voice-tracked for the
evening on-air shift
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Skills
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03/07—
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Adobe Audition (Cool
Edit Pro), Audacity, GoldWave, Saw PLUS audio editors
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Orban DSE-7000 and
Audicy digital editing programs
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CBSI Traffic
Programming
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Etak Traffic Reporting
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BSI Simian,
WaveStation Automation Systems
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Natural Music
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RCS Master Control,
Selector, and Linker
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PSi Wizard for Windows
automation system and NexGen automation system
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SatSked satellite
programmer (used with Wegener Unity 4000 satellite channel switchers)
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Microsoft Office
(Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Publisher, FrontPage, PhotoDraw)
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OpenOffice (Sun
Microsystems)
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Education
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03/07—
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09/93—05/98
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Bachelor
of Arts (Communication Arts) • Eastern Nazarene College, Quincy, MA
• School
activities include college radio, college television productions, and social
life committee.
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References
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03/07—
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Jim Carter • (617)
328-0880
jcarter@wezeradio.com
Senior
Operations
Manager
Salem
Communications • Boston, MA
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Drew Dawson •
(617) 742-2266
drewid2000@yahoo.com
Former
Operations
Manager
WEIB-FM
• Northampton, MA
(Currently
with Metro Networks • Hartford, CT)
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Marshall Hook • (617)
742-2266
marshall_hook@metronetworks.com
Operations
Manager
Metro
Networks • Boston, MA
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Scott Montminy • (617)
742-2266
scott_montminy@metronetworks.com
Assistant
Operations Manager
Metro
Networks • Boston, MA
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Brad
Richards • (412) 808-1050
ebrad_richards@metronetworks.com
Former
Operations
Manager
Metro
Networks • Pittsburgh, PA
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Todd Tanger • (978) 927-1049
todd@wboq.com
Owner/President
Westport
Communications • Beverly, MA
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Kenny
Woods • (412) 931-1500
kenny@wordfm.com
Former
Program Director
Salem
Communications • Pittsburgh, PA
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