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My Broadcasting and Production Resume

Member, AFTRA (Pittsburgh local).

 

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Experience  •  Skills  •  Education

 

 

Experience

03/07— . . .

11/07

Present

Station Manager

WWNL-AM •  Pittsburgh, PA

  • Maintain on-air performance of station

  • Ensure receipt of and transmission of programming

  • Write, voice, and produce commercials

  • Maintain studio and transmitter equipment

  • Work with corporate office on business issues

04/00— 11/07

On-Air News/Traffic Reporter 

Metro Networks Pittsburgh, PA/Boston, MA

  • Gather traffic information from scanners, cameras, state police, and radio listeners

  • Write and deliver news stories

  • Prepare and give reports for several TV and radio stations, Sirius satellite, and the Internet

  • Station list includes WBZ, WRKO, WAMO, WTZN, WDUQ, several others in New England and Western Pennsylvania

07/06—10/06

Operations Manager/Production Director 

Westport Communications •  Beverly, MA

  • Maintain station equipment for WBOQ-FM and WNBP-AM (studio, transmitter, computer network)

  • Write, produce, and edit commercials

  • Set-up and act as talent for station remotes

10/04—07/06

 

and

 

06/97—10/03

 

Assistant Operations Mgr/Production Director

Salem Communications •  Boston, MA

  • Oversee operations department (on-air/production staff) for three stations (WEZE, WROL, WTTT)

  • Maintain employee schedules; coordinate shift work; enforce policy and procedure

  • Hire and train new announcers and producers

  • Daypart announcer/producer/host

  • Assistant/fill-in for traffic manager; assist in troubleshooting engineering/equipment issues

  • Write, produce, and edit commercials

  • Serve as a liaison between sales staff, traffic, and production 

  • Also worked with Salem's Pittsburgh stations WORD-FM and WPIT-AM in 2007

01/04—10/04

Traffic Manager and Creative Services Director

WEIB-FM •  Northampton, MA

  • Reconciled, built, and exported commercial logs

  • Maintained affidavits of commercial runs for clients

  • Oversaw daily production and commercial production for the station

  • Wrote, produced, and edited commercials

  • Created and maintained station website

  • Voice-tracked for the evening on-air shift

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Skills 

03/07— . . .
  • Adobe Audition (Cool Edit Pro), Audacity, GoldWave, Saw PLUS audio editors

  • Orban DSE-7000 and Audicy digital editing programs

  • CBSI Traffic Programming

  • Etak Traffic Reporting

  • BSI Simian, WaveStation Automation Systems

  • Natural Music

  • RCS Master Control, Selector, and Linker

  • PSi Wizard for Windows automation system and NexGen automation system

  • SatSked satellite programmer (used with Wegener Unity 4000 satellite channel switchers)

  • Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Publisher, FrontPage, PhotoDraw)

  • OpenOffice (Sun Microsystems) 

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Education 

03/07— . . .

09/93—05/98

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

03/07— . . .

Jim Carter • (617) 328-0880 

jcarter@wezeradio.com

Senior Operations Manager

Salem Communications • Boston, MA

Drew Dawson • (617) 742-2266

drewid2000@yahoo.com

Former Operations Manager

WEIB-FM • Northampton, MA

(Currently with Metro Networks • Hartford, CT)

Marshall Hook • (617) 742-2266

marshall_hook@metronetworks.com

Operations Manager

Metro Networks • Boston, MA

Scott Montminy • (617) 742-2266

scott_montminy@metronetworks.com

Assistant Operations Manager

Metro Networks • Boston, MA

Brad Richards • (412) 808-1050

ebrad_richards@metronetworks.com

Former Operations Manager

Metro Networks • Pittsburgh, PA

Todd Tanger • (978) 927-1049

todd@wboq.com

Owner/President

Westport Communications • Beverly, MA

Kenny Woods • (412) 931-1500

kenny@wordfm.com

Former Program Director

Salem Communications • Pittsburgh, PA

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