Since joining the Walters-Storyk Design Group in 1997 he has been involved in numerous international small and large room acoustical design and consultation projects.  Noy has extensive experience in Applied Mathematics, acoustical measurement and calculation techniques, audio engineering, systems design and all facets of Information Technologies. His language abilities include German, Dutch, French and English. As a publishing member of the Audio Engineering Society (AES) and the Swiss Acoustical Society (SGA) he is a frequent lecturer at trade conventions, recording schools and colleges, as well as architectural education institutions.

Well-known in the New York City broadcast community, Herb has served as both Chairman and Vice-Chairman of the New York Chapter of the Society of Broadcast Engineers and has served as Co-Chairman of the New York City Operational Area for the New York State Emergency Communications Committee. He has been a member of the Receiver Standards Improvement Subcommittee of the Electronics Industry Association and served on the NAB AM Improvement Committee.

Herb has made presentations on AM radio improvements, digital audio coding systems, telephone company interfaces, FM broadcasting history as well as restoration of transcriptions and early phonograph recordings to groups, such as, the Audio Engineering Society, the Society of Broadcast Engineers, the National Association of Broadcasters, the Federal Communications Commission, the Institution of Electrical Engineers, the British Broadcasting Corporation, and other organizations and companies.

Aldo recently co-founded VimiONix LLC, a company developing services for interactive wireless devices. He is well known in the digital television industry, and has held various technical and management positions at Philips Electronics, CBS Technology Center, and other technology companies. His achievements include six patents in the fields of broadcasting and consumer electronics, with four more patents currently pending. He had a leadership role in the development of the ATSC Digital Television System now deployed in the United States, for which Philips shared an Engineering Emmy Award.

Aldo has contributed articles to various professional journals, and has authored a chapter in the NAB Engineering Handbook, 10^th edition. His Transition to Digital column appears monthly in Broadcast Engineering magazine, and he is a regular contributor to Insight Media’s Display Daily and Large Display Report. Aldo was a finalist for a 2005 IEEE-USA Congressional Fellowship, and has served on the Board of Directors of the Advanced Television Technology Center in Washington, DC, and on the Board of Trustees of the Hanover Wind Symphony. He is a member of the IEEE and the Academy of Digital Television Pioneers, and is a past member of the Audio Engineering Society and Eta Kappa Nu.

As an Architect Evangelist, Ian works closely with New York Metro area partners to align and enable their architectures and development projects with Microsoft’s technologies and technology roadmap.

Prior to joining Microsoft, Ian spent more than 7 years working in the Media & Entertainment industry, designing and building solutions ranging from e-publication workflows to full ecommerce suites.

Ian hails from the Jersey Shore area where he enjoys all of the benefits that living by the shore can bring.

He was a member of that team of engineers (NSRC) that brought us FM Stereo. In 1960, his interest in and his knowledge of FM Stereo Broadcasting encouraged him to concentrate on full-time consulting in broadcast system engineering. In the late 70’s he also worked with the team of engineers to bring us Television Stereo and continues today as a member of the National Radio Systems Committee.

He is also known as the father of the Traveler’s Information Service (TIS) as we know it today, and it was his work that originated the use of 530 and 1610 kHz as TIS frequencies.

He is a patentee in the field, a Life–Fellow of the Audio Engineering Society (AES), AES author, and chairman of numerous AES technical sessions, past Western Vice President of the AES, AES representative to the Joint Committee for Industry Coordination (JCIC) for the Ad Hoc Study of Television Sound, a member of the National Stereophonic Radio Systems committee (NSRC) (FM Stereo Standards), a member of the Broadcast Television Systems Committee (BTSC) (TV Stereo Standards) and a member of the National Radio Systems Committee (NRSC). He is a Life-Member of the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE), a Certified Professional Broadcast Engineer (CPBE) and a Fellow of the Society of Broadcast Engineers (SBE).

He was honored at the Golden Anniversary of the Audio Engineering Society in 1998, as one of those who had made significant contributions to the art and science of audio during that 50 year period (1948 – 1998).

Honored by the Society of Broadcast Engineers in 2005, with their Lifetime Achievement Award (the seventh of eight given in their 45 year history), for 55 years of service to the broadcast industry and the mentoring of fellow engineers.

Small was Chief Engineer of several major market radio stations and consulted many more.  He worked as a software engineer in aerospace and did engineering at several New York recording studios.

Eric’s first job in broadcasting was in 1964 at WNCN in New York City where he helped convert the station to stereo.  He later returned to WNCN as its Chief Engineer, and then went on to WOR-FM in the same position.  Small then entered the manufacturing arena where he participated in the design of several FM signal processors.

He was a voting member of the Broadcast Television Standards Committee (BTSC) that wrote the standard for stereo TV sound.

Small has received a number of patents for inventions in the broadcast field.

He has authored several chapters for the editions of the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) Engineering Handbook

Eric Small participated in international standards committees and represented the United States as a member of several United States Delegations to ITU-R, Study Groups.

Before becoming faculty, she was a member of the research staff at Lucent Technologies and the Manager of the Subjective Audio Program at iBiquity Digital Corporation. She has published articles in a wide range of journals including the Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, the IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting, and the Journal of Audio Engineering. Dr. Sheffield was honored in 2010 as Innovator of the Year by Maryland’s Daily Record for her pioneering work with captioned radio.

More recently, Mr. Mertz has been assisting television clients with the transition from analog to digital television.  Power maximization applications have become a specialty.  Several projects of note involved field measurements to demonstrate that the FCC’s digital television interference model overstates actual station coverage.  These measurements and experimental reports resulted in several high band VHF station being permitted to greatly exceed the maximum power cap in the Northeast (TV Zone 1) providing an improvement with indoor reception.

Mr. Mertz regularly participates with the troubleshooting and commissioning of FM and TV antenna systems.  Recently, he oversaw a project to modify a VHF TV panel antenna to add a vertically polarized radiation component.  Additionally, he has assisted FM clients with the implementation of HD Radio (IBOC).

Prior to joining Cavell Mertz he was a staff engineer and facility services project manager for Jules Cohen & Associates, P.C. where he designed and constructed broadcast facilities.  Before that, Mr. Mertz was the director of engineering for United Broadcasting Company, Inc. where his responsibilities included not only the reconstruction and upgrading of the group’s facilities, but the implementation of a rigorous FCC compliance program that resulted in clean inspections and frustrated FCC inspectors.

Before joining United, Mr. Mertz was manager of technical operations for NBC’s WRC-AM, in Washington, D.C.   At NBC he was able to reduce operating costs while maintaining on-air quality and operation.

Prior to coming to Washington, Mr. Mertz was the technical operations manager for Jefferson-Pilot Broadcasting’s WBT(AM), WBCY(FM), and the Jeffersonics audio recording facility in Charlotte, North Carolina.  While at WBT, Mr. Mertz involved the station in the early AM stereo proceeding.  Under Mr. Mertz’s guidance, WBT participated in testing AM stereo skywave performance becoming the first station in the South to operate in AM stereo. While in Charlotte, Mr. Mertz served as assistant chapter chairman of the local SBE chapter.

Before WBT, Mr. Mertz was assistant chief engineer for Jefferson-Pilot Broadcasting’s WQXI-AM and FM in Atlanta, Georgia.  At WQXI, Mr. Mertz designed and built studio and transmitter facilities.  Mr. Mertz also designed and constructed the custom information displays with custom clocks and timers for the new studio built in 1975.

Prior to joining WQXI, Mr. Mertz designed and constructed college radio stations at Oglethorpe University and at the Atlanta University Center.  He was also a disk jockey at Georgia Tech’s WREK.

Mr. Mertz is a nationally recognized expert in broadcast technical matters.  He has presented technical papers at NAB conventions and at the IBC convention in Amsterdam.  He has served on panels of industry groups covering subjects from AM stereo, multiple ownership, microprocessor systems, to RF exposure protection. He was a columnist for Radio World Magazine, writing about radio related computer uses and was a contributor to one of the NAB’s publications on station multiple ownership and consolidation of facilities.

Mr. Mertz holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Oglethorpe University and belongs to the Society of Broadcast Engineers. He formerly was chapter chairman of SBE Washington Chapter 37 and is a member of the The Association of Federal Communications Consulting Engineers (AFCCE), and the IEEE. He holds an FCC General Radiotelephone License and is a licensed radio amateur (N3QJF).