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Brian Wick

Brian Wick, Director of Technical Operations audioEngine, began his career in audio post at The Mix Place in NYC where he helped build 9 studios and developed wiring skills and design techniques which he still calls upon today. He held similar positions atPhotomag/Tape House where he also oversaw the facility build out of the audio suite at The ANX, one of the first 5.1 rooms in NYC. As Technical Director/Partner at the duplex audioEngine complex on Broadway and 12^th Street, Wick is in charge of updating rooms and managing new build outs. Earlier this year the company added a new state of the art 5.1 Dolby approved room and a showplace ‘Cabin In The Sky TV spot mixing studio.The six  audioEngine studios are among the busiest in the city, servicing clients ranging from Cadillac, Mercedes, Cadbury & Hertz to Absolut and HBO. 

Sam Berkow

Sam Berkow – Founder and Principal Consultant. Sam has completed a wide variety of acoustical design projects including: concert halls, recording studios, broadcast facilities, production facilities, house of worship facilities, large multi-purpose venues, amphitheaters and stadiums. Sam’s educational background includes a masters degree in Engineering from the Stevens Institute of Technology, where he specialized in acoustic measurement and design. Sam Berkow is the developer of SIA-Smaart acoustic measurement & system optimization software. Sam is also an avid music fan, listening to an electic mix of Jazz, rock, classical & contemporary compositions. Recent design projects include: Airshow Mastering (East & West), Clive Davis Studios at NYU, The Studios at SST, The Pearl Concert Hall at the Palms in Las Vegas, The new E-town Hall in Boulder Co, Jazz at Lincoln Center in NYC, Healing Place Church, Temple Emanuel S.F., and many others.

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David Layer

David Layer is Senior Director, Advanced Engineering in NAB’s Science & Technology Department.  David has been with NAB since 1995, and has been very active in the radio standards setting area.  He is the primary NAB staff person on the National Radio Systems Committee (NRSC), a technical standards setting body co-sponsored by NAB and the Consumer Electronics Association.

David’s duties within NAB are varied and broad.  He provides technical expertise to NAB’s Government Relations and Legal departments on regulatory and legislative matters which pertain to the broadcasting industry.  Currently, one of his most important regulatory-related activities is in the area of next-generation Emergency Alert System development currently being considered by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).

David is also actively involved in NAB’s technical conference planning and technical publication activities, and has been an author and contributing author for numerous technical publications, including IEEE Spectrum magazine (a leading journal of the Electrical Engineering profession), the McGraw-Hill Yearbook of Science and Technology, and both the 9th and 10th editions of the NAB Engineering Handbook.  David is the principal author of NAB’s weekly Radio TechCheck newsletter which is a member publication covering timely radio broadcasting-related technical topics, and a frequent author of the companion TV TechCheck newsletter for NAB’s TV members.

Ted Ruscitti

Ted has worked in media and the music industry for 40 years.  His background is in engineering, but he has spent the last 20+ years in audience and consumer research.

He provides consulting services and strategic advice to many of the world’s largest media and music companies.  Ted conducts and oversees tens of thousands of listener, viewer, and consumer interviews every year, focusing on preferences and tastes in media usage.  These surveys include head-to-head comparisons of audio processing methodologies for broadcasters to increase TSL (time spent listening), and comparisons of lossy compression methodologies for recorded music and video.

In his younger days, Ted headed the corporate engineering departments for large media companies, and is still active in studio and live recording with his collection of vintage audio gear and microphones.  He holds an Airline Transport Pilot license with jet ratings, has flown aircraft ranging from Gulfstreams to blimps, and is active in volunteer flying for disaster relief and children with medical needs.  As a child, Ted was a classically trained pianist and still plays several musical instruments, but none well.

Robert Duncan

Robert Duncan, Foreign Desk Operations, NPR News

Robert Duncan currently handles remote operations for National Public Radio News. He previously served as Editor for Europe & Russia for NPR News. He has also spent 25 years in television news, working for NBC, Satellite News Channel, New Jersey Public Television and WXYZ, Detroit. He began his broadcasting career at KOVE 1330 AM, Lander, Wyoming.

David Shinn

David Shinn is a sound designer/engineer and foley (SFX) artist for stage and studio productions. He also specializes in Studio Design and Audio Recording, Multi-track Mixing and Editing. His most recent project, “Jack’s Last Call: Say Goodbye to Kerouac,” was nominated for an 2009 Audie. Other projects, like the audiobook “Edges” have earned him Earphone Awards. From 1998 until 2006 he co-produced the nationally syndicated Radio Works series that was heard on more than 70 stations coast-to-coast. He continues to work on the foley effects for feature animation.

Sue Zizza

Sue Zizza is the owner of SueMedia Productions, a full service audio production company. She is an audio producer, director, writer, and sound designer.

For more than 25 years she has produced award winning audio drama for public radio and audiobooks. Most recently Sue produced and directed the original audio drama “Jack’s Last Call: Say Goodbye to Kerouac,” about the author Jack Kerouac, currently being heard on 50 public radio stations nationally, including WGBH-Boston, WUNC-North Carolina, and KALW-San Francisco. For 14 seasons she hosted and produced “The Radio Works” a national audio drama showcase heard coast-to-coast.

Sue’s sound clients have included: Blackstone Audio, USA Networks/SciFi Channel, The New Victory Theater – Broadway, USA Productions, Movies for the Ears, and The Museum of TV and Radio – NYC. Additionally from 1996 – 2007 she served as the Executive Director of the National Audio Theatre Festivals – an audio arts training organization.

When she’s not producing and directing, Sue specializes in manual SFX (Foley) effects for audio productions, film, television and the stage.  Sue also teaches audio arts and sound production at New York University’s Kanbar Institute for Film and Television at the Tisch School of the Arts.

Sue has been a regular presenter at national audio conferences like the Audio Engineering Society (AES) where she demonstrates sound effects recording and performance techniques.

Her work has been honored by The Gabriel’s, The International Festival of New York, The National Federation of Community Broadcasters, and the Communicator Awards.

Graham Jones

Graham Jones is Director of Communications Engineering with the NAB Science and Technology department, specializing in advanced television issues and standards and promoting the interests of broadcasters in technical and regulatory matters. He chairs the Planning Committee of the Advanced Television Standards Committee (ATSC) and is a member of the ATSC Technology and Standards Group. With SMPTE, he is active in several engineering committees, chairs two specialist subgroups, and has contributed to development of numerous SMPTE standards. He also chairs a subgroup of the FCC’s Technical Working Group on Digital Closed Captioning and Video Description.

He is author of A Broadcast Engineering Tutorial for Non-Engineers and associate editor of the NAB Engineering Handbook. He is a regular contributor to the NAB’s TV TechCheck newsletter and has written numerous papers and presentations for SMPTE and NAB conferences and other seminars and publications.

Graham has more than 40 years experience in the broadcast industry. He started his career with the BBC in London and since then has worked with several broadcast equipment manufacturers and as a consultant to government agencies and companies in many countries worldwide. He is a Fellow of SMPTE and serves on the SMPTE Board of Governors. He holds a BSc Honors Degree in Physics from the University of Nottingham, UK, is a Chartered Electrical Engineer (C.Eng), and a member of the Institution of Engineering and Technology, the Society of Broadcast Engineers, and the Royal Television Society. In 2004, he received the ATSC Bernard J. Lechner Outstanding Contributor award.

Marcy Ramos

Marcy Ramos, Principal M. Ramos Associates, received a Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering degree from Manhattan College in 1969. That same year he joined the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey as an Engineer.  In 1977, he joined the WTC Planning Division as Project and Planning Engineer responsible for the integrity of the World Trade Center Mechanical Systems.  In 1981 he opened M. Ramos Associates, to provide design services in Mechanical (HVAC), Fire Protection and Plumbing. Among his many credits are: Hit Factory Studios (NY) Stevie Wonder’s Wonderland, Def Jam (NY), The Manhattan School of Music; radio stations WNYC (NY) and WGNC (Cincinnati); Centel Video (Boston), and many residential and corporate environments.

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