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Mark Schubin

Mark Schubin – Engineer-in-Charge, Media Department, Metropolitan Opera

Fred Barnum

•    Current Position: Business Development Manager for L-3 Communication Systems-East, Camden, NJ.

•    Born and raised in Long Island, New York.

•    Graduated Magna Cum Laude from Georgetown University’s School of Languages and Linguistics in 1979 with a BS Degree in the Russian Language, and minors in Spanish and Mathematics.  Elected into Phi Beta Kappa and Dobro Slovo National Honor Societies, and was a Rhodes Scholarship Candidate.

•    Commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant, US Army Military Intelligence Branch, from Georgetown University ROTC in 1979.

•    Served five years active duty (1979-1984) in US Army, with assignments at the Intelligence Centers & Schools at Fort Huachuca, AZ and Fort Devens, MA; Defense Language Institute, Monterey, CA; and US Army V Corps/3rd Armored Division, Frankfurt, Germany.  Awarded the Army Achievement Medal and Overseas Service Ribbon.  Continued assignments as a Captain in the US Army Reserves with various US Intelligence Agencies from 1984 through 1992.

•    Accepted a position as a Business Development Representative with RCA Government Communications Systems, Camden, NJ in 1984.  Developed new business with various US Department of Defense and National Intelligence Agencies from 1984 through 1991.

•    Became a GE employee upon the merger of GE and RCA in 1986.

•    Accepted a special assignment in 1991 to research, write, edit, publish and sell a 90-year, illustrated history of RCA and Victor Talking Machine Company.  The product, a 400-page, hard-bound book entitled “His Master’s Voice” in America, was published in December 1991 and all 5,200 copies sold out within six months.  Received the GE General Manager’s Award for Excellence.

•    From 1991 to 1995, served as Program Manager for continuing production of a shipboard communications system for the US Navy Aegis CG-47 Ticonderoga class cruisers and DDG-51 Arleigh Burke class destroyers.

•    Became a Martin Marietta employee upon the sale of GE Aerospace to Martin Marietta Corporation in April 1993.  Became a Lockheed Martin employee upon the merger of Martin Marietta and Lockheed Corporation in March 1995.

•    Transferred from Lockheed Martin’s Communication Systems division in Camden, NJ to Lockheed Martin Technical Services, Cherry Hill, NJ in April 1995 as a Business Development Manager for US Army Training & Simulation Programs.

•    Returned to Camden, NJ in February 2001 as a Program Manager for L-3 Communication Systems-East.

•    Transitioned back to Business Development Manager for L-3 Camden’s Information Assurance and Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance businesses in February 2003, the position still currently held.

•    Married (Marian) with three children (twin daughters: Kimberly and April, age 20; son: Ricky, age 18).  Reside in Cherry Hill, New Jersey.

Kenneth Hunold

Kenneth Hunold is a Broadcast Applications Engineer for Dolby Laboratories, Inc., based in their New York office.  He works with broadcast and cable network engineers and production personnel as they transition to high definition television with 5.1-channel audio.  He also works with Dolby’s motion picture clients on audio mastering and presentation for film and digital cinema.

Before joining Dolby in 1999, he was with the ABC Television Network in a variety of engineering positions for 25 years.  Most of that time was spent “on the road” for ABC Sports, and in ABC’s Engineering Laboratory.  He has worked on many major television events and received an Emmy Award as a video engineer for his work on the 1988 Winter Olympic Games in Calgary.  From 1992 to 1999 he was a writer for Broadcast Engineering Magazine and an NAB “Pick Hits” judge.

He is a member of SMPTE, AES, and SBE.  He is a former SMPTE Governor for the New York Region and a former New York Section Chair.  He has been a member of ATSC Study and Working Groups and has contributed to NABA and WBU-ISOG processes.  He is also a member of the AES New York Section Steering Committee, and certified by the SBE as a Senior Engineer for both Radio and Television.

Steve Lyman

Steve began his professional life designing custom audio equipment for a recording studio and for a console manufacturer. He built the audio systems for several small outside broadcast vans then moved to Central Dynamics where he worked on system design of large video production switchers. After this introduction to TV, he became the Canadian field representative for Tektronix for their television and communications test equipment. He joined the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in 1980 where he developed a system of standard audio and video measurement techniques and was heavily involved with CBC’s efforts to implement High Definition Television, Digital Audio Broadcasting and other new technologies. In 1996, he moved to Dolby Laboratories to help implement multichannel audio systems for Digital Television Broadcasting, and is a member of the team that received an Emmy for their development of Dolby E.

Steve has been involved in the development of audio and video standards within the IEEE, the ITU, ATSC, Audio Engineering Society, and the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers throughout his career. He is a Fellow of both the AES and SMPTE.

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