Senior Broadcast Engineer
ERTU Egyptian Radio and Television Union
Total years of experience :21 years, 4 Months
1. Supervised more than hundred technicians
2. Setting up a new V\A On Air Digital Studio in the ERTU in Egypt
(4 Ikegami Cameras, Sony Vision Mixer, Studer Sound Mixer, 4 Digital Betacam VTR, Broadcast Router Harris, CG Unit, GR Unit, Grass Valley Server, Clear-Com talkback system, Tektronix Waveform Monitor and ADB Lighting System) connect to Microwave station and Fiber Optical transmitter
3. Setting up a New Six Non-Linear Editing Units (Final Cut Pro) communicate with each other and with Grass Valley Server
4. Designing and setting up audio and video circuits.
5. To provide high level engineering support to all Broadcast Services equipment to ensure the highest possible levels of technical and operational continuity to the ERTU
6. Supervise projects to ensure their completion, on time and to the highest standards, as set by the Engineering Management.
7. Develop both Junior and Broadcast Engineers through continual training and support.
8. Provide proactive feed back to ERTU Broadcast Services (via the Engineering Managers) of technical support issues, potential problem areas or advancements in technology that may be beneficial to ERTU.
9. Liaison with both internal and external clients for notification of fault conditions and their resolution.
10. To be responsible for the completion of all administration, documentation and shift reports.
11. Maintain and implement relevant policies and procedures and help with their production and ensure acceptance.
12. Provide detailed high-level Engineering input into new and existing systems development.
13. In conjunction with Engineering managers provide Personal Development Review input and objectives setting for the shift and junior engineering staff.
14. Take responsibility for prioritisation and resolution of all faults that occur on shift
1. Install, Configure, Operate and Maintain for the studio equipment
(Digital & Analog Cameras, Digital & Analog Vision Mixers, Digital & Analog Sound Mixers, Digital & Analog VTRs, Broadcast Routers, Servers, CG Units, GR Unites, Talkback systems, Final Cut system)
2. Maintained and operated transmitters like Microwave station, Fiber Optical transmitter and satellite downlinks & uplinks
3. Operation and maintenance of Compression / Multiplex systems.
4. Operation and maintenance of Signal Distribution/conversion equipment
5. Installing multimedia hardware, software and other digital broadcast technology systems
6. Setting up and operating links between studios and OB units
7. Vision mixing (editing programmes live as they are being transmitted or recorded)
8. Testing and servicing equipment
9. Finding and repairing technical faults as quickly as possible, with minimum loss of service.
10. Responsible for maintaining computerized remote controls, digital audio & video systems, radio transmitting facilities and data delivery systems
11. Worked successfully with a team of contract engineers
7.Worked as a line engineer
8.Responsible for maintaining computerized remote controls, digital audio & video systems, radio transmitting facilities and data delivery systems
9.Worked successfully with a team of contract engineers
CITC is the Company which responsible of the Development And Technical Support Of National Number Project With Civil Status Organization In Ministry of the Interior In Egypt
Part of the Information Services Management infrastructure consisting of 200 IT staff. Deputizing for the Head of IT in his absence: managing over 4000 PCs (W2k, XP, Vista, W7), 1500 networked hardware devices (printers, interface devices, etc.), 400 router, 400 switches, 350 network cabinets, 4000 networked points, 10 WANs (dialup and wireless), 40 servers (DB2, Oracle, NT, W2000, W2003, NetApps), 25TB of data storage, 250+Km of copper
and fiber optic cables and over 4000 end users.
1 upgrade and maintenance needs.
2 Carrying out Windows and Mac Administration.
3 Managing a Tivoli Tape library and backup system.
4 Established and managed the IT Help Desk for the Civil Status Organization
5 Daily operations of the IT dept including 20 System Support Engineers from a support point of view.
6 Extending Network Highways as required, pulling Fiber or UTP, terminating and testing UTP (CAT5, CAT5e, CAT6) and connecting these to appropriate Network active components.
7 Fixing PC and Network problems, both hardware and software.
8 Migrated server environments from IBM OS2 server to W2003 server
9 Migrated desktop environments from IBM OS2 to XP Professional.
10 Established email engines such as Exchange
11 Designing and managing the IT Server Room.
12 Implemented, applied and monitored user security on network shared servers.
