Broadcast Technician
Ministry of Information Affairs (Bahrain TV), Manama, Kingdom of Bahrain.
Total years of experience :5 years, 11 Months
Set up, operate, and maintain television broadcast equipment.
Installation and cabling of new equipment, perform routine maintenance, interpret wiring diagrams and work with engineers to test and integrate new systems.
Installation, operation and Maintenance of, Ingest rooms, central apparatus room, Playout, production control rooms, studio systems and lighting consoles.
Make arrangements for studio lighting, white balancing of cameras, checking audio and video mixers.
Report Technical problems and take in charge of equipment maintenance
Handled in house HD productions like multi cam Interviews, Entertainment shows.
Experience in broadcast based systems- SONY Camera systems and CCUs, SNELL Vision Mixer, , STUDER Audio Mixer, EVERTZ Routers, Strand lighting system, AVID studio automation System(inews), IMAGINE Automation System, VIZrt Trio &WASP3D, FCP Editing systems
•Up linking /down linking DSNG's, other RF/IP feeds, managing OFC feeds/channels.
•Record broadcast programs.
•Align antennae with dishes to ensure clearest signal for broadcast transmission.
•Maintain antennas and cables.
•Live transmission (DSNG).
•Handled multicam live shoots in various news discussion programs.• Installation, Operation and Maintenance of PCR, Studio, DSNG and in-house cable channel network.
• Setting up and monitoring audio visual links between units in different locations
• Maintaining Audio Video Routers (Harris), teleprompter
• Uplink & Downlink Antennas, Tracking Controllers & associated systems. Antenna tracking controllers- (research and concepts, Vertex).
• MPEG 2, MPEG 4 Decoders and Encoders. OFC Encoders, Decoders and Terminators.
• SD - HD Up and Down Conversions.
• Satellite Feed-rooms, working in DSNG and OB Vehicles for Live telecast.
• Operations, Installation and integration of new equipment which includes AV systems.
• Broadcast equipments- Video switchers: Sony DFS 700, MCS8M, odyssey 2B, FOR.A-HVS-100, Audio mixers: Allen& Heath zed 428, Yamaha O1 V96, Yamaha mg102c, Soundcraft spirit fx16, VTRs: SONY DSR 1800AP, DSR 45AP
•Setting up initial procedures and systems for networking.
•OS and software installation, LAN networking.
•Installation & configuration of Cable modem.
•Co-ordination with RF Team etc. Handling of customer calls and monitoring of router and network equipment