Michael Surman

Experience

• 

  City University of New York Television CH 75

  Jan 2005 - Jan 2013

  Broadcast Television Engineer

  • Assisted engineering department with day-to-day maintenance and operation of all systems and facilities including but not limited to: Creating blueprint designs using CAD-based software application AutoCad,Viso, Working with Morpheus Pro-Bell automation system, Pebble Beach automation systems, Chyron Hyper-X, Pro-Bel Sirius, masterpiece and freeway Pro-Bel controllers, Tektronix waveform monitors, vector scopes, XDCAM HD, Digital Betacam, Betacam SX and SP, Leitch x75, Pro-Bel Sirius and Morpheus routers, Evertz routers, IT networking maintenance and support, Firewalls, MPEG. • Monitored and maintained all analog/digital voice, data, and video circuits including the Omneon Spectrum Media Server play out of HD content Manage data storage and handle the connection of external devices to the network over fiber optic.• Participated in the integration and implementation of the new Morpheus Pro - Bell automation system, Pebble Beach automation systems, maintenance, and operation of system facilities• Operated digital and video equipment required for television broadcasting, including audio boards, routing switches and video switchers• Strong skills of handling technical equipment problems and repair of digital and computer systems Show less

• 

  New York City College of Technology

  Sept 2005 - Dec 2006

  Library and Lab Assistant

  • Tutored students with 3D Auto CADD drawings, Master CAM, AutoDesk drawings.• Maintained, installed and serviced all facilities’ wireless and electrical equipment.• Teachers’ Assistant from January 2004 - May 2005.

• 

  Blade media inc.

  Apr 2013 - now

  Broadcast System Integrator

  • Blade Media supplies various solutions for broadcast systems control and studio build outs. This work involves the design, project management and integration of complex 4K and 3G broadcast systems. • Responsible for initial customer familiarization with all systems and its operation, and system design work to make the system actually work to the broadcasters' requirements, and within the specifications of the standards.• Lead onsite engineer overseeing all aspects of equipment integration. Recent projects include:o CRTV, Yahoo Playa Vista, Colgate Palmalov, Time Inc. Show less

• 

  City University of New York Television CH 75

  Jul 2013 - Jan 2014

  Assistant Chief Engineer

  • Assisted the CUNY TV chief engineer in the design and construction of CUNY TV’s new technical facilities. • Performed and/or supervised staff in learning the new operations software systems and hardware configuration. Assigning day-to-day bench maintenance and operations of all systems and facilities. • Operated digital and video equipment required for television broadcasting, including audio boards, routing switches and video switchers.• Solved technical equipment problems, and the repair of digital and computer systems. Show less

• 

  City University of New York Television CH 75

  Apr 2014 - Nov 2016

  Chief Engineer

  • Responsible for overall technical management of daily operations for CUNY TV and New York City Media television and radio facilities with a staff of 16 full- and part-time operators and associated shift supervisors. • Oversee and consult with the technical support staff and shift supervisors for WNYE-TV and Radio. Interfaces with the IT infrastructure as well as the media management and archive department personnel in the workflow created for file server-based storage. • Oversee the automation operations software and content needs for broadcast programming in a constant 72-hour file rotation for the broadcasting of seven distinct channels in a 24/7/365 environment. • Responsibilities include interfacing with all vendors of facility equipment, personnel training and scheduling in all aspects of operations, and equipment troubleshooting. Show less

• 

  CRTV LLC

  Nov 2016 - Dec 2017

  Chief Engineer

  • Responsible for the design, setup, workflow implementation and maintenance of 7 studio locations. • Manage a team of 10 people to provide remote and on-site support to each studio. • Setup and manage video over IP environments, including Amazon AWS with Wowza CDN distribution service to deliver MPEG-DASH, Apple HLS, RTMP,RTSP, RTP/UDP TS streams to different locations.• Manage, design, deploy a 3G Evertz video audio infrastructure, including video distribution over LTN network for all CRTV facilities. • Design and manage short term and long term content storage infrastructure solutions including NAS, San via fiber across multiple networks and studios as well as LTO tape library storage with metadata tagging and indexing.• Deployment and management of hardware and software based solutions including Signiant media acceleration which provides site to site automatic media delivery of content.• Deployment of a multi studio connected Telemetrics robotic camera system with remote control ability as well as color shading between multiple locations over VPN network. Show less

• 

  Diversified.

  Dec 2017 - Dec 2020

  Project Engineer
• 

  Advanced Systems Group, LLC

  Dec 2020 - now

  Senior Broadcast Systems Engineer