James Bryant 1738 State Route 303 Apt. 83 Streetsboro, OH 44241-5658 Home Phone: 330-626-1967 Cellular Phone: looking for new service theuplinker@earthlink.net http://theuplinker.com |
Employment Goal:
I am seeking full-time
employment at a fixed satellite transmission facility in program operations or
engineering. I will also consider employment as a driver/engineer for a mobile
satellite uplink company. I am available for freelance employment anywhere in the
United States, it's territories, or protectorates. I am also available for
international assignments and possess a valid passport, Class "A" Commercial
Driver's License and current International Drivers License. I am also willing to
relocate for the right job.
My experience:
Seventeen years of experience
operating both fixed and mobile satellite uplink facilities providing live coverage of
professional sporting events, collegiate sporting events, news events, interviews and
teleconferences. During that time span I have provided thousands of successful satellite
uplink operations for the television industry. These
broadcasts include analog feeds with and without encryption, digitally compressed and
encrypted feeds and HDTV satellite feeds. I
have never missed a job or failed to provide my clients with their feed. I have provided
these services in almost every possible type of venue, weather condition and terrain.
I think I've strung enough cable over the years to reach LEO and back several times over. These uplinks have been performed in 47 states,
including Hawaii, and
in Canada, Japan and Mexico.
Clients for whom I've
performed satellite uplink services include:
ABC and ABC Sports Autotote
Communications - BBC WTC 9/12-13/01 - CBS and CBS Sports CNN - ESPN
(national and regional) - Fox and Fox Sports - GloboSat GloboTV - HBO - MTV -
NBC and NBC Sports - NFL Films - NHK - PBS (stations nationwide) - LPGA - PGA - Senior PGA
- PMTV - ProStar - Showtime - Telemundo - TBS (Tokyo Broadcasting) - TBS (Turner
Broadcasting) - The Golf Channel - The Disney Channel - The Nashville Network - TNT -
Univision
Some of the events include:
Collegiate sports of
every kind for both national, regional and backhaul purposes.
1988 Winter
Olympics, Calgary, Canada - 1999 Pan Am Games - Winnipeg, Canada - Formula One racing -
NASCAR - NHRA - NFL - NBA - NHA - nine Super Bowls including
NFL Films World Feed broadcasts for Super Bowls, XXXIII, XXXIV, XXXV, and XXXVI -
Professional Boxing from Caesars Palace, MGM Grand, Harrahs in Las Vegas, Lake
Tahoe and Reno, The Las Vegas Hilton, The Sahara, The Showboat and others - Professional
Bowling Tours - Men and Womens Professional Soccer including the 1999 Women's World
Cup in San Jose, CA and the 2002 Men's World Cup in Japan - Professional Tennis -
Professional Golf including The Skins Game, The Memorial, The PGA Players
Championship, The Buick Classic, The Buick Open, The Ford Invitational, The Dinah Shore,
The Bob Hope Classic, The Traditions, The NEC Invitational, The Compaq Classic and
others - Horse and greyhound racing from numerous venues nationwide including Churchill
Downs, Hialeah, Gulf Stream Park, Belmont, Pimlico, Saratoga and many others.
Previous employers:
01/15/99 - 08/01/02
Sure Shot Transmissions, Inc.(formerly known as Mobile Uplinks, Inc.)
10344 Main St.
New Middletown, OH 44442
Reference - Tim Dailey, Chief Engineer - 330-542-0900 - please see the
letter of recommendation following this section.
Duties: Driving, operating, maintenance and repair of both C and Ku band mobile
satellite uplink vehicles consisting of tractor-trailer,
combination vehicles and box trucks. Providing live satellite transmissions of nationally
broadcast sporting events, news and teleconferences.
Upon request, supplying site surveys, additional satellite time bookings and on-site
customer relations.
03/01/96 - 01/15/99
Advanced Satellite Communications - a subsidiary of Northfield Park
7985 Northfield Road
Walton Hills, OH 44146
Reference - Mary Calabrese, Vice President - 330-468-0845
Duties: Delivery, set-up and maintenance of mobile satellite uplink vehicles at
horse and greyhound racing facilities nationwide for use in the simulcast wagering
industry. Installation of transmission equipment, digital compression and encryption
equipment, monitoring systems, fiber optic links, and communication systems.
Training of in house employees at locations using remote transmission links to our uplink
facility at Northfield Park. Downlink consultation and troubleshooting services for
simulcast recipients nationwide. Travel to remote locations to troubleshoot and
repair or replacement equipment at remote locations in our network.
04/03/95 - 02/01/96
Taurus Communications, Inc., Framingham, MA
Duties: Working for Dudley Freeman. Simulcast broadcasts from Foxboro Harness
Track and Northfield Park, see above.
Operation, repair and upgrade of outdated and abused equipment. Enough said about
that.
Autotote Communications, Inc., 444 Madison Ave., New York, NY
Reference - Chief Engineer - Bill Wroblewski
Duties: Freelance employment repairing and operating C-band uplink vehicles.
Transmission and monitoring of encrypted analog transmissions at
Trinity Meadows Race Track in Ft. Worth, TX and Remington Park, Oklahoma City,
Oklahoma. Training operators at Remington Park.
02/02/91 - 02/04/94
Broadcast Satellite International, Inc.
Formerly of Plano, TX, they moved to Waco, TX several years ago and I believe they have
either changed names or gone out of business
Reference - Tim Flynn - Rick Creel - Larry Johnson
Duties: Driving and operating tractor-trailer and combination vehicle C-band uplinks
and straight truck Ku-band vehicles nationwide
for nationally broadcast sporting events on both network and pay-per-view clients.
Additional companies for whom I have provided uplink services include:
05/07/89 - 12/23/91
Telecom Broadcasting, Inc. Oceanside, CA - out of contact - Freelance
broadcast of Super Bowl XXVI for Japan 01/92
Reference - Joaquin Patron
Duties: Full responsibility for the performance of simulcast wagering signals using
SA B-Mac encryption for all thoroughbred race tracks in Kentucky including Churchill
Downs, Ellis Park, Keeneland, and Turfway Park.
12/27/88 - 05/07/89
TeleLink, Inc. North Miami Beach, FL
Reference - Chief Engineer - Terry Kirk - I have spoken to him recently at the
following number: 305-944-9424
Duties: Operation of a variety mobile uplink satellite vehicles broadcasting live
sporting events.
Many periods of freelance work since then and continuing to the present when needed.
09/07/85 - 03/12/88
American Uplinks, Inc. Idaho Springs, CO
Reference - Tom Sheddan - President of Atlanta International Teleport, Atlanta, GA
- 770-949-6600
Duties: Driving and operating C-band uplink vehicles nationwide for national networks and
colleges performing the full range of live professional and collegiate broadcasts,
teleconferencing and interviews.
SURE SHOT TRANSMISSIONS, Inc.
10314 Main Street
New Middletown, OH 44442
Phone (330) 542-0900
Fax (330) 542-1020
September 5, 2002
To Whom It May Concern:
James mostly operated our newest C-Band uplink truck, servicing our
highest profile customers such as CBS, NBC and ABC for nationally broadcast television
events. He is highly knowledgeable in the
operations, troubleshooting and repair of uplink vehicles.
James also operated our entire fleet of KU and C-Band vehicles (10
units) at various times and is equally knowledgeable on the operations of those. This
includes MPEG-2 digital broadcasting using Tiernan and Tandberg equipment.
One of his most recent uplink duties was operating our newest digital
KU unit in Japan for the World Cup Soccer matches. A 6-week ordeal of 24/7 news
hits.
James was always reliable, on time, neat in appearance and diligent in his duties. He would be a real asset for any operation looking for a competent, qualified broadcast engineer. The best recommendation I can give to James is that as long as he is available and willing to do any freelance work for us, he has been the first call on my list. He has continued to be an outstanding engineer.
Timothy Dailey
Chief Engineer
Equipment usage:
For pictures of some of the mobile units I've operated please proceed to:
https://members.tripod.com/The_Uplinker/trucks.html
Transmitters: Aydin, ETM (I'm
the one who came up with the original idea of using a shop vacuum to power air-flow when I
had an operator lose his fan in Rhode Island, Mark Steele at ETM and Mark Hoderny can
confirm), Harris, LNR, MCL (klyston and TWTA), Varian,
Xicom. Upconverters: Harris, LNR, Miteq, Panasonic HDTV modulators, upconverters,
Scientific Atlanta. VTR's - Sony PVW 2800, Sony PVW 2600 Beta, Sony MSWM2000 IMX
multi format VTR, 2800 Beta/SP, DigiBeta. Video and Audio switchers: Grass
Valley, Leitch, Ross, Sony and others. Ancillary equipment: Biscuit boxes,
ClearComs-couplers and IFB, Gentner couplers, Compasses, inclinometers, Oscilloscopes,
signal strength meters, Spectrum analyzers, vectorscopes, waveform monitors, analog
encryption and digital compression/encryption equipment including Leitch, General
Instrument, OakOrion, SA, Tiernan, Tandberg. In the interests of
keeping this document from becoming too long, I'll mangle a cliche!
"Been there, done that, bought the tee shirt, from A = Aydin to X =
Xicom" I honestly couldn't think of any equipment I've used that began
with a Z!
Education:
High School - St. Paul's High School - Yonges
Island, SC - 1968
College - Tallahassee Community College - Associate of Arts - Phi Beta Kappa - 1974
OJT - the rest of my life
Additional Skills:
Military training - Florida Army National Guard - MOS/76Y20 - Unit Supply Specialist -
1970 - Honorable Discharge (medical) 1972
Pulstar, Inc. , Gainesville, FL - research, development, construction, brazing and testing
of prototype flow control valves for solar water heating panels - 1975
Sound and lights technician - The Southern Light Brigade - Gainesville, FL - 1975-1977
Regional Vice President of Friends of Florida Folk - non-profit native music promotion and
preservation society - 1977-1978
Certified Rehabilitation Technician - State of Florida - 1978
Vital Industries, Inc., Gainesville, FL - construction and wiring of a new circuit board
assembly building, operation of circuit board soldering bath, domestic and international
shipping of television video switching systems.
Sheet Metal Mechanic - shift foreman/instructor - Synergetics, Inc. - Gainesville, FL -
1981 - construction of prototype mobile CAT scan and NMR vehicles.
Pittsburgh Labs Certified Welder - MIG/TIG - Synergetics, Inc.- construction of prototype
mobile CAT scan and NMR vehicles - 1982-1984
Field repair of various types of equipment and troubleshooting skills covering a broad
range of equipment and skills.
Additional References:
Kurt Harrington - Autotote Communications, Remington Park - 405-341-0069
Jean Head - Sure Shot Transmissions - 330-542-0900
Mark Hoderny - Adirondack Technology - Ballston Spa, NY - 617-953-8593
Jeff Lombardi - NFL Films - number pending
Anne McKernan - NFL Films - 856-222-2865
Clark McFadden - Station manager - Cedar Hill Teleport - Cedar Hill, TX -
972-299-5091
Mark Ratcliff - PanAmSat - Atlanta, GA - 404-381-2839
Steve Santini - Prostar, Stafford, TX - 281-240-2800
Dale Sisler - Freelance uplink services - 805-701-3509
If there is any additional information you require please feel free to contact anyone listed in this document or e-mail me and I'll try to answer your inquiries.