Fred Baumgartner's Email Addresses & Phone Numbers

Director of New Product Development @ ATT Media Center (now Comcast) Lead effort to develop new business, new business models, and new media technology - Primarily WEB based delivery. From July 2000 to November 2002 (2 years 5 months) Greater Denver AreaDirector, Broadcast Satellite Operations @ TCI (now Comcast) At the time, the facility was arguably the...

Director of New Product Development @ ATT Media Center (now Comcast) Lead effort to develop new business, new business models, and new media technology - Primarily WEB based delivery. From July 2000 to November 2002 (2 years 5 months) Greater Denver AreaDirector, Broadcast Satellite Operations @ TCI (now Comcast) At the time, the facility was arguably the worlds largest Satellite TV facility, hosting PrimeStar, Headend in the Sky, Tempo DBS, the "Denver 5," Encore/Starz, and a variety of cable channels totalling 650 video transmissions at its peak. From July 1995 to July 2000 (5 years 1 month) Greater Denver AreaTechnical Editor @ Communications Magazine Wrote for and edited technical pieces of Communications Magazine, Cellular Marketing, Global Cellular, and RF Design. Communications was a large circulation magazine serving the wireless, two-way, safety and other communications sectors. From 1989 to 1989 (less than a year) Greater Denver AreaChief Engineer @ KHOW KSYY Radio Full service AM, and music FM with dominant morning show. Rejuvinated and updated station during period of program expansion. From 1987 to 1989 (2 years) Greater Denver AreaAssistant Chief Engineer @ KWGN-TV/Tribune Broadcasting Managed IBEW unon staff in Tribune owned independent TV station carried on cable and satellite throughout the middle of the country. KWGN had a full sized remote truck and 9 PM news. From 1985 to 1987 (2 years) Greater Denver AreaChief Engineer @ WIBA Radio Full service regional AM directional and free-form FM radio station owned by the Capital Times and later the Des Moines Register and Tribune. Completely rebuilt and redesigned 1940's facility to award winning state of the art station. From 1979 to 1985 (6 years) Madison, Wisconsin AreaManager of Engineering and Operations @ WTTV-TV WTTV was a full service, independent with a full-size sports remote truck, news, and state lottery daily and weekly game show broadcast on a full power UHF to Northern Indiana and Channel 4 for Indianapolis and Bloomington. WTTV was widely carried on cable systems both inside the DMA and outside. From 1989 to 1992 (3 years) Indianpolis, IndianaInstructor @ Burlington High School Taught electronincs, theater, radio and general industrial education at school with full-time WBSD-FM station. From 1977 to 1979 (2 years) Burlington, WisconsinBroadcast Engineer @ KMGH-TV From May 2013 to April 2015 (2 years) DenverDir Broadcast Ops @ Harris Corporation Worked with Emerging Business Opportunity group on a wide variety of projects, mostly having to do with derivative feeds, OTT, multimedia distribution and broadcast services. From May 2010 to May 2013 (3 years 1 month) Denver, CoDirector Systems Eng @ Harris Communications Systems Engineering at Leitch (aquired by Harris in 2002) was a sales support organization. This is the demo group, proposal construction, and system architecture for customer systems. From February 2004 to November 2005 (1 year 10 months) Toronto, BurbankDirector Next Gen TV Implementation @ Sinclair Broadcast Group Baltimore, Maryland AreaTelevision Product Manager @ Nautel Developing, marketing, supporting and managing a line of Television Transmission Equipment within Nautel's long standing line of AM and FM Broadcast Transmitters. From April 2015 to May 2017 (2 years 2 months) Bangor, Maine AreaDir Broadcast Engineering @ Qualcomm MediaFLO USA was the operating entity of Qualcomm that provides multi-channel Mobile/Handheld TV Broadcast to cellular phones and personal media devices. MediaFLO USA operated approximately 500 nominally 50,000 Watt ERP, 700 MHz transmitters in a single frequency network, fed by a satellite system from a central origination and network control center in San Diego. From November 2005 to May 2010 (4 years 7 months) Greater San Diego AreaDirector of Engineering @ Comcast The Comcast Media Center, a.k.a., Dry Creek facility, and its sister facilities in LA, NY and Titan earth station, originated and distributed content for dozens of cable and broadcast organizations, with hundreds of linear TV feeds and more content file distribution, preparation, etc. as well providing studio facilities for many entities. From November 2002 to February 2004 (1 year 4 months) Greater Denver AreaManager of Engineering and Operations @ KDVR - FOX 31 Added full power satellite station. Orchestrated the business deal to place KDVR on satellite. KDVR was a first generation FOX affiliate and became FOX's third O&O in 1995. From July 1993 to July 1995 (2 years 1 month) Greater Denver Area