Welcome. Driven by innovation and scale, I’m a multidisciplinary Media & Entertainment leader whose background includes managing large-scale technology deployments & operations for the largest of Global live events & installations. I’m currently responsible for driving commercially successful and innovative product management for AI captioning, media automation and Virtual Production. I bring a dependable, trustworthy data-driven blend of creativity, thorough planning & business acumen and affable leadership.

Reporting to ENCO's president, my Product Management duties include identifying strategic growth opportunities, partnerships, ideate & design new products, lead iterative validation testing with engineering teams, create marketing documents and present to market; I also serve as an applications engineer and thought leader for CTS accredited presentations and writings.


My backstory includes managing Olympic broadcast venue planning, buildout and operations; entrepreneurial entertainment technology & laser display production; international freelance engineering, independent videography and national live TV executive producing. I'm published as an expert writer and presenter, and have volunteered for STEM & robotics education, life safety and more. Thanks for visiting!

INDUSTRY ENGAGEMENT updates + SPECIAL PROJECTS

NAB Show 2023 Las Vegas:
Producer / Director for ENCO's first Virtual Production set + press spokesperson + deployed 5 Live Stage Captioning rigs

ENCO Caption Widget I invented
Debuted NAB 2023 -- a Virtual Reality 3D Object displaying real-time AI-based captions human can interact with in a Virtual Production environment.

Chair (2022-2023)
Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE) Pittsburgh Section

Board Member (2020-2026)
Association of Public Radio Engineers
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Two video lecture studios I designed, built and manage for a Pittsburgh physicist lecturer:

I've been honored to manage Five Olympics for Olympic Broadcasting Services (the worldwide Host Broadcaster), including venue planning, build-out, and Games-time venue technical operations

Below: Sochi, Russia Olympics, overseeing final venue construction for 9 outdoor venues while managing Ski Jump commentary control:

2023 AV/IT PANELIST @ USB ARENA

Chosen as repeat Panelist for AV/IT Summit, this time in NYC @ UBS Field, August 2023, on DEI & Language Accessibility (summary here)

LDI 2022 AWARD

Bill accepting LDI's 2022 Best Debuting Product (Sound) on behalf of ENCO Systems, Inc. (Bill also authored the award submission)

IMPORTANCE OF STEM MENTORING

Me and FIRST Robotics colleague Sean McMahon discuss how Mentoring can change a child's life, on This Week in Radio Tech

Some recent industry articles I've authored

Here I'm showing ENCO's new Virtual Production offering at NAB 2023 with Ryan Salazar of Broadcast Beat, and AI-based automated captioning & translation too!

my Presentations: Upcoming and recent

Done: December 2023: LDI / Live Design International, Las Vegas: Automated Captioning for Live Stage Events and Greater Accessibility"

Done: October 25: NAB / AES Show NY City: "Captions to Optimize Workflows, Mine Your Data, Enable Generative GPT, and Empower Virtual Production"

Done: October 10, 2023: Wisconsin Broadcaster's Clinic: "Captioned Radio, Generative AI, Synthetic Voices, and Oh My!"

Done: August 2, 2023: AV/IT Summit @ UBS Arena NYC; Panelist for "Workplace 2024: People, Place, Purpose" and DEI from a captioning, translation and transcription perspective; Bill also configured, setup and ran dual live English Caption and translated Spanish caption displays.

Done: June 14, 2023: Infocomm Orlando: "Captioning Technology for Venues, Synthetic Voices & Generative AI"

Done: April 14, 2023: Public Radio Engineering Conference: "Benefits of ChatGPT & Captioning Radio" (grow audience + better workflows)

Done: December 7 - 8, 2022: AI Summit, New York City: Presenter & exhibitor

Done: November 18 - 20, 2022: LDI Live Events Conference, Las Vegas: Exhibitor

Done: October 19 - 20, 2022: NAB & AES Conference, New York City: Automated stage captioning + exhibitor

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2014 Olympics Blog from Sochi, Russia