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| Stephen Pumple, MEng., MBA |
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Chairman and Chief Executive Officer |
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| Founder of AZCAR Technologies Incorporated, Stephen has over three decades of hands-on broadcast design and implementation experience acquired in many parts of the world and continues to guide and direct the company's overall operations. Stephen is a Fellow of the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE), a member of the Association of Federal Communications Consulting Engineers (AFCEE), the recipient of an Engineering Achievement Award from Ryerson University and is an author in trade publications and speaker at industry conferences. |
| Gavin Schutz |
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President AZCAR Technologies, Executive Vice President AZCAR Media Strategies |
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| Gavin brings extensive experience providing vision, leadership, and strategic direction with respect to technology throughout the Media and Entertainment market segments, and has managed emerging technologies from both operating and engineering perspectives, furthering the strategic and tactical business goals of rapidly growing media companies.
Most recently, Gavin was the Executive Vice President, CTO and CIO of Ascent Media Group (AMG). Gavin is a Past President, Fellow and the current Engineering Vice President of the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE), and a Past President of the Society of Television Engineers (STE). He is an Honorary Fellow, British Moving Imaging Society (BKSTS), and is active in various professional organizations (IEEE, AES). He serves on the Technology Advisory Board of the Integrated Systems Media Center at the University of Southern California. He has three patents and has published numerous articles and papers.
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| David George |
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Director AZCAR Technologies Incorporated, Chairman AZCAR USA |
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| Involved exclusively with AZCAR Technologies Incorporated, since 1995, David acts as a consultant and strategic planner within the company as well as being a Member of the Board of Directors of AZCAR Technologies and Chairman of its subsidiary AZCAR USA. David has a Masters degree in business and is a Fellow and former President of the SMPTE. Previously, and for over twenty years, he headed up Imagineering Limited, a widely respected Canadian Engineering Consulting and Project Management company responsible for the design and construction of several innovative media projects both at home and abroad.
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| Roger Miller |
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Chief Financial Officer |
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| Roger brings over twenty-five years of North American and International business experience to AZCAR. Throughout that period he was involved in management, consulting, finance, tax and strategic planning and exposed to a number of industry sectors including warehousing and distribution, automotive parts manufacturing and tax consulting both in Canada and the USA.
Roger has served as V/P Finance, Director Finance and Administration and Director of Financial Planning and Analysis with such companies as Tridon, Ace Hardware and Tippet-Richardson Limited and as a Consultant with Deliotte & Touche. Throughout his career he has been responsible for financial operations, the reporting of International subsidiaries in Europe, participated in M&A negotiations worldwide, Joint Ventures negotiations in South America and Japan and managed divestitures, and complex banking relationships for both employers and clients.
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| Tom Deyo |
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Vice President, Business Development |
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| Tom has been enthralled and engaged in the ever changing media industry for over 30 years. Initially as a production engineer, then as Director of Engineering of TV Stations, he has held positions of increasing national responsibility with premier equipment manufacturers. Tom has focused on key areas of technology change and media business expansion. Always able to understand and relate to the customer view, he joined AZCAR to build on their existing reputation for placing customer needs at the focal point of our efforts.
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| Bruce Long |
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Senior Vice President, Project Integration |
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| Bruce is a senior manager and long-term contributor to the success of AZCAR Technologies Incorporated. With three decades of experience in the staging, planning, management and implementation of broadcast and media facilities throughout the world, Bruce directs and manages company's comprehensive implementation resources. His skills and experience, together with his organization and project management talents, contribute to the practical and timely realization of client projects.
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| William (Bill) Frazier |
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Vice President, AZCAR Digital Products |
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| Armed with over twenty years experience in the sale and distribution of broadcast television equipment, Bill's responsibilities include vendor relations and the sourcing and selling of hard and software components of AZCAR projects, as well as the operation of AZCAR Digital Products (ADP). ADP is a division of AZCAR USA and is an authorized broadcast equipment reseller, directly servicing the equipment needs of media clients nationwide from its Pennsylvania location.
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| Thomas P. McDonough |
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Senior Consultant |
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Tom has an extensive background and broad experience in converged digital media markets combining over 25 years experience in all aspects of television production and engineering, emerging digital media technologies and solutions, and broadband networks and services. Prior to joining AZCAR, Tom held senior level positions in engineering, technology strategy, product development, and marketing for global leaders in broadband communications, a leading provider of desktop media software, and broadcast/media technology integration firms. Tom's focus includes the integration of information and media technologies into innovative, cost effective business solutions
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| Karl Paulsen |
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Chief Technology Officer |
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A life certified Society of Broadcast Engineers (SBE) Professional Broadcast Engineer, Fellow of SMPTE and Technology Committee contributor; Karl is responsible for the technology and standards employed by all the AZCAR engineers under his management. In this Karl can rely on his over twenty-five years practical operation and management experience in standard and High Definition (HDTV) television broadcasting, production, post-production, graphics, animation and special effects coupled with his unquenchable thirst for technical knowledge. He also participates in design and consulting for a wide range of AZCAR projects. In his spare time, Karl writes regular technical papers for trade publications and prepares material to add to his two previous books on television technology.
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