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Michael J. Somerville
7870 El Paso Street
La Mesa, CA 91942
home: (619) 303-3800
mobile: (619) 414-2100
e-mail: MikeSomerville@theBiGi.net

RELEVANT SKILLS:
20+ years experience in broadcast engineering including commercial radio, voice and data systems. Over ten years design, installation and administration experience of computer networks and systems.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

DEC. 2005 to Present:
University of San Diego (http://www.sandiego.edu)
Systems Architect

SEPT. 1998 to DEC. 2005:
BiG I, Inc., (http://www.theBiGi.net) Computer/I.T. Network consulting company
Owner, President, CTO
· Design and install of a wide-area 802.11 network providing fixed Point-to-Point and Point-to-Multipoint Internet connectivity. Includes multiple Internet backhaul scenarios: Cable, Fiber, T-1/Leased Line, H-DSL, Satellite, etc.
· StarBand® two-way high-speed satellite system designs and installations for individual users and corporate clients. (Certified Dealer and Installer)
· Design and install Internet radio stations, (http://www.wsRadio.ws), and (http://www.12StepRadio.com) Includes: ON-AIR audio automation; production studios; Internet streaming and archiving; Web site database integration.
· Form Mexican Corporation, Internet Service Provider: The BiG I, S.A.de C.V.

OCT. 1996 to FEB. 2003:
KFMB AM/FM, 7677 Engineer Road, San Diego, CA 92111
Radio, Director of Engineering
· On call 24/7, I managed a department that kept KFMB Radio (760AM, and 100.7FM)
“ON-AIR” with greater that 99.99% reliability.
Rebuilt all production and on-air studios:
· Identified the need to replace existing equipment.
· Selected new equipment and identified vendors.
· Provided upper management with cost justification for $300,000+ expenditure.
· Oversaw all aspects of installation and switchover for this 10 month project duration.
Designed, Selected and Installed entire network and server plant (Prophet’s NexGen® ):
· Worked with multiple software vendors to provide features specific to KFMB.
· Full responsibility for this $600,000+ project
Rebuilt FM transmitter plant: integration with 7 port community antenna facility (Mt. Soledad):
· Recognized that maintenance of existing transmitter was no longer cost effective.
· Identified replacement equipment and prepared design for revised facility.
· Presented cost and performance justification to upper management for $150,000+ outlay.
· Supervised installation and cutover details for 12 month project duration.
Radio traffic/billing system (Marketron):
· Replaced existing system with new servers, SQL database, vendor software and replaced network infrastructure.

MAR. 1994 to OCT. 1996:
COMPASS RADIO GROUP
Chief Engineer
(KEZK-FM/KFNS-AM, 7711 Carondelet Ave, Suite 304, St. Louis, MO 63105)
· Managed engineering, studio, RF, and remote broadcast departments for top billing radio station combo in St. Louis market.
· Performed numerous remote broadcasts for High-Profile talent in Florida, Missouri and Jamaica.
Assistant Chief Engineer
(KCBQ AM/FM, P.O. Box 105.3 San Diego, CA 92112)

EDUCATION:

MAR 2003 to JUNE 2005:
SAN DIEGO C.E.T, SAN DIEGO, CA
PHP, MySQL, ASP.NET, ADO.NET, C#.NET, VB.NET, ACCESS 2002/XP, Dreamweaver MX & Ultradev, Windows 2003: Server Administration, Security+, TCP/IP, LINUX: Apache Web Server & Administration, CISCO: CCNA

JAN. 1990 to DEC. 1993:
SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY, SAN DIEGO, CA.
Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science minor.

SEPT. 1986 to DEC. 1988:
UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS, BOSTON, MA.
Electrical Engineering major.

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS:

IEEE, Institute for Electrical and Electronic Engineers.
Career Mentor Program Coordinator, E-mail liaison.

SBE, Society of Broadcast Engineers, Member # 15078
Certified as Broadcast Engineer, April 1995
Certified as Broadcast Technologist, January 1995
Certified as Television Operator, April 1995
FCC Radio Telephone Operator Permit, March 1983

Additional programming/computer experience:

C#.NET, ASPX, Assembler, Pascal, BASIC, SQL, MySQL, Access Front-end Programming, INTERGATE® technologies, Novell® Client32, v3.x SFTiii, v4.x, V5.x.
WINDOWS: 9x®, NT ®, 2000, 2003, XP, Outlook, Word, Excel, Access.
MAC: OSx; Jaguar/Panther, BSD-UNIX, LINUX (RedHat, SuSE).
Marketron Traffic and Billing system (ACT II, ACT IV and WINDOWS versions).

Internet: PHP, HTML, ASP.NET (database integration), eCommerce.
REAL Audio/Helix Server, Darwin Server, Xing/Streamworks, Windows Media, WINAMP/ShoutCast.

Assembly and troubleshooting of all PC compatibles, from workstation to server. WAN/LAN installation and management of 400+ user networks, using multiple network platforms, and multiple server configurations & operating systems.

Additional RF Experience (System design, Repair, Maintenance, & Installation):

Satellite: Ku/C-band uplink and downlink, StarGuide II, III, Scientific Atlanta, Ariel.
AM’s: Multi-tower directional & Non-D arrays, ATU’s, etc. 1 Kw - 50 Kw facilities. Harris, Continental, Nautel, & BE transmitters.
FM’s: Harris, Continental, Gates, RCA & BE transmitters.
Multi-Transmitter combiner site with over 600 KW E.R.P.
Other: STL’s, Two way: Microwave and Satellite communication.
All types of telephony from POTS and 1A2’s to T-1/PRI links for telephony, computer networks, and audio distribution.
Remote Audio: COMREX(1 line, 2 line, HOTLINE, NEXUS, VECTOR etc…),
Moseley, MARTI, Telos: ZEPHYR, SW56, ISDN

Excellent professional references provided upon request.