BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH

 

GEORGE MAIER

 

A thirty plus year veteran of the broadcast and telecommunications businesses, Maier has operated Orion Broadcast Solutions since 1997 with a brief hiatus to focus on telecom issues in 2000-2001. Prior to starting Orion, he was vice president of marketing and business development at Artel Video Systems, a manufacturer of digital transport, switching, and routing products for the broadcast video market. Maier, who has an electronic engineering background and worked in R&D early in his career, has also held various technical, sales and marketing positions at well recognized major manufacturers of broadcast and telecomm equipment, and has extensive experience in designing and implementing television broadcast systems for SNG, ENG, terrestrial microwave, VHF and UHF transmitters, studio routing and terminal equipment, and has a thorough understanding of studio requirements.

WORK HISTORY

Orion Broadcast Solutions, President & Founder

Telco Systems, Inc. Vice President of Marketing

Television Broadcast Magazine  -  contributing editor, technology

Artel Video Systems, Vice President, Marketing & Business Development

Telco Systems, Inc. Senior Product Manager, ATM Fiber Access Systems

ADC Telecom, Product Line Manager, Fiber optic video transmission systems

NORTEL, District Sales Manager, Carrier Networks Division

Harris Corporation, District Sales Manager  -  Broadcast Division

M/A‑COM INC (now MRC Microwave), various engineering, marketing, and sales positions

Western Electric (Lucent Technologies), QA Engineering Group

 

SKILL SETS               

Sales, Marketing, Business Development, Corporate Communications, Product Management, Applications Engineering, Project Management, Systems Engineering, Published Author

 

MARKETPLACE EXPERTISE

Radio & Television RF systems, terminal gear, switching equipment, and studio gear for HDTV, SDTV, NTSC, SNG, ENG, COFDM, 8VSB, AM & FM Broadcast, Microwave and wireless transmission, Fiber Optic Transmission, DWDM, CWDM, xDSL, ISDN, ATM, SONET, DS1/3, Metro access networks, IP switching and routing systems, Video compression & Streaming.

 

EDUCATION

Northeastern University  -  BSEE

Massachusetts Radio School - Advanced Electronic Technician

AMA Basic and Advance Management Principles

Financial Management for the Non-Financial Manager, Brandeis University

Xerox Professional Selling Skills Seminar (PSS III)

Market Strategies for Growth, NTI

Marketing Building Blocks, NTI

Power Based Selling, NTI

 

MEMBER  -  SBE, SMPTE, ARRL, National Convergence Alliance (board of advisors)

MISC  -  General Class Radiotelephone FCC License, Amateur Extra Class FCC License, SBE Certified Senior Television Engineer (CSTE)