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George Maier     send email

A thirty plus year veteran of the broadcast and telecommunications businesses, George 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.

Mr. 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.

His work history includes:

  • Orion Broadcast Solutions, President & Founder
  • Telco Systems, Vice President of Marketing & Product Management
  • Television Broadcast Magazine - contributing editor, technology
  • Artel Video Systems, Vice President, Product Marketing & Business Development
  • Telco Systems, Inc. Senior Product Manager, ATM Fiber Access Systems
  • ADC Telecom, Product 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), Applications Engineering Manager, Sales Engineer
  • Western Electric (Lucent Technologies), QA Engineering Group

Skill Sets

Systems Engineering, Applications Engineering, Project Management, Product Management, Sales, Marketing, Business Development, Corporate Communications, 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 Massachusetts Radio School AMA Seminar, Basic and Advance Management Principles Brandeis University seminar, Financial Management for the Non-Financial Manager, Xerox Seminar, Professional Selling Skills (PSS III) NTI Seminars, Market Strategies for Growth & Marketing Building Blocks NTI Seminar, Power Based Selling

Professional Organizations and Certifications

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

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

We invite you to contact us to discuss how we might be of assistance to you. For additional information or to request a proposal, you may email us or telephone us in the United States at + 508-359-0176.

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