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Gerry Field has more than 20 years of production and engineering project management experience in broadcast, cable television, broadband and distance learning. He is a regular contributor to industry standards activities in digital television, radio, cinema and consumer electronics, and advises national and local market clients on system design and technology integration.
Mr. Field is a recognized expert on accessibility issues, including closed captioning, video description and regulatory compliance. As a staff member of the Media Access Group at WGBH, Mr. Field served as Operations Manager for the Descriptive Video Service and as Project Director and Principal Investigator with the National Center for Accessible Media (NCAM). He has managed federally-funded research and development projects, and has provided briefings and testimony for corporate clients and local, state and federal agencies including the FCC.
His clients have included public broadcasting and commercial television stations, broadcast, cable and satellite distribution networks, universities, professional and consumer equipment manufacturers, major Hollywood studios, large-format film distributors, theme parks and consumer advocacy organizations.
Mr. Field is an active member of the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE), the Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers (SCTE) and the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE). He has served as a working group chair for the Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) and the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA), and as a member of the Technical Steering Committee for the DTV Station Project in Washington, DC.
Gerry Field attended the University of Chicago, and holds a Masters in Education from Antioch University. He was named a Laureate in the 2000 Computerworld-Smithsonian Awards program.
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