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Roland Boucher has had a 40 year career in Broadcasting and Communications. His experience runs from news gathering in the age of film, to the transition from Film to portable tape systems to planning the first non-linear tape replacements in news. Mr. Boucher is one of those named in the Avid patent for the first integrated news production system. .
Most recently as Director of Marketing, Digital News Production Products, for Grass Valley Group and Thomson Multimedia, Roland Boucher was responsible for the overall operations, product planning and product development of the company's Digital News Production products. This product line includes Grass Valley FeedClip(TM), an interactive feed capture system; Grass Valley NewsEdi(TM), a nonlinear, hard news editing system; and Grass Valley NewsQ(TM) and NewsQ-Pro(TM), a low-cost news playback and playback control system, and integration with NewsBrowse, a proxy editing and asset management system, Profile for feed capture and on-air playback and the Media Area Network, shared storage system.
Prior to the Grass Valley Group acquisition in March 2000, Boucher was Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Vibrint Technologies, a developer of innovative solutions for digital news production. Boucher was instrumental in initiating the discussions that led to the acquisition.
Before Vibrint, Boucher was Senior Product Marketing Manager for Broadcast Products at Avid Technology and Vice President of Marketing at BASYS Automation Systems, LaKart Corporation and Lake Systems. Prior to working in sales and marketing Boucher held the position of Director of Corporate Communications for Millipore Corporation. At Millipore, Boucher coordinated staging of national and local press coverage of the visit of the President of the United States with the White House Communications Office in 1981.
Roland began his career in various technical and production capacities for Boston broadcast stations, including WBZ-TV and radio, WHDH-TV (Now WCVB-TV) and WNAC-TV (Now WHDH-TV). Roland was a news photographer and film editor. He was Production Coordinator for a successful children's television program. He has designed production facilities, handled air operations, tape editing, camera assignments, transmitter maintenance, etc. Boucher brings with him extensive technology and marketing management experience as well as a track record for delivering customer-focused, world-class solutions.
Boucher attended Boston University School of Communications
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