IEEE BTS Announces Nominees To Serve On Administrative Committee

The IEEE Broadcast Technology Society (BTS), has announced a number of nominees to serve on its Administrative Committee. The eight industry leaders are from six different countries.

The nominees are Pablo Angueira, Christine M. Di Lapi, Konstantin Glasman, Manijeh Khataie, Aderanti Oluwafemi, Rafael Sotelo, Glynn Walden, and Robert Weller. From these, the IEEE BTS membership will elect five members for a three-year term, 1 January, 2016.

Pablo Angueira has been involved in numerous research projects for digital broadcasting, and is co-author of an extensive list of papers in international peer-reviewed journals.

Christine M. Di Lapi has served for almost 20 years with Motorola, specialising in international spectrum management issues, including those for mobile multimedia broadcasting and satellite systems.

Konstantin Glasman has been head of the television department for 21 years at St. Petersburg University of Film and Television, and he has published over 100 papers in journals and conference proceedings.

Manijeh Khataie served for eight years in various technical and project engineering roles with the Microwave Communication Division of Harris, and for the past nine years, has worked as director of emerging technology and senior system design engineer for PSQ Technologies.

Aderanti Oluwafemi, a broadcast engineer with a prominent radio broadcaster in Nigeria, was responsible for technical integration of the station's three channels, each serving a different audience demographic.

Rafael Sotelo has more than 20 years of experience in engineering and technical management of TV stations and cable satellite head-ends in Uruguay. He currently serves as director of the ICT department in the School of Engineering at the Universidad de Montevideo and is a professor at the Universidad de la República.

Glynn Walden is senior vice president of engineering for CBS Radio, and an active industry voice advocating technical improvements, protections of the FCC allocations, rules, and AM improvement. He is recipient of a Lifetime Achievement Award from the NAB.

Robert Weller serves as vice president for spectrum policy at the NAB, where he is responsible for developing strategies to protect broadcast use of the radio spectrum. He speaks for the NAB on matters relating to radio wave propagation, spectrum sharing, allotments and assignments, and other spectrum matters.

"With this important election, we not only urge our current members to participate and get their votes counted, but we'd also like to welcome new members to the fold so their voices are heard too," said Amanda Temple, program specialist at IEEE BTS. "The international makeup and extremely high caliber of this year's slate of nominees are strong evidence of our society's global impact, as well as its potential to shape broadcasting technology both now and into the future."

Voting for the Administrative Committee election is open to any member of IEEE BTS, and ballots may be cast by paper or electronically. The deadline for casting votes is 14 December, 2015.

More information, including full bios of the nominees, are available to members and can be found here.

http://bts.ieee.org

(JP)