Milton Byrd III

Enthusiastic leader and quick problem solver. I am the “go to” person at the #1 Station in Memphis. Continuously sets high standards of competence, creativity, and proper execution. I always keep a positive attitude, praised daily from the General Manager and Corporate Leaders, and most of all I love engineering.

• Manage and Direct a team of 4 Broadcast Engineers.
• Maintain all technical facilities including complex broadcast production equipment systems, as well as computer and data network assets in the Broadcast Engineering environment.
• Ensures FCC compliance of rules and regulations are met.
• Maintain all Broadcast and News systems. (ENPS Newsroom Systems, Bit Central, Ross, Xpressions, RF Transmissions, Program Path Workflow, and Dasdec just to name a few).
• Attend Department-head meetings to ensure positive forecasts, budgets, and projects are being met to advance the station. Also, to plan future projects and problems that may exist.
• Rapidly diagnose problems and provide alternative solutions if needed to maintain production and on Air deadlines.
• Comprehend complex concepts and workflows.
• Participate and contribute to the design, development, and deployment of broadcast production equipment systems, as well as computer and data network assets within the Broadcast environment.
• Expert in AutoCAD.
• Participate and contribute to the training and ongoing education of Operations to staff.
• Manage and comply with Corporate IT to ensure security policies are met. (Active Directory Users and Computers, Network Security, Virus Protection, Network Intrusions, etc).
• Meticulously adhere to regularly scheduled preventative maintenance routine for all systems.
• Ensure parts and supplies are available so that equipment repairs are made as soon as possible.
• Work with system vendors and technology partners to install and configure equipment and software, solve system problems, and implement solutions and upgrades.
• Oversee routine maintenance, annual inspections, and audits of all physical, plant & building systems.

Enthusiastic leader in all aspects of accounting operations, financial planning, reporting, and human resources. Manage a high performing team of 4 direct reports, as well as 5 indirect reports. Oversee all vendor contracts and relationships, including legal, tax and audit. Collaborate with department leads on forecasting financial objectives.

• Manage the finance department, as well as the church including hiring, developing, coaching, and consistently challenging the team to step outside their comfort zone.
• Proactively streamline processes and redistribute tasks not only to gain efficiencies, but to ensure the team was appropriately challenged to do their best work.
• Raise the operational effectiveness of the organization, focusing on growth.
• Develop and deliver financial presentations of the current financial position to the church body, investment bankers, and venture capital firms.
• Create a dynamic budgeting and planning process with a focus on flexibility during rapid growth and constant rapid change across the church.
• Orchestrate an organizational restructure, resulting in a reduction of labor costs.
• Establish strong controls over cash, payroll, and financial reporting.
• Successfully manage the financial aspect of renting the church vocational building.
• Provide a balanced scorecard used to measure business trends, and provide the executive team a one-page health meter.
• Expert in QuickBooks.

• Directed and coordinated electronic engineering activities concerned with development, installation and calibration of instruments, equipment and control devices required to test, telemeter and record test data.
• Determined conditions under which tests are to be conducted.
• Interfaced and conferred with scientific engineering and technical personnel to resolve testing problems such as product or system malfunctions, incomplete test data, data interpretation or coding issues.
• Analyzed and interpreted test data.
• Prepared technical reports for use by electronic or software engineering and management personnel.
• Used computer software and hardware to conduct tests on electronic products and systems or software.
• Trained and instructed floor support, test technicians, and tested operators on test hardware and software, as well as proper problem-solving techniques.
• Resolved test problems by performing analysis of root causes, developing, and coordinating corrective action measures and monitoring improvements.

• Provided customer facing support to Commercial customers.
• Troubleshot the common LAN/WAN configurations, delivery of cable modem and Voice Over I/P services on the cable infrastructure, email applications/concepts/configuration/SPAM issues, TCP/IP, VPN and 3rd party devices.
• Used knowledge of PC concepts and a good understanding of PC operating systems (NT, 98, 95, Linux, MAC OS 9 & 10) along with extensive PC applications, and general web development knowledge.
• Troubleshot the following issues & equipment: Connectivity, Network: DHCP, RF, Equipment: Modem, Router or combination device (Stability of Equipment as well as Configuration), LAN Issues: Identify customer LAN issues, Email, Mail Delivery problems, Client configuration, Domain issues, DNS problems, Webhosting, Understanding of FrontPage, FTP, Knowledge of HMTL.
• Used Tools and/or concepts: PC / Mac workstation configuration, Ping/Tracert, Telnet, TCP/IP.