Our Personnel:

Full-time Employees of the Firm:

Michael Patton- owner/manager

Michael grew up in Jackson, MS, where he began doing engineering work for radio stations while still in High School. After college, he moved to Baton Rouge, where he has lived ever since. Michael has been a consulting engineer since 1982, and during that time has had many milestones, including building the first 50 KW AM in Honduras, building an island-wide chain of FM transmitters in Jamaica, writing several custom computer programs for antenna matching network design, and presenting many papers as well as serving on many panels at NAB and SBE engineering conferences. He is especially proud of his work with AM broadbanding antenna networks, AM directional antennas, and digital studio design & construction.

Johnathon Chelette - fabrication/field technician

Johnathon grew up in Baton Rouge, where he showed an early interest in computers and electronics.  After high school, he studied computers at Baton Rouge Community College.  We hired him when he left college, and he has turned out to be a good solid field technician and an excellent equipment fabricator.  Johnathon is an avid outdoorsman and also is keenly interested in emergency and disaster management.

Justin Dominguez - fabrication/field technician

Justin also grew up in Baton Rouge, joining the Marine Corp after high school.  The Marines sent him around the world and taught him how to service the avionics on F/A-18 jets, and we were lucky enough to hire him once after he got out of the Corp.  Justin is an excellent man to have in the field, and also in the fabrication shop, where his avionics training serves him well.

Jane Patton - bookkeeper/marketing director

Jane is Michael's middle child of five, and currently serves as part-time bookkeeper and part-time marketing director.  By bringing her first-class education and razor-sharp mind to these tasks, MP&A is now completely in the 21st century with our bookkeeping systems, and her marketing efforts are just beginning to pay off (you're here viewing our site, aren't you?)

Sean Witt - office manager/logistics expert

Sean is a native of East Tennessee and has done a number of different things during his varied career.  We are proud to have him to run our front office, to provide logistics support to the field crews, and to put up with my need for a Man Friday--by far his hardest task!  Sean is caring, dependable and has a great sense of humor, all qualities needed in his position.

Jordan Garcie - bench technician

Jordan, a native of Mandeville, LA, is our newest associate and our bench tech.  He is a recent graduate of LSU, havinng earned a double-major BS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering.  He is an accomplished musician, a talent very valuable to anyone whose job involves ensuring quality sound from various pieces of gear.  His quick, dry wit is also a welcome addition to our office environment.

Associates of the firm:

Lynn Dortch - senior field engineer/project manager

Lynn is a native of Nashville, TN, where he was fascinated with electronics and broadcasting from a very early age.  He has worked in radio and television for most of his career, with a few jaunts into other aspects of electronics.  Lynn is accomplished in all aspects of radio station construction and maintenance, and his work is extremely neat, meticulous, and well-documented.  Lynn works with MP&A 2-3 weeks every month on field projects; he is also our documentation guru and mentors Jordan with tough bench work.

Paul Burt - sales engineer

Paul grew up not far from Michael in Jackson, and the two of them have been friends and colleagues ever since.  Paul has experience in all phases of radio station operations, including management, programming, and news, as well as years of wide-ranging engineering experience. His travels as an engineer have taken him all over the US and the world, most notably to China and various countries in South America.  He has extensive expertise with IT & broadcast computer network issues, as well as RF and studio construction.  Paul currently assists MP&A with sales and marketing.