Our Personnel:

Full-time Employees of the Firm:

Michael Patton (click to e-mail Mike) - 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.

James Scullin (click to e-mail James) - fabrication/field technician

James grew up in Baton Rouge in the same neighborhood where Mike lives, where he showed an early interest in computers and electronics.  After high school, he studied computer science and electronics at LSU.  James has worked in a number of jobs in many fields and brings his considerable intellect and wide experience with equipment fabrication and electronics design to bear on every project he is involved with.

Justin Dominguez (click to e-mail Justin)  - 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 and on the bench, where his avionics training serves him well.

Sean Witt (click to e-mail Sean)  - office manager/bookkeeper/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 essential to someone in his position.

Associates of the firm:

Lynn Dortch (click to e-mail Lynn)  - 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 as needed on field projects and is also our documentation guru.

Paul Burt - sales consultant

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.