Our Personnel:
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Michael Patton - Owner/Chief Engineer
Michael grew up in Jackson, MS, where he began doing engineering work for radio stations while still in High School. After college at Mississippi State, he moved to Baton Rouge, where he has lived ever since. Michael has been a consulting and project engineer since 1982, and during that time has accomplished 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. These days, he is especially proud of his work developing creative retrofit solutions to keep legacy transmitters and other gear serving stations (see our retrofit products page).
James Scullin - Head Bench 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, creativity, and wide experience with materials science, equipment fabrication, and electronics design to bear on every project he is involved with.
Anthony Babin - Bench Technician
Anthony has almost 10 years of experience repairing and rebuilding AM & FM transmitters, STLs, and studio equipment.
Allison Hall - Office Manager
Allison is our new office manager, and brings over 25 years of experience with logistics in both commercial and non-profit environments, and her relentless enthusiasm for the work brings both smooth functioning and much joy to our little shop.
Landon Roberts - Intern
Landon Roberts is our intern, who is learning the ropes from us Old Pros. He has quickly picked up on PC board and equipment assembly techniques, and will be expanding his knowledge of electronics in general as we move forward.
Christian Rarick - Field and Shop Assistant
Christian is our new field assistant, but he is also proving to be extremely valuable around the shop, helping to organize and streamline our warehouse and parts supplies. His efforts to organize the place have reminded me that, if you can’t put your hands on something it when you need it, you don’t really have it. He’s helping us to actually have stuff!
Lynn Dortch - Engineer/Product Development Mgr (Emeritus)
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. Accomplished in all aspects of radio station construction, his work is extremely neat and his documentation meticulous. Lynn is mostly retired to his home in the hills outside of Nashville these days, but we occasionally can pry him loose from his ham radio rig to help with a field project or with the development of a new retrofit product.