ASG Bolsters Engineering Staff With Three New Additions

By James E. O'Neal
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EMERYVILLE, CALIF.
Advanced Systems Group (ASG) has expanded its engineering staff with the recent hire of Gary Schneider, Keith Pintner, and Chris Sullivan. All three had been associated with Media Vision Integration (MVI), a California professional audiovisual systems integration firm and have a broad base of experience in the design and construction of broadcast, film and post-production facilities.

"It is rare for a company to have the opportunity to welcome three employees with this level of engineering expertise at the same time," said Dave Van Hoy, president, ASG. "We are very pleased to add Gary, Keith and Chris to the ASG team, and we look forward to adding their talents to our upcoming projects."

Schneider served as president and chief executive officer of MVI for more than 16 years. Pintner worked at MVI for 14 years as a senior project manager and systems engineer. Sullivan did system engineering work for MVI for six years before joining ASG.

All three will be based at ASG’s main office facility in Emeryville.

James E. O'Neal
James E. O'Neal

James E. O’Neal has more than 50 years of experience in the broadcast arena, serving for nearly 37 years as a television broadcast engineer and, following his retirement from that field in 2005, moving into journalism as technology editor for TV Technology for almost the next decade. He continues to provide content for this publication, as well as sister publication Radio World, and others.  He authored the chapter on HF shortwave radio for the 11th Edition of the NAB Engineering Handbook, and serves as editor-in-chief of the IEEE’s Broadcast Technology publication, and as associate editor of the SMPTE Motion Imaging Journal. He is a SMPTE Life Fellow, and a Life Member of the IEEE and the SBE.