Angus Fraizer Foxley
Located Near Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
Tel. GSM +49 171 650 2667,
Office +49 6171 284 287.
email angus@wtftv.de
Profile
Married, 3
children, British citizen.
Born
Nottingham, England 1962.
Lived in Germany since June 1990.
Experience
I.H.A. TV News Agency Germany,
Consulting SNG Head Engineer Nov.
2010 - Feb. 2013
I was working
for IHA GmbH designing new SNG vehicles (commissioned a
new Vito based SNG I designed for IHA GmbH, which is now based in London) recommending and purchasing equipment to then modernise/build and
maintain/improve their existing vehicles and Studio installations (including
upgrading to HD transmission capability), as well as training and helping to
recruit truck operators. I also travelled extensively as an SNG engineer, doing
site surveys for forthcoming events, and as site coordinator, for example setting up the news operation
in Tunis in January 2011, or
running 5 simultaneous transmission paths from the WEF in Davos 2013.
Freelance, Own business. 1999
- Present
Since no longer
working for IHA as of Febuary 2013, I've worked
for the EBU as Transmission Engineer & Coordinator in Rome, Technical
Manager & Show Director for a corporate broadcast in Istanbul and MCR
Engineer & Tech. Coord. for AP GMS in Johannesburg for the Mandela Funeral.
And as an SNG Engineer for the German Bundesliga- amongst others!
Over the
last 15 years I've worked as a broadcast engineer or
Technical Manager for APTN, NBC, CNBC, CNN, NTL and BT as well as for corporate
clients, from Munich to Mumbai, Switzerland to Shanghai, Brazil to Berlin,
Olympics, dead Popes and live transmissions from inside operating theatres. In
the last few years busy in Asia, North America, South America, Africa, India,
Australasia, the Middle East and Europe. IÕve been Engineering Manager and
Technical Co-ordinator responsible for the complete technical solution of
multi-camera shows and live broadcasts, video engineer (shading / racks),
uplink engineer, maintenance and installation engineer, cameraman, editor, soundman
and OB floor manager. I also run a small business doing standards conversions,
tape dubs, daily airline in-flight news programming and some multitrack sound
recording.
Technical Facilities Manager
Worldwide Television News Frankfurt 1990
- 1999
Responsible for
the complete technical facilities at WTNÕs bureau in Frankfurt which initially
consisted of PAL and NTSC edit suites, standards conversion and an EBU feed
point (1990 - remember SIS?). I was part of the team that I ensured the daily
flow of news pictures in and out of Germany and I edited for various
broadcasters using the Frankfurt facilities.
During the 90Õs WTN
expanded into Satellite uplinks and with Starbird, the WTN satellite uplink
company, I travelled quite extensively working with trucks and flyaway units in
Europe and the Middle East, again as Engineer, VT editor and
technical
coordinator. I was responsible for the installation of a 3.7M Satellite Antenna
on the building roof (at Frankfurt Airport..) and then undertook a complete
redesign and rebuild of the Frankfurt MCR and edit areas necessitated by
the expansion to incorporate
fibre and Satellite up and downlink connectivity.
Technicin, for the EBU at EVC
Brussels 1988
- 1990
As a member of
the team at the EVC I was involved in coordinating all the EBU transmissions
(about 50,000 per year then) on both satellite and terrestrial links, as well
as having to do short notice planning of urgent transmissions. It also involved
VT operations for the EBU news network. The working languages were French and
English.
Engineer at the BBC 1983
- 1988
I joined as a
direct entry graduate trainee, and after the compulsory training courses I
attained a post as an engineer in the Technical Services department. This
involved the maintenance of TV and radio studios, VT and telecine areas,
outside broadcast vehicles and some smaller scale project design and
installation work.
I also worked at
the BBCs Engineering Training Department, Wood Norton, as a lecturer for 7
months.
Education
University College Wales,
Swansea 1980
- 1983
BSc.(Hons) in Electrical and Electronic
Engineering.
A levels Maths, Physics Chemistry. AO
Electronics.
Languages
My languages are English (and American!),
German, and French.
Hobbies
I enjoy
outdoor sports such as canoeing, cycling and skiing depending on the season(!),
as well as Volleyball with a Òjust for funÓ group. And given the chance I play
double & electric basses with a couple of bands in the local area.