This is Terry McCrarey's Picture   Terry W. McCrarey

Internet Email: mccrarey@engineer.com

Home address and phone information available on request.

Objective
To obtain employment as an Electronics, Video, or Phone Technician,
with a progressive company, leading to opportunities for advancement and
increased responsibilities within the company. Salary is open.

3/15/1999 - Present   Self-employed.
    Custom build P.C computers, Maintenance, Upgrades, and Repair. Web page design. Setup Internet accounts, Internet Web sites, Email accounts. Video Conference setup. Direct P.C. and T.V. installation and tuneup. Digital CATV Earth Station Headend installation, maintenance, and repair, work on the side.
     
6/1979 - 3/15/1999   Insight Communications, Evansville, Indiana.
    Video Systems Technician. As a Video Systems Tech, I did installation, maintenance, measurements, and repairs to all CATV Analog and Digital Headend video and audio equipment, and test equipment. I brought the new computer system up and online for Pay-Per-View movies, account billing and polling of converter boxes, and did data entry for PPV movie/time slots. Also, brought the electronic program guide online correctly. I also did daily backups, maintenance, and repairs. Have worked with all CATV test equipment including spectrum analyzers, sweep generators, oscilloscopes, frequency counters, signal generators, analog & digital volt-ohm meters, fiber splicing, TDRs, RF analyzer, Satellite power meters, VITS and video noise generators, FCC Proof Of Performance analyzer, WaveTek twoway system analyzer. I have worked with installation and maintenance of Scientific Atlanta Contimuum 9820/9821 Modulators, 9890 BTSC Stereo Encoders, 6470 Chassis, 6473 Optical Networks Transmitters, 9810/9813 Controllers and interface modules, 8656 Video Scramblers, 6971DR Dual Reverse fiber optic Receivers, General Instruments IRT1000, IRT2000, DSR-3500, and DSR-4500 Commerical Satellite Receiver/Decoders, and wedge video decoders, all Digital Video Receivers, encoder and modulator installation, setup, and maintenance. I have also, installed/repaired Weather Channel - Weather Star character generators. Among other items, I have worked with Sun Microsystems, and Unix, DOS, Windows 95, 98, NT. I have done home converter testing and setup.
2 years - service technician, 2 years - outside cable line tech., 1 1/2 years - studio control room engineer, 2 1/2 - years bench technician, 2 years - research and development, 1 1/2 years - CLI tech, 14 1/2 years - Computer and Headend Specialist, equipment & software installation and repair. Installation, maintenance, testing, and repair of all CATV headend, Satellite and Satellite dish, Studio equipment. Also, have worked on Evansville Vand. School Corp. RF based lan system in conjunction with TCI Cable TV. I have installed all of Xpress News Service systems for Vanderburgh County Schools. ALL of Proof of Performance testing and reports and Headend testing for last 15 years. Operate computer tech. help desk and answered technicial problem phone calls for other TCI/Insight systems to call when they had problems. Installation, maintenance, and repair of all PC computers and terminals for all company employees. Installation and maintenance of company LAN network. Train workers on operation of software and hardware applications. Installation, maintenance, repair of Video Data Systems news, weather, NOAA, Reuters video character generators for Evansville and other TCI/Insight systems and other cable tv companies. Design special circuits for computer and CATV applications that are not on the market. Custom build PCs for special and custom needs. Setup and maintenance of all local TCI/Insight Internet accounts.

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