MultiDyne appoints broadcast industry veteran as Director of Engineering

MultiDyne Fiber Optic Solutions has expanded its executive team with the appointment of John Ferder as Director of Engineering, effective immediately. Reporting to MultiDyne President Frank Jachetta, John will facilitate the engineering process for all product design initiatives, develop long-term product roadmaps, and liaise with MultiDyne’s production, marketing and supply chain teams to increase accessibility to products and related information.

An industry veteran of more than three decades, John’s career started on the supplier and systems integration side of the business. He held diverse engineering roles at Chyron Corporation, Roscor Corporation and Phillips/BTS over a 10-year period before moving onto CBS in New York City. At CBS, he became Director of Studio and Post-Production Engineering – a position he held for more than 12 years.

Commenting on his appointment, Ferder said: “Fibre is used today to transport files over the internet for many broadcast and production applications. We see new opportunities to improve encryption and compression to transfer files and higher data payloads over a single fibre faster and more efficiently. This will grow in importance as more facilities migrate to IP, and the release of the SMPTE 2110 standards will help to accelerate these developments. We will bring new, IP-focused products to market that are more compact, more efficient and aligned with businesses that build fixed and mobile production studios based on these standards.”

Ferder currently serves as Secretary/Treasurer for the SMPTE Society, and will chair three SMPTE Technical Paper sessions on OTT technology at the SMPTE 2018 Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition, taking place October 22-25 at the Westin Bonaventure in Los Angeles.