Requirements for the Hybrid Media Production Facility of the Future

Karl Paulsen is currently the chief technology officer at Diversified, a global technology innovation firm head-quartered in Kenilworth, NJ. In his role, he provides technology thought-leadership and subject matter expertise to clients’ projects and to engineers, managers, sales, and marketing personnel. In mid-2017, he developed the multivendor “IP Roadshow,” a fully functioning mobile SMPTE ST 2110 technology laboratory that demonstrates and trains the industry in the practices, theory, and implementation of the SMPTE ST 2110/ST 2059/ST 2022 suite of standards. He has been contributing to TV Technology magazine on topics of storage, workflow, IP-infrastructure for more than 25 years and also pens the feature column for the Cloudspotter’s Journal. He held various senior level engineering positions, including VP-Engineering, director of engineering, and chief technology officer at broadcast and mobile television firms, post- and computer graphics interface (CGI)-production, and leading systems integration companies internationally. Among numerous other self-taught technologies, he studied electrical engineering at Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, mathematics and economics at Portland State University, Portland, OR, and project management at Washington State University, Pullman, WA. He is a SMPTE Fellow, former co-chair of the SMPTE Standards TC 34CS technical committee, a certified professional broadcast engineer (SBE), and a member of the International Trade Association for the Broadcast & Media Industry (IABM), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers-Broadcast Technology Society (IEEE-BTS), Video Services Forum, the Audio Engineering Society (AES), and the Alliance of IP Media Solutions (AIMS).