Steven Ray Vedro

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KSMQ-TV
(Austin, MN): Assisted station in development of 3-year strategic and 1-year action plan. Worked with station president and Board in crafting a “case statement,” setting goals and prioritizing action steps.


Wisconsin Educational Communications Board (Madison, WI): Conducted statewide needs assessment and EBS spectrum utilization study http://www.ecb.org/ebs/ as precursor to full RFP for excess capacity lease.

Milwaukee Area Technical College, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and Milwaukee Public Schools (MAIN Consortium): Managed Public Telecommunications Planning Grant investigating community development needs that could be served by a county-wide educational wireless broadband network. This led to a successful (but not implemented) construction grant.

WGBH/Boston: Coordinated the “request for comments” process for the Public Broadcasting Metadata Initiative – a project to develop a metadata dictionary and controlled vocabulary for “tagging” video and audio assets for indexing and search tools. Member of the PBCore Metadata Working Group.

The University of Wisconsin Extension/Wisconsin Public Television: Managed the "Reforging the Links: Public Television, Public Service Media, and the Land-Grant University " project for WHA-Television and the UW System Learning Innovations Center.

OES- The Online Educational Service: As Interim Chief Technology Officer of OnCourse, conducted research on technology systems and strategic technology partners to support a proposed “Online Educational Service” for delivering on-demand educational multimedia to America’s schools.

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting: During the 1990's, prepared policy development and technology-related articles for info.p@ckets, the online technology newsletter for public radio and television.

Washington State University: Managed the “Internet2: Next-Generation PTV Intranet” Project for KWSU-TV and 8 additional PTV stations. Demonstrated real-time streaming of broadcast-quality MPEG2 video across the Internet2; created a prototype PTV Programmer’s Portal, allowing for search, preview and fulfillment of public television video programs.

The Wisconsin Technical College System: Developed Strategic Instructional and Information Technology Plan for 16-district state system. Conducted site visit interviews at all campuses, developed planning recommendations now being used by all districts.

Wisconsin Governor's Telecommunications Infrastructure Task Force: Provided project management for Blue Ribbon task force reviewing state telecommunications regulation in an emerging competitive marketplace. Developed policy alternatives for review by Task Force; assisted key legislators and industry representatives in developing consensus on advanced universal service program for education and the creation of the Wisconsin Advanced Telecommunications Foundation.