Engineering Teamwork with Mike Spry - TWiRT Ep. 679

Can a team of engineers resolve thousands of engineering trouble tickets each month, and do it efficiently and keep with good engineering practice? iHeartMedia is doing it and Mike Sprysenski is leading that team. From an office in Orlando, Mike Spry and a team of radio engineers and IT professionals resolve engineering issues at nearly 900 radio stations, keeping those stations on-the-air. Many issues are even handled preemptively, before they affect what the public is hearing over the air or online. Chris Tarr and Kirk Harnack discuss this approach with Mike on this episode of TWiRT.
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00:00:00 Show Intro & Sponsors
00:01:12 Beginning banter and intros
00:06:47 Overview of Mike's job
00:12:00 Standardizing studios and equipment configuration
00:17:18 The benefits of central engineering
00:28:43 Standardizing on one manufacturer
00:31:22 Increasing efficiency of studio space
00:37:35 Centralizing equipment in a single location
00:46:45 How does centralized engineering aid in programming
00:52:18 Opportunities for manufacturers to make a better product
01:05:48 What skill set is Mike looking for in a radio engineer
01:09:54 Chris Tarr's TOTW
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Sometimes in life we are introduced to someone who holds a particular position for his or her employer and it is instantly apparent that this person is ideally suited for his or her responsibilities. Mike Sprysenski is clearly one such individual. He displays a calm, thoughtful, and professional demeanor that illustrates he is exactly in the right job, as Team Lead for iHeart Media’s Engineering. He manages the broadcast engineers who handle the wide-range of day-to-day engineering issues at iHeart’s massive number of radio stations.
Mike joins hosts, Kirk A. Harnack and Chris Tarr, for Episode 679 of the TWiRT Podcast, in order to discuss the management of the engineering problems at radio stations in the most efficient manner possible. This Episode gives broadcast engineers much to think about, as they consider how to build efficiencies into the plans for their own broadcast facilities in both the near term and in the future.