DNAV Adds Ben Ackerman As Software And Field Services Engineer

DNAV, a full-service consultation firm, systems integrator and representative for Sierra Automated Systems (SAS) and other manufacturers specializing in broadcast, audio-visual and public safety systems, has hired Ben Ackerman as software and field services engineer effective immediately. He will cover regional field service work and software programming for SAS products and other networked radio and audio systems.

Based in Rochester, N.Y., Ackerman comes to DNAV after a seven-year tenure at WXXI Public Broadcasting Council (Rochester’s local NPR and PBS member station), where rose from an intern to broadcast engineer over the years. He worked closely with engineering staff to help design and maintain broadcast systems for WXXI-FM-AM-TV, WRUR-FM, WEOS-FM, WITH-FM and WXXY-FM.

Along with his experience designing and implementing custom solutions, Ackerman has a bachelor’s degree in computer science, with an emphasis on human-computer interaction and media in the digital age.

Ackerman’s duties at DNAV are two-fold. As a field services engineer, he joins an expanding team of regional field technicians expands DNAV’s service reach into new areas. His duties include traveling to assist with radio station integrations and maintaining transmitter sites in Buffalo, Rochester and Syracuse. His integration work will include installing SAS systems along with other equipment.

And Ackerman will help to develop new software and work on existing software solutions, including SAS’s recently announced Global Connect, a complete on-premises and cloud solution that represents a software-based NOC for radio broadcasters to operate, maintain and monitor devices across local and remote facilities.