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Technical Review | January-March 2013
Personalities & Post
Sharad Sadhu Retires from the ABU
Sharad Sadhu retired as Director Technology in March 2013 after 20 years of service to the ABU.
Mr Sadhu joined the ABU Secretariat in 1993 and took up the post of Director Technology in September 2007. He began his career as a broadcast engineer in 1971, when he joined India’s national TV broadcaster, Doordarshan (DDI) after receiving a first class Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering from the J&K State University in India. For the following 21 years Sharad held a number of senior technical management positions at DDI, looking after TV broadcasting operations, maintenance and
project installations. For two years from 1979, he worked at the Film & TV Institute of India in Pune as Assistant Professor and later Professor and Head of the TV Technical Department. From 1981 to 1992, he again worked at Doordarshan, initially as Station Engineer and from 1986 as Director Engineering, responsible for DDI’s satellite TV services. Sharad left DDI to take up the position of General Manager in TCIL, a consulting company in New Delhi, providing consultancy for broadcast engineering, satellite, cable and MMDS projects and preparing tenders for operational jobs in foreign countries.
In 1993 Sharad joined the ABU Technical Department (now called ABU Technology) as Senior Engineer. It was a position he held until 2007, when he was promoted to Director of the department. While at the ABU he was a member of many international committees, including Vice-Chairman of the WBU-Technical Committee, a Steering Board member of the DRM Consortium, and a member of the conference advisory boards of the BES Conference (New Delhi), CabSat (Dubai) and BroadcastAsia (Singapore). He was also active at ITU world conferences and associated meetings, mainly in satellite and shortwave broadcasting issues and related matters, including frequency planning and standards setting.
Sharad played an important role in developing a strong base for spectrum management, regulation and new technologies activities in the ABU, as well as in introducing mobile and ICT technologies. Among his strong interests were new delivery technologies for handheld devices and broadband delivery.
Zeki Ciftci New Deputy Director General, TRT
Zeki Ciftci received his BS degree in the Electrical and Electronics Engineering from the Middle East Technical University in 1985 and a MS degree at the same faculty. He completed his PhD Degree in the Electronics and Computer Education Department of Gazi University in 2002. He started working in Development Bank of Turkey, DBT, in 1987 as an Assistant Expert and worked as Expert, Senior Expert, and Manager in DBT respectively. He was appointed as the Director of Project Follow-Up II (Tourism) Directorate in 1997 and Director of Technology Follow-Up and Research Directorate in 2006. Between 2007 and 2011 he worked as the Manager of Information Technologies Department
in the Turkish Grand National Assembly and from 2011 to July 2012 he worked as the Acting Head of Information Technologies Department.
Projects he studied in the Development Bank of Turkey included source usage support funding, Industry and Tourism projects and renewable energy subjects, especially wind energy. During his term in Turkish Grand National Assembly an information and communication infrastructure project and Electronic Document Management project were completed. He has been serving as the Deputy Director General at TRT in Ankara since 26 July 2012.
Nguyen Thanh Nam New Specialist Engineer, ABU
ABU Technology welcomed its new engineer Nguyen Thanh Nam from VOV-Vietnam in March 2013. Before joining the ABU, Mr Nam has been working in the Broadcast Engineering Centre of VOV since 2003, where he was responsible for planning, deployment, implementation, installation, troubleshooting, training and management transmitter systems for VOV.
He received his Bachelor Degree in Electrical and Telecommunication Engineering in 2003 and Master degree in Business Administration in 2007 from Hanoi University of Science and Technology. He has
also been trained at the Multimedia College (MMC) and Vietnam National University.
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