Technical Directors/Managers
Coordinate activities of technical departments, such as taping, editing, engineering, and maintenance, to produce radio or television programs.
Also called: News Technical Director, Production Director, Production Manager, Technical Director
Knowledge:
- multimedia
- telecommunications
Engineering and Technology
- computers and electronics
- product and service development
Skills:
- keeping track of how well people and/or groups are doing in order to make improvements
- listening to others, not interrupting, and asking good questions
- noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it
People and Technology Systems
- thinking about the pros and cons of different options and picking the best one
- figuring out how a system should work and how changes in the future will affect it
Abilites:
- communicate by speaking
- listen and understand what people say
- notice when problems happen
- use rules to solve problems
- pay attention to something without being distracted
- do two or more things at the same time
- quickly compare groups of letters, numbers, pictures, or other things
Personality:
Description: People interested in this work like activities that include leading, making decisions, and business.
They do well at jobs that need
- Cooperation
- Attention to Detail
- Adaptability/Flexibility
- Stress Tolerance
- Dependability
- Initiative
Technology:
Video creation and editing software
- Side Effects Houdini
- YouTube
Object or component oriented development software
- C++
- Practical extraction and reporting language Perl
Development environment software
- C
- Software development tools
