Meet the trainers
The global MediaTech industry’s top talent
Have combined to offer online IAMT courses ranging from entry-level training aimed at new starters to in-depth career and technical development.
Stuart Ray
Head of Skills & Development, IAMT
Stuart has been involved in training and education for the Television industry for almost thirty years.
Most recently he was a Head of Department at Solent University, Southampton, with responsibility for a range of degrees across Media Technology, Computing and Television Production.
He has worked in Further and Higher Education and the charity sector and is a passionate supporter of new talent in the industry. He has undertaken recent research into the shortage of young people studying the fields of media technology and broadcast engineering. As a consequence he believes there is a clear need for retraining and upskilling for both new and long standing professionals in the industry.
Ken Duncan
Principal Analyst
Ken has worked in the networking field for the last 24 years as a trainer and consultant and has an interest in the transport of real time services, such as voice and video, over IP networks.
A trained scientist and engineer, Ken graduated from the University of Nottingham with a PhD in Semiconductor Physics and worked in industry before joining the Royal Navy on a Short Career Commission as an Instructor Officer in the fields of communications and engineering.
Around 2015, Ken became increasingly involved in streaming video over IP networks and has extensive experience in service delivery over the distribution network using rate adaptive processes such as HLS and MPEG-DASH. With the increasing uptake of IP delivery in broadcast studio settings, Ken has become more involved in the training of ST2110 and synchronisation of the streams using Precision Time Protocol.
Ken is an expert in IP Multicasting and regularly runs practical workshops in this important area.
Ken is a Chartered Engineer, Eur Ing, Chartered IT Professional and Chartered Physicist. He is certified in both Huawei Technologies and Cisco Systems and is a Cisco Certified Academic Instructor (CCAI) and Huawei Certified Systems Instructor (HCSI) and has been involved in the development of the Advanced Networking Essentials course.
Ken will be delivering network training for the IABM.
Mike Dhonau
Mike is a highly skilled engineer, technologist, and trainer with over 37 years’ experience in broadcasting and IT. He is passionate about training and hugely enjoys explaining technology to people at all levels of experience, from beginner to specialist.
Mike started his career in broadcasting as a BBC engineer in BBC Television Centre where he just caught the tail-end of the analogue video tape recording era, working with 1-inch and 2-inch, and live transmissions from telecine.
He moved to the BBC Engineering Training Department at Wood Norton near Evesham 1989, which is now part of the BBC Academy. His roles there included managing BBC Broadcast Technology Training where he managed major strategic training projects, including the moves into New Broadcasting House and Media City.
He designed and managed the BBC Technology Foundation Programme and BBC Engineer Qualified Certification and provided the BBC Engineering elements and curriculum design for BBC Technology Trainees and Apprentices programmes. He specialised in running courses on BBC production systems for radio and television, control systems, AV fundamentals, as well as update courses in new broadcast technologies.
Mike left the BBC in 2016 and set up Korell Broadcast Training, specialising in IP fundamentals for media networks, audio and video over IP, SMPTE 2110, NMOS and PTP, and has provided training for the Warner Brothers Discovery, Sky, ITV, BFBS, BBC, Q3 Media, IABM, and SACIA among others.
Neil Garner
After studying music at the University of Surrey and post graduate teacher training in Bath, Neil Garner joined the BBC as a Post Production Operator at Television centre in London, working on a wide range of tasks from transmission to telecine and editing to quality assessment.
In 1990 moved back towards his teaching vocation and he joined the lecturing team at the BBC’s residential training centre – Wood Norton, and has been a full time broadcast trainer ever since.
During his time with the BBC Neil developed a range of commercial courses and lead several large projects, working with many overseas broadcasters as well as all the main UK players.
In 2006 Neil set up his own training business and left the BBC. He now provides training courses to a wide variety of customers throughout the world. He has taught in more than 40 different countries.
Neil teaches a broad range of subjects across the whole operational curriculum, specialising in technical knowledge based training, such as video, audio, and digital systems training. However on the practical side, he is also well known for his Vision Mixing, Gallery Skills and Quality Monitoring courses, and has delivered product training on equipment as diverse as location cameras and studio sound desks.
He has also become an expert in the Grass Valley iTX system, providing most of the training requirement to EMEA and Asia and more recently has designed/developed and is delivering training courses for GV’s new Agile Media Production Platform (AMPP).
Neil has lots of experience of designing, planning and delivering large training projects and regularly provides training consultancy to major broadcasters and manufacturers.
Neil now owns and manages Training for TV Ltd., but still tries to spend a good deal of his time doing what he likes most… teaching.
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