Pat Waddell

Harmonic

A veteran of the broadcasting and performing arts industries, Mr. Waddell has over 30 years experience serving a variety of staff and freelance positions with a number of different facilities. As a second-generation broadcaster, his primary area of expertise is digital video system implementation for broadcaster television. Mr. Waddell joined Harmonic in December 2000 where he works closely with engineering to define and deliver high quality encoding products. Mr. Waddell is also responsible for compliance with industry standards. Previously, Mr. Waddell worked at Sony, as a sustaining engineer for MPEG compression, as well as high-definition signal processing and conversion products.

Mr. Waddell serves as Harmonic’s representative to a number of industry standards bodies, including the DVB, SMPTE, SCTE, and the ATSC.  He currently serves as the Chair of the ATSC’s TSG/S6, the Specialist Group on on Video/Audio Coding.

Mr. Waddell earned a BSEE degree from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and did graduate studies in Technical Production for Live Performance at San Jose State University.