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John Risk

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 Mr. John Risk, CSG's President, serves as project administrator and personally supervises all phases of the work performed. Mr. John Risk is the founder and President of Communications Support Group, Incorporated. Mr. Risk is a graduate of the University of Michigan and a long time member of the National Association of Telecommunications Officers and Advisors (NATOA). He has dedicated innumerable types of service to NATOA over the past 20 years, which include five-years as a Board member. He is also a member of the Alliance for Community Media.

Since 1979, Mr. Risk has held a variety of private and public sector management positions involving cable television franchise administration, policy, programming, production and technology. Mr. Risk has performed compliance audits, franchise fee audits and utility user tax audits for numerous California franchising authorities. Mr. Risk has developed expert financial skills having studied corporate charts of accounts and revenue streams of AT&T, Comcast, Charter, Cox and Time Warner, making observations and determining the accuracy of franchise fees and utility tax payments.  Additionally, Mr. Risk has held jobs within the cable industry with Falcon Cable and Group W Cable and has been employed full time by the City of Santa Ana as their cable administrator. Mr. Risk has also consulted with the Counties of Alameda, Mendocino, Monterey, Orange, Santa Barbara, San Bernardino, San Diego, San Francisco, and Santa Cruz, and has worked as an “on-site” contract cable television consultant to the City of Beverly Hills, City of Santa Ana, City of Irvine, and the County of San Bernardino.

Mr. Risk's broad range of experience and expertise strengthens CSG's ability to respond to the ever-changing needs of municipalities and public agencies. Mr. Risk has worked with a number of school districts and recognizes the importance of telecommunications and Internet access in the classroom. Mr. Risk has been nationally recognized for his contributions in the field of cable television franchise administration and municipal cable programming. His work has earned him and his City Governments the following honors:  6 "ACE" awards; 6 "Hometown" awards; 8 NATOA awards; finalist honors in the League of California Cities' "Helen Putnam" award; and finalist honors in the Los Angeles Academy of Television Arts and Sciences' "Emmy" competitions. In his capacity as contract Cable Television Manager for the cities of Beverly Hills and Santa Ana, Mr. Risk's compliance, auditing and programming concepts have served as models for other communities seeking to create cable television offices.

Mr. Risk also possesses significant experience working with public safety personnel (Police and Fire) for the purposes of staff training, video documentation, court arraignments, emergency preparedness/community outreach, and emergency operations center IT/communications planning. 


Anne Risk

 Ms. Anne Risk is CSG’s Vice-President and General Counsel. She handles business and policy strategy, research and drafting. Ms. Risk has a substantial and varied legal background with over ten years experience in both non-profit law, and as owner of her own law practice.  She received her J.D. from Golden Gate University School of Law and was admitted to the California Bar in 1985. She has extensive experience with statutory and administrative analysis and has supported numerous CSG audits and franchise negotiations.
   


 
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  Mr. Darren Doerschel is an experience video engineer. He is currently employed at the City of Santa Monica, but also free-lances in integration and system design projects throughout southern California. Mr. Doerschel has performed multimedia/video/audio projects for Cerritos, Long Beach, Culver City and Walnut. He is well studied in digital playback and automation systems and non-linear editing, and system integration. Mr. Doerschel and Mr. Risk have worked on a number of projects performing significant research related to cable television production and programming in a digital media center environment for the cities of Fountain Valley, Huntington Beach, Irvine, San Clemente, Stanton, and Westminster.
  Mr. Bill Kohutanycz is a nationally recognized cable television and communications engineer with broad practical as well as comprehensive theoretical experience. Holding his degree in Radio Communications, Mr. Kohutanycz serves as the Operations Division Head of the Naval Media Center in Washington D.C. He has served in a variety of technical management and field technical roles in the fields of cable television, broadband communications, telephony, and radio communications. He is a member of the National Association of Telecommunications Officers and Advisors. In 1989, Mr. Kohutanycz served on NATOA's national Technology and Applications Committee and assisted in the negotiation of proposed national technical standards with the National Cable Television Association and the Community Antenna Television Association. Mr. Kohutanycz's expertise includes all phases of technical operations including satellite, microwave, local origination, headend and system construction and maintenance, franchise compliance, telephony, audio design, digital design, and radio communications.
  Mr. Bill Morgan is Diehl, Evans’ cable television consultant and lead CPA. Mr. Morgan has been with Diehl, Evans & Company, LLP, since 1972 with extensive experience in accounting, auditing, consulting, financial reporting, taxation and cable television issues related to California governmental agencies. Diehl, Evans & Company, LLP, has extensive experience in governmental accounting, auditing and consulting. Mr. Morgan is a graduate of the University of Southern California and is an associate member of the Southern California and Nevada Chapter of the National Association of Telecommunications Officers and Advisors (SCAN/NATOA). Mr. Morgan and CSG has been retained jointly by clients on a number of engagements related to franchise fee auditing.
  Greg Robinson, Ph.D. is the former Director of the Social Science Research Center (SSRC). Dr. Robinson's expertise includes applied research and evaluation design, survey research methods, and qualitative approaches to data collection and analysis. He has successfully conducted over fifty applied research and evaluation projects with foci in education, health care, and criminal justice. Prior to joining the SSRC, Dr. Robinson was a Research Associate at the Public Policy Research Institute at UC Irvine. He holds a Ph.D. in social ecology from the University of California at Irvine and an undergraduate degree in psychology from the University of California at Berkeley.

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