Midcontinent’s David Haigh Receives ’08 Young Engineer Award

Jan. 20, 2008 - PRLog -- MIDCONTINENT’S DAVID HAIGH
RECEIVES ’08 YOUNG ENGINEER AWARD

Jan. 15, 2008 (LA, CA)—The Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers (SCTE) is pleased to announce today that David Haigh is the 2008 Young Engineer of the Year Award recipient. Haigh, 33, is senior RF engineer with Midcontinent Communications.

The Young Engineer of the Year Award 2008 sponsors are Multichannel News, Scientific Atlanta, A Cisco Company, and SCTE. The annual award recognizes an engineering professional under age 35 who has demonstrated outstanding achievement within the cable telecommunications industry.

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As the ’08 recipient, Haigh will receive $1,000 and an all-expense-paid trip to SCTE Conference on Emerging Technologies® (ET) 2008 in Los Angeles, set for Jan. 14–16 and where the award will be presented.

“David is an engineer who is always forward-thinking and innovative, always thinking outside the square and wanting to explore new, uncharted territory within the cable industry, and this is what puts him apart from others,” said his nominator for the award, Tom Heier, corporate engineering manager with Midcontinent Communications.

Haigh’s cable career began in Australia in 1995 with Optus Communication as part of the team responsible for building one of the largest HFC deployments in the world and, at the time, the first cable TV system in Australia. In 2000, after recognizing the progress and expansion of cable technology, he moved to the United States to further his knowledge and cable career with High Speed Access.

Heier mentioned the success of Haigh’s first accomplishment with Midcontinent—the development and deployment of an effective preventative maintenance program. Heier said, “Since its deployment, Midcontinent’s trouble calls have been reduced significantly company-wide, and the program has become a model for other MSOs to follow.”

As a result of Haigh’s preventative maintenance program and the subsequent upstream 64QAM deployment, Midcontinent received a Communications Technology Top Tier System award in 2007. Haigh also has contributed to articles and webinars specifically related to this program’s success.

Haigh has been actively involved with the SCTE Dakota Territory Chapter, holding the position of president in 2006 and chairman of the board in 2007.