Michael Gay Email Address

Vice President

Cumulus Media is America�s second largest operator of radio station

A technology leader who regularly partners with business leadership and C-Level management to improve service delivery, grow revenue, and reduce operating costs by leveraging technology smartly. How? My background in embedded microcontrollers and digital signal processors gives me understanding of underlying technologies at the hardware component level as well as the software machine code level...but my years of experience in large organizations have taught me to rephrase the above statement to a more palatable response to management such as "We can use this to save/make money." :) Currently working as Corporate VP of Engineering with oversight of Information Technology, Telecommunications, and Engineering for the second largest radio company in the US. Formerly a Purdue University department head with extensive experience in enterprise information technology, broadcast and wireless, and leadership. Original creator of "BoilerCast" classroom podcasting system used at Purdue University...which was the largest centralized implementation of classroom podcasting at any university. Designer of the new Technical Operations Center and Data Center for Westwood One Radio Networks, which serves thousands of affiliate radio stations across the country. Specialties: Technology Planning, Infrastructure Engineering, Highly Available Data centers and broadcast transmission facilities, Enterprise Software, IT infrastructure, IT service management, Telecommunications systems, VoIP, Internet Video and Audio, Technology Roadmapping, Project Management, Vendor Negotiation, Digital RF Transmission and (IBOC), Staff Development.