Our Personnel:

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Michael Patton - Owner/Chief Engineer

Michael grew up in Jackson, MS, where he began doing engineering work for radio stations while still in High School. After college at Mississippi State, he moved to Baton Rouge, where he has lived ever since. Michael has been a consulting and project engineer since 1982, and during that time has accomplished many milestones, including building the first 50 KW AM in Honduras, building an island-wide chain of FM transmitters in Jamaica, writing several custom computer programs for antenna matching network design, and presenting many papers as well as serving on many panels at NAB and SBE engineering conferences. These days, he is especially proud of his work developing creative retrofit solutions to keep legacy transmitters and other gear serving stations (see our custom gear page).

James Scullin  - Head Bench Technician

James grew up in Baton Rouge in the same neighborhood where Mike lives, where he showed an early interest in computers and electronics.  After high school, he studied computer science and electronics at LSU.  James has worked in a number of jobs in many fields and brings his considerable intellect, creativity, and wide experience with materials science, equipment fabrication, and electronics design to bear on every project he is involved with.

Anthony Babin - Bench Technician

Anthony grew up in various places but went to high school in Jackson, MS, although many years after Mike was there.  He brings to his job with MP&A a background in consumer electronic equipment repair.  Anthony is both very quick with new concepts and a hard worker; his attention to detail is a valued asset.  He and James make a great team, coordinating closely on equipment repair and transmitter rebuilding.

 Frank McIntyre  - Executive Director

Frank has been working with MP&A over many years in various roles.  These days, in addition to being our IT guru, he runs the business and occasionally grumbles under his breath about numbers and such, but really who's listening?  If you call or send in gear, he'll be the person you interact with. Though he wishes he could refer all complaints to the owner with his lukewarmest regards, he most often attempts to solve problems before that is necessary.  As our most common point of communications and entry he keeps a full beard and a ready supply of chewing gum, because you really just never know. Really, you just don't.

Lynn Dortch - Field Engineer/Product Development Manager (emeritus)

Lynn is a native of Nashville, TN, where he was fascinated with electronics and broadcasting from a very early age.  He has worked in radio and television for most of his career, with a few jaunts into other aspects of electronics.  Accomplished in all aspects of radio station construction, his work is extremely neat and his documentation meticulous.  Lynn is mostly retired to his home in the hills outside of Nashville these days, but we occasionally can pry him loose from his ham radio rig to help with a field project or with the development of a new retrofit product.