Since 1994 the New England Chapter of the SCTE has sponsored the Chapter Personal Achievement Award. In 2004 the Board voted to rename this award to the Bill Riley Personal Achievement Award in honor of Bill for his devotion to this Chapter. The recipients of this award are recognized for their outstanding accomplishments at the personal and professional levels.  Recipients have demonstrated their dedication and willingness to go above and beyond what is considered the norm. The award criteria touches on the areas of basic knowledge and skills of the industry, professionalism in the workplace, community and professional involvement that enhances the positive perception of the CATV industry and its engineering.  

 

Criteria for this award are not specific and it is not solely intended for lifetime achievements. Someone at any level may be nominated, even with a short career experience. Technicians, Engineers, Supervisors and Managers at all levels should be considered.  This award is all about personal achievement, outstanding accomplishments, taking that extra step, going above and beyond the norm at the personal and professional level.       

 

Nominations are open for this year’s award. If you know of someone you would like to nominate for this prestigious award please complete and return the preliminary application. All applications for consideration to this award must be received on or before April 12, 2019.

 

 

Post past recipients

 

Listed here are those past award recipients

 

1994 - Kevin Casey, VP Engineering, Continental Cablevision

 

1995 - Joseph Camposeo, Network Engineer,

Continental Cablevision

 

1996 - Ray Murdough, Plant Manager, Time Warner/Paragon Cable

 

1997 - Bill Hinton, White Mountain Cable

 

1998 - Calvin Cole, Applications Engineer, MediaOne

 

1999 - Bruce Byorkman, VP of Engineering,

Time Warner

 

2000 - Paul D’Arcangelo, VP of Engineering,

AT&T Broadband Services (Media One)

 

2001 - Jim Kersnowski, ViP of Engineering,

Time Warner Cable

 

2002 - Alan Gardiner, VP of Network Services,

Cox Communications, New England

 

2003 - Greg Garabedian, Director of Technical

Operations, Charter Communications

 

2004 - David Bitondo, Director of

Network Engineering, Comcast

 

2005 - Jason Hibbard, Manager of Conditional

Access, Comcast

 

2006 - Bill Snowling, Senior Digital Video

Engineer, Comcast

 

2007 - Bob Foote, Account Vice President, Arris

 

2008 - Alan Marchioni, Senior Engineer, Comcast

 

2009 - James Toy Jr., Senior Field Engineer, Comcast

 

2010 - Brian Bedard, VOIP/HFC Network Manager, Charter Communications

 

2011 - Sue Wante, VP of Technical Operations,

Comcast

 

2012 - John Ort, Regional Training Manager,

MetroCast

 

2013 - Dave Kowolenko, VP Engineering, Comcast

 

2014 - Ralph Paolo, President Broadband

Access Services Inc.

 

2015 - Georgiann Bergamini, Sr. Director of

Project Management, Comcast

 

2016 - Brian Bane, VP Network Implementation, Comcast



2017 - Dave Sharkey, Manager Technical Support, Comcast 

 

2018 – Andy McCarthy, VP Engineering and Tech Ops, Comcast WNE