Peter H. Putman

Pete Putman is president of ROAM Consulting, Inc; based in Doylestown, PA. His company provides training, marketing communications, and product testing/development services to manufacturers of projectors, monitors, integrated TVs, and display interfaces.

Peter is also a senior contributing editor for Primedia Business Media. Over the past two decades, he has authored hundreds of technical articles, reviews, and columns for magazines including Video Systems, Sound & Video Contractor, Millimeter, Entertainment Design, eTown.com, The Perfect Vision, Emedia, Electronic House, and Home Theater magazines.

His articles have covered a wide range of topics including LCD, DLP, CRT, and LCoS projectors, scan converters, video scalars, electronic cinema, DTV and HDTV reception and display, automation, plasma monitors, LED tiled displays, and networked AV installations.

Pete was well-known for his unique in-depth reviews of the Projection Shoot-Out⁷ at INFOCOMM. These reviews ran in AV Video and Video Systems from 1994 through 2000 and required over 5 hours of viewing time during the three-day trade show as well as the subsequent grading of over 100 display devices in nine different performance categories.

He's been a featured speaker at numerous trade shows and has taught courses on flat screen display technology and digital television at InfoComm International since 1997. Pete has also presented on a variety of display topics during dealer/rep events for FSR Inc, Mitsubishi, Sony, Panasonic, and Sharp.

Pete is a graduate of Seton Hall University (BA, Communications) and Syracuse University (MS, Television/Film), and currently serves on a committee of the National Occupational Competency Testing Institute (NOCTI) to re-design a standardized exam for communications media instructors, in association with Temple University. He's also chairman of the Media Communications Advisory Committee at Middle Bucks Institute of Technology in Jamison, PA. Pete is a member of the International Communications Industries Association (ICIA), The Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE), and Society for Information Display (SID). He also holds certifications from the ICIA (Certified Technology Specialist) and the Imaging Science Foundation (ISF).

Pete has held Extra Class amateur radio license KT2B since 1982. He was active in the design, construction, and operation of transmitters, receivers, and antennas for VHF, UHF, and microwave operation during the years 1978 - 1994. Pete also wrote a regular column on VHF/UHF/microwave operation for 73 Amateur Radio from 1985 until 1989, and has also contributed to QST, the official publication of the American Radio Relay League.