Colin Osborne is entering his 12th year as Web/Multimedia Designer for Rutgers University Division of Intercollegiate Athletics. He is responsible for the design, coding, maintenance and updating of ScarletKnights.com and other athletic-related websites within the University. Rutgers is one of only a handful of Division IA schools that hosts and maintains its own Website.
Osborne also oversees the department’s broadband video network, “KnightVision,” which launched in August of 2009. The video network streams live home games of Rutgers’ 22 intercollegiate sports, press conferences and events such as football Pro Day.
Osborne is responsible for training the student production crews and interns, producing/directing, equipment purchasing, and administering the in-house video servers that stream KnightVision on-demand and live programming.
Osborne has an extensive background in corporate and broadcast television production. After graduating from Rutgers in 1989 with a degree in Journalism/Mass Media, he became a freelance camera operator/production technician, working on projects for Fortune 500 companies such as American Express, Merck, and Novartis (formerly Sandoz Pharmaceuticals). He also worked on numerous sporting events for ESPN regional, Main Events Boxing, and local production houses.
In 1992, Osborne joined New Jersey Network Public Television as a Production Technician/Assistant Editor. His duties included camera operation, technical directing, control room graphics, audio, and offline editing on BetaCam SP and D2 formats. He designed electronic graphics on Mid-Atlantic Emmy Award-winning programs NJN News, State of the Arts, and various documentaries distributed on PBS.
When Knight-Ridder and WPHL-17 Philadelphia launched Inquirer News Tonight in 1994, Osborne was recruited to be the lead Chyron Infinit! operator. Aside from normal control room duties, he was responsible for interfacing the Chyron and Dynatech New-Star newsroom software for election night coverage.
Osborne left WPHL in March, 1995 to join New Jersey Network on a full-time basis.
In 1997, he ventured into multimedia production and joined AT&T Labs in Holmdel, N.J. as a multimedia producer. He worked on a range of projects that included the AT&T True Rewards website redesign and the AT&T WorldNet dialup consumer software interface.
Osborne resides in Middletown N.J. with his wife Bonnie and their two children.