SVG — College SportsVideo Summit

A native of Richmond, Utah, Chad Bunn has served as video coordinator since 1989 after receiving a BA in communications from BYU that same year. In 2007, he was named the Video Operations Coordinator for the BYU Athletic Department.

Bunn is a founding member of the Collegiate Sports Video Association (CSVA) and has served two terms as its president. Bunn currently serves as the Mountain West Conference representative to the CSVA. In 2002 Bunn was named the Bob Matey Video Coordinator of the Year, the CSVA’s highest honor. In 2003 Bunn received this same award for the MWC.

Bunn served as the video coordinator for the Western Athletic Conference Tournament from 1993-99 and now serves in the same position for the MWC. He is also the technical advisor to the MWC for football officials replay. Bunn currently serves as president of the board of trustees for Intermountain Specialized Abuse and Treatment Centers, a nonprofit organization that provides treatment to abused children. Bunn is also president of the Spanish Fork Kiwanis Club.

From 1982-84 Bunn served a mission in Miami for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Bunn and his wife Lorie have two daughters.

With 25-plus years of experience in NCAA Division I conference office operations, Senior Associate Commissioner Tim Allen handles a variety of duties for the Big 12 Conference.

Allen is the primary administrator for day-to-day operations of the television packages for the Big 12.  He is the staff liaison to the Board of Athletic Directors, handles scheduling of Conference games for football and men’s basketball, and serves as the director of the Big 12 men’s basketball championship. In addition, Allen also has oversight of the Big 12 media relations department as well as marketing, corporate sponsorships licensing, and Website operations.

One of the original Big 12 staff members, Allen came to the league directly from the Big Eight Conference. He joined the Big Eight in 1983 as the primary media contact and director of the Conference service bureau. He was promoted to Assistant Commissioner in 1989 and to Associate Commissioner in 1995, assuming duties in marketing, corporate relations, television issues, sponsorships, scheduling, other regular-season, and post-season competition in football, basketball and baseball, and was the Conference office representative for licensing and insurance issues. Allen was promoted to Senior Associate Commissioner in 2008.

Allen served in two key roles during the transition phase from the Big Eight to the Big 12. He was the primary staff liaison to the Board of Athletics Directors transition committee and was assigned to assist the revenue distribution sub-committee during the expansion effort. He was director for the Phillips 66 Big Eight and Big 12 baseball tournaments from 1989-2004 and worked every one of these conference tourneys from 1976-2004 in various capacities.

A 1977 graduate of Kansas State University, Allen was selected to join the Big Eight Conference staff after a five-year stint as Assistant Sports Information Director at Oklahoma State University.

Allen is a native of Chanute, Kan. His wife, Tish, and he have two daughters, Alexa (Hower) and Chelsea, and reside in Plano, Texas.

Jim Owens has worked and taught in the video and television production industry for almost 30 years. He has worked on local, regional and national productions. Owens’ international work has included eleven Olympic broadcasts and has taken him to more than 25 countries.

He is the author of Television Sports Production and the co-author of Television Production, 14th edition, and Video Production Handbook, 4th edition (all three are published by Focal Press). He has had more than thirty articles published in television and broadcast magazines in the United States and Europe. He has taught television production in universities and colleges in the United States, Greece, Italy, China and Canada.

Owens is the Dean of the School of Communication Arts in Wilmore, Kentucky, where he has taught since 1981.

Professor Christine Buck Taylor teaches at Butler University in the Department of Media Arts.

As a professional, she worked from 1983-89 at Cable News Network in Atlanta.  Professor Buck left CNN to teach and has been a member of Butler’s faculty for almost 20 years.  Her area of specialization is Digital Media Production, where she teaches courses in video production, editing, single camera video, and directing.

Ken Norris is in his 20th year as UCLA’s director of video operations. Norris and his staff are responsible for filming the practices and games of the UCLA football team. They work with the coaching staff and provide them with specialized footage or “cut-ups” of the team and opponents for coaching, scouting, and game-planning purposes.

Ken “The Godfather” Norris is considered one of the most innovative and respected minds in his profession and was named National Video Coordinator of the Year by his peers in the Collegiate Sports Video Association. One of Norris’ latest projects has been the development and implementation of the I2 Internet Exchange Program in the Pacific-10 Conference. This venture now allows the Conference’s 10 football programs to exchange coaching films through the internet, bypassing the use of videotape. This rapid exchange of film means teams can now acquire the opposition’s films more quickly, providing coaches with valuable additional time to scout and prepare for upcoming games. Norris is currently assisting other sports and other athletic conferences in implementing the I2 program in their respective sports.

Norris and his staff are also responsible for filming instructional and highlight footage for almost every UCLA Athletic program. They create many of the teams’ year-end highlight films. He is assisted by full-time staff members Eric Kowal and Tony Gentile and students Ethan Tussey, Phil Izdebzki, Eddie Kim, David Godoy, Forrest Lockwood and Robert Ledo.

Norris began his career working for the NFL’s Los Angeles Rams at age 13 splicing and editing 16mm film. Norris came to UCLA in 1989, replacing legendary cinematographer Stan Troutman after his retirement from the university. He and his wife, Joan, have two children, Travis (age 17) and Chelsea (15).

Duane Lindberg returned to the Pac-10 staff for his second tour of duty in 1991 as Assistant Commissioner for Electronic Communications, and was promoted to Associate Commissioner in 2006. His job duties include overseeing the Conference’s television agreements.

Lindberg spent 1989-91 at the Southwest Conference in Dallas, Texas as Assistant Commissioner where he oversaw the conference’s compliance program. His first stint at the Pac-10 saw him serve as Assistant Commissioner for Compliance and Enforcement in 1989, Assistant to the Commissioner from 1986-89, and Assistant Public Relations Director from 1983-86. He previously served two-and-a-half years as Assistant SID at USC.

A Tacoma, Washington native, Lindberg has both undergraduate (1979) and master’s (1981) degrees from the University of Washington.

Gordon Castle is a visionary executive with expertise in business and technology planning, change strategy, and developing ideas that shape the future of the media / entertainment industry. He is an accomplished technology strategist with proven experience conceiving, planning, and executing large-scale initiatives that have a direct influence on the success of an organization. He has a proven track record as an innovative and insightful leader with a capacity to generate ground-breaking ideas and facilitate implementation and training efforts to capitalize on emerging technologies and business opportunities.

He is the Managing Director of The Meadowdale Group (www.meadowdalegroup.com), a consulting / services firm that helps media and entertainment producers, distributors, and solution providers create sustainable value by employing innovative processes that balance business goals, improve operations, and leverage technology. Collaborating with a network of partners and industry experts, The Group offers a portfolio of services, insights, and capabilities that enable clients to transform and grow their businesses through technology. Client engagements often include strategic planning, large project implementation, and acquisition analysis.

Previously, he was the senior technology fellow for production at Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. (TBS, Inc.). In this role, Castle served as an internal advisor and strategist on production and acquisition systems. He is also responsible for the coordination of research activities and technology demonstrations that encourage innovation and test principles for future systems and new businesses.

Prior to this role, Castle was senior vice president of CNN Technology, directing the overall management of technical content projects for CNN. Castle was responsible for the analysis, acquisition and implementation of technology that CNN employs for the gathering, production, and distribution of news. During his tenure at CNN, he led initiatives to move CNN to an integrated digital workflow, build one of the largest digital media archives, and implement low cost field production and acquisition systems.

Castle’s experience at TBS, Inc. included managing the technical start-up of CNN en Español, CNN’s 24-hour digital non-linear Spanish-language network. He played a role in new network start-ups including CNN/Sports Illustrated and CNNfn. Formerly vice president of CNN Headline News, Castle assumed management duties for CNN Headline News, CNNRadio, CNN Airport Network, and CNN Newsource. He also served as director of operations and special projects for the network, responsible for technical operations and implementation of new technology, budgeting, training and daily operations. Castle coordinated the company’s transition to a digital non-linear production facility.