Introducing Blair Knepher

Blair Knepher is the founder and one of the owners of Orion Enterprises and its predecessor, Orion Cinema Productions. These businesses have served the professional radio, film, video, television and multimedia industries of San Diego and Southern California since early in 1966.

Blair has  instructed classes in technical, production, and marketing aspects of the industry.  He has demonstrated technical and production professional competence while being responsible for developing and implementing course curricula strategies with   various funding, support and client organizations: the academic community, the professional media, the production industry and various educational agencies. He also had responsibility for the recruitment, retention and development of students; office operations; facilities maintenance and management; and health and safety. It is estimated that Mr. Knepher trained at least a thousand working video audiovisual and television professionals.

Mr. Knepher has also been a Production Manager of two federal grants that made 90 instructional programs for the Hearing Handicapped. Prior to that, he developed the prototype Undergraduate Pilot Training Program Learning Center at Moody AFB where he managed production of more that 120 instructional media programs using Instructional Systems Design methodology. He has more than thirty years of experience in the communications media arena including freelance and contract production of broadcast and non-broadcast programming ranging from commercials to live international televised events. He has designed more that 100 teleproduction facilities including multicamera studios, linear and non-linear editing suites, corporate meeting and boardrooms, remote radio and television vehicles, CCTV/CATV distribution systems and a theme park exhibit. He has been trained by major equipment manufacturers to perform warrantee service on broadcast, industrial and surveillance hardware.

Mr. Knepher has a BS from San Diego State University in Telecommunications and Film, professional sequence in Film, an MBA from National University, emphasis in Marketing and graduate coursework in Educational Broadcasting and Educational Technology. He is also a Certified NetWare Administrator and Microsoft Certified Professional.

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