David Kolesar (CBT, CBNT) is a Senior Broadcast Engineer at Hubbard Radio, L.L.C. His primary role for the past 20 years has been to serve as the transmitter engineer for WTOP, Federal News Radio (WFED), and the first full-time all-digital radio station in the US, WSHE (formerly WWFD). David is the Program Director of The Gamut, the format broadcast on WSHE. Prior to working at Hubbard Radio, David was an Electronics Engineer in the Information Technology Division of the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (Washington, D.C.) from 2001-2006. David earned a Master of Electrical Engineering (M.E.E.) from the Catholic University of America (2001), and a Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Physics from the same institution in 1999. David has received several industry awards, including the 2024 NAB Radio Engineering Achievement Award, the 2019-2020 SBE Chapter 37 Engineer of the Year Award, the 2019 Radio World Excellence In Engineering Award, and has made the Radio and Television Business Report Top 20 Tech Leaders list for the past several years.