Experience

DigitalFilm Tree

• United States
• Entertainment Providers
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Post Production Engineer

  • Oct 2020 - Present

  Providing Technical support for editors, colorists, and VFX artists on various projects. Maintaining NVMe SANs and NAS storage systems. Building and configuration of Mac/PC audio and video production workstations. Providing IT technical support for administrative and production network infrastructure. Designed and supporting video streaming solutions for work from home editorial production. Configured and maintaining remote workstation systems for work from home production access. Recommending purchases as needed for equipment upgrades, repairs, and maintenance. Calibrating OLED finishing and color monitors with CalMAN Ultimate software. Supporting Avid, Resolve, Adobe CC, installations and licensing and operation. Maintaining power backup system in data center. Rewire and configuring new editing and finishing suites. Show less



Wild Woods Picture & Sound

• United States
• Media Production
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Head Of Video & Engineering

  • May 2018 - Oct 2020

  Assisting with the management of the video production staff. Providing Technical support for editors, colorists, and sound mixers on various projects. Onboarding guidance of incoming SDR & HDR/DolbyVision video projects. Building and configuration of high performance Mac/PC audio and video production workstations. Providing IT technical support for administrative and production network infrastructure. Building and administrating Windows Servers on physical and virtual VM architectures. Completing media transfers for Netflix and other networks via Aspera, Signiant, Snowball, etc. Overseeing and support of IMF and DCP creation for film and broadcast deliveries. Recommending purchases as needed for equipment upgrades, repairs, and maintenance. Calibrating OLED broadcast monitors with CalMAN software. Maintaining 1 PB of media on Stornext, Tiger SANs, and Synology NAS systems within the facility. Supporting Protools, Avid, Resolve, Adobe CC, installations and licensing. Building and configuring Scheduall/SQL and live video streaming servers. Google G-Suite Administration Show less



Shapeshifter Post

• North Hollywood

• Chief Engineer

  • Nov 2014 - Oct 2017

  Providing technical support for editors, colorists, and sound mixers on television and film projects. Overseeing successful uploading and delivery of various media files to networks. Assistant Editing on a variety of platforms including Premiere, Resolve, and Avid Creating DCP and IMF media packages for various networks and theater destinations. Supporting Avid ISIS, and Facillis Terrablock shared storage systems. VTR deck operations, captioning, legalization, and QC support for online editing. IT Support for the facility including imaging and maintaining workstations and shared storage. Show less



Mad Old Nut Productions, Inc.

• United States
• Entertainment Providers
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Avid Service and Support Manager

  • May 2014 - Nov 2014

  Managed the Avid rental division of Mad Old Nut Productions. Overseeing the installation of fast, reliable, Avid workstations for both offline and online editing, providing 24/7 service to editorial departments of the most popular TV shows on the air: The Walking Dead Gotham American Crime Flash Arrow iZombie Managed the Avid rental division of Mad Old Nut Productions. Overseeing the installation of fast, reliable, Avid workstations for both offline and online editing, providing 24/7 service to editorial departments of the most popular TV shows on the air: The Walking Dead Gotham American Crime Flash Arrow iZombie



Los Angeles Film School

• United States
• Higher Education
• 400 - 500 Employee

• Technical Operations Engineer

  • Apr 2003 - Aug 2013

  After writing the Protools syllabus and teaching the classes for a year or so, I went full time into engineering and editing for special presentations and curating and projecting the monthly grad screenings. I managed and trained AV techs. I maintained the campus A/V and coming up with easy, low-cost solutions. I was projectionist for the theater, and supported events and and media handling.. I planned and implemented Integrations with A/V, Dubbing Stage Integration and support, HDCAM VTR repairs, overhauls, & Maintenance. Supported Sony 4k DCP projector maintenance/theater as well as ReadD setup. Show less



The Walt Disney Company

• United States
• Entertainment Providers
• 700 & Above Employee

• Walt Disney Imagineering - Audio and Video Engineer

  • 1997 - 2001

  Performed a broad range of maintenance and repair duties, throughout the WDI facilities. Designed proprietary electronics controls for audio and video systems. Recommended the necessary tools, parts, and supplies as needed for equipment repairs and international installations. Provided engineering and production support for recording sessions. Custom-modified two Solid State Logic Omni-Mix systems that I traveled with internationally. Recommended purchases and assembled video production camera and lighting kits. Field engineering support for Tokyo Disney Sea, Disney California Adventure, and Disneyland ride and show sound installations during construction. Show less



WXXI Public Broadcasting Council

• United States
• Broadcast Media Production and Distribution
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Production/Engineering

  • 1993 - 1996

  Supported Remote and In-Studio productions both as an engineer and production assistant. Maintained and repaired VTR decks Wired master control and tape rooms. Maintained studios for FM station Assistant engineer on live productions Camera operation Technical director on Homework Hotline Supported Remote and In-Studio productions both as an engineer and production assistant. Maintained and repaired VTR decks Wired master control and tape rooms. Maintained studios for FM station Assistant engineer on live productions Camera operation Technical director on Homework Hotline