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Los Angeles, Ca, Us

Cupertino, California, Us

San Francisco, California, Us

Enabling musicians, mixers and engineers to create music in Dolby Atmos.

San Francisco, California, Us

Specializing in workflows for Dolby Atmos Content creation across Film, Television and Music. Working with media companies to develop a holistic approach to high end content creation for HDR video and immersive audio.

San Francisco, California, Us

Focussed on the developing field of Virtual Reality and the applications of sound to immerse a viewer in their virtual world. Worked with product development team and our customers to define workflows and solutions for Virtual Reality 360 video content creation in both Post Produced and Live environments. The Dolby Atmos Production suite is product that was released as a result of this work and enabled content creators in both VR and Home theatre markets to author Dolby Atmos content for their respective delivery platforms. Created training materials in both written and video format for the VR Production Suite.

Responsible for all technical operations of the company including audio environments and network architecture. Designed and built a Dolby Atmos stage at our Topanga location capable of natual-daylight mixing including audio and network design and implementation around an Avid S6 console. The room is backed by BSS Audio Architect system design with Motion Control interfacing and audio switching. The room is designed to provide a testbed for editorial workflows related to immersive audio. Specification and design of "Active Directory-like" services in a distributed environment and integration into existing systems and future expansion possibilities. Implemented a system for remote sound library access for in-house editorial staff and client access along with detailed tracking of users downloads and search patterns. Specification of platforms that enable collaboration of audio professionals and company administration and design of interconnect methods between platforms. Audio workflow design from production into post and implementation of traditional understanding of workflow in a non-traditional distributed working environment.

Hollywood, Ca, Us

Part of a team dealing with management of production servers in an audio post production environment.Improved the performance of share creation ten-fold with tweaks to existing perl scripts, the scripts performed command line administration of Open Directory on Mac OS Server with nested inclusion of Active Directory groups and propagation of permissions in POSIX and ACL form. Wrote and deployed new perl scripts for monitoring of servers and services. Deployed new production servers to reduce load on existing architecture.Support and documentation of Xytech, Microsoft Exchange and Microsoft Active Directory environments.Advisory role on reverse engineering in order to update the company's Filemaker 10 Server based purchase order system.HTML optimization and migration from 3.2 to 5. CSS optimization and rebranding of company's internal websites.DNS management.VMWare solution managementCentOS, Debian command line administration.Aspera Faspex Server management, maintenance and support.Created an deployed a filemaker solution for Mac and iOS to track the company's power distribution units this included a scripted update from an excel solution.

Hollywood, Ca, Us

Facilitate the rerecording process. Session and Media management. Quality Control monitoring and troubleshooting.Built Euphonix System5 desk templates for Award winning mixers. Trained a number of new mix technicians and experienced mix technicians to perform their duties in line with company policy and infrastructure. Aided traditional console mixers in adopting parts of Euconized workflows and in-the-box mixers with how Icon techniques translate to the System5 console, finding analogs in both worlds to familiarize them with those operations.

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Adapted existing workflows to utilise new technologies and system designs. Oversight of second assistant and trainee's in their roles and how they relate to the larger picture.Acted as Mix tech for temp dubs and Fx pre dubs.

Barnet, Hertfordshire, Gb

Technical Consultancy for Eastwood Sound and Vision. Dealing with customer support issues and helping clients design new systems and workflows.

Mumbai, Maharashtra, In

Project Manager of Audio Suite Design and Build.

Hollywood, Ca, Us

During my time at Soundelux I have worked in two roles.I initially joined Soundelux as a Second Assistant where I learnt the basics of the post sound business from helping out on mix stages and understanding client contact to implementing technical services. In this role I demonstrated extensive technical problem solving skills and team leadership capabilities and was promoted to my current role is Supervising Assistant Sound Editor/Technical Lead. Reporting to the Head of Operations I am one of two managers that run the technical side of the business. I personally project managed a facility move when our company relocated in 2007 and further to that a complete infrastructure overhaul when we were taken over in January 2009. Throughout these potential major business disruptions I continued to maintain and upgrade the computer and network systems including Mac-based Pro Tools HD and LE systems of various sizes as well as PC and Mac administration machines. I am also responsible for scoping and assessing new technologies in preparation for their roll-out on specific film projects.I was also Supervising Assistant on a number of major projects including Sony’s Quantum of Solace and Casino Royale and more recently, Universal’s Greenzone. In this role, I have maintained extensive liaison with various production companies, picture departments, mix stages, studios and ADR/Foley facilities to ensure the smooth running of the technical side of the sound post production including designing and implementing workflows and troubleshooting. I also am responsible for providing time tracking and cost information to the billing team.

As an assistant to film composer, John Hardy, over a 5-month engagement, I provided John and his team with a range of technical supports including conversion of Cubase midi files to Sibelius scores for publication and updating of project archives to current formats (Acorn to Macintosh).

Ba, Creative Music Technology

Mathematics, Physics And Music