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Fargone Productions offers audio and video recording production services to local Chicago and regional musical acts, institutions, and event coordinators looking to have a live, location recording of their show professionally recorded and produced. Our mobile service works on location in conjunction with venue engineers and staff to provide a quality recording.Responsibilities: Developed , built, and maintained a portable location recording rig for completeness, efficient set-up, and quality, reliable recording.Developed and maintained a mixing suite for client services including tracking, mixing, and mastering.Developed relationships with various bands, organizations, and venues throughout the Chicago area.Recorded and mixed sessions for clients in numerous venues throughout the city.Supervised assistants in their various duties.Built and maintained website for web presence.Responsible for all accounting, billing, and filing of records.Clients have included: Chicago Public Radio, Chicago Public Libraries, Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies, The Moth storyslam, GoJangle.com, Bluebeard Productions, Martin Atkins and Pigface, Sheep on Drugs, Mic One, Cracklin Moth, Alison Breitman, Harris & The Mood, Noah Gabriel, Fausto Fernos

Chicago, Il

A Chicago production troupe of video and audio engineers is introducing a new project for recording live musical performances on or about the skyline of Chicago. This brave new group seeks to promote great music in and around this fair city by capturing and producing live performances in elevated and unusual locations. A musician need only look up to their favorite rooftop, to the Ferris wheel at Navy Pier, or even gallivanting about Millennium Park to showcase their talent in a new and different light with the full audio-visual production treatment.

Chicago, Il

Responsibilities:Led team of eight utilizing a customized version of the Scrum project management process in projects involving website improvements and development, back-end process restructuring, and catalog creation.Planned, tracked, and ran each business project cycle while creating documentation needed to support those efforts.Oversaw tasks delegated to team members in support of active projects.Drove the creation of requirements documentation for software development tasks.Maintained a backlog of projects. Created items completely, de-duplicated, prioritized, and wrote details.Communicated with project managers to coordinate resources needed from outside the department.Communicated with internal team to keep projects and daily tasks on schedule.Provided visibility/initiated discussions with management of any problems that arise during the course of a project cycle that may effect the outcome or planned execution of the project.Represented the Merchandising department as a liaison in software development projects, explaining projects to developers, and ensuring that projects were developed according to specs.

Worked with several major label and local acts.

Graduate, Audio Recording

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