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San Francisco Bay Area

• Composition, Recording, Mix, Post and Mastering of sound for film, streaming, and gaming.
• Acoustic and electrical design, construction, 10 year+ mgmt. of 1000 sq. ft. production studio.
• Design and install immersive media workflows for Dolby Atmos, ProTools/AVID, Logic.
• Media Networks/Infrastructure (MADI, Dante, AES67) remote provisioning, security, commissioning.
• Perform prototype and user experience research for production workflow integration testing.
• Train/demo at trade-shows for audio hardware and software manufacturers. NAMM, AES, WWDC.

Emeryville, California, United States

• Led design and integration of scalable immersive solutions using 3D drawings and acoustic modeling.
• Managed on-site hardware installations, addressing customer requirements with technical leadership.
• Crafted OpenSearch & Mixpanel dashboards, driving insights for sales and execs.
• Authored technical documentation, drawings, and maintained precise project tracking.
• Collaborated gracefully with sales, product, engineers, architects, A/V partners, builders, and designers.
• Executed acoustic calibration and DSP correction on varied indoor and outdoor environments.

San Francisco Bay Area

• Creation and execution of QA programs for Atmos Authoring tools from research to mainstream integration in leading production systems for film, home theater, mobile, and gaming.
• Lead QA (test plan to shipping) on Atmos Cinema Renderer, Content Creation Tools, Protools integration,
• Console integration (Neve DFC, Harrison, Euphonix S5, Avid S6) and other releases.
• Lead on CC tech demos for R&D, executive team, external partners and VIPs.
• Infrastructure Lead for CC labs, maintain R&D requirements for studio facilities and production tools.
• Qualify Atmos calibration, monitoring, rendering, MXF/DCP encoding, mastering and other workflows.

Cupertino

• Qualification testing and automation for MacOS media capture framework development.
• Validate CoreMediaI/O and AVFoundation capture on MacOS development and release versions.
• Measure HW/SW H.264 encoding and decoding performance of cameras and AirPlay (desktop mirroring to AppleTV) for MacOS.
• Automated GUI build, release, and smoke workflows using internal Python frameworks.
• HW compatibility testing with prototype, and legacy internal video cameras, and 3rd party USB and Firewire Camera support.
• Integration testing with FinalCut, Compressor, Motion, iMovie, FaceTime. Adobe Premiere.

Cupertino

• Planning, testing, measurement, and qualification of audio subsystems and driver software from early prototype to production of Apple Mac computers and embedded devices including Apple TV.
• Responsible for all Mac built-in audio hardware, USB, and Firewire audio driver functionality.
• QA Lead on OSX, and Intel CPU transitions for MacOS audio.
• Developed and trained staff on automated test tools for SW/HW using Audio Precision, PrismSound dScope, and multimeters for measurement testing and Dolby certification.
• Designed codec and high-level test cases to evaluate prototype R&D test systems.
• Web based FileMaker and PHP/SQL tracking for test and performance reporting.