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Carson, California, United States

Los Angeles, California, United States

Greater Los Angeles Area

Greater Los Angeles Area

Production manager for a variety of projects, including coorporate commercials, live streams, live events, tradeshows and documentaries. General responsibilities included managing staff hiring, equipment rentals and negotiations, catering, payroll, and general scheduling and logistics. Clients include ESPN/The ESPYS, 23andMe, Hasbro and Invia Robotics.

San Francisco Bay Area

Assist visiting and resident designers directly on 3 of the 5 productions of the season, refocus during daily changeovers, and maintain archival paperwork for possible revivals.

Greater Boston Area

Oversee inventory, maintenance and labor for 4 theatre spaces. Responsibilities included running and supervising undergraduate crews, including those with no experience, tracking inventory, ordering consumables and advising on capital purchasing of new equipment.

Greater Boston Area

Worked on hang, focus, note and strike calls for multiple shows per season. Worked with a variety of lighting equipment, including genie lifts and personal fall protection. Experience rigging temporary positions including booms, goal posts, lighting ladders and taildowns.

San Francisco Bay Area

Assist visiting and resident designers directly on 3 of the 5 productions of the season, refocus during daily changeovers, and maintain archival paperwork for possible revivals.

Santa Fe, New Mexico Area

Assist the electrics department in mounting 5 originally produced operas, presented in rotating repertory.Responsibilities included facilitating special projects and daily operation of the electrics shop, maintaining and repairing equipment, including moving lights, Arri HMI fixtures and accessories, wireless dimmers, and a variety of scrollers, researching and build practical fixtures of many varieties. Daily Work involved delicate soldering, detaied paperwork and inventory, as well as carpentry and welding.

Madison, Wisconsin Area

Freelance Electrician

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Madison Wi

-T.A. for Backstage Lab in Electrics; taught students the basics of working as an electrician in theatre.

Buffalo/Niagara, New York Area

Worked as a stage technician for large-scale local and touring concert productions. Extensive experience with Stageline mobile staging setup, temporary power distribution and generators, stage rigging and chain hoists, large-scale conventional and moving light rigs and DMX distribution. Required working long hours, often 16+ hour days, and experience balancing tight deadlines and last minute changes associated with touring productions.

Certificate, Data Science And Machine Learning, Excellence

Master Of Fine Arts - Mfa, Lighting Design, 3.68

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