Sam Gall Email & Phone Number

Santa Monica, Ca, Us

Senior Systems Engineer supporting a large array of equipment used in Visual Effects, Commercials, Television and Feature Films. Primary responsibility for 20 Autodesk Flame Suites and the supporting infrastructure

Support for live TV broadcast, multi channel distribution and several live stages

Systems engineer with 25+ years experience in the entertainment industry including all aspects of post production and production on feature films, live and recorded television shows, live productions, dailies to delivery. Specializing in finding creative and cost effective solutions to the vexing issues presented by todays changing requirements.Extensive knowledge and proficiency in the following areasSAN Systems - particularly very high performance systems used for TV and Film Workstation Class Computing systems - used for image processing and rendering - Windows, Mac and LinuxServers and server administration - Windows, Linux and Mac - Active Directory, exchange, file services, proxy services, firewalls, LDAP, monitoring systems, Web Servers and cloud computing

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Senior Systems EngineerFeature Film Division, Digital Intermediate Specialties and InterestsDigital Intermediate3D - Production and PostDigital CinematographyLarge SAN Systems HPC Cluster ComputingHigh Performance NetworkingColor ScienceHigh Frame Rate 2D and 3D ResearchSenior Support Engineer for large independant post production facility providing services to all major networks and studios.Principal engineer on Avatar 3D Post Production, responsible for pipeline design and colorist, editor, VFX and DCI support. Pioneered Remote RealTime 3D ColorCorrection system with DavinciResearched and implemented unique ram based metadata storage system for our SAN and in the process reduce the time to complete some heavy metadata tasks by over 1000%Designed, built and maintained large SAN system tuned specifically for real-time playback of image files for Feature Post Production in multiple creative suites simultaneously. Providing playback to over 20 creative suites. Utilizing systems and software from Quantum StorNext, Brocade, Qlogic, Atto and Infortrend.Worked with developer teams at Davinci and Quantel on software needed for realtime 3D on avatar. deeply involved in getting the systems developed, installed and actually working in order to pull off finishing the movie on time and on budget.Senior Color Science Engineer on Avatar and Titanic 3D for digital, film and IMAX releasesPrincipal engineer on 3D High Frame Rate testing by James Cameron, responsible for digital pipeline, capture, editorial, color correction, monitoring, compression and final projection systems. Collaborated closely with engineering teams from Lighstorm Entertainment, Avid, Quantel, Davinci, Texas Insturments, Christie Digital, Doremi Labs, DVS, Mystica, Arri, RED, Cameron Pace Group to film, capture, edit, post and finally deliver the ground breaking presentation at NAB 2012.

Engineer in Digital Restoration, Worked on many Disney Animated titles and Gone With the Wind Film Remaster.Responsible for Systems Engineering for a large Digital Film Restoration Facility. Architected Storage and Advanced network systems to dramatically improve work flows in the restoration department, Eliminated file duplication and reduced file processing times 300%. Supported the largest Quantel Domino installation in the world with 12 Domino Workstations, 2 Domino Bench Film Scanners and 2 Domino Film recorders and 25 SGI Workstations for Image Processing, Hippi high speed networks and a fully custom centralized network storage system (NAS)Designed systems, computers, networks, storage and pipeline for ground breaking image processing research lab that contributed many advances to the Digital Restoration Process. Supported 5 Telecine color correction rooms, 5 Linear Editorial bays, 2 Audio Suites, several compositing suites (discreet logic inferno and Quantel Henry) along with Tape room, routing and terminal systems used for Television Post Production

Mobile Truck Engineering for Live Sports and Entertainment. Worked with many national clients including Turner Networks, ESPN, Fox, NBC, ABC, KTLAEiC on mobile production truck, provided all maintenance and support for all equipment on truck this included 6 Studio Cameras, 2 Handheld Cameras, Video Tape (1", betacam, 3/4" and Accom DDR. Grass Valley Switchers (Production and routing), Abekas DVE, Chyron Graphics, Audio department Yamaha and Neve Consoles.Provided Support and operations capabilities for Satellite Uplink, Microwave Systems, RF Camera Systems, RF Audio and Communications systems