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New York, Ny, Us

New York, Ny, Us

Management of company wide engineering and technology, all around riddle solving focused on new technologies and custom workflows, integrations across three facilities in New York and London.• Tackling the latest industry buzzwords (4K/6K/8K, HDR, Atmos, ACES, Dolby Vision, VR, etc.), color science, storage network infrastructure, and custom solution development.• Managing the engineering team.• Software development for storage monitoring, metadata gobbling, LUT creation/conversion, subtitling, media management, general time saving, etc.• Working with vendors to develop solutions for new problems.• Working with clients to develop custom tailored workflows for the most complicated projects.• Keeping the servers, storage, and backend systems alive and humming.• Network architecture, system administration, automation.• Developing tech policies and procedures.• Security audit management and compliance.• Scanning, splicing, and repairing film from 8mm to 70mm.• Last line of defense for troubleshooting.• Fixing machines from projectors and film scanners to dishwashers.

Santa Monica, Ca, Us

Digital acquisition workflows.• Expanded capacity for file-based workflows in a film-centric post house.• Wrote all custom software and scripts that were used for digital dailies tracking, render farm management, job queueing, and random tricky riddles including custom LUT creation/conversion, batch metadata processing, SAN monitoring, subtitle processing/conversion, etc.• Developed and wrote the software for a seamless system for processing and tracking 3D file-based dailies from production to conform on films such as Pirates of the Caribbean and Fright Night, including automatic L/R camera sync, integration of smart slate and audio metadata, CDL tracking, and modifying for nightly (buggy) RED firmware updates.• Worked with third parties to develop solutions to streamline workflows (IRIDAS, RED, Assimilate, etc.).• Worked internally with producers, online editors, colorists, and engineers to solve workflow riddles and educate on file-based solutions.• Integrated workflows developed in LA into the NY facility.• Render farm and SAN maintenance.• Taught Stefan's 8 year old daughter Final Cut Pro.

New York, Ny, Us

Colorist/online editor for feature length films and TV series. Worked on films for Sundance, Cannes, Academy Awards, SXSW, Toronto, Berlin, Tribeca, etc.Also senior engineer. Managed and built IT infrastructure, SAN deployment and maintenance, Avid and Final Cut system support, running/terminating coax and ethernet cables, wrote the Network Management Manual, etc.

Brooklyn, New York, Us

Part-time editing teacher with classes ranging from Editing 101 to Advanced Editing and Color Correction.

New York, New York, Us

Edited the feature length documentary Anytown, USA. Film screened at festivals and gathered a few awards.

Edited a short documentary covering an undercover investigation of foie gras farms that led to regional legislation banning its distribution. Managed media creation and distribution.