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Florida, United States

New York, United States

South Africa | Australia | United States

Event Production Audio Visual Lighting Specialist• Functioned as Front of House Audio Mixer/Engineer and Monitor Engineer in small to large arena environments. A1/2, V1, LED TECH, LD, TD and more.• Lead Engineer | 30,000+ people | on Advance Digital Audio consoles from Behringer and Presonus to Midas, Soundcraft, DigiCo and moreAudio Visual Integrator| Project Manager• Consultant different sized venues and Houses of Worship | auditoriums built for 50 to 8,000 people.• Supervising installations ranging from small digital, High-Definition system upgrades to large-scale, new installations with budgets between $100K - $2.5M across Audio, Video, Lighting, and IT systems.Lighting Designer and Director• Worked on $500K rigs with experience on Rigging trusses, GrandMA, ChromaQ Vista consoles and more.Broadcast/Video Director/Engineer• Lead, train and execute multiple Camera Crews on a variety of equipment from Jibs to wireless Camera rigs.Skilled Camera Director/Switcher• Using 12+ years of experience from previous large events.Technical Director and Event Producer• Managed large scale events, conferences, and festivals.• Experience with large format LED screen installation, configuration, and content creation.IT System Administrator• Facilitated design, installation, and IT infrastructure support. • Orchestrated design, installation, and implementation of Wireless Network infrastructure for multi-site corporate locations.• Consisted of 20+ access points, servers, controllers, multiple firewalls, and Point-to-point VPN access.• Managed of Virtual Machine servers.• Provisioning support ticket systems and programmed firewalls.

Rochester, New York Area

• Manage all aspects of Audio, Visual, Lighting, Stage, and IT across multiple campus locations.• Set Technical standards of best practices at all locations across the organization.• Orchestrate planning and forecasting annual department budgets.• Serve as team development and training for staff and volunteers.• Orchestrate support for large scale events (8,000 attendees). • Lead staff and volunteer teams of 150 people.• Responsible for creating team culture.• Coordinate professional Audio Engineers, Lighting designers, Video Directors and Producers. Design, research, manage and implement innovative stage designs for weekly content and special events.• Schedule and equip all contractors for specialist roles.• Facilitated Project Management and oversight of all Technical/production aspects of a new Campus Build (Audio/Visual/Lighting/IT/Systems). • Created team culture through Crisis management, mentorship, rebuilding trust between staff and organization.• Secured organizations continuation and effectiveness during Covid closures through creative uses of technology.• Motivated department into new standards of excellence through the process.• Innovated, created, and executed weekly production.• Rivaled production values of other organizations with larger budgets.

13720 Roe Ave. Leawood, Ks 66224

• Oversee/Lead/Manage the Technical Production Support for all regular and special events outside of Weekend Services. Supervise Department Staff team of 5| Contractor base of 20+ people and 100+ volunteers.• Managed aspects of Technical Production | Audio, Video, Graphics, Theatrical Lighting, Computer systems and set designs. • Managed an annual department budget of $250K.• Coordinated all Technical aspects and needs with Audio Visual Vendors in the US.• Produced over 500 events in one year.• Produced large scale national Music and teaching conferences for +5,000 attendees.

7/ 24 Burrows Rd, St Peters Nsw 2044, Australia

• Provided Technical Support and operations across multiple projects and events.• Main Audio Engineer for Corporate• Organized functions across hotel and conference venuesManaged various sound & lighting functions across Sydney. Duties included set up, operation of equipment and tear down. Key responsibilities included technical support and overall client relations and satisfaction. Clients included: City of Sydney (Municipal meetings) hosted by the Mayor, CloverMoore; National Australian Football League for games at multiple stadiums across the city.

Sydney, Australia

Studied ay Hillsong International Leadership College.• Oversee Technical Production for the Hillsong College and the Hillsong United Youth department. • Recruit, train and supervise teams to support all areas of Technical Production | Audio / Cameras / Lights.Key operator/engineer for Front of House Audio, Monitors, Lighting and Cameras. • Lead training and development on Digital Audio and Lighting consoles.• Coordinated and orchestrated Technical Directed Hillsong Conference at the Sydney Olympic Stadium for 30,000+ people.• Facilitating all aspects of live technical production across Audio, Video, Lighting, Stage, Camera, and media teams.

Krugersdorp Area, South Africa

Founder / Owner | 1 full time and 6 contractors• Marketing, Sales, Supplier sourcing, Customer relations and project management. Lead and supervised staff Technical Support and Troubleshooting for current Clients.Network and IT Specialist consulting. • Awarded contract to completely renovated network infrastructure for area schools in 2005 installing infrastructure and creating standards to equip and empower students for many years to come.

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

Responsibilities consisted of staff management, project planning, staff scheduling, stock control,quality control, and client relations.

Computer Systems Engineering

Diploma In Ministry, Creative Arts / Production

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