Work Experience
My ideal job would include all or parts of these tasks:
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Managing the audio, video, and/or computer systems for a company by myself or with a small team.
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Setting up and doing A/V for live events.
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Software development
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Graphic design
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Any other audio/video/computer related tasks.
Jobs I don't want are:
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Marketing or sales-related.
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Jobs with no problem solving involved.
Work Experience
Contact me at:
Amazing Entertainment Agency
2010-Present
Head A/V technician since 2010
Operations manager since 2016
Duties as head-technician:
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I deliver, setup, and run audio/video equipment and software for our live and online game shows and dance parties.
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I maintain, fix, upgrade, and purchase equipment, computers, and software as needed.
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I coordinate other crews and train other technicians when needed.
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I communicate and plan with clients to ensure their audio and video requirements are met for their events.
Duties as operations manager:
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I am responsible for creating, organizing, and sending paperwork like invoices, receipts, document templates, and work orders to our suppliers.
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I manage and record all financial data and bookkeeping for the business.
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I manage and maintain all technology for the business like cloud storage, email services, work computers, and more.
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I used to design and maintain our website for several years. An outside company now takes care of this.
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I design promo material for our services.
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I design, manage, and send out email campaigns.
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I design posters for events.
Accomplishments:
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When I started, the company was a disorganized mess. I transformed and improved the company into something much more efficient, professional, and profitable.
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As technician:
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When I started, I took it upon myself to reorganize and properly maintain all the equipment, which was heavily neglected and disorganized from lack of leadership.
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I created several custom game-show and video production software packages that vastly improved the quality of our shows from what they previously had, leading to higher sales overall.
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Because of Covid, I designed a new virtual studio and online trivia game show. It's been a big success.
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Because of my high standards for quality, efficiency, planning, and communication, I've transformed our events into highly successful and professional ones, with a track record of zero major failures.
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As operations manager:
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I helped rebuild the internal administrative workflow of the company into a much more organized and efficient system, resulting in much-improved productivity and profit.
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I wrote an entire invoicing and bookkeeping software package for myself that keeps track of our events, client details, and automates the creation and sending of invoices, receipts, and other paperwork.
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I redesigned a lot of their badly designed website and promo material into something much more professional-looking and effective.
Specific Skill Set
Audio
Highly Experienced in:
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Analog & Digital Mixers.
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Behringer X32 and XAir series digital mixers with X Air Edit software, analog mixers from Behringer, Mackie, Yamaha...
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EQing, compression, gates, feedback control, signal routing, gain staging, aux and effect busses.
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Audio gear
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Speakers, subs, mics, cabling(XLR, 1/4",1/8", TS/TRS, RCA..), audio interfaces, midi devices
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Live audio
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Head technician for hundreds of live events: game shows, DJ parties, small bands, corporate events, etc
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Audio editing, recording, and production
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Audacity, FL Studio
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Unexperienced and wish to learn more about:
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External amplifiers and audio processors
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Larger speaker arrays and how to connect/calibrate them
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Using RTA mics and Smaart to properly EQ a room
Video
Highly Experienced in:
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Screens and Projectors
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Setting up large commercial screens, video calibration and alignment for projectors
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HDMI, VGA, RCA, splitters, ATEM mini video switcher, HDMI-CAT5 adapters
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Video Editing and encoding
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Wondershare Filmora, TMPGEnc Video Mastering Works encoder, Handbrake
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Video playback and projection
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Multi-screen setups and configuration
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I designed custom-built video playback software specifically for our corporate events which allows me to pre-load all videos I need, instantly playback any of them to our screens, overlay text messages, and more, all seamlessly.
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Unexperienced and wish to learn more about:
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High-end video cameras and gear
Lighting
Some experience with:
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Lasers, LED lights, moving lights
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DMX controllers
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Attaching light fictures to trusses
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LED dance floors
Unexperienced and wish to learn more about:
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Advanced DMX software and controllers for large lighting groups and automation
General Software & Computing
Highly Experienced in:
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Windows XP, 7,10,11
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File management, automation, OS installation, driver maintenance, installing software
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Word
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Designed several professional document templates we use for our business(invoices, receipts, forms, etc)
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Excel
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Bookkeeping, macros, tables/databases, VBA, automation
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Adobe Acrobat
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PDF forms, editing, automatic document creation
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Zoom / Google Meet
I have minimal experience in MacOS and networking
Computer Programming
Highly Experienced in:
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Video Game Design
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Game Maker Studio, advanced 2D game engine design, mobile game design
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Custom game show software design(Family Feud, Jeopardy, Video Trivia)
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VB 6.0
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All the control software for our game shows and video playback software was designed in VB
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My custom accounting software was designed in VB
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Software Automation
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Autoit, batch files, command-line tools, some Python experience using Google API to automate calendar entries
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Design & Photography
Experienced in:
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Photoshop CS6
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Poster design, photo restoration, general photo manipulation, layers, masks, color correction, automation
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Website Design
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Wix, dynamic elements connected to databases, some javascript knowledge for added functionality
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DSLR cameras
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Owned a Canon 60D, understand how to use manual settings (aperture, shutter speed, ISO, etc)
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Transportation
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I have a class 5 drivers license
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Very safe and defensive driver, no accidents
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Over 14 years experience driving cargo vans
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Some experience driving 1-ton trucks