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Skills and Experience

Skills

This is not a comprehensive list of every skill, but instead a list of the most relevant skills as they pertain to today’s digital media world.

  • 19yrs – Video Post-Production (including media management, proxy creation, editing, multi-cam editing, color-correction, chroma keying, titling, rendering, encoding, web-delivery, DVD and BluRay mastering, and long-term media archival)

  • 19yrs – Video Production (including videography, camera operation and camera management, lighting, sound engineering, on-site media management, location scouting, production proposals, crew management, scene composition, and equipment logistics)

  • 19yrs – Computers and Networking (including hardware and software diagnostics, remote tech support, operating system and software migration, network software setup and management, hardware proposals, network attached storage, cloud hosting, FTP hosting, web hosting, wired and wireless networking, 10gb and low-latency networks for video production, firewalls, routing, DNS, and online/offline long-term archival and cold-storage)

  • 20+yrs – Audio Engineering (including live sound, recording, mixing, mastering, and foley)

  • 20+yrs – Electronics (18+ years as a hobbyist, 2 years professionally – including component repair and troubleshooting via schematics, surface-mount work, micro-controllers implementation, power supply design and modification, audio amplifier diagnostics, audio and small-signal circuits, LED lighting and effects)

  • 13yrs – Photography (including DSLR and mirrorless cameras, continuous studio lighting, portrait photography, event photography, landscape photography, product photography, digital post-processing and color grading, web-based photo delivery, camera firmware modification, non-standard camera lens setups)

  • 11yrs – Graphic Design (including digital and print delivery, RGB/CMYK/Spot Color designs, creation of print-ready files including proofing verified by Pantone, complex print designs for multi-fold and wrap-around coverage, book cover design, and large format banner and step-and-repeat designs)

  • 11yrs – Live Production (including live camera operation, live video mixing, live digital video projection, cinema projection, HD video standards, live timecode, video-over-IP standards, live web-streaming production)

  • 9yrs – Web Maintenance (including extensive experience with a variety of custom back-end access and creation portals, creation of custom artwork for web, image compression and scaling for web, video encoding and compression for web, routine maintenance to HTML and CSS, light HTML and CSS creation)

Software

This is only a list of the media and technology software heavy hitters. I have experience with much more software than listed. As a digital native who grew up in the 90s, learning new software is second nature to me. I can expect proficiency in a new software in days, given I have proper documentation.

  • Adobe Creative Suite – Expert Level (includes Premiere, Photoshop, Audition, After Effects, InDesign, Media Encoder, Lightroom, and Encore)

  • Sony Vegas – Expert Level

  • Final Cut Pro – Intermediate Level

  • Davinci Resolve – Intermediate Level

  • OBS (Open Broadcasting Software) – Expert Level

  • GIMP – Intermediate Level

  • VLC Media Player – Expert Level

  • Handbrake – Expert Level

  • FFMPEG – Expert Level (includes expert proficiency in x264, x265, and VP9 encoder libraries)

  • MP4box – Intermediate Level

  • Microsoft Office – Expert Level (includes Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Outlook)

  • Zoom – Expert Level

  • Cisco WebEx – Expert Level

  • Google Chrome Browser – Expert Level

  • Mozilla Firefox Browser – Expert Level

  • QNAP – Expert Level

  • TrueNAS (formerly FreeNAS) – Expert Level

  • PfSense – Expert Level

  • Dante (audio over IP) – Expert Level (including Dante hardware, Dante Controller, Dante Via, and Dante Virtual Soundcard)

  • NDI (video over IP) – Expert Level

  • FileZilla (server and client) – Expert Level

  • Komodo Edit – Intermediate Level

  • Windows Batch Scripting – Expert Level

  • Microsoft Windows Environment – Expert Level (includes Windows 11, 10, 7, and Windows Server)

  • Apple MacOS Environment – Expert Level

  • FreeBSD Environment – Intermediate Level

  • Linux Mint Desktop – Expert Level

  • Ubuntu Linux Server – Intermediate Level

  • Nextcloud (Cloud Server Software) – Expert Level

  • Amazon S3 Bucket Storage – Expert Level

Hardware

This is by no means a comprehensive list of the hardware I have used. I have only listed hardware requiring expert knowledge for operation. Hardware not requiring extensive user prerequisites have been left off intentionally.

  • Sony Alpha series of mirrorless cameras

  • Canon DSLR cameras

  • Nikon DSLR cameras

  • Canon XF and XL Professional Camcorders

  • Canon C Series Cinema Cameras

  • Panasonic HMC and HPX Professional Camcorders

  • Sound Devices portable mixers and recorders

  • Zoom portable handheld audio recorders

  • Tascam portable handheld audio recorders

  • Atomos Shogun and Ninja camera recorder/monitors

  • AJA KiPro File-Based Video Recorders

  • AJA video converters

  • Atomos Connect/Convert series of switchers/scalers

  • DataVideo scan converters

  • Blackmagic Mini, Micro, and Broadcast Converters

  • Blackmagic Opengear/Openframe

  • Blackmagic ATEM

  • Blackmagic SmartScope

  • PreSonus AudioBox

  • PreSonus Revelator I/O Box

  • PreSonus StudioLive Digital Mixers

  • Behringer X-32 Digital Mixers

  • Allen & Heath SQ Series Digital Mixers

  • Dell Precision Workstations (Intel)

  • Intel Xeon-E5 Sandy Bridge and Ivy Bridge Platforms

  • Intel Xeon-E3 Skylake, Kaby Lake, Coffee Lake, and Comet Lake Platforms

  • Intel Xeon-W Skylake and Kaby Lake Platforms

  • Cisco Network Switches

  • Ruckus (Brocade) Network Switches

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