BROADCAST
ENGINEER
MULTIMEDIA ENGINEER
COMMUNICATIONS ENGINEER
CUSTOM SOFTWARE DEVELOPER
GRAPHIC DESIGNER
DATABASE DESIGN SPECIALIST
BROADCAST
ENGINEER
AUDIO / VIDEO ENGINEER
TELECOMMUNICATIONS ENGINEER
CUSTOM FFMPEG SOFTWARE DEVELOPER
RELATIONAL DATABASE DESIGN SPECIALIST
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Welcome to my report card.
Hey everybody... since I was a teenager, I've made my living working around media production. Most of my working life has been spent in control rooms: TV and Radio, recording studios, and film & TV show post-production.
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I've also had the opportunity to create some of the techniques and develop technologies that make some pretty cool things possible.
In 1991 I traveled the country to install the real-time interactive digital audio network that made the Frank Sinatra Duets album possible. Soon after, I installed the film synchronization system in director Robert Zemeckis's house for "Forrest Gump." Dozens of installations later, Entertainment Digital Network (EDnet) changed the way the Entertainment Industry works. It's long-distance, live, and interactive -- something the Web cannot do.
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In 2005, I developed a digital audio process to convert stereo music mixes into 5.1 surround sound in a truly natural way.
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I performed all the 5.1 music upmixes for director Quentin Tarantino's "Inglourious Basterds." I used that process, now known as Penteo®, and it is now used in dozens of blockbuster motion pictures to produce custom 5.1 surround music mixes. You've probably heard it.
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Most recently, I've turned my attention to developing techniques for the restoration of hit records of the 1960s through the 1980s. I flatten out the spectrum, synchronize the channels, and remove the noise. It makes them sound brand new.
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I'm tremendously grateful for the opportunities I've had to pursue my career passions.
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Now I'm proud to have settled down as part of the engineering staff at KRON4 TV in San Francisco. SF has been my home for 30 years, and KRON is a long-time innovator and pioneer in electronic newsgathering. There I work to keep the operation smoothly running at the forefront of new technology.
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Provide my clients and employers the best quality service I possibly can.
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Determine what they truly want, even when they find it hard to state themselves.
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Make those things happen for them as effortlessly as I can.
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My personal work philosophy is simple: