My Skills

This includes having designed for musical, operatic, theatrical, and live music performances.
I have experience operating lighting desks from the Chamsys MagicQ, ETC Eos, ETC ColourSource and Avolites Titan families.

Knowledge and experience of sound design and operation in theatrical and live events.

I have a working knowledge of the principles of live sound mixing and setting up PA systems. This includes holding the role of sound designer and operator for a regional pantomime show, acting as main sound operator for a variety of panels, bands and live acts at conventions and other events, and acting as monitor engineer/sound #2 for a UK music tour.
During my career I have become proficient at operating X/M32 digital desks and various analogue desks to a reasonable level.

Trained and experienced in the safe use of stage pyrotechnics in a theatrical and musical environment.

This includes designing and operating bespoke handheld effects for use by cast members during shows.

During my time with the UWE Centre for Performing Arts I participated in building theatrical sets for a number of productions. This included wood-working using manual and power tools, building and tearing down sets.

I have been responsible for rigging lighting equipment on most of the shows that I have worked on, including the safe use of ladders, tallescopes, and scaffolding to perform the required tasks.
During shows I have also demonstrated ability to perform repairs on fixtures, debug issues with data transmission and power delivery to equipment.

This includes designing and operating a system of 4 Qlab computers running to control various elements of a regional pantomime, all linked and controlled centrally by OSC.
I have also used OSC to control sound desks and lighting consoles from Qlab during shows.

Experience of designing and debugging issues with simple AV installations.
Experience leading and directing teams of people during technical activities such as get ins/get outs, and preparation during the run up to shows.
Experience of organising logistics, staffing and equipment for small scale productions
Experience working as followspot operator.

I have acted as followspot operator for a number of productions including dance, musical and theatrical using a mixture of Robert Juliat and Chauvet equipment.

Experienced with the operation of counterweight flying systems and basic rigging.
Experience with DMX, RDM, sACN, ArtNet and other network protocols both as a user and developer.

I have utilised DMX, RDM and sACN while performing duties as a lighting technician on shows, this includes debugging faulty DMX lines and planning distribution of signals between fixtures.
On the other side of the coin I have experience working with DMX and RDM from a development point of view, writing software to work alongside other devices utilising these protocols. This included attending the European RDM/sACN Developers conference in 2017.

Since primary school I have had an interest in electronics and have been soldering and assembling kits from an early age.
Since I started university I have gained experience at developing and prototyping electronic systems, including designing using Multisim and VHDL within the Altera Quartus toolkit; prototyping using strip boards; designing and fabricating PCBs and finally testing and debugging with various pieces of lab equipment.

I have experience at developing, prototyping, testing, troubleshooting and fixing electronic systems, including designing using Multisim and VHDL; prototyping, designing, fabricating and testing PCBs, and fixing faulty products returned by customers.
Comprehensive programming knowledge
Proficient with C, C++, PIC assembler, and x86 assembler
Familiar with use of TCP/IP in networking and programming

During my university studies I have gained some valuable experience in the operation of the TCP/IP network stack and how to communicate between multiple computers using it. This includes implementing a basic daytime server and client using C on Linux. I have also continued development and managed a major project utilising Zero MQ on embedded Linux for transmission of real-time data over TCP connections.

PIn previous positions my responsibilities have included administrating a number of Linux servers to provide a number of services for the company. These servers ran a mixture of Ubuntu, Debian, Centos and Fedora Linux.
I was also responsible for maintaining the toolchains and build environments used for automated building of the software projects developed by my previous company
Inside education I have gained experience in administrating and using Linux based systems to develop on and perform general tasks. I also have experience installing, configuring and re-compiling the Linux kernel on an x86 based system through the Slackware distribution.
Also at university I have successfully installed Linux onto an ARM based controller board, successfully porting Ethernet drivers and kernel configurations over to the new architecture before creating the file system and cross-compiling it for the new architecture.
Privately I manage a selection VPSs that run TeamSpeak, WHM/cPanel and OpenVPN to provide services to a gaming community I help to run. Although Fedora is my preferred distribution I also have experience using Debian, Ubuntu, CentOS and Slackware based distributions.

I have a reasonable understanding of the principles of photography and how to take good pictures. I have some of my own equipment and have some experience using both Cannon and Nikon DSLRs and with some basic cinematography.

Competent at use of office software such as Word, Excel, Project, Visio, Publisher and Access
Competent at use of Adobe Creative Cloud (Photoshop, Illustrator, Premier, Dreamweaver, After Effects, Lightroom, Audition)
Competent at basic sound editing using a number of DAWs.

Reaper is my DAW of choice but I have also used Protools, Logic, Ableton Live, Ardour, Adobe Audition and Audacity to various degrees.

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