Passionate, creative and proficient production sound mixer and boom operator; a motivated, unique and diverse composer; and a creative and technical sound designer; seeking a position in the sound department of your film, documentary, television, or commercial production. A productive team player, with a positive attitude, a great ear, high-end gear, and professional results!

Education

Berklee College of Music
Bachelor's Degree in Film Music and Audio Production, 2007

Experience

• Background in sound engineering, film production and music production.

• Film and television audio experience, both on location and in post-production, since 2012.

• Proficient with all facets of location sound recording equipment, and creative problem solving.

• Owner/operator of professional, high-end location sound recording equipment and post-production studio.

• Experienced in film audio post-production, including dialogue editing, ADR, foley and ambience recording and implementation, as well as final soundtrack mixing and mastering in both stereo and 5.1 surround sound.

• Recording and studio production experience since 2002. Experienced in MIDI sequencing and digital audio processing. Able to work completely remotely for composing and sound design projects.

• Composition and songwriting experience since 2000. Composed score for six feature films as well as dozens of shorts and commercials. Composed and independently released 8 full length solo albums, and over 20 full length collaborative albums.

• Live stage performance experience since 1999. Guitar, bass, drums and keyboard playing experience since 1995.

Skills

Location Sound
Location sound mixing and recording in virtually any location; boom operating; understanding of wireless radio technology to implement use of wireless mics as needed; identifying ideal microphone placement per camera frame, lighting, shadow, reflection and subject positions; communicating with camera crew, determining frame lines, and planning routes when camera and subjects are in motion; comfortably working with cast for wireless lavalier microphone setups; recording pristine dialogue tracks with multiple microphone sources; avoiding boom shadows, reflections and frame edges; being attentive to all extraneous noises on location; collecting all potentially useful sound fx; and recording needed wild dialogue lines, ambience, and room tone on set.

Audio Post-Production
Communicating with director about their vision; Communicating with editing team to best handle transfer of all assets; Spotting session of all needed ADR, voiceovers, foley, sound FX and music cues; Dialogue editing - cleaning up and sweetening the recorded voices; Foley - recording the sound of a performance of the details of a scene; adding the subtlety of footsteps, clothing movement and much more to fill in the sounds of the diegetic space on screen; Sound FX - being creative with sound manipulation and synthesis in order to create whatever is needed to complete a scene; Final Mix - all of these elements, as well as music, are combined and mixed together at their appropriate standard volumes, using distribution guidelines; able to provide stereo and/or surround sound mixing; M&E (music & effects) stem mix-downs will be submitted.

Overall
Location sound mixer, boom operator, dialogue editor, foley artist, sound designer, re-recording mixer, composer, music producer, studio engineer, DIT, video editor, and apprentice colorist.

Formal Training
Film production, film audio recording, film scoring, game audio production and code implementation, orchestration, advanced music theory, classical guitar, concert trumpet, and ear training.