Claude Booth Video Engineer Resume

**** ******** ****** - ****** *****, Ca. Phone 310-***-****

Website http://www.claudebooth.net email u3b0xh@r.postjobfree.com

Skills and experience

* Comprehensive knowledge of broadcast television technologies including SD/HD SDI Video formats, SMPTE Standards/Protocols, digital video encoding/compression standards, media file formats and distribution methodologies, 5.1 multi-channel audio processing and ancillary data processing.

* Comprehensive knowledge of IT technologies including SAN/NAS storage systems, archive solutions, networking topologies and protocols, server systems and key operating systems.

* Ability to communicate effectively with diverse audiences, ranging from non-technical senior leadership executives to engineering professionals, software developers and operations staff.

* Proven ability to manage multiple, urgent priorities simultaneously.

* Strong leadership presence, people management skills and communications skills.

* Proven ability to find and develop technologists/integrators and implement large-scale projects, on budget, on time.

* Strong financial planning and tracking skills.

* Ability to translate operational technical needs into complete, deliverable solutions and ensure client satisfaction.

* Demonstrated influencing and negotiation skills. Proven ability to work effectively with all levels in an organization.

* Deep understanding of workflow for content creation processes and a strong ability to develop designs that deliver on operational requirements.

* The ability to provide strong technical and operational leadership in a fast paced, production environment.

* EIC list from SBE Engineer In Charge remote trucks and repairs in the field.

Engineering Management and Design is everything…example

Project Description: a sales engineer out to a new client for both his company and mine called me. The facilities build was a failure. It was a high definition facility with a middle sized machine room edit and capture bays couldn’t stay on line more than 15 seconds with out error codes and aborts hum bars everywhere. The sales engineer previously witnessed me building a similar build flawlessly and he loved the way I have with as he puts it with my magic. Cable management was circa standard definition and even poor for that. The reference source adequate to handle all the 23 standards of high definition or distribution of the finished product at full band with was not there. It was their grand opening and clients were walking. This is show business and you make or break your self on first deals and impressions. I had to correct this all fast and design build with logistics and a budget and order the proper wiring and equipment.

Treat the company’s money with respect… and spend it wisely!

Result: I hired an associate engineer and wireman combination negotiated a price for the work to take place within the budget. Redesigned the entire system. Cast out the patch bay set up for 5 mega hertz because SDI and HDSDI are at 126 mega hertz and 1.5 and up to 3 giga hertz respectively in 444 it’s two discrete channels of 1.5 giga hertz luminance and chrominance archival for features and bought a router it handled all the problems. I designed a reference system good for all occasions all formats and its ease to use is landmark it’s copied all over now. This all took place in 14 days when the original build took months and I did it at a price the principals would all remember.

The bigger the challenge the better

I love what I do I handle tough situations. I take all my skills engineering design and management thirty years of experience and roll it all into one clean package that is unique and only an art seldom practiced at this level. I walk every job no matter how large or small. This pilot season brought some new challenges some old. I stood engineer on a pilot the Eric Andre Show. The time and place for this show was in the eighties. So we used with my help 1980’s Ikegami production cameras. YES TUBES! We shot it 525 tapeless and up converted to HD. I have never heard of this before but it was fun to do the old and the new together!

Bio

My Military experience was in US Coastguard where I received extensive training in communications, radar, and defense systems electronics. This ended with an honorable discharge. Upon leaving the military I was Bio Medical Engineer with the Veterans Administration. I worked in research and designed a telemetry system for brain mapping, co-authored papers and grants.

I entered the postproduction-engineering field in 1978 with The Vidtronics Company.

Where I developed the practical standardization of broadcast picture monitors in a postproduction facility. I designed and built first dual standard auto detection monitor for Telecine and Paint box applications.

In 1985 I was a senior video engineer at AME and experienced start up to final sale an employee owned postproduction facility and established client following for both the company and myself.

I founded Claude Booth Company in 1991 as owner engineer servicing all phases of production, postproduction consulting, and specializing in field solutions for numerous clients through out the industry. As a designer integrator I have been involved with most sophisticated systems in the production and postproduction world. It’s been my job in the business to make the workflow as well as the environment impressive and efficient.

Publications: My Studio Feature by Claude Booth DV magazine http://www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/newbay/dv0608/index.php?startid=8

References Available Upon Request http://www.linkedin.com.claudebooth SBE member.

Career History

Claude Booth Company -------May 1991 to Present

Broadcast video equipment repair and installation, facilities design, Edit bays, Machine rooms, DVD authoring suites, and Animation workstations.

My company 20 years old and back through the years I have achieved as a small company many things. The best one happened lately. I took a department with in a company and gave birth to a brand new company through an engineering project and facilities build. I've had the pleasure of representing my company to Warner Bros mastering for over a decade. Turner Entertainment I designed the first practical and portable QC station. Coppos films I designed the production facility. Ground Zero advertising the dieing swan edit system became a Phoenix, repackaged state of the art. Spinach Productions designed and built by Claude Booth a full HD system facility. In almost 17 years there literally are 100's of projects in my portfolio and 1000's of repaired VTR's, Cameras, Video Systems, and Monitor's. All of the projects and accomplishments would not have been possible if I didn’t have management skills and work at them constantly. I hire wiring crews on every build I have done for the last fifteen years and oversee the entire project personally. My projects and company bear my name and I stand for quality. I study my clients and the projects needs this lends to superior build and client confidence.

AME Inc. – Burbank, Ca -------December 1985 to May 1991

Senior video engineer in charge of postproduction and picture quality for the entire operation, five companies. My specialty at this company was monitor calibration and systems modifications to multiple standard and format monitors. During this time I had the pleasure of working with on a personal basis many famous production companies, with directors as clients, and colorists as coworkers. It was my understanding of colorimetry and color rendition from film to tape that saved the company tremendous sums of money and gained a well earned reputation for AME as a quality film to tape house. AME was a employee owned company and I was involved at just after start up to final sale

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Vidtronics Company – Hollywood, Ca -------February 1978 to December 1985

I was the senior video engineer in charge of postproduction monitors and colorimetry. Large company whose motto was " the greatest name in videotape " and that was and is very true. If you look in video engineering books of the pioneers of this industry you will read the names of the people I worked with here. This was my first taste of a professional postproduction house and as part of the engineering team I was given the responsibility of all in house monitors. I sat down with Sony and Minolta companies and consulted in the design, test, and perfected the first color analyzer. Vidtronics was a very special company respected to this day, and we as engineers where always encouraged to excel.

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