Technician Management

G REGORY D'ANNA

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Summary

Experienced in planning, t roubleshooting, and problem solving in support of

small to large enterprise environments .

Comfortable working independently, and also as a member of a team. Able

to work in high-pressure situations, anticipating, diagnosing, and quickly

resolving problems.

Excellent skills in project planning and coordination, logistics, and

configuration strategy, for executive-level audio-visual presentations.

EXPERIENCE

April Audio Visual Technician, N ielsen (Contract Position)

2014-July

AV technician responsible for maintaining, managing, live operation, and

2014

teardown of AV equipment in three floors of conference rooms. Facilitated town

hall style meetings, using Microsoft L ync and L ive Meeting. Conducted video

conferences from New York City office, to offices across the United States.

August Audio Visual Technician, C itigroup (Freelance Consultant)

1999-May

Member of an AV production team, facilitating live events in a 350 seat

2011

auditorium used for local meetings, as well as town hall style meetings. Included

set-up, live operation, and teardown of microphones, video projection systems,

laptop presentations, video and audio conferencing, and staging furniture.

Installed and maintained AV set-ups in offices, and in a conference center.

I ncluded installation of microphones, LCD projectors, laptops, video conference

equipment, and polycom phones.

April Production Assistant/ Video Editor, PGI (Formerly Ray Bloch Productions)

1989- ( Fulltime Employee)

February

Responsible for non-linear video editing, video duplication, video library

1999

management, and custom 35mm slide module creation. Contributed research and

w riting to production materials for live events.

February Audio Visual Technician, A udio Visual Techniques @The Waldorf Astoria

1986- ( Fulltime Employee)

April

Responsible for set-up, live operation, and teardown of all AV equipment,

1989

i ncluding video projectors, sound systems, fastfold screens, video monitors,

cameras, and multimedia slide shows, in support of live events in ballrooms and

conference rooms.

Education

1984 V ideo Production, Center For the Media Arts

Six month, 600 hour, hands-on course in all aspects of AV equipment

i nstallation and operation, live AV event production, and AV content editing

and management.

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