Engineer Assistant

Andre Barretto

*** ****** ***, ******, **********, 90291, 818-***-****, **********@*****.***

SKILLS

• Highly proficient in Pro Tools, Logic Pro 9, MPC, Ableton live 8, and Nuendo

• Experienced with Icon control surface, Yamaha 02R, Mackie DXB Digital X Bus, SSL 4000G+, and 4056 E/G, Neve VR36, and 60 consoles

• Extensive experience using Final Cut Pro, AudioCube, ISDN connections, Dolby E, DAT, Betacam, and other formats

• Competent with Mac, Windows and related programs

• Know fundamentals of audio, digital audio, recording, mixing, MIDI

• Fluent in Portuguese, Spanish

EXPERIENCE

Premiere Radio Networks – December 2009/Present

• Network Operator

Routing, testing and verifying audio quality of all programming, test contact signal closures, monitor condition of Ku and C-band satellite systems. Patching to and from ISDN, Ku and C band satellite.

La Grange Post – October 2009/on call

• Freelance

VO Recording, mixed Surround Sound 5.1, sound/dialogue editing,

Provided HD up/down/cross/standards and frame rate conversion

Los Angeles Recording School – January 2006 – September 2009

• Instructor

Taught a variety of subjects in lab covering all aspects of audio engineering, guiding the students through entire recording process including patchbay, tape machine alignment, large format and digital console, Pro Tools, Foley techniques, spotting, time code burning

Wholly Cow Productions – January 2004/on call

• Sound Engineer Assistant

Set up, assisted, and recorded voice-overs, ADR/Mix, digitized video and layback to Digibeta and analog video formats for FX’s “Nip/Tuck”

• Mixer/boom operator for MTV reality show “Back It Up”

Jamnation Music – January 2003/on call

• Sound Engineer Assistant

Engineered and prepared stems for television, feature films and music artists including “National Lampoon's Gold Diggers”, Gigolo Aunts, The Blind Boys of Alabama, Holly Long.

• Handled stereo and surround final mixing, dialogue and sound editing, sound design; used Logic Pro for recording audio and notation for the music composer and Pro Tools for mixing stems

Gallery Films/Miramax Films – February 1998/on call

• Sound Editor Apprentice

Coded film, checked sync on kem, put reels onto goldbergs, marked track, and cleaned film for “Daddy and Them” and “Pretty Horses” –Director Billy Bob Thornton, Editor Sally Menke.

EDUCATION

• Certificate, Independent Music Production Program, UCLA, 2002

• Certificate, Recording Engineer Audio/Video Program, Pinnacle College (formerly Sound Master Recording Engineering School), 2001

*References available upon request

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