Jon Pritchard 702-***-****
**** *.****** ** *** 3-105, Centennial, CO 80016 **************@*******.***
Professional Profile
• 7 years experience operating and troubleshooting multiplexed audio and video show control systems.
• Programmed content for live productions involving automated mechanical, video, lighting and audio systems.
• Communicated and resolved issues with systems and production crews in a leadership position.
• Strong skills with signal flow from audio engineering experience.
• Network and system troubleshooting under extreme deadlines and time constraints.
• Trained new operators on automation system operation. • Provided quality control for audio and video for live production.
• Speak French, intermediate Spanish and basic German and Arabic.
• Excellent client relation skills from many years of experience in production and entertainment.
• Digital audio and video editing, linear and non-linear.
• Loaded and coded video content for live playback.
• Broadcasted live video feeds on the Fremont Street Experience’s video canopy using video switches with digital and analog converters.
Professional Accomplishments
• Assisted in implementing new entertainment technology from concept to finished product, including RF operated props in live shows.
• Programmed and edited automated audio, video, lighting and mechanical elements in live productions that play for large numbers of hotel guests in Las Vegas nightly.
• Operated video switching and created and edited audio and video content for the Fremont Street Experience’s nightly broadcasts.
• Led a team of operators and engineers to maintain and troubleshoot a large scale live production that runs nightly in an outdoor venue.
Work History
Lead Technician Wynn Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV Sept 2005-May 2012
Lead Technician Fremont Street Experience, Las Vegas, NV Dec 2004-Sept 2005
Live Sound Engineer Bel Aire Productions, San Jose, CA Feb 2003-Nov 2004
Education
B.A. Music (option in Recording Arts)
California State Univ., Chico, CA
Dec 2002
Technical Skills
• Proficient with Windows and Mac operating systems.
• Proficient with Microsoft Outlook and Microsoft Office suite.
• Audio quality control and editing with Avid Pro Tools, Steinberg Nuendo and Soundtrack Pro.
• Video quality control and editing with Adobe After Effects and Final Cut Pro.
• Loaded and operated multiplexed show control elements with Medialon Media Manager.
• Loaded and coded video content on RAID5 arrays for playback.
• Programmed show content and operated Fisher Technical Systems Navigator 2.0 for large scale mechanical automation system.
• Currently studying to obtain CCNA.
• Experience with D/A and A/D converters.
• Extensive experience with recording and live sound reinforcement on digital and analog consoles, microphones and DSP.
• Robotics experience with Kuka robots.
• Video rendering in various codecs.
• Experience with Barco and Christie projectors.
• Meyer LCS and Dmitri systems.
• Extensive experience with audio system stage and front of house set up for many artists and events.