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Executive-level experience in business and academic environments: staff development and supervision, budgeting, forecasting, presentation, team building. Customer contact, customer service. Master’s degree; liaison with diverse groups; teaching. Advanced computer technologies; presentation technologies; telecommunications; multi-media authoring; WAN, LAN, networks; system administration.  Internationally recognized expert in media.

• Distilled the results of marketing and engineering studies to present plan of action to corporate management.
• Specified and supervised build out of all communications and data cabling for multiple business locations from carrier to desktop.
• Contract negotiations with suppliers resulting in significant (up to 65%) cost reductions.
• Design, specify and supervise construction of specialized technical spaces, including electrical, data, telecom and HVAC.
• Participation in interviewing teams for senior staff.
• Authored business plan, financials and marketing plan for Media Machines International L.L.C.
• Consultant to senior level management.
• Researched, designed, purchased and implemented company wide video conferencing system for three locations. Major success in enhanced communications and cost savings.
• Researched and managed implementation of company wide telephone system that enhances customer and staff intercommunication as well as saving costs by the use of trunks between the three locations
• Implemented system for costing and reporting internal services.
• Researched and implemented call center for improved customer contact.
• Supervised the design, configuration, construction and operation of a demonstration for the 1993 National Association of Broadcasters convention. Successfully offered a functional prototype of a large-scale integrated client/server-based media system, including video, audio and multimedia servers, archive management, business auditing, video editing and a multimedia database.
• Researched and authored a proposal for the design of a next-generation, data-recording system for a major media manufacturer.
• Proven track record of finishing complex technological projects:  working, on time and within budget

Computing Achievements

• Supervised system engineering of a prototype of a digitally distributed multimedia system for the purposes of linking the media archives of the Library of Congress, the New York Public Libraries and the universities at Syracuse, Stanford, Kansas and Yale. Utilized multiple vendor platforms and software. Featured at DEC World 1992, Innovation Showcase. Showed an expanded version at the 1993 National Association of Broadcasters convention.
• Responsibilities for a Fortune 25 computing company included: contributing to the corporate strategic plan for large-scale multimedia, serving as media industry expert, evaluation of the technical viability of new computer-based solutions to meet media industry needs, application design for the media industry, consulting, and marketing.
• Completely reworked glossary database, produced QuickTime videos for CD-ROM textbook, wrote portions of, edited and structured on-line help.

Media Achievements

• Internationally recognized expert in transfer, restoration and management techniques and practices for media archives.
• Founded, supervised the construction and managed a successful recording studio and audio system service, providing multi-track recording and professional sound reinforcement.
• Engineered and/or produced more than 15 nationally distributed records /CD's.
• Wrote and implemented protocols for all technical activities within audio archives at Belfer Audio Laboratory and Archive, Syracuse University and the Library of Natural Sounds, Laboratory of Ornithology, Cornell University.

• Director of Special Projects, eCornell, Ithaca, NY   2000-2004
  
• Consultant, Electroacoustics 1978-present
• Director of Engineering, Media Machines International L.L.C., Syracuse, NY 1994-1998
• Programmer, Multimedia Courseware Studio, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 1997-1998
• Member of the Technical Staff, Digital Equipment Corp., Acton, MA 1992-1994
• Senior Audio Engineer, Belfer Audio Laboratory and Archive, Thomas Alva Edison Re-recording Laboratory, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY 1990-1992
• Supervising Engineer, Library of Natural Sounds, Laboratory of Ornithology Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 1980-1988
• Lecturer, Advanced audio and media production School of Communication Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY 1984-1985
• President, Celebration Sound, Inc., Ithaca, NY 1972-1978

• Audio Engineering Society (AES)
• Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE)
• American National Standards Institute (ANSI)

• Chair of the Audio Engineering Society Standards Committee SC-03-02 Working Group on Transfer Technologies, of the SC-03 Subcommittee on Preservation and Restoration of Audio recordings  (1992-2003)
• Chair of Subcommittee for transfer standards, Joint Technical Commission for Magnetic and Optical Media and Systems, American National Standards Institute (ANSI IT9-5)   (1992-2001)
• Editorial Advisor, Association for Recorded Sound Collections
• Reviewer, National Archives, National Historical Publications and Records Commission

Representative Sampling of:

Consulting Clients • ABC Television • Coconut Grove Playhouse • The Wiz, Touring Company

Sound Reinforcement Clients • Aerosmith • Miles Davis • Ella Fitzgerald •Fleetwood Mac • Daniel P. Moynihan

Publications  • "Recorded Sound Preservation in the Digital Age." ARSC Journal, Vol. 30, no.1,  Spring 1999 • "The Well Connected Microphone: Microphones and Input Circuits." International Journal of Bioacoustics, Vol. 3. 1991 • "Factors to Consider in Recording Avian Sounds." In Acoustic Communication in Birds, vol. 1, edited by: D. Kroodsma and E. Miller, Academic Press, New York pp.1 54. 1982

Presentations   • "A Demonstration of a Globally Distributable Multimedia Information System," BBC Television Center, London, England. February 13,14, 1992 • "Audio Preservation Transfer Technology for the Sound Archivist," Peabody Conservatory of Music, Baltimore MD. June 24 28 1991.

Recordings   • Dream Songs and Healing Sounds. In the Rainforests of Malaysia., Smithsonian Folkways, SF CD 40417 • Birds of Cuba, George B. Reynard. McGraw-Hill • Guide to Bird Songs, National Geographic Society • A Field Guide to Bird Songs of Eastern and Central North America, Houghton Mifflin Co. • Safe Sweet Home, John Miller. Rounder Records, no. 3016