Experience

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  Naim audio ltd

  Jan 1989 - Jan 1996

  Test and service engineer

  Test engineer and test development. Tested and repaired the entire electronic product range. Wrote and maintained software on automatic and custom built test hardware. Built test hardware as necessary to improve productivity.

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  Quantel

  Jan 1996 - Jan 2000

  Supported all of Quantel's London customer base in a timely and calm manor across the entire range of company products. We won an award for best service team too. Sounds like a fancy job title but it was fixing high-tech assemblies that had been sent back to the factory.

  • London Support Engineer

    Jan 1997 - Jan 2000

  • In-house support engineer

    Jan 1996 - Jan 1997
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  Prime focus uk

  Jan 2000 - Jan 2001

  Technical support engineer

  One of a team of shift workers dedicated to maintaining a multiple site post production empire with a multitude of different technologies.

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  Hypnosis vfx ltd.

  Jan 2001 - Jan 2003

  Engineering manager and digital compositor

  I was solely responsible for maintaining a small post-production facility based around a Quantel Domino Film scanner, compositor and recording system. I also generated visual effects for the company using the Domino and Apple's Shake.

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  Peerless camera company

  Jan 2003 - Jan 2004

  Engineer and digital compositor

  Kept the facility working through several feature films worth of post production, both on the technical and creative side.

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  Xtfx

  Jan 2004 - Jan 2009

  Senior support engineer

  I must have demoed, installed, supported and repaired pretty much every piece of technology XTFX sold during this period throughout the UK.I have an excellent working knowledge of NAS/SAN integration (cross platform), colour grading, Fibrechannel, SCSI, OS X, Linux, Irix, networking.

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  Witch hat ltd.

  Jan 2009 - Jul 2015

  Multi discipline domestic audio and post production engineer

  Design, service and repair of high end HiFi amplifiers and accessories.Post Production engineer - installing SAN, NAS, DAS. Fibrechannel, SCSI and Infiniband storage. Making it all work and keeping it working afterwards. I've seen every step of the DI pipeline.

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  Jigsaw24

  Aug 2015 - Mar 2020

  Lead m&e engineer
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  Sony pictures entertainment

  Apr 2020 - Jan 2024

  Global post production engineering infrastructure manager

  Designing post production solutions and keeping the team of promo producers, voice overs, QC and storage working at one of the world's largest media companies.

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  Boxer systems

  Jan 2024 - now

  Engineering manager