Mark Slade

Mark slade

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  • Timeline

  • About me

    Engineering Manager at Boxer Systems

  • Education

    • Salisbury college

      1989 - 1991
      Hnc electronics

      I learnt more in my first year in industry than in this entire course.

    • The open university

      2000 - 2007
      Bachelor of science - bs computing 1st class honours
    • The open university

      2001 - 2008
      Bsc (hons) computing

      I studied during my spare time whilst working full time and achieved 1st class honours.

  • Experience

    • 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.

    • 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
    • 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.

    • 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.

    • 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.

    • 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.

    • 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.

    • Jigsaw24

      Aug 2015 - Mar 2020
      Lead m&e engineer
    • 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.

    • Boxer systems

      Jan 2024 - now
      Engineering manager
  • Licenses & Certifications

    • Aws certified solutions architect – associate

      Amazon web services (aws)
      Aug 2021
      View certificate certificate