Dan Tinen

Experience

• 

  TASCAM

  Jan 1984 - Jan 1991

  Product Planner, Pro Products Division

  • Conducted market research and helped develop new TASCAM products. Proposed new product features, pricing, and designs, in consultation with sales and engineering departments worldwide. • Maintained three-year product cycle plans, sales forecasts, and steered new products from initial design through prototype to manufacture for the entire product line. Examples include the 644/688 Midistudios, the 424/488 Ministudios, the M-2500 mixers, and the DA-88 multitrack recorder. • Wrote and edited product manuals, made presentations at trade shows and to sales representatives. • Extensive field experience: conducted end-user product clinics and dealer sales training at over 100 music and pro audio dealers throughout the United States. Show less

• 

  Alesis Studio Electronics

  Jan 1994 - Jan 2001

  Director of Technical Marketing

  • Helped specify and introduce new products to the market including ADAT multitrack recorders, QS series keyboards, monitor loudspeakers, mixing consoles, and effect devices. • Wrote alternative price/quantity scenarios and monitored sales results.• Supervised product managers and product specialists. • Wrote strategic technical papers, acted as liason between marketing and engineering. • Developed advertising campaigns and marketing strategies. • Wrote and delivered trade show presentations (NAMM, AES, NAB, MusikMesse) and designed booth layouts. • Produced videos and educational seminars (Alesis University). Show less

• 

  TinenTech Productions

  Jan 2002 - now

  Consulting audio engineer and content creator

  • Recording engineer and producer with credits on over a dozen independent albums. • Live sound engineer, specializing in simultaneous video production and multitracking. • Consultant for end users building project studios and installing sound systems; creates instructional videos. • Consultant to audio manufacturers. Delivers trade show presentations, conducts market research, beta tests new products and software, and writes owners manuals.

• 

  Institute for the Musical Arts

  Jun 2004 - Sept 2011

  Technical Director

  Design/construction adviser and technical director of a multi-room recording studio complex at the Institute for the Musical Arts (IMA) in Goshen, MA. Developed detailed plans with Walters-Storyk Design. Maintains hardware and software. Trains users on facility use which includes two separate Pro Tools control rooms, an extensive vintage mic collection, and high-end microphone preamplifiers connected throughout a 4200 sq. ft. facility. Engineered basic tracks, overdubs, mixed, and premastered several CDs for LinQ with producer and IMA artistic director June Millington. Show less

• 

  Klondike Sound

  Jan 2006 - now

  Audio engineer

  Klondike is a regional audio company specializing in festivals (Newport, Clearwater, Philadelphia Folk Festival) and corporate events, and deploys every level of system from large line arrays (L-Acoustics V-DOSC) with Yamaha digital consoles to speakers-on-a-stick with a small mixer. I've worked in roles ranging from roadie/truck driver to FOH and monitor engineer with a variety of jazz, folk, and rock acts.

• 

  Jim Scott Music

  Jan 2007 - now

  Record Producer

  Produced, engineered and mixed the CD "Gather the Spirit", with former Paul Winter Consort guitarist Jim Scott and the MSTG Choir. Tracks were recorded on location, and in studio, using MOTU Digital Performer. Currently recording a new album and producing concert videos for his YouTube channel.