STUDIO & FILM
Recording Engineer
Field Recording Engineer
Boom Operator
Original Score Composer
ADR, Narration, Overdubs Engineer
I’m professionally trained as a Recording Engineer (MIA ’93) and have focused almost exclusively on film since 2012, and until fairly recently.
I’ve been constantly involved in dozens of projects, and have numerous short films, feature films and a TV pilot on myu credits. I’ve also composed original score for various projects, as hold several acting and writing credits.
PROGRAMMING & DATA
Computer Programmer
Unity (C#)
Arduino IDE Microcontroller (C++ based)
SQL Server (T-SQL)
MySQL (MariaDB)
I’m a professionally trained Computer Programmer (’00) with a life-long history with computers and electronics.
My first computer? A ZX-81 (aka Timex/Sinclair 1000), complete with the membrane keyboard, black and white video output to the TV, and a whopping 1K of RAM! Well, the TS-1000 had 2K, and you could buy a 16K expansion pack if you were that committed. (Narrator: “He was.”) Oh, and no hard-drive or anything, but you could plug in a tape recorder to load and save programs. It was basic, but that expansion port allowed not only RAM Expansion, but connection to a thermal printer, or – most importantly – whatever you wanted! Back then, you could easily get the spec for the interface port and build your own: It was encouraged! I wanted to control motors on a small robot platform, so that’s what I did: I built an interface and controlled some motors.
The Timex Sinclair (T/S) 1000 was based of a readily available Zilog Z80A microprocessor, which I purchased, along with memory and other requisite chips. One by one, each pin of each chip was hand wired (wire-wrap, anyone?) and connected together to form a custom-built 8-bit computer. No ROM or anything, and certainly no display adapter, but it was a great learning experience to build a computer from parts before they existed in the sense that we know them now.
Then the Commodore 64 came out, and that became the platform of choice and programming became much more compelling. The Amiga 500 followed until PCs gained momentum.
In the early- to mid-90’s, myself and a few other like-minded gear heads decided to rent a space downtown London, Ontario, and pool our equipment together. Clockwork Sound was born, and became a room that was rarely without someone in it working on something. My Amiga 500 and an Atari ST were the main PC options we used at that time, and numerous vintage keyboards and drum machines, an Akai rack-mount sampler, an Alesis 16-channel mixer, and a DAT machine. Great stuff at the time.
We outgrew the space and moved to a larger space on Wellington Street, London, Ontario, between Dundas & Queens, where we were able to add a separately sound-proofed vocal and instrument booth. Unfortunately, that space became reclaimed, and we moved upstairs to a less ideal room which, eventually, was also reclaimed, and that was the end of Clockwork Sound.
Once recording studios could fit in a PC with a fancy interface, though, that’s where it all came together, and a custom, rack-mount music workstation with dual 16″ monitors (now a 17″ i7 laptop with 32″ LCD monitors), an 8-channel audio-interface, an 8-channel MIDI interface, numerous keyboards, drum machines, controllers culminated in a home production studio.
Word got out, I bumped into a few people, and next thing you know, I’m doing sound for film, from field recording to composition, ADR, and other post-production. Toss in a little on-screen time, some script writing, and in only a few years, I had two feature length films (Theories and Tenants), countless shorts, and even live theatre (on- and off-stage) credits under several hats.
Presently, my focus is on data, and particularly Health & Hospital data, and particularly on finding the best ways to extract the right information the best way to enable shaping, massaging, and whatever is required to make it talk with other data, and create reports and visuals that help paint a useful picture of what’s going on with a particular aspect of interest.
MICROCONTROLLERS & MAKING
Arduino
3D Printing
Guitar Hero Controller MIDI Hack
Creatity Ender 3 v2
SuperSmart NiteLite
Copy TBD