Audio & Video

• Purchased first reel-to-reel deck at age 7, began field recording.
• Purchased first cassette recorder at age 9.
• Began still photography and darkroom work at age 12.
• Began Sony handicam video at age 13.
• By age 13, student of woodwinds, violin, keyboards and guitar.
• Worked at KDVS FM radio station Engineering Department at age 15 and at a television repair shop for school credit.
• Began helping at local recording studio.
• Began crew work for local band.
• Performing musician at age 20. Began live sound mixing and recording.
• Began digital recording in 1984 with Nakamichi DMP 1000, at age 25.
• Independent Audio Engineer for hundreds of bands between 1980 and 1988 throughout the west coast.
• Audio Engineer at Sweetwater, Mill Valley for three years (from 1988 to 1991), bringing total of Artists served to over 2,000.
• Began independent recording for Santana from 1989, officially employed by Carlos Santana in early 1991.
• During world-wide Santana tours, shot single-camera video of all performances. Created directors notes, and called shots for seven-camera live-switch in Santiago, Chile, concert was later broadcast in South America. Carlos Santana states: "My family and I feel this is the best concert video of Santana ever made."
• Improved Santana concert recordings by changing methods to a technique of my own design.
• Oversaw audio recordings, later began mixing 42 channels to 2. Analog and digital media.
• Shot handheld Hi-8 footage of Phish at midnight during the New Years Eve performance of 1993 - 1994 for optional use in upcoming MTV video.
• During the late 1990s, employed at the College of Marin in Kentfield, California as Engineer for consecutive terms.
• Consultant for San Rafael Studios - site now owned by rock band Metallica. Acquired first client: Robert Cray.
• During this time I was also the creator and sole organizer for all aspects of first THX live music dance concert. Acquired cooperation from THX/Lucasfilm.
• In 1999 THX Director invites me to help him start his own consulting firm.
• 2000 began artist management/career consultation and development.
• As a one-off in 2001 mixed audio at the Congo Square Stage, Shoreline Amphitheater, in Mountain View for New Orleans by the Bay event.
• 2003 began editing in Protools.