Technical Director (2015 - 2017) - The Bridge Fellowship
Executing audio, video, lighting for all worship experiences for weekend services ( 2,500+ people ), weekly satellite campus, youth ministry ( 350+ students ) and community wide events ( 5,000+ people )
Weekend Experience
- Provide leadership and oversight to all system support (audio, video and lighting) for the weekend experience including the operation and maintenance of all gear.
Team Development
- Recruit, train, develop and maintain a team of volunteers of 52 ( original roster of 12 ) for service production, church events, weddings. Goal is significant depth in all positions you oversee
- Oversee and be accountable for technical volunteers for weekend services and ensure roles are filled, including creating a volunteer schedule on a quarterly basis. Helping to manage Planning Center Online database, keeping it current and up-to-date.
- Lead, inspire and manage your team of volunteers while executing their development strategy
- Provide spiritual leadership and genuine care for the well being of your team of volunteers by introducing tech team devotions on Saturday nights.
Satellite Campus
- Purchase equipment in collaboration with the central technical director to ensure quality, functionality and integration. Provide recommendations for additional technical equipment needed to achieve technical goals.
- - 4 PowerPlay and stands for wired in ear monitors
- 4 48” LCD Vizio TVs for Children’s TV
- 2 80” LCD Vizio TVs for Worship Stage
- 1 38” LCD Vizio TV for stage monitor
- Drum Cage, mics, stands, cords
- Install snake ( 4 SDI and 4 Ethernet )
- Teams of A/V for the adult and youth conferences
Ministry Events
- Marriage Conference
- Youth Camp
- Children’s Camp
- Membership 101
- Unleashed - FPU
- Men’s Conference
- Anthem Women’s Conference
Tech Upgrades
- Upgraded Tech Booth:
- Stealth Chairs
- Wired Intercoms with different channels ( Video team and AVL )
- USB 3 hubs for transferring PCO export files, video backgrounds and files
- laser printer
- Sound Booth:
- New High power wireless Router for sound board app
- coverage around the worship facility
- New iPad
- Redesigning the drum shield booth
- Moving the audience miss from the tech booth to the stage
- Switching Area
- Upgrading Webstreaming, data capture and switching area:
- Switching from Adobe stream encoder to Wirecast
- Blackmagic Media Express to Blackmagic Video Assist
- Replace the two side-by-side 19” monitors to one HD 32 inch TV for the Roland V-800HD
- Cost effective tally system for all inputs ( install and rewiring cables )
- Embedding the FOH audio with blackmagic converter
- Repurpose current computers based on processing power, memory and hard drive speed
- Camera booth:
- Reduces tech roles with identical camera setup for booth camera booths
- Identical 7inch LCD monitors for the video cameras
- Professional Lens Controls and focus handles
- Introducing Hi-Hat camera stand with matching camera head
- Motion Detector Lights in the booth and steps
- IT Projects:
- Laptop hard drive ( Daria, Kristy, Kristen,
- Laptop Memory upgrade ( Kristy,
- 5 monitors
- NAS Media Tech Server for sermon files
- Construction projects:
- Two new camera booths with independent flooring
- Isolation room for web streaming audio mixing
- Reorganize tech storage room
- Removing the old snake from gaff to the floor to running a new snake with 2 SDI and 4 ethernet connections 250 ft
- Removing old cables, reorganize cables
Innovation
Achievement, Accomplishment and Innovation
- Live responses in sermons and games ( Poll Everywhere )
- Boost student engagement via texting keywords ( ProTexting.com )
- custom motion lower thirds ( video blocks )
- Gaffgun for off-site events
- Increasing the HD Video Distribution to all the main campus TVs from 720 to 1080
Director of Media (2007 - 2015) - Aldersgate Renewal Ministries
Amplify company's message with clarity and boldness while maximizing the use of new technologies
Print Design
- Manage all print media for the company
- 6 books from concept to completion and creating different E-book formats
- Reduce the company's spending on an average of 33% and increase their quantity on an average of 50%
- 2 eight page newsletters annually ( past: 4 newsletters annually )
- Local event promotions ( promotional items, flyers, brochures, postcards )
- Church event promotions ( promotional items, flyers, brochures, postcards )
- National Conference and Youth National Conference promotions
- Diverse sizes of flyers
- Bulletin inserts
- Postcards
- Brochure ( 4 panel roll fold to 11 by 6 )
- Program guide ( 32 page publication )
- Magazine Advertising ( Charisma, GoodNews, and Interpreter )
- Company’s display presence
- Event banners ( 15 different banners to help participants navigate )
- Parent Company display with large center banner and two banners on either side
- Youth conference display with large center banner and two banners on either side
- Company’s resource materials
- Participant Manuals ( 6 different manuals for weekend events )
- Reduce the print cost of the participant manuals from unit price $2.38 to $0.95
- Aquiring new wholesale printers saving the company over 60%
- 10 different brochures communicating all aspects of the organization
Web Design
- Manage all of a company’s web presence
- Parent company’s website ( quarter of a million views and relaunch in 2009 and 2014 )
- Powerful yet simple donation option
- Amazing event management system
- Booking reservation system for using the company’s houses and meeting space
- Intuitive online forms which reduce staff hours
- Online Bookstore’s website ( relaunch in 2008 and 2014 )
- PCI compliance, secure and feature rich for a great user experience
- One page check out option ( Amazon-like shopping cart )
- Youth camp website ( relaunch every year )
- Youth conference’s website ( relaunch every year )
- Adult conference’s website ( relaunch every year )
- Event registration’s website ( tremendously safe and great interface )
- Supervise electronic media
- Over 80 Email campagain creations a year
- E-Newsletter options ( email, website, virtual flip, and standard PDFs )
- Switched to MyEmma (advanced email marketing services)
- Save over 85% ( Over $850 a year )
- Better Email software to create, send and track email campaigns for all devices
A/V Production
- Coordinate Audio, Video and Lighting teams for the headquarters events ( 6 events a year )
- Formatting video and projection
- Secure and manage teams to serve prior to and during the event
- Physically installing and tearing down Audio, Video and Lighting setup
- Oversee contract services for media ministries at the National Conference
- HD Webstreaming and video playback options, and saving $79 month by using Google Live Events
- Online Registration at the conferences
- Teams of A/V for the adult and youth conferences
Video Editing
- Manage Video Media
- Promotional DVD about the national conference
- Promotional video of the conference ( 2 minute High-energy video )
- Executive Director’s special invitation
- Features the keynote speaker from last year
- 4 different testimony videos ( Clergy, Adult, Youth, and Children )
- Promotional DVD about the Youth conference
- Youth conference promotional video
- Youth Director’s special invitation
- Features the keynote speaker from last year
- Youth testimony video
- Promotional DVD about the national conference
- Teaching Video Resources
- 7 different events, creating over 70 DVDs ( 7 DVD sets )
- True HD quality video capture and SD quality for Session 6 & 7 DVD sets
- Incredible turnaround post-production within 24 hours after the event
- DVDs included custom lower thirds and DVD interface
HD Webcasting
- Created the company’s Youtube channel (2009) 66,000+ views and 185 subscribers
- Averaging 1,000 video views
- 356,716 minutes watched
I.T. Solutions
Overseeing I.T. and Phone Systems
- Upgraded all the company's computers and new business server in 2011, below budget
- Upgraded all software to current Microsoft Suite
- Utilized Microsoft Business Server software for passwords, company folders, printer access, static VPN and user groups
- Introduced cost effective anti-virus software for all computers
- Saving the company over $800 yearly
- Private wireless access point for staff as well as a private wireless access point for guests
- Protected the intranet with a software firewall in front of the hardware firewall
- Integrated 24 port 10/100/1000 managed switch, dramatically increasing network speeds
- Installed capture cards, memory and extra hard drive storage for Apple Macintosh computers
- Procured Symantec Backup Exec software to recover any file on the server
- Planned 3-2-1 disaster recovery plan
- 3 copies of every file ( Using SyncToy on the PCs )
- 2 different physical locations
- 1 uploaded offsite service
- Planned 3-2-1 disaster recovery plan
- Eliminated costly DNS & MX records from the company's server to an offsite business solution
- Saved the company over 92% ( over $6650 ) in 2011
- Mobile phone integration, works flawlessly with Outlook and an option to work offline
- Staff members manage their own whitelist/blacklist, settings and adding features
- Upgraded phone system to Business VoIP which saved the company 35% ( or $2,000 ) per year
- Copy of the voicemail ( wave file ) arrives to the person's email
- App allows staff to transform their mobile phone into a workplace phone
- Trade-in rebate of old phone system saving the company $400
- Upgrade from 1 traditional fax number to 5 virtual fax numbers
- Reduced the number of calls on the hunt group with private numbers to each phone
- Option to painlessly check voicemails using the private numbers away from the office
- Physical work phones work anywhere with internet access without any setup
- Simple, scalable and reliable storage system for the design department
- Procurement of the credit card machine with both phone line and ethernet Reducing the cost of high speed internet by 61% or $2,600 a year
- Increase partial T1 (125k per computer) to 18 mbs down and 3 mbs up per computer
- 144 times faster internet per computer
Senior Graphic Designer (2001 - 2007) - Clarksville Quick Printing
Designed and created multiple clients' unique business personas by incorporating their ideas with innovative artistic fare. Arbitrated usage of industry standard design software and developed time-saving procedures using templates.
- Clarksville Quick Printing has been in business for over 35 years, serving Clarksville and surrounding areas.
- Responsible for designing and creating a client’s identity by incorporating their ideas with artistic fare.
- Arbitrated usage of industry standard design software and developed time-saving procedures using templates.
- Managed day-to-day operations from collaboration with customers, implemented creative design concepts, prepared prepress files, incorporated attention to details with proof-reading, and awareness of deadline commitments.
- Reduced spending on maintenance supplies and parts by 50% by researching different suppliers.
- Maintained and serviced various printing, copying, color-proofing and prepress machines.
- Supervised unique printing practices, file preparation, PMS expertise, 4 color process, complex spot color, color enhancement, photo touch-up, file conversion, trapping and color theory, which greatly contributed to an increase in overall quality.
Graphic Art Technician (2006 - 2007) - The Leaf Chronicle Newspaper (Published Daily)
Maintained and oversaw $350,000 of digital computer to plate equipment and $60,000 worth of software. Maintained and oversaw $21,000 of state-of-the-art digital proofers. Inventoried, organized and expedited $216,000 of plates, chemicals and other items that required annual purchasing.
- Maintained and oversaw $350,000 of digital computer to plate equipment and $60,000 worth of software to run Prinergy with plugins.
- Maintained and oversaw $21,000 of state-of-the-art digital proofers ( Epson Stylus Pro10600, Canon Image RUNNER C3220, and HP 8500n ).
- Inventoried, organized and expedited $216,000 of plates, blanks, chemicals and other items that need to be ordered annually.
- Implemented new forms to increase work flow and maintain inventory: plate move sheets, TrendSetter Service Cards, Weekly Bender error forms, and weekly reports.
- Facilitated cleaning and servicing TrendSetters every week and a monthly chemical change, which includes replacing all the filters, cleaning rollers, calibrating the tension between rollers, removing jams, cleaning sensors, and restoring the processor.
- Cultivated effective communication between press, sports, news and creative advertising departments which achieving better deadlines by giving input on current issues from different departments.
- Prepare and color-correct digital files by using expertise of color theory in formats including Quark, Photoshop, PageMaker, InDesign, Acrobat Profession, Intellitune, Prinergy-Workshop, Illustrator, and a host of other software.
- Excellent teamwork and organizational skills by working in a fast paced graphic arts environment involved with 45 newspapers weekly, with a quality score increasing from 87.5% to 91.1% SNAP test scores from Gannett because of strong proof-reading skills and attention to details.
Graphic Designer (2002 - 2003) - American Contractor Exam Services
A.C.E.S. has 7 offices throughout the south servicing contractors by providing helpful classes, material, and extended support. Their "No Pass No Pay" guarantee has enabled them to be a leader in their field.
- Worked with teachers to create professional and functional workbooks, forms, and yellow page ads.
- Created eye-catching flyers, postcards, business cards, and book catalogs.
- Created a standard for this new position by using effective forms, procedures, and printing networks for their future design department.
- Saved the company 73% on legitimate full-version professional software by researching different vendors.
- Reduced spending by servicing their commercial copiers, printers, and computers.