Joe Heaven

 

March 04 - Present - CTVC, London
IT Manager & Technical Operator
Management & maintenance of all IT systems throughout the whole organisation, including cross site VPN’s internet, intranet, both hardware and software for Microsoft Exchange 2003, MS Media Server, administration and implementation of Symantec security products, Veritas Backup, IIS, DNS, Active Directory Group Policies across the organization, Terminal Services, two fileservers and up to fifty client machines.Responsible for the management of Editing operations, (maintenance, digitizing & basic editing), VTR and Cassette operations, Post Production Library operations, including maintenance and monitoring of working stock levels and non-linear media storage. I also manage all our camera, and audio systems (we have a portable Sadie), as well as doing some editing and broadcast engineering.

Nov 03 - March 04 - Freelance Contract Work
Mainly working as an engineer, sound recordist or video editor for The Rural Media Company on various projects including First Light (training and supervising young people in recording sound to a high standard on their own short films), and Sense of Place, an art project for young people who have been excluded, with 3D sculpture and a CD-ROM based on their 'Sense of Place'.

May 03 ? Nov 03 Rural Media Company Hereford
Media Technician, Sound Recordist, Editor
During my time at Rural Media I have had a very broad range of responsibilities. Primarily I was responsible for the well-being of all their equipment and facilities. This includes Avid and Final Cut editing systems, a Soundscape HDR system, camera and microphone kits, Digital Projectors, Monitors, as well as various other computer systems and software configurations related to the production and design offices. I have also been involved in organizing, setting up and filming Roadshows using theatre and video projections to promote the launch of a new digital media Youth Magazine, ?Youth Times?.

Oct 02 ? Sept 03 JPT Electronics Hereford
Installation & Repair Field Engineer
Traveling the length and breadth of three counties to troubleshoot, repair and install home entertainment systems in client's homes. Often with plasma or projection systems, Dolby surround kits, recordable digital media and satellite setups. I am familiar with installation and use of ?Brown Goods? from most of the major manufacturers like Sony, JVC, Philips, Panasonic, Thompson etc as well as Broadcast equipment and some conference equipment. My time at JPT was also great for honing my people skills and practicing a public facing role. Often dealing with ten or more clients a day, sometimes dealing with difficult situations and having to train novices with advanced home cinema and digital television systems, I was encouraged to develop a very diplomatic and sympathetic manner whilst always maintaining a respectfully neutral attitude towards faulty or problematic items.

Jan 2001 ? Feb 2002 NMI Moving Image (formerly SD Post, now Revolutions.tv) Chalk Farm, London
Sound & Avid Support Engineer
At New Media Industries I very much enjoyed my role as an Audio Engineer using DAR Soundstation HDR systems and all the other broadcast standard electronic exotica. I worked with valued clients on big projects and was absolutely in my element when in my own studio. I started off prepping complete series of the highly successful Sky football soap ?Dream Team? for re-voicing, which involved stripping most of the original sound away, creating a new premix of the sound effects and music, recording all the foley effects with professional foley artists, and carefully re-building the mixes from scratch. Obviously my experience of working in studios in the past was invaluable and I quickly progressed onto running sessions with big clients, a good example of which was the computer games company Konami. Recording many European languages whilst being directed by two Japanese guys and a Brazilian, with a studio full of VIP?s and football commentators from around the globe, this went on for over a week! I also prepped, mixed and recorded voice for a complete series of Garden ER and on other occasions worked with accomplished voice artists (from John Motson to Jenny Murray) and producers on other projects.

Dec 1999 ? Jan 2001 Rural Media Company Hereford
Sound Recordist & Technician
I have worked for Rural media on a freelance basis as their sound-recordist on various productions in the past and during this period I also worked as a technical consultant, advising them on the best way of integrating their Soundscape HDR system into their established production routine.

Dec 1999 ? Jan 2001 Millward Brown Precis London
Media Analyst
Working from home to provide valuable and unbiased feedback on what is being said in the media about clients. Often reading and grading thousands of articles a week for clients like Monsanto, World Health Organization, Pubmaster, Kelloggs etc.

Sept 1998 ? Dec 1999 Saunders & Gordon Gresse St, London W1
Studio Assistant/Transfer Engineer
Saunders & Gordon was home to me for just over a year. In my time there I worked mainly as a Transfer Engineer but often ended up experimenting in the studio in any spare time. I learnt to use Studio 5 which was equipped with a Synclavier HDR/Sampling system, a Soundtracs desk and other top end broadcast kit (DAT machines, digital Beta, Beta SP, Umatic tape, etc) in the hope that when a vacancy arose I might be lucky enough to be installed there as engineer. Unfortunately they decided to train someone who had been with the company longer than me. Not happy that I was to be banished to the transfer bay for the foreseeable future, I decided to take my chances elsewhere. That said, I did gain lots of valuable experience of working around people from top advertising agencies to well known celebrities. An example of which could be coordinating their studio sessions. I enjoyed the pace of working on large contracts with demanding clients, often requiring me to be flexible with overtime or to take on new responsibilities at short notice.

Feb 1998 ? Sept 1998 Clear Cut Pictures Ltd Hammersmith, London
Edit & Dubbing Assistant, Maintenance Technician, VT Operator
I was initially employed by Clear-cut as a support technician but quickly worked my way into the dubbing theatre. During my time there I learnt about the Avid editing setup and was soon able to strip and re-build a whole system as well as deal with the editor?s problems. I soon found that I could do track laying on the Avid and found myself experimenting with OMFI exports and the Audiovision suite. Once in the dubbing theatre, I learnt to prep and record a fully automated mix on a Yamaha O2R mixing desk. As with most of my other previous broadcast roles, I was required to be fully conversant with all timecoded broadcast tape machines.

Oct 1997 ? Jan 1998 X-Music Ltd Fulham, London
Pro Audio Sales
X-Music was a small independent retail chain which specialized in digital music and studio equipment. I was based in the Fulham outlet providing customized sales advice along with after sales support to a variety of individuals and small organizations including representatives from some of London's top recording studios.

June 1996 ? Oct 1997 The Tape Gallery (now The Sound Effects Library) London, W1
Transfer Engineer / VT Operator
The Tape Gallery offered me my first ?lucky break? in terms of working in recording studios and was one of the most highly respected recording studios in town in the mid nineties. Back in ?96 I had no idea that I?d just landed a job as runner for one of the best equipped and most respected studios in London. I quickly decided that the life of a runner was extremely tough in this environment and was soon moving up and coping with the pressures of the transfer bay whilst twiddling knobs in the studios at night, (in between loading and backing up sometimes all six studios alone). This meant learning to use all the broadcast tape machines and associated equipment to a very high professional standard. Kit included SSL and Neve mixing desks and HDR systems, Sony, Fostex, Tascam, Panasonic, Denon, Technics, Yamaha Dat machines, Mixers, VCR machines, motion control systems, and the list goes on.
As I have said, the Tape Gallery was incredibly well equipped and I learnt a huge amount there. From the basic principles of time code and broadcast standards, to operating multiple tape machines simultaneously in a transfer studio to produce perfect multiple laybacks and producing perfect sound effects and music to specific specifications in record time, often for top agency professionals from some of the best agencies in town, Tomato, Saatchis, AMV BBDO , BBH, BMP DDB, JWT and many more.

 

 

 

 

Other Skills:

I am a nominated First Aider for CTVC. I am also trained in 'Final Cut Pro Fundamentals' and have nearly ten years of Avid experience. I also have experience of editing 16mm film on Steenbeck, broadcast location work (sound recording mainly) and producing my own short films on Mini DV. I also have experience of other sales & public facing roles, having run a market stall in Camden Market and worked for over a year in a clothes shop, Cult Clothing, in Cambridge.
In depth knowledge of PC based audio software such as Cubase and Sound Forge Midi programming and music making. (I've had my music used on films shown at international film festivals).
Web site design and maintenance.
Knowledge of Photoshop, Dreamweaver and Flash.
Microsoft implementation and maintenance including multiple email account set-up. FrontPage, Word, Outlook etc. Also some Windows NT, Microsoft Server 2000 and 2003, Exchange and Network management experience.
I have a very broad experience of many types of hardware and software installation and implementation, from brown goods to broadcast including Avid editing systems and other high end equipment from major manufacturers.

 

 

 

 

Other employment:

Mean Fiddler/Backstage Management

Leeds Music Festival 2002

Backstage Management Crew - Hospitality Driver

Working as part of the backstage team as a driver. Ferrying backstage crew, stage crew and artists such as Spiritualized, The Dandy Warhols, Amen, Cave In, (and lots of others!) to and from hotels, and around the Temple Newsham site. 'Access all areas', apart from the Guns & Roses private compound!

2002 Mean Fiddler/OASIS Production/Backstage Management

OASIS, Finsbury Park, London

Backstage Management Crew

Working as part of the backstage team helping with things like dressing rooms and ?riders? for Oasis, The Charlatans, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Proud Mary and The Coral. Shopping runs with Oasis's personal caterers, (van's full of booze and food!), general basic hospitality related tasks for artists and guests at the hugely successful three day OASIS gig in Finsbury Park. 'Access all areas' except on stage when OASIS were playing.

Jan 1 2001- Mean Fiddler/Backstage Management, 'Resolution', Alexandra Palace, London

Backstage Management Crew

Working as part of the backstage team through the night on New Years Eve 2000-2001. Helping with things like dressing rooms, ?riders? and general hospitality for artists like Primal Scream, Asian Dub Foundation, Liam Howlett, Ian Brown and James Lavelle. Access all areas, except stage.

Details of all other employment are available on request.

 

 

 

 

Interests
As well as the obvious interests in sound, music, gizmos, bikes, boats, boards, games and the internet, I like to travel and spent a year exploring Australia. I enjoy the open air, and often run to the hills of Radnorshire at weekends for walking and mountain biking expeditions. I have my own small MIDI sequencing studio at home and have also been designing (as you can see) my own web page in my spare time. Although at the moment music, games, mountain bikes and the internet are just hobbies of mine, I would like to think that at some point my career will incorporate or in some way touch on these extra skills and interests.

Me and my interests on MySpace HERE

 

 

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