Recent Work Highlights
Post-production mixing and sound design for short “Taste of Refuge”
Dialogue editing for feature “You’re Out!”
Post-production mixing and sound design for indie “Zombie”
For BET Post-Production Mixing for primetime special “Say Her Name”
Post-Production Mixing and sound design for “A Distant Peak” Documentary
For TNT Music Playback on “Inside the NBA All-Star Roast”
Emmy Nomination for “Outstanding Musical Performance in a Daytime program” For Ben Rector’s performance on the Pickler and Ben show.
For E! Entertainment: Re-recording mixer for “Ladygang” (Reality/Talk)
For MTV (Viacom): Re-recording mixer for The Ride (Interview)
Recent TV Spots for Sears and Glidden Paint: Mixing/sound design
For OWN: Re-recording mixer for “Oprah Winfrey Presents: Becoming Michelle Obama”
Pickler and Ben: A-1 on this Scripps syndicated talk/variety show
For Kartemquin Films: All The Queen's Horses (Award winning Documentary)
For PBS: Chicago’s True Nature (Emmy Award winning documentary)
For CBS: First Lady Michelle Obama Says Farewell to the White House
For ABC: Oprah Winfrey's Legends Ball, Primetime Oprah Winfrey Oscar Special
For OWN: Oprah Where are They Now (60+ episodes-Celebrity interview)
Super Soul Sunday (30+ episodes-Celebrity interview)
Iyanla Fix My Life (20+ episodes-unscripted “reality” TV)
Oprah Prime (celebrity interview)
Broadcast/Music Mixing
Broadcast music/TV mixing for 15 years of The Oprah Show
Broadcast mix for In The Loop, a weekly PBS news show
Emmy Awards for landmark Oprah shows at The United Center and Caesars Palace
Music mixing for The Steve Harvey Show for 3 seasons
Owned/operated personal studio for 25 years
Studio, Software and Miscellaneous experience
25 years of Pro Tools experience including mixing work for CBS, ABC, MTV, The OWN network. Live multitrack recording, VO recording, promo mixing, sound design, music and dialogue editing, pre-dub mixing with fully integrated workflows for Avid Media Composer and Adobe Premiere
Technical Director for Harpo Sounds music library managing acquisition and distribution of 15,000+ cues from 100+ composers with extensive metadata editing in Excel/Soundminer
Years of Large format console experience on Euphonix (S5/MaxAir) and Calrec (Artemis)
Pro Tools system administrator for 4 HD systems integrated with Avid Media Composer Satellites
Soundminer app and web portal administrator
Accomplished multi-instrumentalist composer
Owner/Operator of personal studio for 25 years
Music recording engineer at the legendary Universal Recording Corp
Biography:
My career in sound began at the storied Universal Recording Corporation (Chicago), built by the legendary Bill Putnam and an early home to Bruce Swedien. In the 90’s, Universal president, Murray Allen was enlisted to put together the audio team for the newly built Harpo Studios, home of The Oprah Winfrey Show.
Production Sound
My experience over my 25+ year tenure on The Oprah Show included mixing FOH/Monitors, field/location audio, broadcast music mixing for 100’s of A-List music acts, frequent shows with 20+ wired guests and regular live shows. Following Oprah, I was the A-1 for the Rosie Show at Harpo which included daily music performances, comedy acts and a game show. More recently I mixed two seasons of the Nashville-produced variety show Pickler and Ben and did music playback on TNT’s Inside the NBA All-Star Roast.
Post Production Sound
When Pro Tools and non-linear audio workstations came on the scene I fully embraced the technology, mixing Promos and numerous Prime-time specials for Harpo Studios and then hundreds of episodes for The OWN Network, CBS, and ABC. Over the last 7 years I have worked primarily remotely from my personal studio outside Chicago posting interview shows for OWN, and MTV, reality shows for E!, commercials for American Airlines, Sears, Glidden Paint and a number of award winning feature length documentaries.
Other
In addition to my mixing role at Harpo, I was instrumental in the design and implementation of their 5.1 surround solution for editing, post and live broadcast, as well as administrating multiple Pro Tools HD post rooms. I also was the Technical Director and Asset/Metadata Manager for the Harpo Sounds Music Library, helping acquire and integrate 30,000 original cues by 100+ composers from around the world. I’m also an adjunct professor at DePaul University’s Sound Recording Technology program, teaching Audio for Broadcast.
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
DePaul University, Adjunct Professor, Present
Harpo Studios, 1993 to 2016
OWN Network, 2015 to 2019
WYCC PBS Chicago 2015 to 2017
Universal Recording Corp, 1989 to 1993
Freelance Recording Engineer 1991 to Present
Education
University of Miami, FL 1989
BA Studio Music and Jazz
Music Media and Industry
