Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Macaulay LibraryETV Engineer
Oct. 2001 - Jun. 2005ETV Engineer for The Macaulay Library at The Cornell Lab of Ornithology. The Macaulay Library the worlds largest collection of audio, film and video recordings focused on animal behavior. My responsibilities included managing the technical process for archival of all visual media, which included several professional consumer and prosumer formats. I also managed the production resources, which included Avid Pro Tools workstations, Final Cut Pro workstations using Cinewave and Black Magic interfaces, as well as all recording decks and other peripheral equipment. Finally, I also contributed to productions directly, usually in audio post work, but also contributed scoring and arranging for backing music. I have production credits for a few of the features produced during my time. During my tenure in this position, the library undertook a major initiative to digitize the entire collection of its audio and video assets, as well as correlating the media with recorded meta data, and then creating applications allowing the retrieval and distribution of both asset and data. This added additional responsibilities for managing all the IT infrastructure needed to achieve this goal, which included EMC Celera file server, over a dozen Apple X Servers, an ~ 20 TB Apple XSAN solution, several dedicated ingest workstations which employed various mpeg encoding capabilities, a network transcoding solution based on Popwire, QuickTime streaming servers, all of which integrated with Videobank archival workstations. It was a tremendously challenging and fun position.