1996-2009

·        Dialog and Music Development and Editing for Toys and Multi-media.    Speech and music recording, editing, and high quality audio enhancement for LPC, MELP, CELP, and ADPCM and other DSP speech synthesis. Interfacing with creative scriptwriters to produce recording documents and script concatenation tailored to storage duration.  Document generation for electrical engineers to implement concatenated speech in product code. Clients include Microsoft, Texas Instruments, Hasbro, Tiger Electronics, Fisher-Price, Leapfrog, Disney, others.

1976-2009

·        Independent Recording Engineer/Scoring Mixer with artists and producers Jeff Lynne, George Harrison, The Beatles, Tom Jones, Foreigner, John Cougar Mellencamp, Joe Strummer, Frank Zappa, Grand Funk Railroad, Milton Berle, Bob Hope, Andy Williams, Paramount Pictures, 20^th Century Fox, many others. See credits page for addtional credits.

·        Post Production Sound Editor/Mixer experience includes mixing, music and SFX editing, ADR, foley.  Extensive Digital Audio Workstation experience including Avid Audio Vision, Pro Tools, Fairlight MFX3, several others.

1990-1992

·        Senior Staff Engineer, Lion Share Recording Studios, Los Angeles, CA 

1985-1989

·        Chief Engineer, Baby O’ Recorders, Los Angeles, CA 
Heavy experience with all areas of record, film, and TV music production.  Supervised maintenance department and trained staff engineers.
        

1983-1985

·        Grammy nomination for “Best Engineered Recording” for John Cougar Mellencamp’s “American Fool.”  (1983) (Platinum times five, two Gold singles)

·        Chief Engineer/Production Manager, Mirror Image Audio, real-time tape duplication

1976-1983

·        Chief Engineer/Staff Producer, Lansing Sound Studios / Spirit Records, Okemos, MI
Created professional recording environment contributing to the growth of Spirit Records.  Managed staff, performed all maintenance, produced and engineered numerous albums for Spirit Records.

·        Chief Engineer, The Swamp, Parshallville, MI (Owned by Grand Funk Railroad)
Reworked an existing rehearsal studio into a state-of-the-art recording facility.  Acoustic and electronic design.  Recorded albums for Grand Funk, Mark Farner, and Don Brewer.

1970-2009

·        Sound System Engineer/Mixing Engineer/Tour Manager
Designed, constructed, and operated concert sound systems for major performing artists in U.S., Europe, and Japan.