Lead Audio & Visual Technician @ Ottawa Carleton District School Board
Experience Highlights
- Managed a team of 15 techs enabling nine live productions with audiences of 600+
- Worked directly with speakers and musicians to negotiate creative solutions that consistently exceeded their expectations while aligning with rehearsal and venue conditions
- Fostered an artist-first and solutions-oriented culture, creating a self-sustaining student AV team, that achieved efficiency through constant collaboration and optimism under pressure
- Developed auditorium request forms that streamlined communications between event organizers and the AV department, saving up to 4 hours of rehearsal time per production
- Onboarded and developed a training system for 15 new techs to gain skills in audio engineering using the Behringer X32 and lighting engineering using Obsidian Control Systems ONYX