Technical Director
• Oversee the implementation and coordination of all production logistics and physical elements of the Theatre Department’s main season of performances, special productions and presentations, and on-site special events.
• Coordinate non-departmental events with the office of the Dean of Fine and Performing Arts.
• Production budget input and implementation.
• Oversee the technical and design advance work of Departmental productions and presentations.
• Facilitate communication between the various artistic and production teams.
• Attend departmental, production and season planning meetings.
• Create and maintain production master schedules/calendars
• Detail Technical rehearsal schedules
• Design schedules
• Schedules of Space Usage
• Build Schedule
• Create and revise production handbook
• Supervise Stage Managers, Scenic and sound design students and all student technicians
• Oversee Technical Rehearsals
• Create preliminary budget estimate from preliminary scenic designs
• Create final budget estimate from scenic design finals
• Stay within time and monetary budgets for shows
• Research, organize and acquire materials
• Maintain all paperwork required for purchasing
• Create construction drawings for all scenic elements
• Research and develop structural engineering information for scenic elements
• Supervise ATD, Master Carpenter, Carpenters, scenic build crew, Scenic Charge, Scenic artists, deck/crew chief
• Design and implement all rigging for productions
• Maintain tools
• Maintain house rigging
• Implement and maintain a safe and efficient work space
• Plan and supervise load-ins and strikes
• Coordinate with Costume Shop Manager, Master Electrician and Sound Engineer on cross departmental projects or on scenic elements that affect or are affected by other areas.
• Work with Stage Manager and Deck chief to ensure all aspects and functions of the scenery are understood.
• Hire student labor for outside events and as carpentry staff
• Teach courses in Stagecraft, advanced stagecraft, and technical drawing (AutoCAD)
• Design scenery as needed
• Design sound as needed

Studio Arena Theatre ~ June 2001 to May 2005
Technical Director
• Collaborated with Broadway and Off-Broadway Designers for six to seven shows per season
• Supervised ATD, IATSE shop of 5, paint crew and up to fifteen over-hires per show
• Responsible for hiring union and non-union employees
• Controlled an operating budget of over $350,000 per season
• Managed material budgets ranging from $5,000 to $18,000 per show
• Created preliminary budget estimate from preliminary scenic designs
• Create final budget estimate from scenic design finals
• Stayed within time and monetary budgets for shows
• Researched, organized and acquired materials
• Created construction drawings for scenic elements
• Research and develop structural engineering information for scenic elements
• Created schedules for the build, load-in, and strike of all shows.
• Designed engineering, motor control, rigging, and special effects.
• Collaborated with other theatres in the co-productions of shows
• Designed scenery for three shows

University of Montana, Department of Drama/Dance ~ August 1999 to May 2001
Technical Director
• Responsible for budgeting, scheduling, and engineering for scenery of all regular season shows
• Collaborated with faculty, guest, and student designers for four shows and a dance concert per season
• Managed material budgets ranging from $700 to $14,000 per show
• Maintained tools
• Maintained house rigging
• Implemented and maintained a safe and efficient work space
• Planned and supervised load-ins and strikes
• Designed rigging for productions
• Research and develop structural engineering information for scenic elements
• Created construction drawings for all scenic elements
• Stayed within time and monetary budgets for shows
• Research, organize and acquire materials
• Responsible for hiring of scene shop staff
• Supervised crews of up to eighteen people
• Coordinate with Costume Shop Manager, Master Electrician and Sound Engineer on cross departmental projects or on scenic elements that affect or are affected by other areas.
• Taught carpentry, cabinetry, welding, and rigging

Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival ~ Summer 1998 to 2000
Technical Director
• Supervised Scenic, Lighting, Props, and Sound Departments
• Responsible for budgeting, scheduling, and engineering for the scenery of five plays per season for two seasons
• Worked with budgets ranged from $1500 to $5000 per show
• Responsible for hiring and supervising a scene shop staff of nine, supervising and planning of all strikes and load-ins

Assistant Technical Director
• Worked with Technical Director to create budgeting, scheduling, and technical drawings for four shows, two of which ran in a rotating rep
• Material budgets ranged from $2,000 to $5000 per show
• Created construction drawings
• Designed and built motor control devices.
• Supervised a staff of nine, including teaching welding, rigging and carpentry techniques to staff

Dallas Theater Center ~ August 97-April 1999
Assistant Technical Director
• Worked with Technical Director to create long term and daily schedules
• Created construction drawings for a traveling set with a $9000 budget.
• Supervised a staff of five
• Maintained Tools
• Researched and purchased Materials

Scene Shop Foreman
• Primary responsibilities include maintaining tools, ordering and purchasing supplies, shop safety, rigging and scenic construction for five shows
• Supervised a staff of four with the Technical Director and the Assistant Technical Director
• Responsible for drafting some construction drawings.

Carpenter
• Responsible for scenery construction, rigging, load-in and strike for six
• Worked with wood, steel, aluminum, fabric, plastics, and foam.

Skills
• Carpentry (Scenic and Cabinetry) • MIG Welding (Steel and Aluminum) • Blacksmithing • Rigging Engineering and Implementation (including flying people on rope, wire rope, and bungee) • Motor Control • Prop Construction • Scenic Painting • Foam Carving • Structural Engineering • Drafting (AutoCAD 14 through 2002, Currently playing with 2007) • MS Word • MS Excel • MS PowerPoint • Dreamweaver MX • Paint Shop/Photo shop • Sewing • Metal Sculpture  • Rock Climbing

Education
One year of the MFA program in Scenic Design, University of Cincinnati, College Conservatory of Music
Bachelor of Arts, Hanover College, 1994