JMBrowne
Member
Hello All,
I've benefited from many users on this forum and wanted to join the community to learn some more and help others.
A bit about me.... My day job is a structural engineer with a career focus on heavy lifting. While I haven't come up through a stage rigging career, I've worked on quite a few smaller projects as lead rigger. Flying truss or flying a 100 ton industrial machine is the same engineering and safety rules, really. My avatar is a shot from my most recent major stage rigging project.....rigging our entire production package out and back in our facility during some major structural renovations to the building.
I am currently a tech director for a small historic theater in southern NH. We are a volunteer organization, but our facility hosts many local dance studios, schools, drama companies, political events, and even a recent major media production. But our primary mission is maintaining our historic space and being an affordable, but quality venue for the smaller community groups in our area and supporting the local arts.
I tend to focus on lighting and rigging in our facility and would consider myself a competent lighting engineer, but amateur artistic designer. In most events outside of our facility, I am an audio engineer with about 10 years of consistent experience and own a small rig.
Hope to meet other pros from the area and learn as much as I can from whoever I can.
Biggest area I'd like to grow in right now is how to maximize an older Altman lighting plot to get the most out of it. Even if we had the money, I'm hesitant to convert our system over to newer fixtures (which I do prefer) as I'd like to keep the historical feel of our space.
My ultimate goal would be to have an old school system that is maintained properly and has the proper accessories to get the most out of the fixtures.
I've benefited from many users on this forum and wanted to join the community to learn some more and help others.
A bit about me.... My day job is a structural engineer with a career focus on heavy lifting. While I haven't come up through a stage rigging career, I've worked on quite a few smaller projects as lead rigger. Flying truss or flying a 100 ton industrial machine is the same engineering and safety rules, really. My avatar is a shot from my most recent major stage rigging project.....rigging our entire production package out and back in our facility during some major structural renovations to the building.
I am currently a tech director for a small historic theater in southern NH. We are a volunteer organization, but our facility hosts many local dance studios, schools, drama companies, political events, and even a recent major media production. But our primary mission is maintaining our historic space and being an affordable, but quality venue for the smaller community groups in our area and supporting the local arts.
I tend to focus on lighting and rigging in our facility and would consider myself a competent lighting engineer, but amateur artistic designer. In most events outside of our facility, I am an audio engineer with about 10 years of consistent experience and own a small rig.
Hope to meet other pros from the area and learn as much as I can from whoever I can.
Biggest area I'd like to grow in right now is how to maximize an older Altman lighting plot to get the most out of it. Even if we had the money, I'm hesitant to convert our system over to newer fixtures (which I do prefer) as I'd like to keep the historical feel of our space.
My ultimate goal would be to have an old school system that is maintained properly and has the proper accessories to get the most out of the fixtures.
