Ryan Council
ryanrcou@hotmail.com
1315 Sand Lime Road Winter Garden, FL. 34787
407-347-5871 / 757-339-7965
Dedicated Audiovisual Technician, Director, and Manager with over 10 years experience, in broadcast news, live concerts, sales and marketing campaigns and corporate meetings and events.
Respected leader of family entertainment events; enthusiastic commitment to customer service as a key vision for
productions and national meetings. Ability to perform under high stress
circumstances during live events. Delivered excellent creative AV work to all
clients for events and marketing campaigns and
improved sales performance for family entertainment functions.
Audiovisual
Technician, Georgia Regents University, Sept. 2012 - July 2013
Provide technical support for all classroom sessions and research hospital executive meetings. Major role involves working with products and applications like Cisco WebEx technology for live executive level broadcasts and recordings, and Polycom and Tanberg distance-learning equipment for class session broadcasts. Provided service and maintenance for all audio-visual equipment on campus.
Audiovisual
Technician, Dominion Enterprises, April 2007- July 2012:
Provided technical support for all corporate training sessions and executive meetings. Major role involved working with products and applications like Mediasite (Sonic Foundry) for live broadcasts and recordings, and Polycom and other various distance-learning or web-conference equipment. Provided service and maintenance for all audio-visual equipment in corporate headquarters and remote support for satellite offices. Worked with AV contractors throughout the course of my employment on new bids for AV redesign projects and upgrades. Produced corporate videos to market various verticals within the company.
Freelance Audiovisual Technician, SWANK, May 2006 - July 2012:
Set up and operated audio and video equipment for large corporate and family entertainment events. Upgraded sales on rental packages, supervised and trained other technicians, and worked as a liaison between the director, hotel management and clients.
Lead Audiovisual Technician, PSAV, November 2005- April 2007:
Set up and breakdown of audio and video and staging equipment for large corporate and family entertainment events. Trained and managed audio-visual crew. Liaison between clients and hotel management. Upgrade sales on rental packages and developed repeat customers.
Floor Director/ Camera Operator/ Chyron
Operator, Key Grip
May 2005 – 2006. WVEC13 ABC, Norfolk, VA.
Cinemark Movie Theater Manager: Created a strong buying atmosphere for movie patrons to buy tickets and concessions. Creatively conceived fresh and innovative marketing strategies in promoting new movie releases in the local theater and advocated to improve the frequency in which families attended a movie showing at our theater. Supervised a staff of thirty to forty employees and handled daily cash-out and accounting ledgers.
Floor Director/ Robotics Camera Operator/
Chyron Operator,
December
1999- August 2002. WTVJ NBC-6, Miramar, FL.
Distance
Learning Technician, Florida International University, 1999.
Various
Freelance Projects including marketing campaigns, commercials and music
videos. 1999-Present. (Production Resume upon request)
CERTIFICATION
SPECIAL SKILLS
Media
Site, Polycom, GoTo Meeting, Final Cut Pro, Adobe Premier Pro, Sonic Music, all
broadcast television equipment, AV set design, various ENG cameras, 16 mm film
and digital cameras, 1st A.C., lighting director, marketing and script
writing.
EDUCATION
Full Sail University, Winter Park, Florida
Master in
Entertainment Business, (in progress: to be completed by August 2014)
Regent University, Virginia Beach, Virginia
Master of
Arts in Communications, May 2005
Florida International University, North
Miami, Florida
Bachelor of Science in Journalism and Mass
Communications, December 2000
All transcripts, references, and demo
reels are available upon request.
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