Manager, Audio-Visual Services Warner Center Hilton and Towers, Los Angeles, CA. 1990-93 Directed audiovisual operations for a 30,000 square-foot hotel/convention facility. Successfully channeled the hotel's AV services from outside vendor to in-house operation, allowing for significant increases in rental service revenue. Manage personnel, facilities, and equipment manifests for business meetings and live events. Clients: Transamerica, Redken, Mobil, Weyerhaeuser, Syncor. I lived here in LA when the riots hit. Lived in the Valley. Always carry a return ticket . Satellite Producer ThinkVision, San Jose, CA. 1988-90 Provided teleproduction services for various Silicon Valley hi-tech corporations. Primarily teleconferencing and related media. Involved with the initial communications for Apple's Quicktime software. Provided confidential media services to SRI International, a respected Stanford, CA. research facility. Clients: Apple Computer, Hewlett-Packard, Sun Microsystems, Tandem Computers, SRI, Claris, Fujitsu. Actually, I now wish I would have moved out to San Jose about eight years later than I did. Then I wouldn't have missed the "gold rush." Instead, on October 17, 1989, at about 5:04 pm, I became extremely intimate with Miss Loma Prieta.