Reid A. Woodbury Jr.
18631 Colllins St. #32
Tarzana  CA  91356  USA

voice/cell:  818-749-6065
fax service: 425-920-5190
e-mail:      reidw@rawsound.com

OBJECTIVE

Desire a position to build and create software applications and embedded controllers extending talents in software engineering and sound design. Experienced with basic computer applications, most standard UNIX daemons, several programming languages and basic digital signal processing. Received a Master of Science in Computer Science degree at California State University, Northridge.

WORK EXPERIENCE

2007 - present	WorkCompCentral.com	Camarillo, California
Web programming and design using PHP, ColdFusion, Javascript, CSS, MySQL doing maintanance and updates of their web site.

2006		dts - Digital Theatre Systems	Agoura Hills, California
Contractor for C++ programming and QA listening tests to assist in release of next version of audio encoding software product.

2005 - 2006	Guitar Center	Thousand Oaks, California
Contractor for MySQL, PHP, JavaScript programmer; SAGE Level II System Administrator Mac OS X
Lead programmer for in-house, browser based, catalog design program and other workflow assistance programs. OS X (UNIX) administration of platforms that perform required tasks.

2000 - 2001  Alesis Studio Electronics  Santa Monica, California
Fulltime C++ Programmer/Senior Technician
Responsible for in-house programming, software and hardware testing, digital signal processing, and sharing audio industry expertise.
-> Sole programmer for released Macintosh software "A6 Helper," a musical synthesizer settings manager with a drag-and-drop GUI with MIDI (serial) communication to the instrument. Available at:
http://www.rawsound.com/programs/
-> Designed off-line audio sample rate converter based on convolution engine (FIR) for data decimation and interpolation. This algorithm generates coefficients on the fly depending on the source file and desired output.

1985 - present  Freelance Sound Designer  Los Angeles
Sound editor and sound mixer for over 200 films and television episodes. Partial credit list available on the industry web site The Internet Movie Database at:  http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0940183/.
-> Hired, trained, and managed assistants and other editors as needed. Many music recording and editing projects, and theatre sound designs. Also, modified or built many audio op-amp and digital control circuits. Developed strong background of high fidelity audio op-amp design.
-> Developed the commercially released program called "Tracks!". This translates the binary sound editing document into a printable file suitable for reference on a sound mixing stage, an "editor's track sheets" Available at:  http://www.rawsound.com/tracks/.
-> Created software that identifies separate sound effect "takes" in commercially released libraries using DSP coding techniques. The software performs amplitude detection, transient detection, and filtering using Infinite Impulse Response (IIR) filtering. It also applies names from the library's database while separating them into individual files.
-> Developed post-production auto-conform software. Program takes a video EDL (Edit Decision List text) or text log from an edited film and produces a binary file that can be opened and used by a popular sound editing program which internally used relational database techniques to organize information. It reduced the editors work load by 10-15%.
-> Designed and/or modified several digital and analog audio electronic circuits to manage the shortfalls of off-the-shelf equipment. This includes signal switching and high quality analog to digital conversion.

1989 - 1991  Glendale Public School District  Glendale, California
Substitute Teacher
Specialized in grades 7-12 teaching math, music, and theatre.

1981 - 1985  UMKC Conservatory of Music Recording Department  KC, MO
Staff Sound Engineer
Performed concert & recital recording, tape duplication, editing, live and taped radio broadcasts; and outside client projects, including music demos, radio commercials, and audio for video productions.
-> Guest lecturer for Acoustics for Musicians class at the Conservatory. Demonstrated use of classic Moog IIIp modular synthesizer, analog synthesis, and basic acoustics.

1982 - 1984  The Missouri Repertory Theatre (Equity)  Kansas City, Missouri
Sound Technician
Performed sound equipment setup and sound effects playback. Assisted sound designer in preparing sound effects for productions.

PUBLICATIONS

-> Author "An Interview with Tom Holman" of Lucasfilm Ltd. design team leader of the THX Sound System for Speaker Builder Magazine, Petersborough, NH (4/90 & 5/90).
-> Author "M-S Speaker System" (1988) on speaker design based on MS stereo mic'ing technique (1984) published 1/89 also for Speaker Builder Magazine.
Reprints of both available on web site:  http://www.rawsound.com/articles/.

EDUCATION

2002 - 2006  CSUN, California State University, Northridge
Masters of Science in Computer Science. GPA: 3.34.
-> Graduate papers available at: http://www.rawsound.com/~reid/papers/.

1989 - 2001  Glendale Community College  Glendale, California
Various classes of Java, C and C++ programming, and UNIX shell scripting (Programming Certificate candidate).

1983 - 1985  University of Missouri Kansas City, Engineering Department
Two years study toward BSEE.

1984  DeVry Institute of Technology  Kansas City, Missouri
One semester study toward an electronics degree.

1979 - 1982  University of Missouri Kansas City, Conservatory of Music  KC, MO
-> Received Bachelor of Arts in Music (1982).
Additional classes in music theory, electronic music, audio recording, theatre, and conducting.

1977 - 1979  Missouri Western State College  St. Joseph, Missouri
Music education. Additional study in electronics and theatre.

AWARDS AND RECOGNITION

-> Write-up and photo in L.A. Times about theatre sound designs (1988).
-> Received "The Mackie" for best sound designer for UMKC Theatre Department (1985).
-> Second place in Composer Guild Composition Competition (1984).

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

2002 - present  An Claidheamh Soluis, The Celtic Arts Center of Southern California
http://www.celticartscenter.com/
Resident Sound Designer
-> Sound designs for their professional theatre productions
-> Assists in sound reinforcement for live music concerts
-> Program and manage an internet radio station featuring the Center's membership
http://www.rawsound.com/~acs/

2004 - present  Sarah Fulton Group
http://www.sarahfultongroup.com/
Resident Sound Designer
-> Sound designs for their professional theatre productions

SPECIAL INTERESTS

Setup and maintained a small Macintosh based network and web site. That network includes a NAT, firewall, and web & streaming media applications. Regular network backups were performed. Personal digital video editing projects. Performed web-site design, graphics design, and understand graphic file formats. Knowledge of basic typesetting. Am familiar with all the basic office computing software, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, FileMaker Pro, Denaba Canvas. Familiar with sound studio acoustics and architecture. Studied psychoacoustics and audio forensics. Enjoys choir singing and music in general. Plays piano and studied several other instruments.

ELECTIVE CLASSES FOR MASTERS PROGRAM

UNIX Programming
Database Design (SQL)
Graphic Systems (low-level algorithm design)
Embedded Systems
Parallel & Distributed Systems
Thesis: "An Algorithm for Lossless Audio Compression" available at:
http://www.rawsound.com/~reid/papers/

KEYWORDS

Programmer, Macintosh, C/C++, DSP, Digital Signal Processing, Embedded, Metrowerks, Network, Web Server, Gateway, Firewall, Published Writer, Audio Circuit Design, Digital Circuit Design, Information Technology, CodeWarrior, Xcode, Audio Forensics, Sound Design, Sound Editor, Psycho-acoustics, Word, Excel, Canvas, Pro Tools, Premiere, UNIX, Shell, MySQL, PHP, JavaScript