Brandon Yates

Current

Owner at Yates & Parks Consulting

Past

Video Engineer/Computer Technician at 2004 Summer Olympics Torch Relay
Video Engineer/Computer Technician at Ironman Triathlon Kona, Hawaii
Owner at Big B Engineering (Sole Proprietorship)

Flint operator/ Video Tech at Tapestry Productions
Camera Operator/ Video technician at CableVision of Norwalk CT
Kid with too many computers at Miscellaneous

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Education

New York University
School of Visual Arts

Recommended

7 people have recommended Brandon

Connections

108 connections

Industry

Motion Pictures and Film

Websites

My Company

Brandon Yates’s Summary

We design, install and support high end professional editorial, effects and audio workstations for video post production and visual effects companies in the metropolitan NY area. We can help you design your new facility, create workflow strategies and solutions, install full edit suites, update your machine room, clean up your cabling and patch bays, help you migrate between platforms, and much more.

Brandon Yates’s Specialties:

• Final Cut Pro, Avid Media Composer (We have installed over 2000 Avids)
• Autodesk Flame/Smoke, ProTools.
• Video and Audio systems Design, Patchbay and Routers.
• Full service video/audio engineering
• Avid Unity, XSAN, FiberJet, EditShare troubleshooting
• VTR maintenance
• Monitor Calibration
• P2 and RED workflow training

Brandon Yates’s Experience

Owner

Yates & Parks Consulting

(Partnership; 1-10 employees; Computer Hardware industry)

January 1998 — Present (11 years 7 months)

Video Consulting
Video Engineer/Computer Technician

2004 Summer Olympics Torch Relay

(Broadcast Media industry)

June 2004 — July 2004 (2 months)

It's all a blur to me... Something about a torch, and a bunch of video equipment....
Sydney, Australia / Melbourne, Australia
Tokyo, Japan / Seoul, South Korea
Beijing, China / Delhi, India
Cairo, Egypt / Cape Town, South Africa
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil / Mexico City, Mexico
Los Angeles, USA / Saint Louis, USA
Atlanta, USA / New York City, USA
Montreal, Canada / Antwerp, Belgium
Brussels, Belgium / Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Geneva, Switzerland / Lausanne, Switzerland
Paris, France / London, United Kingdom
Barcelona, Spain / Rome, Italy
Munich, Germany / Berlin, Germany
Stockholm, Sweden / Helsinki, Finland
Moscow, Russia / Kiev, Ukraine
Istanbul, Turkey / Sofia, Bulgaria
Nicosia, Cyprus / Athens, Greece
Video Engineer/Computer Technician

Ironman Triathlon Kona, Hawaii

(Broadcast Media industry)

October 2002 — October 2002 (1 month)

Build and support the on-site edit systems for the Triathlon, also in charge of finding the best Pineapples.

Work is for 2 weeks every year since 2002.
Owner
Big B Engineering (Sole Proprietorship)

(Sole Proprietorship; Myself Only; Computer Hardware industry)

January 1990 — 1997 (7 years)

Freelance video engineer, installed and fixed mostly Avids... too many.
Flint operator/ Video Tech

Tapestry Productions

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Motion Pictures and Film industry)

January 1989 — December 1990 (2 years)

Worked on G.I. Joe, and Transformers commercials.
2D Graphics, and beta tested HD film scanners.
Camera Operator/ Video technician

CableVision of Norwalk CT

(Broadcast Media industry)

January 1987 — January 1989 (2 years 1 month)

Studio camera operation and Technical director for various public access programs.
Kid with too many computers

Miscellaneous

(Computer Software industry)

January 1986 — January 1989 (3 years 1 month)

Programmed various computer based scheduling systems for Darien High School and WLVR-FM 91.3 MHz.