Nicholas Chase

Current

Producer / Director at The Digital Cinema Society
Producer / Director / Camera at Nicholas Chase Digital Video Productions

Past

Project Management at Nicholas Chase Consulting
MediaStream customer support engineer at Avid Technologies and Services
MediaStream customer support engineer at Avid Technologies

Senior Project Manager at Media Vision Integration
Senior Technical Project Manager - Charlie's Cafe under Media Vision Integration at Google Inc.
Senior Systems Design Engineer / On-site Project Manager at Ascent Media Technologies and Services
Senior Systems Design Engineer at Ascent Media Technologies and Services
Chief Engineer at KTLN CH. 25 and Digital 47
Chief Engineer at Mediacopy
Senior Technical Support Engineer at Sony Broadband Solutions Group
Senior Systems Design Engineer at Sony Electronics
Senior Systems Design Engineer (Contract) at Sony Systems Integration

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Education

Pasdena City College

Recommended

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Connections

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Industry

Broadcast Media

Nicholas Chase’s Summary

Senior Technical Project Manager (contract), for Google's Charlie's Cafe, live broadcast television stage and control room upgrade project. Senior Project Manager for Google's Media Kitchen, Final Cut Pro edit suites, and production studio.

Senior live customer facing support engineer - tier three and four triage and upgrades for Avid MediaStream broadcast server product line.

Several customer facing roles as Sony Electronics, Inc. Senior Systems Design Engineer, on-site Project Manager, independently contracted for Verizon's (FIOS), 700+ channel, fiber-to-the-premises project nationwide, including participation in Motorola-based Super Digital Cable Headend designs, Headend integration, on-site implementation, component commissioning, customer-observed systems acceptance testing, additionally 10 years post-production technical support engineering, including satellite, sound services, re-recording and foley stages, software testing labs design, integration and NAB trade show engineering and technical support for Sony Electronics, Inc.

Chief Engineer of mass duplicator (77-million tapes / yr.) Project Management of entire plant refurbishment process, tracked maintenance of 23,000 VHS duplicators and Master Control VTRs / VCrs.

Chief Engineer of full-power digital and analog television station KTLN, responsible for 24 x 7 support of transmitters and full studio production and post division, including automated traffic system for broadcast playout to air. Responsible for Digital Broadcast migration processes, Project Management, design and integration of studio core infrastruture upgrade including three Final Cut Pro edit suites, Pro Tools suite, AVID suite and studio camera chains.

Nicholas Chase’s Specialties:

Senior technical project manager, including vendor coordination, customer liason, problem mitigation, solution-based alternatives, rapid resource obtainment in crisis-mode, extremely persistant in task resolution, attention to detail. Working knowlege of AutoCAD 2003, Microsoft Office suite and video editing / compositing / rendering software. Motorola Digital Cable Headend(s).

Nicholas Chase’s Experience

Producer / Director

The Digital Cinema Society

(Broadcast Media industry)

2009 — Present (less than a year)
Producer / Director / Camera

Nicholas Chase Digital Video Productions

(Broadcast Media industry)

January 2008 — Present (2 years )

Producing and directing various live and scripted high-definition television productions, commercials, and promotional segments for broadcast television and web clients.

Second-unit camera at American Classic Celebrity Golf Tournament in Lake Tahoe, CA following Michael Jordan, Jerry Rice, Charles Barkley and Ray Romano around 18-holes of golf for NBC-TV and Harrah's Hotel.

Principal videographer at BlogWorld Expo 2008, capturing twenty keynote and breakout sessions in two and one-half days.
Project Management

Nicholas Chase Consulting

(Public Company; AVID; Computer Software industry)

March 2008 — November 2009 (1 year 9 months)

On site project Senior Technical Project Manager at Google's Charlie's Cafe and Media Kitchen upgrade project(s). Customer-facing role for extremely time-compressed and aggressive deliverables requirement during usage of the live broadcast stage /studio schedules and Final Cut Pro edit suites.
MediaStream customer support engineer

Avid Technologies and Services

(Broadcast Media industry)

2008 — 2008 (less than a year)
MediaStream customer support engineer

Avid Technologies

(Broadcast Media industry)

2008 — 2008 (less than a year)
Senior Project Manager

Media Vision Integration

(Broadcast Media industry)

2007 — 2008 (1 year )

Performed technical project management and systems design role for Solano County Emergency Response facilities including emergency team facilities and council chambers locations in a common building. Daily contact with Building Development staff for design acceptance and project schedule and budget sign-off.
Senior Technical Project Manager - Charlie's Cafe under Media Vision Integration

Google Inc.

(Broadcast Media industry)

2007 — 2008 (1 year )
Senior Systems Design Engineer / On-site Project Manager

Ascent Media Technologies and Services

(Public Company; ASCMA; Entertainment industry)

August 2005 — April 2006 (9 months)

Senior systems design engineer for Verizon FIOS fiber to the premises project nationwide. On site Project Management, design changes managed through self-authoring of Engineering Change Orders, component integration and configurations, technical support and acceptance testing of remote broadcast fiber sites in Virginia and Florida. Direct report was Assistant Program Manager, Ascent Media.
Senior Systems Design Engineer

Ascent Media Technologies and Services

(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Broadcast Media industry)

August 2004 — April 2005 (9 months)

Senior Systems Design Engineer for Verizon FTTP fiber-to-the-premises project nationwide. Onsite integration and acceptance testing, vendor coordination to meet multiple project milestones.
Chief Engineer

KTLN CH. 25 and Digital 47

(Non-Profit; 201-500 employees; Media Production industry)

February 2004 — April 2005 (1 year 3 months)

Chief Engineer in support of full power digital and analog television station, including full 24 x 7 responsibility for production division, post-production division, Master control, automated traffic playout to air, and equipment core design and implementation upgrades.
Chief Engineer

Mediacopy

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Broadcast Media industry)

November 2003 — September 2004 (11 months)

Chief Engineer fully responsible for 24 x 7 technical support of 23,000+ VHS / 77-million yearly output mass-duplication plant, including Master control configuration and total plant maintenance.
Senior Technical Support Engineer

Sony Broadband Solutions Group

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Broadcast Media industry)

December 1999 — September 2003 (3 years 10 months)

Senior Engineer in support of design, integration and testing for multiple digital cable headend, software development center testing labs, and broadcast automation / media asset management software projects. Direct customer facing roles at NAB tradeshow and Sony lab facilities. reconfiguration and preparation for software development testing for Digital Asset Management projects.
Senior Systems Design Engineer

Sony Electronics

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Telecommunications industry)

July 1995 — 1999 (4 years )

Created AutoCAD conceptual, synoptic, and rack elevation drawings / designs for multiple broadcast and post-production clients worldwide. Created detailed MS-Excel based equipment lists. Participated in customer-facing design review meetings to refine designs to budget and project milestone requirements. Attended engineering meetings for vendor knowledge transfer process.
Senior Systems Design Engineer (Contract)

Sony Systems Integration

(Broadcast Media industry)

1995 — 1999 (4 years )

Created AutoCAD conceptual, synoptic, and rack elevation drawings / designs for multiple broadcast and post-production clients worldwide. Created detailed MS-Excel based equipment lists. Participated in customer-facing design review meetings to refine designs to budget and project milestone requirements. Attended engineering meetings for vendor knowledge transfer process.

Nicholas Chase’s Education

Pasdena City College

Television Engineering 1974 — 1976

Deans Honors List

Activities and Societies:

Campus Broadcast Center Operations and Engineering, Remote Field Production Engineering