Steve Sagady

Resume:

Steve Sagady has worked for 20 years in the video production industry with 8 additional years before that in professional audio. He has designed and constructed over a dozen separate production facilities in Southern California including state-of-the-art digital production technology, non-linear edit bays, field production packages, mobile production vans, and custom audio-video systems. Steve has additional skills as a CMX editor, Avid Editor, Videographer, Technical Director, Production Supervisor, Director of Photography, and Time-Lapse Cinematographer.

1970-1973 California Polytechnic University San Luis Obispo, CA

Bachelor of Science in Electronic Engineering

• Cum Laude

2002-Present  TV Magic  San Diego, CA

Project Engineer

• Design Engineer for the Radio, Film Television department's screening room at Cal State Northridge as part of an overall TV Magic consultancy.
• Design Engineer and Project manager for the Digital infrastructure rebuild of Trinity Broadcasting's Tustin Ca. network operations and production center.
• Design engineer and Project manager for implematation of a 9 channel HD/SD master control for Trinty brodcasting in Tustin Ca.

2000-2002  CBT Systems  San Diego, CA

Senior Systems Engineer

• Project Engineer for the construction of KABC's new news, production, technical operations center  and studio facilities in Glendale, Ca
• Design Engineer for video sports training and educational systems at SDSU's Sports facilities
• Design Engineer for Major League Soccer fly pack edit system
• Design Engineer for National Semiconductor's studio, control, Avid edit and remote production systems .

Project Engineer / Contractor

• Project Engineer for the construction of XETV's new news, production, technical operations center  and studio facilities in San Diego.

Chief Engineer, Avid Editor

• Relocation, redesign, and installation of production studios for national cable promotion firm. Including linear CMX edit bay, 2 Avid 9000 edit suites, and Avid Audio Vision suite all tied to 14 machine tape room with both analog and digital VTRs. Responsible for maintenance, repair and upgrading of facility including an extensive in-house computer network and graphics work stations. Also responsible for implementation of T1 line, web/email server and all internet related issues as the web master.

1980-1999 Crystal Visions Associates Santa Barbara, CA

Owner, Engineer, Cinematographer

• Video production consultation, design, installation and maintenance services to clients and facilities throughout Southern California. Client list available on request.
• Emmy award-winning custom and stock time-lapse photographic services. Specializing in astral time-lapse footage and local scenics

1996-1997 Verdugo Private Industry Council Burbank, CA

Technical Advisor, Instructor

• Staff instructor in state-funded job-retraining program for former aerospace engineers. Students received classroom and on-site instruction in VTR service, problem-solving maintenance and familiarization with post-production environment.

1985-1995 Quantum Video Santa Barbara, CA

Chief Engineer, CMX Editor

• Design, purchasing, installation and maintenance of full service broadcast oriented production company. Facilities included D2 digital online edit bay, two analog edit bays, graphics suite and audio production room. D2, Betacam SP, one inch and 3/4 inch video tape formats were used. In addition, engineering for four-camera mobile production van, four EFP field packages, and systems administration of The Cable Rep Novell Network.

1982-1985 Walt Davis Enterprises Hollywood, CA

Sales Engineer, Service Manager

• System design and installation of 3/4 inch edit bays, multi-camera production systems and video tape duplication systems. Servicing of Sony, JVC and Panasonic industrial and broadcast video products.

1984-1985 Impact Studios Hollywood, CA

Technical Director

• Technical direction for multi-camera productions shot on-location and in-studio as well as on line and offline editing of those projects.

1974-1982 Santa Barbara Sound Santa Barbara, CA

Audio Engineer

• Design, construction and installation of 16 track recording console and studio facilities for Two:Dot Studios in Ojai. Studio maintenance, location recording, editing, session engineering and consulting for 24 track studio in Santa Barbara. Clients included Joe Walsh, Jim Messina, Kenny Loggins, Dr. Hook and Shel Silverstein.

Awards

• 1995 Emmy Award Nomination - Editing
• 1994 Emmy Award - Cinematography

Partial list of clients

Trinty Brocasting, Cal State Northridge, National Semiconductor, SDSU, KABC 7 Los Angles, Fox 6 San Diego, Audio Industries, Brooks Institute of Photography, Bulldog Video, Chuck McCann, EC Productions, Hollywood Chamber of Commerce, Intervideo Network, Jean Michel Cousteau Productions, Lobo and Associates, Melrose Stage, Merl Haggart, Michael’s Company, Nexxus Products, Paramount Pictures, Rock Hudson, Santa Barbara Research Center, Thomas Horton Associates, Transformational Technologies, Via Visions Productions, Videoworks, David Wolper.

 References Available Upon Request

Time-Lapse Demo Reels Available

 

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