Joshua Sultan	412.5 Chamberlain St. Raleigh, NC 27607 electrochemical@gmail.com (919) 219-6916

Objective:

Employment within a creative production environment which utilizes my practical and creative experience to it's fullest potential. (film, theater, concert, event or television)

Education:

Pikes Peak Community College

1997 - 1998

Associates - General Arts, Completed first year of courses toward AA degree. 3.86 g.p.a.

East Valley Institute of Technology 1994 -1995

Certificate of Completion - Television/Studio Production Program, Honor Roll. 4.0 g.p.a.

Experience:

I.A.T.S.E. 417: Stagehand

August 2006 - Present

Working primarily at Duke and Chapel Hill Universities as Rigger, Stage Manager, Fly men, Deck Electrician, Spotlight Operator. At Duke for the Ballet Department and Student Dance Snow's. Also working concert and convention's around the Triangle.

Carolina Pinnacle Studios: Dolly Grip/ Best Boy June 2007

Dolly Grip/Best-boy for filming of a national commercial for a cosmetic's company.

Fiddler on the Green Amphitheater: Stage Manager

July 2006

Facilitated and ran large crews for two events at the theater. Duties included preparing the theater for the show and overseeing the stagehands to safely set-up and take-down the events.

Already Seen Productions “Deja Vu”: Rigging Gaffer

April 2006 – June 2006

Rigged lighting equipment and electrical equipment for the feature film “Deja Vu”. Produced by Jerry Bruckheimer.

House of Blues New Orleans: Stagehand

March 2006 – July 2006

Prepared and facilitated lighting, and audio for national, regional, and local acts. Worked on stage for a variety of tasks during concerts.

Emergency Communities Non-Profit Relief Camp: Site Electrician, Communications

Feb. 2006 - July 2006

Helped maintain three disaster relief camps funded by United Way serving victim's of Hurricane Katrina and Rita.

I.A.T.S.E. 38 Detroit, MI: Stagehand

Dec. 2005 – Feb. 2006

Max Fischer Theater, Nederlander Theater, Super bowl 2006. Carbon Arc Spotlight Operator, Truss Focus, Lighting, Carpenter, Half Time Run Crew.

City of Madison Overture Center Madison, WI: Stage Tech. May 2005 – Sept. 2005

Inventory / Maintain Gel Color. Maintain conventional lighting fixtures.Various maintenance on audio, electric, soft goods, stage, and rigging systems. Support Technical Director, Theater Technician's, and Theater Clients.

I.A.T.S.E. 251 Madison, WI: Stagehand Oct. 2000 – Feb. 2006

Madison Opera, Madison Repertoire Theater, Canopy Dance, National Broadway. Lighting, Run Crew, Spotlight, Audio, etc.

Special Skills:

Condor Operator

Telescoping Forklift Operator

Scissor Lift Operator

Generator Operator

Non-Linear Video Editing

Composing

Audio Production

DV Camera Operator

Wireless 802.11 Installation

Highly Adaptive

Extreme Endurance
Ingenuity

Reference's Available on Request.

I've been testing two new live distro's. The first is http://www.slax.org. I really like the look and feel of this. The modules (free software, or GNUpl) is excellent and compares well and or blows away windows. It is fairly intuitive on getting it up and running but for the complete new user it could take time to get it up and running.
All that you really need to do to get Slax is visit the website and download a copy of the version that appeals to you. After that restart your computer with the disk in your main drive, you may need to enter your system bios (it may sound daunting but it is fairly safe and easy to set the computer's first boot device to cdrom). Once you have achieved this the Slax begins to run itself from the cdrom leaving no permanant changes to your computers windows settings or personal files. It will eventually come up to a login screen; here you type in root (which in windows would be the administrator account) and the password is root backwards toor. Then up comes the # sign which is the linux equivalent to :/ here you choose your desktop interface somthing which the open source community has completly outdone microsoft in customization. I almost always type startx.
Once the cd runs through its setup, which takes from 1-5 minutes depending on your computer,(usually faster than a windows boot!) Up comes a desktop similar to microsofts windows product line, but better, it's free.
More to come in part 2 where I will feature booting Elive, an amazing audio video production livecd!!!!

"My Digital Home Studio Dream"

My interest in recording sound began when I was about 10 years old. I had a very inexpensive cassette player that I would record my own scripted comedy news casts on. Being on a budget even then I worked with what I had to accomplishmy goal. Same as now.

I live in a college town, come around twice a year the students leave town, leaving on the curb old computers, monitors, "broken" gadgets, and things they simply don't want to move. I find so many cool things it's become a hobby of mine to go mining for treasure at these times of the year. In comes my fascination with Linux.

Windows is a pig. It take forever to load, you need to go way out of your way to find drivers for second-hand devices, not to mention the cost. This left no alternative but the Gnu/Linux environmet.

I have been using the Damn Small Linux live cd for a couple of years now. This OS is great to test hardware for functionality. Most standard devices are automatically recognized and configured at boot up. Devices such as scanners, tv tuner cards, and webcam's can be difficult if not impossible to get functional in this envirnoment without research, patience, and a little luck. Standad devices such as network cards, cd/dvd -r -rw, and usb storage seem to work flawlessyly in the DSL environment. It also comes stock with Firefox, and a host of other utilities and standard office software. Above all is the cost, free. Ease of use; burn a copy on a cd-rom disk, put it in the drive of computer, turn it on and watch it go.

Well after my intial experiments in the gnu/linux environment using DSL, I finally mustered the courage to try Fedora 4. While it offers a bautiful package using the KDE Desktop, it's functionality with multimedia devices lacks considrably. I had heard a lot about Mark Shutellworthy and Ubuntu, so I decided to give it a try. I fell in love with Ubuntu it has replaced my eula os wme as my primary OS of choice. I highly recommend this package.

The community that is involved with Ubuntu at large are the most friendly, helping, open-minded group I have met. Within days of installation I had most of my hardware functionaing and sat down and recorded my first song using Audacity. While some of my hardware; My TV Card (AI Tech Wave Watcher PCI) and my Dell usb all in one printer fax scanner, are still disfunctional in the environment. With some Googling, Ubuntu Wiki research, and irc.freenode.com #ubuntu attention I think I can get those working. My intention is to replace my Windows dependancy completly, and I am close to that goal with Ubuntu Breezy Badger.

More on my actual trials and error within the configuration of the Ubuntu kernel to suit my needs in my next installment.