Jonathan S. Abrams

Jonathan S. Abrams is a member of AES, SBE, and an Apple Certified Support Professional (v10.5-9).

Jonathan S. Abrams is the Chief Technical Engineer at Nutmeg Post.  His primary focus is machine room and studio maintenance along with technical support for Mac OS X (client and server) and AVID Pro Tools.  His most recent publication was a User Report published in TV Technology on Nutmeg's use of the Avenue Signal Integration System by Ensemble Designs.  His other past publications include an article for the November 2007 issue of Broadcast Engineering and being interviewed for the main News article in the June 2007 issue of Post Magazine, which was also adapted for Digital Content Producer and Yamaha's Commercial Audio website.  He was first quoted in an article on surround sound in the October 2006 issue of Post Magazine.  His past audio engineering work includes: Sound editorial for "Red", a Time Will Tell and Panman/Soljan production, recording the commentary of Aaron Eckhardt for the DVD release of "Thank You For Smoking", ADR recording for Sean Reilly's "Amy's Rules" (independent), and post mixing for Erica Lutzker's "Orbiting Pluto" (independent).

Chief Technical Engineer at Nutmeg Post

May 2001 - Present

Maintenance and forward thinking for: o Eleven (11) mix studios based upon DIgidesign's Pro Tools | HDX o Machine room with various VTR and ISDN devices o System/Network Administrator for our LAN centered around Mac OS X Snow Leopard servers o Integrate OS X and Windows XP clients (most virtualized with Parallels Desktop). o Executed the reconfiguration of four (4) audio suites from the ground up and supervised the reconfiguration of a fifth.

Technical Engineer at Pilot NYC

July 2008 - October 2008

Design the technical infrastructure plan for Pilot NYC's facilities. This included five (5) Xserves, seven (7) Final Cut Studio stations, an Xsan v2 SAN using Promise hardware and QLogic switches, and an audio suite with Pro Tools|HD 2 Accel and Satellite Link LE.

Chief Engineer at WSAM Radio

June 1998 - May 2001 | 200 Bloomfield Ave, West Hartford, CT 06117

Maintain the facilities of the entirely student-operated radio station at the University of Hartford. This included relocating the air studio, maintaining the production studio, facilitating remote broadcasts (either via dry pair or remote transmitter), editing the website (HTML), and component level equipment maintenance.

New York University

2001 – 2005

M.M.

University of Hartford

1997 – 2001

B.M.

Concentration: Music Production and Technology

Activities: WSAM Radio, Alpha Chi

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