ABOUT
Sean T. Ray has been working in various fields of entertainment production in New York City since 2005. He specializes in all aspects of the business wether it be creating audible visual plans and designs, operating the various control systems, or handling client communications and sales. This sort of knowledge was built from the ground up over the last 15 years.
He began his work in New York as a production hand loading trucks, c containers and airplane freight palates for massive touring acts. Ran miles of copper, built massive amounts of truss structures and stages. Drove and loaded trucks filled with gear. Focused, circuited, and programmed thousands of production lights and handled massive amounts of power distribution. Mixed thousands of bands and panels of presentational speakers. Rigged countless amounts of gear in the air and on the ground. Switched video programs for basic and complex multiple screen presentations. Focused thousands of projectors and mapped them to 3 dimensional objects. Created and built temporary and permanent sets, studios, and cycloramas. Managed large LAN networks of remote operated equipment. Designed and installed intelligent permanent audio video and surveillance integrated systems in clubs, businesses, homes, bars, and restaurants. Created complete package music videos from design to delivery. Produced and provided technical direction for 5,000+ music festivals in NYC.
Before his arrival in New York he was a student at the University of Colorado where he studied Audio Engineering, Music and Music Industry related studies. It was here that he had the opportunity to learn and work with some of the best in the business of studio recording. During this time he worked by day in sales at a pro audio and musical instrument supply store, by night at two large venues as a FOH audio engineer, all while self managing and booking his own national touring bands, and running a small recording studio built in his basement.
He grew up immersed in the arts throughout his high school career. Participating as an actor in the school dramatic productions. Receiving a double letter jacket for his continued success in various forms of presentation on the speech team. Writing original songs and performing in various bands on multiple instruments. During all this artistic involvement he maintained good grades as well as athletic participation in a multiplicity of high school and outside competitive sports. His love for productions began in elementary school where he developed his creative problem solving skills in a program called odyssey of the mind. It was here where he first found his natural talents for developing an entire show and all of its working components from a simple phrase or idea that was issued to his team.
Communication
Organization
Multitasking
Planning
Ubiquity
Teamwork
Efficiency
Simplification