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Experience

Head of Lighting

Royal Opera House, Muscat, Oman
December 2022 - Current

  • Scheduling and budgets.
  • Oversee and develop all aspects of lighting department.
  • Lighting design for events, concerts and theatre.
  • Planning of a three-phase upgrade project of the main-house dimmers, houselights and working-light system.
  • Creating plans in AutoCAD and Vectorworks, including all plugging up information in Lightwright and documentation in MLA.
  • Liaising between departments to ensure smooth operations.
  • Risk Assessment, SOP, COSHH procedure, Risk Reviews and employee training matrix development.

Lighting Services, Consultating and Software Developer

Alex Lynn
August 2004 - Current

Providing services and consultancy in Project Management, Technical Lighting, Software Programming. Recent Projects:

  • Consultant software programmer for Elation.
  • Consultant project manager for English National Opera.
  • Hire and show software for Assembly Festival, Edinburgh.

Worked on a variety of projects, with roles ranging from Technical Manager, Project Manager, Production Electrician, Lighting Programmer, Software Programmer.

Lighting Manager

Dubai Opera, Dubai.
August 2017 - May 2020.
Deputy Lighting Manager, Dubai Opera, Dubai.
May 2016 - June 2017.

Responsible for a team of eight full time crew, with limited access to freelancers or casuals in the area. Significant time and detail spent training up our crew to uphold the high standards and work ethic.

  • Scheduling, quoting and budgets.
  • Oversee and develop all aspects of the lighting department: this has included re-designing the houselights, step-lights, installing new infrastructure and a new working light system.
  • Lighting design for events, concerts, corporate events and theatre.
  • Creating plans in AutoCAD and Vectorworks, including all plugging up information in Lightwright and documentation in MLA.
  • Creating layouts for events, including layout of staging, sound, video and lighting equipment.
  • Creating Vision demonstrations for clients.
  • Liaising between departments to ensure a smooth operation.
  • Risk Assessment, SOP, COSHH procedure, Risk Reviews and employee training matrix development.

Technical Management

IT Management

Lighting Programmer

Lighting Management

Lighting Other