Online Resume For Barry Leitch

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Professional Experience

o 2004- Present Freelance
Barry Leitch Audio Studios
* Worked closely with one of the worlds largest chip manufacturer creating sound bank for a cell phone sound chip & 100 Ringtones.
* Several GBA Products.
* Created Sounds for use in consumer Healthcare products.
* Developed audio for many toy products.
* Developed audio for TV set top products.
* Dialogue Editing
* Developed audio for TV game products
* Film Foley
* SFX to Film
* Project Management for PC software title
* Album production & Mixing.

o 2000- 2004 Fisher Price Toys
Senior Music Production Engineer
Responsibilities included
* Setting up full music studio for multimedia production.
* Managing subcontractors for several projects at once.
* Producing audio for products. (composing, recording & programming onto IC)
* Meet with Design & Marketing departments to spec out what each product needed.
* Worked with Programming & Engineering to determine what was technically possible.
* Keep project builds up to date & backed up
* Developing and documenting best practices & procedures.
* Working closely with IC manufacturers ensuring hardware and software
are stable and useable while guiding them to design superior hardware.
* Creating sound effects
* Processing & Concatenating speech for several small IC's
* Mastering audio for small cabinet playback.

o 1998 - 2000 Atari Games, Milpitas, CA
Audio Manager / Composer
Responsibilities included
* Setting up full music studio for multimedia production.
* Trained students learning the aspects of audio development including data format
 transitions, composition, and chip development.
* Composing music and sound effects across several platforms

o 1995 - 1998 Boss Game Studios Redmond, WA
Audio Director
Responsibilities included
* Setting up full music studio for multimedia production.
* Composing music and sound effects across several platforms
* Hiring & Recording Vocal & session musicians.
* Designing optimal Nintendo 64 Music driver & development kit.

o 1993 - 1995 Origin Systems Inc. Austin, TX.
Advanced Composer / Arranger
Responsibilities included
* Composing music and sound effects across several platforms
* Composing interactive soundtracks.
* Conversion and arrangement of existing music from one platform to another
* Arranging existing music for conversion to different platforms

o 1992 - 1993 Ocean Software Ltd. Manchester, UK
Senior Composer
Responsibilities included
* Composing music and sound effects across several platforms
* Co-Composed several soundtracks with other composers.
* Designed proprietary music system for PC / SNES / Genesis

o 1988 - 1992 Imagitec Design Ltd. Dewsbury, UK
Audio Director
Responsibilities included
* Composing music and sound effects across several platforms
* Managing several other in house musicians
* Managing schedule of external developers who subcontracted us.
* Designing several audio drivers.

Building & using high end audio development systems is a fine art. Audio development PC’s require extreme fine tuning.
It is from this that I have gained several “real world” skills that are relevant to different job markets.

Skills include but not limited to.

Troubleshooting PC’s & Mac’s.
Build, Setup, Test, Troubleshoot Workstations and servers
System upgrades (Hardware & software – PC & Mac)
OS configuration, deployment
Router configuration.
Network configuration, TCP/IP, 802.11b,. Cabling, antenna positioning etc.
Network Security (configuring & installing firewalls, FTP servers, intrusion detection)
Website creation / hosting
Skilled in all Microsoft products, (DOS,95,98,2K,2K3, XP, Office, etc)
Video Editing (compression etc)
Recommending hardware upgrades / Purchases
Developing, documenting and adhering to best method practices
Programming Experience (6502, BASIC)
”Can Do” attitude.

I’ve taken several MCSE “Prep tests” scoring in the 90% range for

Windows XP Pro
Windows 2000
Windows 2000 Network Environment

Managing

As part of my roles as audio manager / audio lead, I’ve been responsible for subcontracting and managing groups of staff. Distributing tasks amongst staff, managing budgets, and always ensuring projects were completed on time.
In addition to that I’ve spent the last few months managing the computer department at a friends company. (staff of 14) 

Contact Barry@barryleitch.com