US-Based Audio Visual Systems Engineer

Atlanta, Georgia, USA

My name is Adam Rixey. I have been designing and commissioning pro audio visual systems since 1998. Occasionally, that includes lighting and control systems.

the prequel

After developing engineering skills with a pro-audio R&D group as an intern starting in 1993, my audio visual electrical engineering work took me to over 20 countries around the planet including both east and west circumnavigations. By working both on-site and in-office, I designed, commissioned and took pride in training operators of audio visual, lighting, and control systems for IMAX Theatres, museums, very large churches and military simulators.

Minus a 3-month summer adventure to Alaska, I have worked for audio visual system integrators for 20 years... over half my life.

In 2009, I passed my Professional Engineering license exam in Georgia.

While being one of the first digital-hardware based Professional Engineers, my career love is balancing audio visual hardware integration with software control systems.

project highlights

  • 50+ IMAX projects

    • 2012 highlights

      • AMC Star Fairlane 21 IMAX, Dearborn, MI, supervised and commissioned the IMAX Digital theatre, opened with The Hobbit and the Star Trek: Into Darkness 9-minute IMAX preview.

      • Jordan's Furniture IMAX, Reading, MA, supervised and commissioned the IMAX Digital theatre, opened with Raiders Of The Lost Ark.

      • Premiere Cinemas 16 & IMAX, Lubbock, TX, supervised and commissioned the IMAX Digital theatre.

      • Celebration Cinemas, Portage, MI, supervised and commissioned the IMAX Digital theatre, opened with The Avengers.

      • AMC Arapahoe Crossing 16 (formerly Chinese 16), Aurora, CO, supervised and commissioned the IMAX Digital theatre, opened with Journey 2.

      • AMC Owings Mills 17, Owings Mills, MD, supervised and commissioned the IMAX Digital theatre, opened with Journey 2.

    • 2011 highlights

      • Regal Lloyd Center 10 & IMAX, Portland, OR, supervised and commissioned the IMAX Digital theatre, opened with Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol.

      • AMC Showplace Traders Point 12, Indianapolis, IN, supervised and commissioned the IMAX Digital theatre, opened with Real Steel.

      • RAVE Promenade 16, Center Valley, PA, supervised and commissioned IMAX Digital theatre, opened with Fast Five.

      • Regal Hacienda Crossings 20, Dublin, California, supervised and commissioned IMAX Digital theatre, opened with Sucker Punch.

      • Regal United Artists Star 14, Amarillo, Texas, supervised and commissioned IMAX Digital theatre, opened with I Am Number Four.

    • 2010 highlights

      • RAVE Davenport 53, Davenport, Iowa, supervised and commissioned IMAX Digital theatre, opened with Harry Potter 7a; plus an Inception screening.

      • AMC Showplace 16, Naperville, Illinois, supervised and commissioned IMAX Digital theatre, opened with MegaMind.

      • AMC Regency 20, Brandon, Florida, supervised and commissioned IMAX Digital theatre, opened with Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole.

    • 1998 highlight

      • Suntory IMAX Theatre, Osaka, Japan, along with commissioning and training, I had the pleasure of meeting Fujimoto-san, the very first IMAX Projectionist.

  • 40+ "Mega-church" projects

    • 2009

      • People's Church, Oklahoma City, OK, video system design, commissioning (2 cameras + control room) and multi-projection calibration (2 IMAG + 3 graphics screens).

      • Lenexa Baptist Church, Lenexa, KS, video system commissioning and multi-projector calibration.

      • New Hope Church, Durham, NC, video system commissioning and multi-projector calibration.

      • Metro2Music Conference, Clearwater, FL, Conference Speaker about remote live 2-channel video venue churches.

      • North Point Community Church, Alpharetta, GA, multi-projector calibration.

      • North Point Community Church Pastor Andy Stanley's Home Theater, projection calibration.

    • 2008

      • North Point Community Church, Alpharetta, GA, remote live 2-channel video system design and coordination.

      • Musion Theatre, Clark ProMedia, Alpharetta, GA, designed, installed, and regularly presented holographic foil theatre.

      • Timberline Church, Fort Collins, CO, updated multi-projector calibration.

      • Central Christian Church, Phoenix, AZ, remote live 2-channel video system demo.

  • Fort Rucker Air Traffic Control Simulators, 7 simulators, 44 screen and projector calibrations (2010).

  • Professional Engineering License in the State of Georgia (Passed in 2009).

  • Denver Museum of Nature & Science - Space Odyssey Exhibits Distributed audio, video, lighting, and control systems including Crestron (2003).

  • iOS Touch Color Calibration Reference, rough color reference points for display calibrations based on the reasonably consistent iOS device color rendering.

  • eyez.at, a database-less location link shortener written in Sinatra and Javascript. You can easily share a short link with your current location or a searched location allowing someone to get instant Google Map directions. An eyez.at short link encodes your actual geographical location coordinates; not a reference to a database. Source at GitHub.

  • cutelittle.com, a primarily female-audience link sharing site written in Ruby on Rails. A heavy administration side allowed for in-app cropping and storing of remote images as well as typical CMS categorization features. Archived at archive.org.

  • puzzle.myriadaxe.com, a 2008 flash based anagram puzzle of "adamrixey". Sound-effects included.

  • Hiking Excursion, Denali, AK, return to Alaska, after a decade, for a hiking and camping trip (2008).

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