Rob James
Senior AV Systems Designer
Rob picked up a guitar and joined a band in high school – the band broke up, but his romance with sound lives on. Over the years, he has directed his focus to a remarkably broad range of roles, disciplines, and locations. He worked for an installation and rental house in Utah that got him into repairs, show setups, and mixing for rock concerts, the Sundance Film Festival, and the running of the Olympic Torch in Salt Lake City. From there, he moved on to design and engineering for musical productions, including South Pacific, Grease, and Les Miserables, at the outdoor Tuacahn Center for the Arts.
Rob earned first a BA and then an MFA in Sound Design and Technology at Purdue University. The University Theatre and Hall of Music were playgrounds for someone with his background, and he wasted no time, designing sound and operating boards for plays and musicals, serving as house technician for touring shows in the Hall of Music, and even monitor mixing for B.B. King. Since joining Threshold, his extraordinary work with AV Design Systems has included the full design project for Brown University Performing Arts Center and Kellogg School of Management Global Hub - he was instrumental in creating the unique central video system for Northwestern’s Global Hub, which utilized state-of-the-art technology for distributing video over fiber to all applicable classrooms.
He stands out as one of the more beloved coworker in the office, as he enjoys troubleshooting computer problems. Somehow he also found time to get his pilot’s license, which just means we need to work on gaining a corporate plane for him to fly…
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Congregation Beit Simchat Torah