Interviews

What key AV and/or IT challenges are you facing? Key currently is networked technology. As this is the future of AV and as AV and IT continue to syndicate, I have realised the importance of increasing my knowledge in this area. There are many advantages to networked AV systems –…

If James Shanks’ father had put him in a go-kart he could easily have ended up in motorsport rather than AV, but Mr Shanks Senior had other ideas. “With uncles in the computer science industry it was decided I was going to become a computer scientist, whatever that meant back…

How has your somewhat unusual background as a performer, actor, and journalist helped in your current role? There’s a very simple answer to that. I was born into theatre. My father read me plays, not bedtime stories. With the creative direction of Vivid Sydney I wanted to challenge the notion…

As assistant headteacher at Swan Valley – the first new school in Kent – Andy Duckworth was one of the first teachers in the country to use interactive whiteboards. His first-hand understanding of the education market and deep rooted passion for technology led him to establish CDEC Limited in 2000,…

What are your main responsibilities? I now manage AV development for the University. This means I develop, specify, prepare budgets and project manage audio visual and associated installations within the University and identify new ways to use technology within the 300+ teaching, learning, event, conference and corporate spaces. I also…

Where did you train? I followed my father into medicine but quickly realised my real passion was for music and technology so I left medical school to pursue a career in AV. I grew up in Argentina and at that time the closest qualification to sound engineering was a diploma…

As a coal miner’s son who passed A’ Levels in Latin, Greek and Ancient History, winning a place at Exeter College, Oxford, the lad had already done well as that fellow Yorkshire inquisitor Michael Parkinson might have said. “My plan originally was to become a lawyer. At the time, people wanted…

Where did you train to prepare you for your audio visual career? I studied a course of stage and production management at Chichester College back in 1999 and then received a scholarship to train at Guildford School of Acting (University of Surrey) in stage management and technical theatre. The course…

How did you get into the world of colour science and technology? I’ve always been fascinated by art, the brain, and electronics. I was building simple electronic circuits when I was five and learned to program on DEC PDP-8 in my father’s lab at 12. Much of my time was…

Always passionate about ‘the product’ and the brands they represent with a full and pragmatic understanding of all levels of channel and consumer audiences, and how to reach them through both modern and traditional communications methods, Royce Lye has spent his 20+ year-to-date career in some form of AV/IT. After…