Based
Vancouver, BC
Vancouver AV project management and live event production for conferences, corporate meetings, concerts and theatre, managed end to end. Twenty years in the room, and the connections to pull any show together in this city. If the client is happy, I'm happy.
I manage the technical side of events so planners, venues and AV companies can breathe. I have run high-profile productions at the Hyatt Regency Vancouver and across the city's hotels, theatres and concert venues, coordinated feature-film VFX pipelines, and shipped polished games through rigorous quality control. I know every corner of AV, I am relentlessly organized, and I am deeply connected to the crew, gear and venues that make Vancouver events happen. Most managers protect the schedule. I protect the show and the schedule at once, because I have stood in the room as the photographer, the technician, the coordinator and the operator. I know what a great event is supposed to feel like, and exactly what it takes to deliver it on time, on spec and under pressure.
If the client is happy, I'm happy.
Multi-day conferences, AGMs, summits and corporate meetings. General sessions, breakouts, staging, screens and show calling, run cleanly from load-in to load-out.
Product launches, awards nights, galas and hotel ballroom events. Polished, on-brand production that makes the room and the client look exceptional.
Concert and live-music production with the venue and promoter relationships to back it up. Sound, lighting, stage and crew coordination from a working pit photographer's eye.
Technical direction and production management for theatre and staged shows. Cues, crew, and a calm hand on the desk when the house is full.
Contract operations leadership for AV companies and venues. Floor management, labor planning, gear logistics, work-order review and vendor relations.
Help your team stand up or sharpen its AV operation. Staffing models, workflows, service standards and crew mentoring from someone who has built and run the floor.
The whole job is making the client look great and feel calm. If the client is happy, I'm happy. Everything else is in service of that.
Audio, video, lighting, projection, rigging and staging. I am fluent across the whole stack, so nothing falls through the cracks on my watch.
Sixteen-plus years in Vancouver's live scene means I know the venues, the crews, the vendors and the promoters. I can pull a show together fast.
Schedules, run-of-show, labor plans and budgets, tight and clear. I cut the chaos out of complex events so the day runs smooth.
Managed AV and operations for high-profile productions at one of downtown Vancouver's premier hotels, plus daily floor operations and event delivery as Operations Manager and Technical Supervisor for a national AV provider. Hotel ballroom conferences, corporate meetings and galas, delivered to spec under real pressure.
Front-end production coordinator across animation, performance capture, motion capture and layout. Ran dailies and rounds and tracked pipeline status under tight studio deadlines.
Managed QA, player support and community for shipped titles across console and mobile, including the quality discipline behind a number-one mobile shooter.
Founder and concert photographer since 2009, with over 1,600 shows shot from the pit and deep relationships across Vancouver's venues, promoters and live-music community.
Rose from lead technician to Operations Manager: technician workflows, labor scheduling, gear allocation, and flawless delivery for hotel and corporate clients across Metro Vancouver.
Real client testimonial goes here. A sentence or two about how Michael ran the event, stayed calm under pressure, and made the client look great.
Second testimonial. Ideally from a planner, venue contact, or AV company colleague who can speak to your reliability and organization.
Third testimonial. A line about the outcome of an event, or what it was like to work with you, lands best here.
What made this event hard or high-stakes. Tight timeline, big room, complex AV, demanding client, whatever it was.
How you scoped it, the crew and gear you coordinated, how you ran the day, and the calls you made under pressure.
The outcome in plain terms. Flawless show, happy client, repeat booking, on time and on budget.
Every event is different, so final pricing is always scoped on a quick call. The numbers above are starting points for budgeting. Travel beyond Metro Vancouver, equipment rental and crew are quoted separately and transparently.
Grab a free 30-minute call. We will talk through your event, what success looks like, and what it should cost. The fastest way to find out if I am the right person to run your show.
Call, email, or send the details of your event and I will get back to you, usually the same day.