01 / Audiovisual professional

Designing systems people can trust.

For over ten years, I’ve worked in audiovisual systems integration—designing and supporting technology built for reliability and an intuitive user experience.

Employment history lives on LinkedIn. This page is about me.

Core practice

From design intent to a working room.

My work covers corporate and education spaces — boardrooms, conference rooms, classrooms and lecture halls — performance spaces from auditoriums, performance halls and black box theaters to movie theaters and outdoor stages, and specialty rooms including recording studios, courtrooms, houses of worship, healthcare and operations centers. Projects range from a single room to a complete facility.

Day to day I focus on estimating and design, coordinating across sales, engineering, project management and IT. Over more than ten years I’ve also commissioned systems, programmed DSP and troubleshot in the field, and I still do.

01

Design & documentation

Drawing packages, system narratives, scope definition, and technical coordination shaped around a clear user experience.

02

Estimating & proposals

Careful takeoffs and proposal generation that connect design intent with a buildable, supportable system.

03

Commissioning

System configuration, verification, and troubleshooting across audio, video, control, and networked infrastructure.

04

DSP programming

Signal flow, processing, and tuning with practical attention to performance, reliability, and maintainability.

Systems vocabulary

Platforms & strengths

  • Q-SYS
  • Biamp
  • Crestron
  • Extron
  • AMX
  • Systems design and documentation
  • Estimating takeoffs and proposal generation
  • System commissioning and troubleshooting
  • DSP programming
  • Cross-team coordination

Notes

How I approach the work.

Building a DSP template

It starts with the room and the people in it, not a template off the shelf.

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What makes a drawing package buildable

Detail, consistency, and drawings that answer questions before anyone has to ask.

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Design for the people in the room

Estimating has taught me that the needs of the people using a room should drive the design, not the price. Cost always matters, but a system that saves money and doesn’t serve its users isn’t a saving for anyone.

Selected credentials

Current expertise, continuously sharpened.

CTS-DAVIXA Certified Technology Specialist — DesignActive through Jan 2030
Dante L3Networked AV and audio-over-IP2nd edition
Q-SYS L2Audio, video, control, and VisionSuite trainingClassroom trained
NETGEAR L2AV networking, switching, and IPMXCertified 2025

Personal systems work

Systems I’ve built for my own rig.

The tools behind my live setup, built, documented and maintained the way I’d treat a client system.

Studio desk system

My own desk, drafted in AutoCAD and redrawn here for the web: every device, port and cable, split across three sheets.

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Control & USB

Control and USB — Alec Trumble studio desk Sheet 1 of Alec Trumble's studio desk drawings. Two MIDI keyboards, a Midi Fighter Twister, an Ableton Push 2, two SoftStep pedal controllers and the Yamaha mixer's USB port connect to a seven-port USB hub, which connects to a USB-C computer dock. An iPad running TouchOSC, a Stream Deck+, the capture card and the audio interface also plug into the dock. Three USB cameras share a second hub that connects straight to the laptop. The dock connects to the laptop and to a two-computer USB switcher, whose second computer port goes to an additional user source. Keyboard pedal inputs, the switcher's device ports and the dock's power input are shown unused. ALEC TRUMBLE / STUDIO DESK / SHEET 1 OF 3 Control and USB Functional diagram: controllers, cameras and every USB link to the computer. USB / MIDI / control TBLT = tablet cable · USBA / USBB / USBC IPAD Apple iPad TouchOSC control surface TBLT KBD 1 KeyLab 88 MkII Arturia MIDI piano USBB USB EXP SUS KBD 2 Impulse 49 Novation keyboard USBB USB EXP CTRL 1 Midi Fighter Twister MIDI controller USBB CTRL 2 Push 2 Ableton control surface USBB CTRL 3 SoftStep 2 Keith McMillen pedal USBB CTRL 4 SoftStep 2 Keith McMillen pedal USBB MXR 1 Yamaha MG10XU Mixer · audio: sheet 3 USBB CAM 1 OBSBOT Tiny 2 Lite PTZ camera USBC CAM 2 PowerConf C200 Anker front camera USBC CAM 3 OBSBOT Meet 2 4K Rear stream camera USBC HUB 1 Anker USB 3.0 hub 7-port controller hub USBA Port 1 USBA Port 2 USBA Port 3 USBA Port 4 USBA Port 5 USBA Port 6 USBA Port 7 USBB To host MCRO Stream Deck+ Elgato macro controller USBC CAP Elgato HD60 X Capture · sheets 2, 3 USBC INT Scarlett 18i16 Focusrite · sheet 3 USB DOCK Mokin computer dock USB-C dock USBA USB 3.1 USBC USB 3.1 USBA USB 3.0 USBA USB 3.0 USBC USB 3.1 USBA USB 2.0 USBC To PC PWR Video and LAN: sheet 2 USW USB switcher 2-computer switch USBB PC1 USBB PC2 USB USB HUB 2 Anker USB 3.0 hub 3-port camera hub USBC Port 1 USBC Port 2 USBC Port 3 USBC To host PC Laptop Main computer USBC USB-C USBC USB-C HDMI: sheet 2 To user source
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Video & network

Video and network — Alec Trumble studio desk Sheet 2 of Alec Trumble's studio desk drawings. The computer dock's HDMI output, a spare input, an additional user source and the laptop's HDMI output feed a four-by-two HDMI switcher. Switcher output 1 feeds an Elgato HD60 X capture card, whose loop-through output drives display 1; switcher output 2 drives display 2. The dock's DisplayPort outputs are unused. The dock's LAN port connects to a five-port network switch, which also feeds an additional user source and the network drop; two switch ports are spare. ALEC TRUMBLE / STUDIO DESK / SHEET 2 OF 3 Video and network Functional diagram: displays, capture and switching, plus the desk's network. HDMI / video Network HDMI · RJ45 DOCK Mokin computer dock USB-C dock RJ45 LAN HDMI HDMI Out 1 DisplayPort 1 DisplayPort 2 USB: sheet 1 NS TP-Link TL-SG105 5-port network switch RJ45 Port RJ45 Port RJ45 Port RJ45 Port RJ45 Port SWR OREI HDMI switcher 4 × 2 HDMI matrix HDMI HDMI 1 HDMI HDMI 2 HDMI HDMI 3 HDMI HDMI 4 HDMI HD Out 1 HDMI HD Out 2 PC Laptop Main computer HDMI HDMI USB: sheet 1 CAP Elgato HD60 X Capture card HDMI HDMI In HDMI Loop Out USB: sheet 1 · audio: sheet 3 DISP 1 Dell 27" Display HDMI HDMI Audio out: sheet 3 DISP 2 Dell 27" Display HDMI HDMI To user source To network drop From spare From user source
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Audio

Audio — Alec Trumble studio desk Sheet 3 of Alec Trumble's studio desk drawings. Guitar, bass and an Audio-Technica microphone feed inputs 1 to 3 of a Focusrite Scarlett 18i16, and display 1's audio output is split left and right into inputs 5 and 6. Interface outputs 1 to 4 feed an eight-point patchbay, whose rear jacks 5 to 8 are multed from inputs 1 to 4. Patchbay outputs 1 and 2 feed the capture card's audio input. Rear jacks 5 and 6 feed inputs 9 and 10 of a Yamaha MG10XU mixer; rear jacks 7 and 8 feed inputs 4 and 3 of a Mackie Mix8. A Shure microphone runs through a Cloud Lifter CL-1 into the Yamaha's input 1. The Yamaha's monitor outputs feed a JBL 10-inch subwoofer, which feeds the JBL LSR305 MkII pair. The Mackie's main outputs feed the JBL LSR305 MkI pair and its control-room outputs go to a speaker disconnect. Two pairs of headphones plug into the interface's phones outputs. Unused ports are shown dimmed. ALEC TRUMBLE / STUDIO DESK / SHEET 3 OF 3 Audio Functional diagram: instruments, interface, patchbay, mixers and monitors. Analog audio TRS = 1/4" TRS · TS = 1/4" TS · XLM / XLF = XLR male / female · MTRS = 3.5 mm TRS GTR Guitar Instrument cable BASS Bass Instrument cable MIC 1 Microphone Audio-Technica DISP 1 Dell 27" Audio out, split L/R MTRS INT Focusrite Scarlett 18i16 Audio interface TS In 1 TS In 2 XLM In 3 In 4 TS In 5 TS In 6 In 7 In 8 TRS Out 1 TRS Out 2 TRS Out 3 TRS Out 4 TRS Phones 1 TRS Phones 2 USB: sheet 1 HP 1 ATH-M50x Audio-Technica HP 2 DT 990 PRO X Beyerdynamic PB ART TPatch 8-point 1/4" patchbay TRS 1 TRS 2 TRS 3 TRS 4 TRS 5 TRS 6 TRS 7 TRS 8 TS 1 TS 2 TRS 3 TRS 4 TRS 5 TRS 6 TRS 7 TRS 8 Rear 5–8 multed from 1–4 CAP Elgato HD60 X Capture card MTRS Aud In Video: sheet 2 MIX 2 Mackie Mix8 Mixer In 1 In 2 TRS In 3 TRS In 4 In 5 In 6 Aux Ret L Aux Ret R TRS Main L TRS Main R TRS CR L TRS CR R Aux Send Phones SPK 1L JBL LSR305 MkI monitor XLM In SPK 1R JBL LSR305 MkI monitor XLM In MXR 1 Yamaha MG10XU 10-channel mixer XLM In 1 In 2 In 3 In 4 In 5 In 6 In 7 In 8 TRS In 9 TRS In 10 Stereo L Stereo R TRS Mon Out L TRS Mon Out R USB: sheet 1 PRE Cloud Lifter CL-1 Mic activator XLM In XLF Out MIC 2 Microphone Shure SUB JBL 10" Subwoofer TRS In L TRS In R XLF Out L XLF Out R SPK 2L JBL LSR305 MkII monitor XLM In SPK 2R JBL LSR305 MkII monitor XLM In To speaker disconnect To speaker disconnect
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Unused ports are dimmed. Notes like “USB: sheet 1” mark devices that appear on more than one sheet.

Tools for the live set

Software and control layouts I built to map, feed and play the looping rig.

Controller Atlas showing labeled keyboard, knob controller, pedal and iPad regions on a photograph of the live rig.

Controller Atlas

An offline web app that documents every controller mapping in my live set. It reads the Ableton project file, lists what each knob, pad and pedal does, and checks the mappings against the hardware over Web MIDI.

Beat Breeder interface showing sixteen genre-pattern pads with tempo and A/B audition controls.

Beat Breeder

A Python tool with a local web interface that generates new drum patterns, by genre or from patterns I’ve already programmed. It’s built around my live rig, so every pattern drops straight into the set and its probability triggering, which keeps the drums fresh from one session to the next.

Modulation Breeder showing generated Redux mix and sample-rate automation curves.

Modulation Breeder

Beat Breeder’s counterpart for movement: it generates the modulation clips that drive my looper effects (filter sweeps, chop patterns, LFO changes), as native Ableton clips ready to load.

Custom TouchOSC layout showing named drum-pattern pads, synth selections, and instrument-send controls.

TouchOSC custom control

A custom TouchOSC layout I built to run my Ableton set. It gives me a visual cue for which patterns are triggered, controls the modulation clips, and relabels itself to match the loaded clips and the synth settings I’ve selected. The iPad is hardwired over USB through TouchOSC Bridge, not Wi-Fi: it’s the same call I’d make on a job, because if a control link can drop, it will drop at the worst moment.

Certification archive

Credentials in detail

Current certifications and completed manufacturer training, grouped by discipline.

AVIXA02
  • CTS-D — Certified Technology Specialist, DesignActive through January 2030
    ID 2341531
  • CTS — Certified Technology SpecialistActive through January 2030
    ID 1334997
Networked AV / AVoIP08
  • Extron Network AV Specialist (NAVS)January 9, 2026
  • NETGEAR AV Certification — Level 2November 12, 2025
    ID 1XTszuHYGJ
  • NETGEAR Switching for AVoIPNovember 12, 2025
    ID Z83vGP8e09
  • NETGEAR IPMX — IP Media ExperienceNovember 25, 2025
    ID L7M3hk6LUR
  • NETGEAR AV Certification — Level 1October 21, 2025
    ID VulfWqwEQX
  • Audinate Dante Level 3 (2nd Ed.)July 20, 2023
    ID eeb9-c598-b9c5-e8fa
  • Audinate Dante Level 2 (2nd Ed.)April 28, 2023
    ID 7cc5-ecd1-d195-31f5
  • Audinate Dante Level 1 (2nd Ed.)April 28, 2023
    ID 4e5c-40cc-e5ef-6bef
Audio / DSP / Signal Processing05
  • Q-SYS Level 1 TrainingValid through March 1, 2027
  • Q-SYS Level 2 Classroom TrainingCompleted June 12, 2017 · Does not expire
  • Biamp TesiraSERVER / SERVER-IO TrainingNovember 27, 2019 · Does not expire
  • Biamp TesiraFORTÉ TrainingAugust 25, 2016
    ID jgPXIMhQ5S
  • Symetrix Certified Pro ComposerFebruary 2, 2018
Manufacturer / Control Platforms10
  • Extron Certified AV AssociateAugust 21, 2023
  • Crestron Core CertificationFebruary 10, 2021
    ID CCT-000-190101-3214
  • Crestron DMC-E-4K CertificationJanuary 5, 2026
    ID E-4K-000-260105-13331
  • Crestron DigitalMedia Certified Designer — 4KAugust 2016
  • Q-SYS Video 101 TrainingMay 8, 2020
  • Q-SYS Control 101 TrainingMay 8, 2020
  • Q-SYS VisionSuite Commissioning — ACPR Level 1Does not expire
  • Q-SYS VisionSuite Commissioning — Seervision Level 1Does not expire
  • Harman / AMX Certified Control Associate — ProgrammingOctober 2017
  • ClearOne Pro Audio Technical SpecialistMarch 2016

Industry engagement

Trade shows attended

InfoComm regular since 2017 · ISC East 2023–24

Contact

Always glad to talk shop with people in AV.