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My name is Mark Schaefer, and I'm an Audio/Video Engineer.
When I was a kid, every time I got a new toy I tore it apart because I wanted to know exactly how it worked.
Over time, I learned how to get it back together and get it working.
My parents kept going to garage sales buying all of these various books on science and technology.
That stuff interested me so much, I just kept reading, and reading, and reading about what I was tearing apart and how to put it back together.
Every single room has some sort of sound system
whether it be sound reinforcement or music, whether it be a classroom, an auditorium like in a church,
or even a coffee shop.
And if you look at different pieces, and take each piece as its own little part,
it makes it a lot easier to design as well as troubleshoot.
On a typical install, we have previously visited the location
to do our pre-engineering work, to determine where all the equipment, as well as wiring, is going to be located.
At that time, we end up and verify equipment placement to make sure that
some of the other construction trades have not placed heating ducts or lights where equipment needs to go.
Working in the field of technology is not just all knobs and buttons.
You must have people skills, listening skills, as well as organizational skills in order to be successful.
I look for people that are very creative, very conscientious, very prideful about their work
and take a lot of interest in their work.
I enjoy it when I'm able to help people.
If I get somebody that contacts me, they have this vision
that everybody in the room to be able to hear a violin playing.
The challenge for me is to design that system so that person
and other people in the room can hear that violin very crisp and clear.
And it's that which is what drives me, the challenge and helping people.
It's a very demanding job, but at the same chime, it is my passion and my hobby.