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Sam Hickling Engineer Lighting Sound Tou
Sam Hickling Engineer Lighting Sound Tou
Sam Hickling Engineer Lighting Sound Tou
Sam Hickling Engineer Lighting Sound Tou
Sam Hickling Engineer Lighting Sound Tou
Sam Hickling Engineer Lighting Sound Tou
Sam Hickling Freelance Engineer Lighting

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Winchester / London based

PROFILE

Hello! I’m a multi-skilled engineer based in Winchester, Hampshire. I’ve been working self employed in the Events Industry for over 10 years. I’m confident building and operating complex systems, and have useful repair and troubleshooting skills. I’m a multi-disciplined engineer, with a strong emphasis in both system networking and operation, and traditional mechanical / hardware installations. 

EXPERIENCE

LIGHTING

  • Corporate, Touring, and Festival Experience in the UK / EU / USA, from club shows to arenas and stadiums

  • Touring experience as LD and LX.

  • Design work with Capture 

  • Extensive training with manufacturers

  • Building according to plans / drawings

  • Operating on a variety of consoles

  • Repairing, prep, and deprep of lighting equipment

RIGGING

  • Experience in installation work

  • Knowledge of LOLER 1998 and the Work at Height Regulations 2005

  • Knowledge of how to use equipment safely in slinging and entertainment industry lifting operations

  • IPAF 3a & 3b

IT NETWORKING / AUDIO VISUAL

  • Experienced working in EMEA, NA, LATAM and APAC.

  • 2024 - Formula E Season 10 - Broadcast Engineer

  • 2023 - Formula E Season 9 - Broadcast Engineer

  • 2021 - Present: Broadcast Engineer Cerberus Tech Ltd - Engineering support for Livelink. The responsibilities of the role include project design, project testing and implementation, product building and QA on linux based hardware and cloud machines, working on both hardware and software based broadcast video encoding and transcoding equipment, IP delivery of 24/7 and ad hoc services from pickup to delivery.

  • 2020 – 6 Month contract with England Cricket Team (ECB) to help facilitate the behind closed doors cricket internationals. Integration with house systems and outside broadcast, and live streaming for Hampshire Cricket matches. Assisting with the design and build of new Dante / Yamaha systems, and overhauling current live streaming and IT / Networking set up.

  • Corporate / Live Music experience (screens, projectors, LED wall)

  • Assisting with IT support for video meetings / conferences

FOH / SYSTEMS

  • Corporate, touring, and festival experience in UK / EU, from club shows to small arenas. (FOH)

  • Extensive training with manufacturers

  • Most confident with d&b systems.

  • Confident designing, building, and fault finding.

  • Equal emphasis on mechanical, electrical, and computer based systems.

 

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TRANSFERABLE SKILLS

  • Experienced engineering solutions with limited materials, in time sensitive situations

  • Building networks for IT systems

  • General repairs and maintenance experience

  • Pat Testing / Electrical testing (Impedance loop, RCD etc)

  • Can design, build, and sign off on temporary electrical installations for events under BS7909

 TRAINING

  • ChamSys - Advanced 

  • BS7909 - Temporary Electrical Installation

  • IPAF 3A & 3B

  • Total Solutions Rigging - 3 Day Rigging Course

  • Prolyte training course (Rigging)

  • Sennheiser Sound Academy - RF (Mics & Monitoring) 

  • Shure Audio Networking & IP

  • Shure Wireless Mastered

  • d&b – Electroacoustics

  • d&b – R1 & ArrayCalc

  • d&b – Install & touring product lines

  • d&b – Line array workshop

  • d&b – System optimisation

  • Dante Level 1 (Networking)

  • Dante Level 2 (Networking)

  • IABM - Broadcast Technology

  • IABM - VOIP

  • IABM - Broadcast Workflows

  • IABM - IP & File Based Workflows

  • Midas Pro Series Training

  • Yamaha Q/CL Training

  • Digico SD Training

  • Association of Stage Pyrotechnicians training

RECENTLY  WORKING WITH

  • ALABAMA 3

  • AIRBOURNE

  • BAND OF SKULLS

  • BBC

  • BLACK PUMAS

  • DR JOHN COOPER CLARKE

  • HEADIE ONE

  • CARL COX

  • THE VACCINES

  • BLIND GUARDIAN

  • SAMANTHA FISH 

  • SKYND 

  • RIGHT SAID FRED

  • HUGH CORNWELL (Stranglers)

  • SOUTHSIDE JOHNNY & THE ASBURY JUKES 

  • ICE NINE KILLS 

  • ONE VISION OF QUEEN

  • LOW CUT CONNIE

  • CURSE OF LONO w/ Steve Earle

  • CHUCK PROPHET & THE MISSION EXPRESS 

  • BARRY ADAMSON 

  • MACKENZIE SOL (Bars & Melody tour)

  • THE ROCK ORCHESTRA BY CANDLELIGHT

  • SKY TV

  • ITV

  • ENGLAND CRICKET TEAM (ECB)

  • DISCOVERY 

  • VIRGIN MEDIA

  • FORMULA E
  • DAZN 
  • FIFA WOMENS WORLD CUP
  • LONDON 2012 OLYMPICS
  • PARIS 2012 OLYMPICS

Some of my favourite shows I've worked on:

Dizzee Rascal, Lizzo, The 1975, Kano, Ghetts, The Streets, Enter Shikari, Iron Maiden, Steve Earle

Some of my favourite places I've worked at:

Brixton Academy, o2 Arena, Wembley Arena, Paradiso, Westminster Abbey, The Science Museum / Natural History Museum, National Portrait Gallery, Download Festival, Rock Am Ring, King Tuts, Tait Modern, Shepherds Bush Empire, Olympia Paris, Hammersmith Apollo, Wireless Festival.

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