I recorded and mixed some of the music in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer musical episode "Once More with Feeling" which won an MPSE award for "Best Sound Editing - Television Episodic Live Action - Music." The music editor, Fernand Bos, was kind enough to request recognition for me. The certificate, below, does say "Best Scoring Mixer," which refutes what I just said above. Honestly, I'm a bit confused about this thing. I wasn't invited to this awards ceremony, and I'm pretty sure I'm right that it's mostly an award for the music editor which is also shared with members of the technical music team. I do appreciate it of course!

Below is the Daytime Emmy award for best sound editing on Disney's television show Buzz Lightyear of Star Command. I mixed the score for this series and was recognized for my work on the show. Thanks to music editor Dominic Certo for this one.

Below is the nomination for an MPSE award for Disney's television show Hercules. I mixed the score for this show and was recognized. Thanks again Dominic.

Below are two awards I received for my work as a sound designer for the musical Bare. It was an ambitious production in a 99 seat theatre. We had a seven piece band playing live every night and a cast of 19 all on wireless head mics. Oh, and the set was made of metal (an aside for anyone who works with wireless mics). Thanks to Hollywood Sound Systems for help with system implementation, good advice, and excellent repair service.

I engineered the score for the CBS miniseries Titanic in 1996. It won an Emmy for best sound mixing. I heard about it from my mother who thought I had won an Emmy. I told her that the sound mixer was the person who recorded the dialog on the set. I was partially right. Now I see that the award went to the production mixer and the re-recording mixers. I'd like to think that having a nice sounding score to work with was beneficial to this production winning this award. But, it's true that I didn't win an emmy.

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Ahhh. My days as a lad at USC.

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