Alexander Ives
Audio Technician at Freelance
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolAlexander Ives is an experienced audio technician and live sound specialist with nine years in professional events, currently supporting productions at The Opera House Toronto and Live Nation Entertainment while running freelance tour management and audio engineering. Fluent in Mandarin and English, he pairs technical audio skills with translation and interpreting work for international productions—most notably serving as touring sound engineer and team translator for Broadway Asia. His background includes founding a Taipei studio offering recording, mixing and post-production services, plus prior roles as an IELTS examiner and university language instructor, reflecting strong cross-cultural communication and education experience. Equally comfortable behind a mixing desk or negotiating logistics on tour, he brings a problem-solving mindset summed up by his GitHub motto: "only find ways to succeed, not reasons to fail."
9 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
MA Chinese Studies, Chinese, MA Chinese Studies, Chinese at The University of EdinburghMandarin Enrichment Scholarship Program, Chinese Language and Literature, Mandarin Enrichment Scholarship Program, Chinese Language and Literature at National Taiwan UniversityCity College NorwichMandarin Enrichment Program, Mandarin Enrichment Program at National Taiwan Normal University
Chinese, English
Github Skills (81)
reverse-proxy10
http10
caddy10
security10
webserver10
udp10
torrent10
acme10
ipv410
systray10
golang10
webtorrent10
http-server10
ipv610
utorrent10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
game-turn-over-skill-group/sync_hosts
Jun 2017 - Jul 2018
Contributions:129 commits, 127 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
game-turn-over-skill-group/ip-site
Nov 2017 - Oct 2019
Contributions:6 releases, 24 commits, 84 pushes in 1 year 11 months
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