Jamie Waters
Casual Theatre Technician (Sound Bias)
Derbyshire Dales, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolJamie Waters is a freelance AV and theatre technician specialising in live sound with eight years of hands-on experience and two years in professional roles across major UK venues. Currently working across Sadler's Wells, Barbican and Pleasance, Jamie combines technical supervision, video oversight and frontline sound operation for everything from school musicals to touring productions. Known for creative problem-solving, they focus on subtle sound design that deepens audience immersion and supports storytelling. Jamie has led technical teams as a deputy head and technical director, bringing rigging, H&S and equipment management expertise to fast-paced festival and touring environments. Comfortable both as a day-to-day duty tech and as a systems-minded lead, they bridge practical kit maintenance with artistic intent. Based in Wychavon, Jamie also runs freelance operations and has a background in production arts from Guildhall, underscoring a formal grounding in theatre technology.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
BA (Hons) Production Arts - Theatre Technology, BA (Hons) Production Arts - Theatre Technology at Guildhall School of Music & DramaChemistry (A), Biology (A), Physics (A), EPQ (A*), Chemistry, Chemistry (A), Biology (A), Physics (A), EPQ (A*), Chemistry at The King’s School, Worcester
Github Skills (100)
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google-docs9
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android-application8
archlinux8
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solus8
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Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
tetrabiodistributed/project-tetra
May 2020 - Oct 2021
A ventilator splitter with flow control and monitoring for use as a last resort solution in emergencies.
Contributions:13 reviews, 45 PRs, 54 pushes in 1 year 5 months
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Judoguy12/4-way-ventilator
Mar 2020 - Mar 2020
GitHub for Helpful engineering project Proposal: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TI3_TDLsts3d5YYHGG85q7xS9KuR7PVZ6NfclSt8Pn0/edit?usp=sharing
Contributions:80 commits, 11 PRs, 74 pushes in 6 days
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