Work Experience

Supervisor and Sound Engineer of the Animal Sound Collection

Managing collaborations between the Collection and institutional or individual clients.
Provided high-level consultation and negotiations with clients/authors and direct workflow.
Identify and negotiate with contributors to obtain audio recordings.
Engage in selection, edition, restoration and mastering of animal recordings.
Reviewing the current protocols and writing a proposal to update the equipments in order to improve the quality and efficiency of the material ingestion and edition, as well as the workflow.
Curator of the collection's physical storage.
Providing media distribution of natural recordings to researchers, students and institutions.
Reviewing the material and data from the collection.

Audio postproduction and stereo mix for television of “Crónicas Caracol” from “Pato” Salcedo. Bogotá, Colombia, 2011
Audio postproduction and 5.1 mix for film supervision of the short documentary “Tras las huellas del tapir de montaña” Bogotá, Colombia, 2010
Sound design and stereo mix of the video-instalation for the bicentenary exhibit “Artes Visuales en Colombia 1970-1990”. Bogotá Modern Art Museum. Bogotá, Colombia 2010
Audio postproduction and 5.1 mix for film supervision of the short documentary “Marchando Hacia el Cielo” Bogotá, Colombia, 2010
Audio postproduction and stereo mix of 3 short documentaries “Las Crónicas del Humboldt” vol.2 Bogotá, Colombia, 2009
Stereo mix of the multi-image “Colombia Biodiversa” Bogotá, Colombia, 2009
Audio postproduction and stereo mix of the television campaign “Acércate a nuestra fauna” Bogotá, Colombia, 2009
Sound design, foley, voiceover recording, sound editing and 5.1 mix assistant for the feature film “Portraits in a sea of lies” Bogotá, Colombia, 2009
Sound design of the iphone video game, “Bug Hunt”. Vancouver, Canada

Produced several Latin American audio field guides for conservation and educational purposes.
Managed collaborations between Macaulay Library of Natural Sounds (Cornell Lab of Ornithology) and institutional or individual clients, and identified potential audio projects within Latin America.
Provided high-level consultation and negotiations with clients/authors and direct workflow.
Identified and negotiated with contributors to obtain audio recordings.
Engaged in selection, edition, restoration and mastering of animal recordings.
Provided quality control of the finished product.
Created audio post-production of short HD documentaries produced at Macaulay Library of Natural Sounds.
Provided media distribution of natural recordings to museums, researchers, movie industries, etc (e.g. Lucas Films -The Incredibles, Ratatouille -, National Geographic, Nickelodeon).

Systematized and managed the database of Humboldt Institute’s sound collection.
Participated in the maintenance and set up of studio equipment at the Humboldt Institute.
Digitally acquired, edited, cataloged, and burned onto CD over 7000 cuts from analog field recordings for entry into the Humboldt Institute sound collection.
Designed and programmed digital filters for the restoration and enhancement of noisy field recordings as part of CD production of Colombian bird sounds.
Mastered sounds using ProTools and MasterList CD as part of CD productions of Colombian bird sounds.
Made field recordings of Colombian birds, in addition to becoming familiar with most standard field recording techniques.

Instructor of “Producción Radial III”, “Taller Radiofónico I”, “Estudio de producción radial”
Politécnico Grancolombiano Bogotá, Colombia
2009- Present
Instructor of “Medios I”
Pontificia Universidad Javeriana Bogotá, Colombia
2011- Present
Instructor of “Au dio Post production” and “Musicalization”
Universidad del Magdalena Santa Marta, Colombia
2010
Instructor of “Audio Post production”
Escuela Fernando Sor Bogotá, Colombia
2010
Instructor of “ Ear training for sound engineers III
Pontificia Universidad Javeriana Bogotá, Colombia
2009- 2010
Developed and taught: “Bioacoustics: Methods for recording and analysis of acoustic signals from animals”. Caro, Viviana & Caycedo, Paula. July 2007, (Bogotá, Colombia)