Michael Stark:  

Workplace As the head of the Academic Computing Services Microcomputer Support activities at U.C.S.D. Mike is responsible for the "care and feeding" of about 500 Macintoshes and over 800 PC's, keeping microcomputers available for instruction. These student workstations run MacOS 9, Macos X, or Windows XP. Mike is additionally the manager of Academic Computing Services Software Distribution where he WAS the department for many years. An additional department he manages is the Camus wide Desktop support called ACS/Desktpop Support. Desktop Support provide hired help to the UCSD campus community at cost. Mike also currently serves as the UCSD campus representative in the monthly TAS meetings, and throughout the year, coordinating UCSD involvement in Strategic Sourcing purchases in the IT field. Mike came to UCSD after 12 years at KPBS FM and KPBS TV where he was an audio engineer / Mixer / broadcast engineer / announcer and almost anything else. He recorded Albums and live concerts as well as engineering live events coverage from Auctions to plane crashes to many years of the San Diego Folk and La Jolla Jazz Festivals, to the San Diego Symphony, Opera and Hoiday bowl coverage. His recordings of The Opera were heard world wide. He has received both local and national awards such as an Emmy for his work on a TV program on Gershwin. Many of the Documentary programs he was either audio engineer or video engineer are regular repeats on KPBS. Mike designed and built custom electronics including high end audio distribution systems, retrofit electronics into existing audio consoles, remote status and control systems as well as pulling miles of cables. He was a film & TV sound effects librarian, kept flatbed film edit stations running, and recorded and mixed film sound tracks. He wrote software for KPBS to use at election night coverage to predict election wi...Expand for more