Ray Heath - Information Technology and General Management

Creating Strategic Competitive Advantage
	I help companies turn great ideas into innovative products and services, build intangible assets (brands, networks, intellectual property, and talent), and put profitable results on balance sheets and income statements.
Effective Management Attention
	I’m usually brought in to solve difficult problems where the way forward is unclear - leading researchers, developers and project managers in ground-breaking efforts from strategic analysis and feasibility studies to implementation and training. As a long-time consultant with tech-savvy insight & business-savvy instincts, I understand looking beyond tactical goals to support strategic priorities - highly disciplined about process, but not trapped by it.

And Everything Else You Need
	Most of the work I do is performed under non-disclosure agreements, and my client’s intellectual property and non-disclosure conditions are carefully protected. Ray Heath, LLC is covered by General Liability as well as E&O Insurance. I keep a current Visual Studio/MSDN Ultimate subscription, Adobe CS5.5 Master Collection, VMware Workstation, powerful dev/test machines, professional high-definition video equipment, and a vast number of diverse resources - which means you don’t have to invest additional dollars or effort to get me running.

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Video Production Services

Tuesday, January 10, 2012

A few years ago, I began to make heavy investments in professional high-definition video equipment. The initial impetus came from a set of advanced software developer training courses I was commissioned to create. Moreover as a senior software architect, I personally invest a staggering amount of effort in learning and maintaining technical skills - and this I’ve been doing for many years, so I understand the pain. With its powerful mix of imagery and sound, high-quality video can reduce time-to-insight and leave an indelible impression of critical detail that would otherwise be totally lost or forgotten.

In addition to more traditional techical development, Ray Heath, LLC provides high-definition video production services to clients. Please contact me for help with your needs. Here is a list of some of the relevant equipment:

Video Hardware
- Sony HRD-Z5U video camera (including MHVR-MRC1 compact flash recording unit)
- Sachtler DV 10 SB Fluid Head
- Glidecam 4000
Audio Hardware
- Schoeps CCM 41 supercardioid compact microphone
- AVID mBox Pro audio interface
- Yamaha Tyros4 Arranger Workstation (for background/bumper music and sound effects)
Lighting
- Litepanels 1x1 Bi-Color 4-Light Variable Color Temperature LED Flood Kit
- Litepanels Ringlite Cinema
- Litepanels MiniPlus 5600K Daylight Spot Kit
Special Effects
- Matthews 20’x20’ Blue/Green Digital Screen
Computer Workstations
- Dell Precision M6600 Mobile Workstation (i7-2960 Extreme Quad Core processor, 32GB RAM, & RAID0 SATA3 SSDs)
- NVIDIA Tesla C2075
- Multiple Large external USB3 disks
Graphics/Image/Video/Audio Software
- Adobe CS5.5 Master Collection
- AVID Pro Tools 9

Going to the Cloud

Monday, January 9, 2012

There is often an Internet component to projects I implement for corporate clients, but my own website was designed around the turn of the century - and I’ve rarely touched it since. A New Year’s resolution has been made to address this: I am currently moving this site to the Microsoft Azure cloud. Additional work is planned to implement a more up-to-date representation with more modern technologies (e.g., MVC Razor, HTML5, CSS3, jQuery, RESTful URLs, etc.) as I have the time.