Keefe Boerner

Facilities Manager

E-mail: keefe@mail.utexas.edu
Office: CMB 4.120A
Hours: M-F 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Phone: 471.9253

Keefe Boerner directly supervises and coordinates the staff handling equipment checkout, maintenance and post-production resources. He manages the maintenance budget for the equipment and coordinates the planning for equipment purchases. He is also the technical resource for contacts outside of the department.

Keefe received his BS from this department in 1993. Prior to his current position, he has been a production coordinator, editor, visual effects and motion graphics artist, visual effects producer and post production supervisor on feature films.

Linda Cavage

Equipment Check-Out Supervisor

E-mail: l.cavage@mail.utexas.edu
Office: HSM 2.102
Phone: 471.6565
Pager: 476.0712
Hours: M-TH 7:30-4:30 PM, F 7:30-4 PM

Linda Cavage supervises scheduling services for the Production Area of the RTF department. She oversees equipment checkout for location productions as well as projects that support coursework, labs, classroom use and special departmental and college projects. Linda maintains reservation systems for resource scheduling, trains student staff in data entry actions, arbitrates scheduling conflicts, and negotiates equipment allocation by class for 24 or more RTF production courses with faculty and supervisor as required.

Susanne Kraft

Digital Video/Audio Technician

E-mail: skraft@mail.utexas.edu
Office: CMB 4.113
Hours: M – Th: 8:30 a.m. – 5:30 p.m. F 8 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Phone: 232.6486 Cell: 517.1387

Susanne Kraft supports and maintains numerous computer non-linear AVID, ProTools and Final Cut Pro editing workstations that range in complexity from low end digital video firewire seats to high end uncompressed High Definition workstations. She also supervises and maintains the Studio 4B lab that encompasses multi-platform workstations hosting a wide range of application suites such as Final Cut Pro Studio 2, AVID, ProTools, Adobe CS3 Production Premium, XSI, 3D Studio Max and Entertainment Partners Budgeting/Scheduling.

Susanne graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a BA degree in Art History and a BS in Radio Television and Film in 1990. She worked for 11 years at a local high-end post-production studio called 501 Post. There she learned all the facets of Video Post-Production and was a commercial AVID non-linear editor there for the last half of her tenure. In 2001 she started working for the Radio-TV-Film department and the rest is history. She enjoys assisting students with the technical problems and teaching basic and complex workflows in post-production. She tries to relieve student stress by simplifying complex things so they can concentrate on the creative process.

Susanne likes animals, especially cats. She's interested in real estate, unless she has to do any remodeling herself. Among her few dislikes: bad traffic and shellfish.

Jeremy Gruy

Tech Staff Assistant

E-mail: jgruy@mail.utexas.edu
Office: CMB 4.113
Hours: M – Th: 1 – 9:30 p.m. F 10 a.m. – 6:30 p.m.
Phone: 232-2760

Hector Gonzales

Equipment Checkout Staff

E-mail: hgonzales@mail.utexas.edu
Office: HSM 2.102
Hours: M-F 9-6 PM
Phone: 471.6565

Derek Young

Equipment Maintenance

E-mail: djy@mail.utexas.edu
Office: HSM 2.102
Hours: T, W,TH,F 6AM-4:30 PM
Phone: 471.7990

Derek is responsible for equipment maintenance and repair, especially for film cameras, location lighting and audio equipment; maintains the department equipment inventory.

Joe Hutson

Video Engineer

E-mail: jdh@mail.utexas.edu
Office: CMB 4.112
Hours: M - F 7:00-4:00 PM
Phone: 471.4846

Maintains and repairs all studio cameras and control rooms; provides engineering support for technology installations.