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C A S Q U A R T E R L Y I S P R I N G 2 0 2 2 23 There's a bit of a myth that [traditional consoles] are slower. Not in the right hands! You served on the CAS Board of Directors for a couple of years. Did you enjoy your time on the Board? Yeah, it was great! It was really good just to get more insight into what the organization was trying to do. I think at that point the CAS was trying to really increase membership and reach out to a lot more people to get more diversity into the group, not just diversity ethnically, but also diversity in job types. We now have a well-rounded membership, which is great. Membership has gone up considerably in the last decade. We now have more than 700 Active members and a total of more than 1,000 members, including Associate, Honorary, Academic, and Retired. A lot of those new members are Foley, ADR, and scoring mixers who had never really been members before, so I'm really happy to see that the community is growing. At the beginning when I was first part of CAS, it was mainly location mixers and re-recording mixers and that was about it with a couple of others. Yes, and in fact, it was mostly location mixers. How did you get involved with the CAS to begin with? Gosh, good question. It was so long ago. I was probably invited to join, for whatever reason, maybe because of a film nomination, possibly. I think the earliest one was in 1996. That would have been your nomination for Air Force One. Great sounding film! That makes you a member for more than 25 years! What does getting the CAS Career Achievement Award mean to you? It's a huge honor, clearly stating the obvious. But it's an honor because these are my peers in this organization and there are no others who understand what we do except those that do it. I honestly still feel like I'm learning and still kind of climbing. I don't feel like I'm amongst the group that I aspired to be a part of when I first came to Los Angeles. I mean, it's a massive honor, it truly is. It's not a political vote. It's not a competitive vote. It's just something that has been put upon me and I'm thrilled and humbled. Air Force One Mixing The Greatest Showman at the Fox Scoring Stage