Nate Pennington

Background

About Nate Pennington

Technology Services Professional with 9+ years experience providing project management & systems administration for the Sundance Institute. Specializing in IT infrastructure venue planning, and artist/staff support both domestically and internationally. Proven track record acting as technical liaison between a broad range of administrative and creative departments including Film, Music, Documentary, Programming, Accounting, Administration, Development, Marketing, Producing, and Content Creation. Promoted in 2009 to support and maintain the Los Angeles corporate office IT infrastructure. Responsible for technical support of leadership, artists, & seasonal staff ensuring daily interdepartmental workflows run securely and smoothly across multiple platforms and devices. Oversight includes managing and planning for full equipment life cycle needs and annual refreshes for all departments. Ensuring departments are supported as they migrate from the LA office to Sundance Film Festival venues, and to Summer Labs programs. Weekly responsibilities include reporting to Utah-based Director of Technology the reliability of LA office IT infrastructure including network, VOIP, Video Conference & Polycom systems, DCP Projection system for film screenings, and web-based Google applications. Monitoring end user usage and change requirements and to recommend solutions to remedy issues as needed. Specialties: Creative Project Management, IT Consultation, Active Directory/Google Apps, Forticlient, Microsoft Server 2012, FileMaker Pro, Digital Content Workflow, Content Management Systems (Drupal), AV & VC Systems Installation/Support, Workflow Analysis, Technology Services Support Forward looking interests: Developing smart contracts with Solidity on the Ethereum Blockchain. I’ve been working in this space for over 2 years now.