William Ray

Background

About William Ray

US Service manger for Xquisite Yachts; a South African based manufacturer of luxury Sail/motor catamarans for worldwide cruising in comfort. Owner/operator of Wave Marine Contractors/Charters. A full service yacht building, maintenance, and repair facility located on the Miami River, Miami, FL. Also, providing charter services for vessels from 20' to 120'. Founder of Hydro-Kinetic Designs LLC. Director of engineering at The Paracas Group LLC. Extensively experienced Sea Captain in Vessels up to 120’. Awarded contract for design, installation and implementation of computerized audio routing/mixing system for NASA’s Space Shuttle communications system at Cape Canaveral, Florida. Personally supervised operations of system on two missions in 1997. Provided state of the art recording and sound equipment to prominent studios and TV/video production facilities throughout out the Southeast US and South America. Clients include numerous Nashville based recording studios (Emerald, Starstruck, Masterfonics, 17 Grand, etc.), TV/Video productions facilities (Crawford Communications, Broadcast Video, CNN, TNN, Gaylord Entertainment/Opryland), and many other facilities too numerous to list. Owner, designer, builder of major audio video production facility (Crescendo Recorders, formerly Sound Pit, Atl, GA). Clients included The Temptations, Gladys Night, Atlanta, Alabama, William Bell, Lisa Bridges, Ted Nudgent, Allman Brothers, and Diana Ross. Designed, built, and owned successful live entertainment night club (Lou’s Blues Revue, Atl, GA) w/ world-class audio and lighting systems. Featured on several, made for TV, blues specials aired on Fox and W-TBS. Performing artists include Allman Brothers, Atlanta Rhythm Section, Georgia Satellites, Gary Wright, Little Milton, and numerous other local and nationally acclaimed artists/performers. Specialties: Pilot, Sea Captain, Marine Electronics, Expedition Preparation and Management