Robert Walker

Robert joined YSTV in his second year, at Freshers Fair 2012, after being prodded into it by Liz Pascoe. He quickly followed this up by running for Deputy Technical Director a couple of weeks later - again, after being prodded into it by Liz. He seemed to make quite an impact within this role, receiving The 'I Don't Know What the Fuck You Do, But It's Fucking Awesome' Award at the 2013 FLOPPYs and being elected Technical Director on the promise to add a crossbow to the technical enforcing armoury.

In The Shirt

Robert's year as Technical Director didn't start off quite as well as his previous year went, as he managed to trip the permanent electric supply to the studio, help discover and report a chemical spill, and admitted to YUSU that nobody knew how strong the lighting rig actually was - all in the week leading up to freshers. Since then, Robert has learnt the value of plug-mounted RCD's, and YUSU worked with us on getting a more acceptable COSHH solution in place. The lighting rig was a whole different type of fun. He must have done something to make up for all this during the rest of the year, as he was re-elected to Technical Director in 2014 on the basis that he hadn't broken everything in the station yet.

Robert used to spend his spare time studying Physics - and was occasionally refused access to the station when his degree had deadlines approaching. However, by his third year he actually ended up doing more degree work in the station than out of it. This was unfortunately of little use, as he ended up failing to progress to his fourth and final year. Although the University still agreed to give him a Bachelor's degree.

After graduating, Robert spend a short time working for the University's Audio Visual department - and had mixed success in convincing other members of YSTV that there is a department on campus that can be really helpful to the society. This also gave him enough of an excuse to continue doing stuff for YSTV, at least until the end of the 2014/15 academic year.

Positions

• Deputy Technical Director 2012-13 (November 2012 by-election)
• Technical Director 2013-14
• General cynicism/annoyance 2014-15

Credits

• Woodstock 2013 - Technical Director
• Union Christmas special - Pyrotechnician
• Battle Of The Bands 2014 - Producer
• Children in Need 2014 - Technical and Computing
• Roses 2015 - MCR Engineer (possibly uncredited)
• Woodstock 2014 - Producer
• Hello Goodbye - Lighting

Other notable things that he has been involved with

• Helped finish off the HD upgrade in November 2013.
• Stole the idea for Kenobi from the Tom Trolley, and then won an award (with Sam Nicholson) for it.
• Half-build various pieces of software to control various pieces of hardware, and almost got somewhere with MuxControl.
• Rebuilt AV Rack in the new rack acquired summer 2014.