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 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 [[G/046 Lighting rig|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.
+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 (by way of failing several exams) to his fourth and final year. This meant that he was unable to complete his elected year as Technical Director, and stood down on 9th September 2014. Although the University kindly agreed to award him a Bachelor's degree for his hard work up until that point <strike>at YSTV</strike> towards his 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.
+After graduating, Robert spend a short time working for the University's Audio Visual department, before joining [[Michael Chislett|Mike Chislett]] at the IMG Studios engineering department.
 == Positions ==
-*[[Deputy Technical Director|Deputy Technical Director]] 2012-13 (November 2012 by-election)
+*[[Deputy Technical Director|Deputy Technical Director]] Nov 2012 - May 2013
-*[[Technical Director|Technical Director]] 2013-14
+*[[Technical Director|Technical Director]] May 2013 - Sept 2014
-*General cynicism/annoyance 2014-15
 == Credits ==
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 * Helped finish off the [[HD Upgrade|HD upgrade]] in November 2013.
 * Stole the idea for Kenobi from the [[docs:Tom trolley|Tom Trolley]], and then won an [[NaSTA | award]] (with [[Sam Nicholson]]) for it.
-* Half-build various pieces of software to control various pieces of hardware, and almost got somewhere with [https://github.com/rrah/MuxControl MuxControl].
+* Half-build various pieces of software to control various pieces of hardware, and almost got somewhere with [https://github.com/rrah/MuxControl MuxControl]. Shortly afterwards, all the equipment controlled by this was superseded by newer equipment with better control software.
-* Rebuilt [[docs:AV rack|the AV Rack]] in the new rack acquired summer 2014.
+* Rebuilt [[docs:AV rack|the AV Rack]] in the new (wrongly built) rack acquired during summer 2014.
+* Rebuilt Kenobi from equipment acquired at the same time as the new AV Rack.
 * Got bored over a couple of afternoons, and put together [https://ystv.co.uk/watch/union/speed/ speed]
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