I grew up in the south (Tampa Bay Area, Florida), have traveled and lived all over the world (I even spent a year in The Peoples Republic of China!) and now reside in Brooklyn. I work at the world-famous Highline Ballroom in Manhattan, where I am the in-house Electrician and Senior Lighting Director.

Main job:
Lighting Designer-Director, Technical Director, Electrics, Lasers, Production Manager, Event Planner/Coordinator, Production/Tour/Event Consultant. From large one-off outdoor Festivals and tours, Broadway-type shows and Hotel Ballroom Corporate Events and Theme Parties to Club or Theme Park Design/Installs.

Other roles:
Just about anything but climbing or digital audio consoles. To wit: Design, Production/Tour Management, Outdoor Staging/Steel, Lighting/Technical Director, Master Production Electrician, including all types/sizes of Generators, Moving Light Programmer/Tech, Spot-op, I can also do Video gear set-ups/production and lighting, Can tech/trouble-shoot (and quite often fix) just about any gear used in production, Especially lighting gear, Can patch Audio/Monitors, Can set-up/tech most any and all Back Line, I am a Grand Piano/Organ mover and a Drum Tech, I have extensive experience operating all types of Fork Lifts and Genies.

Over 29 years in the biz. No more truck ramps though (pushing, etc.) Sorry, I'm a geezer whose busted his ass all his days and now my knees and ankles are giving me grief! I can work 12-14 hour days, no problem, but stairs and ramps are really hard on me. A word of advice to all lighting/stagehand types: NEVER run up/down arena/stadium steps with large amounts of soca-pex/feeder cable on your shoulders and never repeatedly jump off of decks to the floor ... trust me, you will pay for it later!

"Somebody get me a Doctor!" - Diamond Dave


I have now become enthralled with CBG's and am in the midst of gathering boxes, necks and a s#!t-ton of tools in my modest Brooklyn loft so that I can start making my own!

Being in "The Biz", I wish to build not only traditional and Diddly-Bow types, but high-end, "road-able" models as well. I'm really excited about this new adventure and have purchased one of Big Daddy's 5-strings so'z I can get a feel for what I'm getting into. He has been really cool and extremely helpful in getting me started with advice and whatnot. I highly recommend his work and only hope I can make him proud with some of my work.

After I get time to "shrink" down some of my pix (I think 10 megs per pic is just TOO SMALL!), I will upload some pix of my lighting work and if you want to see my resume or read some of my writing (I'm trying to become a writer, but am as yet unpublished aside from the internet), stop by my website: www.GoJeffy.com

It's totally free and I'm sorry ladies, but there ain't a nekkid pitcher a'me to be found anywhere on it!

(Hysterical laughter)

Big Luv to all!