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KUB Technical Crew Operations

Tier 1: 0-80 Hours Accrued

After 80 Hours Accrued

Employees may begin to be scheduled on shifts alone after they have accrued eighty (80) hours of recorded work-time. During the accrual of eighty (80) hours of recorded work-time, employees are expected to have acquired, learned, and to adhere to basic concepts and responsibilities of the position. After an employee has accrued eighty (80) hours of recorded work-time, the employee will be held accountable for knowing and applying the following concepts:

Responsibilities

  1. Know the entire Job Description Document
  2. Know the entire Employee Expectations document
  3. Know your shift assignments
  4. Know how to clock-in/out for shifts
  5. Know how to enter and approve your worked shifts in eTime for payment
  6. Know the Dress Code
  7. What to HAVE ON YOU AT ALL TIMES while working:
    1. BU Student ID
    2. Building keys
    3. KUB Work ID
    4. Working, powered on, volume up walkie talkie

Reports

  1. Obtaining, reading and interpreting daily building reports
  2. Obtaining, reading and interpreting setup diagrams
  3. How to access reports and information on EMS.
  4. Reading, interpreting, and writing shift reports

Communication & Access

  1. Walkie talkie codes and communications
  2. BU ID key card access
  3. Keys and access
  4. Combinations
    1. equipment storage
    2. equipment security cables
  5. Passwords
    1. Tech Office Computer
    2. Presentation PCs & Macs
    3. Presentation Laptops

Equipment

  1. Cable types/terminology and use
  2. Cable length colors
  3. Running cables
    • Safety
    • Aesthetics ("Make it look pretty") - Hide as much cable as possible
    • Against walls
    • Parallel to electrical cables and at least 6 inches apart
    • Straight lines, 90 degree angles
    • At podiums
  4. Taping cables
  5. Wrapping cables using only Over-Under method
  6. Be able to identify all of the technical equipment
  7. The storage locations of all technical equipment
    1. Storing LED TVs
    2. Handy Herman personnel lift
    3. Bingo Machine
    4. Auxiliary AC Power Snake for Ballroom
  8. Difference between feedback, hum, and buzz
  9. Changing batteries in wireless
  10. Wireless mics, operations, and setting in rooms- on podium or mic stand.
  11. Location of gaff tape
  12. Location of new and old batteries
    • Why do we save “old” batteries?

Systems Operation

  1. Operation of all IMP Stations
    1. Conference rooms 226, 343, 409, 410, 411
    2. Fireside Lounge
    3. Multicultural Center
    4. Multi A&B
  2. Operation of Ballroom Systems:
    1. House Lighting
    2. Shade control
    3. House Sound system
      1. Presentation Mode
      2. Movie Mode

Terminology

  1. AC
  2. Backdrop
    3. ​
  3. Buzz
  4. Cue
  5. CAT 5e, 6
  6. Downstage
  7. Dress Rehearsal
  8. Feedback
  9. FOH
  10. Frequency
  11. Gel
  12. Gobo
  13. Handheld (mic)
  14. House
  15. House Left / Right
  16. Hum
  17. IMP Station
  18. Input
  19. Lavaliere / Lapel
  20. Upstage
  21. Setup
  22. Stage Left / Right

Basic Setups

  1. Conference phone setup: Existing room phone and Polycom Conference Phone
  2. Play music from a laptop in Ballroom without video
  3. DI box for playing music from a personal device
  4. Program Board Movie (any KUB location)
  5. Presentation PC and cart setup and operation
  6. Laptop setup in: Ballroom, table in KUB, requests outside of KUB
  7. PB Bingo
  8. Campus Outreach

What's in Ken's Office

^ Indicates that this gets returned to Ken's office IMMEDIATELY after use, always.

  1. Gaff tape
  2. New batteries
  3. Old batteries
  4. Broken Equipment
  5. Tools ^
  6. Label makers ^
  7. CineLink ^
  8. iPad ^
  9. CDs for background music ^
  10. Web cameras ^