NOVAC

Gene Fredericks has worked with media technologies most of his career. His first job at 18 was as a Kinescope operator filming commercials off television prior to the use of video tape recorders. Over the years he’s worked on all videotape formats from ½”open reel, ¾” Umatic, to 2” helical scan and all the digital videotape formats. On the creative side Gene has worked as Editor, Producer/Director, at WYES, WGNO and been an Executive Producer on several commercial and documentary projects. He was a Special Projects Director at Kaiser Permanente involved in the beginnings of digital media and compression and designed their state-of-the-art video-teleconferencing system. On the technical management side he has been a Facility Manager, Facility Designer, Global Video Systems Director working for several companies like, BAVC, PRN, Rough House, MediaZone, SanDisk, Google and others. Gene also established and ran several software and technology companies providing scheduling and networks switching services to clients like Apple, BP, Fidelity, Getty, HP, Kaiser, and others. Back in 1974 Gene worked at NOVAC as a Vista volunteer and in 2014 he returned to New Orleans from SF to make a documentary. While touring NOVAC he encountered the 2200 videotapes in a room at NOVAC. He built a facility to digitize NOVACs legacy media content so they could be seen again and to assure NOVAC’s video heritage was preserved for the future. Gene also has two daughters and a grand-daughter who live in Kauai!