Principal
Kenneth Fause recently joined Auerbach Pollock Friedlander as a Principal in the San Francisco office. He brings more than 35 years of professional experience to the firm including the design of theatre production systems, a/v systems, broadcasting facilities and acoustics.
Mr. Fause began his consulting career in 1970, when he joined the consulting firm of Bolt, Beranek, and Newman in New York with a joint appointment in theatre consulting services and acoustics.
Mr. Fause spent 20 years as a principal and co-founder of a firm in San Francisco where he worked on more than 1,000 projects. His theatre production systems design experience includes HP Pavilion at San Jose, The Wintergarden at the World Financial Center in New York City, Sunset Village Auditorium at UCLA and Cactus Shadows Performing Arts Center in Cave Creek, Arizona. His a/v experience includes work for the City of San Francisco, the County of Santa Clara, US West Communications and University of California, Davis. He provided broadcast facilities design for HP Pavilion at San Jose, San Francisco City Hall, Los Angeles City Hall, KTLA Los Angeles, national political conventions, and presidential debates.
Prior to co-founding his previous firm, Mr. Fause served as president of Filmways Audio Services, North Hollwood, California, a leading provider of crewed production services, equipment rental and system installation contracting services to the motion picture, broadcast television, theme park and special event industries. He also served as Vice-President of Engineering for the Filmways Audio Group, with management oversight responsibility for Wally Heider Recording, Heider Scoring Services, Heider Cutting Services and ACI retail professional sales.
Mr. Fause has a Bachelor of Science in Engineering from Cornell University and a Master of Arts in Theater Arts from UCLA.
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Audio Engineering Society
Construction Specifications Institute
Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers
United States Institute for Theater Technology
LICENSE
Federal Communications Commission, Radiotelephone Operator General Class, Lifetime
