Our team
140 years' digitisation experience

Ron partners with Joe in managing the operations of DAMsmart. Based in Sydney, Ron’s entrepreneurial and management skills have played key role in the successful establishment, and fast growth of DAMsmart.

Ron is a pioneer in the Australian audiovisual business, which he started in almost 30 years ago. He joined the industry in 1982, when he founded Silver & Ballard Pty Ltd (S&B). Ron’s business has gone from strength to strength, culminating in the establishment of DAMsmart in 2007.

Joe has been heading up the business in Canberra since establishing DAMsmart with Ron in 2007. With over 25 years of specialist audiovisual experience, Joe is one of the most knowledgeable people in the industry when it comes to analogue and digital video, film and audio production, management and archiving.

Before starting DAMsmart, Joe headed up Preservation and Technical Services at the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia. While at the NFSA Joe developed a reputation as being one of the leading authorities on media migration, preservation and archiving in Australia.

Adam heads up sales and marketing for DAMsmart. His background is in marketing and business management, with over 10 years experience working across a wide portfolio of blue chip clients. He has been quick to pick up the fundamentals of the industry, and is already writing articles for industry publications.

Prior to joining DAMsmart, Adam was the General Manager of one of Sydney’s leading activation marketing agencies. Adam brings with him a depth of marketing and business development experience with strong technical skills to match.

Andy heads up the technical operation at DAMsmart. Andy manages everything from our sophisticated SMART digitisation platform through, to the maintenance of our VTRs, both the modern ones and the antique ones, through to research and development. He also works alongside Joe developing custom workflows and integration testing for all our new projects.

Andy has over 10 years experience in the television broadcast industry. He refined his technical skills working as the Digital Media Specialist with the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia, where he researched and developed standards for encoding analogue material for preservation, the web, production and cinema.

Dave heads up the film division at DAMsmart. Dave’s well known in the industry as one of Australia’s leading film preservation experts. Dave oversees both the preparation of the film as well as the colour grading and transfer process.

Before joining the team, Dave spent 14 years at the National Film and Sound Archive (NFSA) developing and refining his skills. Prior to leaving the NFSA he held the executive role as Film Curator. He’s spent over a third of his life managing the preservation of film and it would astound you the things that Dave knows about film.

Scott has over 15 years’ experience in the media industry and has a talent for all things technical in the world of audiovisual. Scott joined us as a Digital Media Operators and has since shown his hand at a range of other roles in the business including archive management, developing QC standards as well as research and development.

Scott has worked for some of the biggest broadcasters in the county in various roles from cameraman to operations manager.

Janelle joined us from the broadcast industry where she got down and dirty with the operations side of the trade. Janelle knows her way around most videotape formats, both old and new, and plays a lead role in project management and workflow co-ordination of the video digitisation platform. Janelle also plays a supporting role on the commercial side of DAMsmart, where she works alongside Joe and Kirsty with sales and administration.

Janelle has worked for the biggest regional broadcasters and also has completed studies in Business management and Television.

Kirsty manages disk services for DAMsmart and, coincidentally, is one of the longest standing members of the team. Kirsty has developed the disk services business and is responsible for all things related to production for duplication, replication and USB production including all the adminsitration and design requirements. Whether it’s small run or large runs, Kirsty is the girl for the job.

Kirsty’s other role is managing the Canberra office, which in itself is a big task given everything we have going on. When you drop in, Kirsty will be the smiling face that meets you at the door.

Amy is part of the specialist team responsible for the day-to-day operation of the video migration platform. Amy operates both the automated and semi automated digitisation workflows including testing and QC compliance. Amy also supports Dave in the film department, preparing and transferring film.

Amy developed her technical skills working in the broadcast industry for post-production companies and  broadcasters. Amy has been both a producer and an editor, and has the knowledge to match the skills with an Honours degree in TV production.

Clint is the DAMsmart nightwatchman. DAMsmart’s operations are 24x7, and we rely on Clint to manage the both the semi-automated and automated video and audio workflows through the night so we can keep the projects running around the clock.

Like the rest of the team, Clint has an extensive background in TV, working for many of the national broadcasters in everything from script writing to floor management. Clint’s got the digital skills to match as an accomplished IT professional undertaking consultancy and web design. Underpinning his skills, Clint got a bachelor in TV Production and masters in Visual and Performing Arts.