Sector · Higher Education + K-12

AV for the institutions that shape who comes next.

Columbia Law commencement with Sec. Antony Blinken. The Fordham Compliance Law Institute pivoted to virtual. NYU. CUNY Grad Center. The $12M Success Academy "School of the Future" Bronx campus — 7 floors, 90 rooms, 30-day redesign.

Vincent's higher-ed work runs back to 2001 as the NASA RID Grant streaming-server engineer at the University of Alaska Southeast — the first North American campus fully wired for WiFi.

The roster

5 institutions, 7 figure-scale builds.

Columbia Law School

Globally streamed and televised graduation ceremony for the Class of 2021. Sec. Antony Blinken '88 keynote. Multi-cam, live-call shots, audio. Via Magic Seed Productions.

NYU

Multi-engagement higher-ed work via Technica Operations. Classroom AV, multi-room buildouts, broadcast-capable lecture spaces.

Fordham Compliance Law Institute

47th Annual Conference on International Antitrust Law and Policy — pivoted to virtual in 2020. 3 days, 15 sessions, 84+ live participants per panel. Skadden Arps, Verizon, Google, American Express, Walmart on screen.

CUNY Graduate Center

Multi-room AV refresh and broadcast-capable conference space build-out. Public-research-institution-grade reliability.

Success Academy — $12M Bronx campus

AV Design Practice Lead. 7 floors, 90 rooms, $4M AV/theatrical/broadcast envelope on a 310,000-sf K-12 campus designed by SOM. Two years of work compressed into 30 days. Standardized Extron-based control across every classroom. Repeatable design framework adopted across the practice.

UAS — NASA RID streaming pioneer (2001)

Built the first multi-codec live-streaming server in the IT department, becoming the backbone of UAS distance education. NASA RID Grant for innovations in wireless. First North American campus fully wired for WiFi.

Why higher-ed hires VAAV

Three throughlines.

01

Distance-education roots

The streaming-server architecture that powered UAS distance ed in 2001 is the same architectural instinct that powered the WW Connect 6-Day Pivot in 2020. We've been building education-at-scale broadcast infrastructure for 25 years.

02

Repeatable design frameworks

The Success Academy $12M build produced a repeatable Extron-based design framework adopted across the practice. We don't custom-engineer every classroom — we ship a system the school can replicate.

03

Faculty-grade discretion

Sec. Antony Blinken's commencement. Confidential law school proceedings. Fordham Compliance Law Institute's invite-only roster. We work in rooms that demand both technical reliability and discretion about who's in them.

Campus AV refresh? Commencement? Let's scope it.

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