We love our new Chase Creative faces, and we love giving them recognition even more!
We are here to shout out our newest and brightest, Clay Martin! Clay was hired in 2022 as our new Rental/Warehouse Manage. He leads his team on figuring out logistics, equipment availability, any transfers between our three offices, and safety compliance. You might also catch Clay on the phone with clients to help guide them to smaller rental needs, and give his best recommendation for your next event!
We had the pleasure to sit down with Clay and get to know him and his position here at Chase Creative a bit more!
Read ahead:
| Question 1: | What has been your favorite project so far at Chase Creative? |
| Answer: | For my position there hasn’t been a project in particular that has stood out. What did stand out was my first Fall busy season. I had time to train on the systems – tools were available to me to work with but you can never be sure how things will play out when there is little room for error. Looking back October and November are a blur but successfully completed. |
| Question 2: | Why did you choose a career in AV? |
| Answer: | Ever since high school I’ve had an interest in what goes on backstage or behind the curtain. As time passed, I found that I had good working knowledge for at least basic AV gear and a strong background in logistics. Chase has given me the chance to work with both aspects on a professional level and I’m very glad to be here. |
| Question 3: | What advice would you give to someone interested in working in the AV industry? |
| Answer: | Anyone who works in AV needs 3 things: a good pair of shoes, a reliable pocket knife, and the wisdom to wrap cable using the over under method. |
| Question 4: | What do you do for fun, in your time off from work? |
| Answer: | In the winter I just hibernate, play video games and try to stay warm. The summer is home project time – last summer it was putting down some hard wood floors. This summer there will be a new roof. |
| Question 5: | What is one thing on your bucket list? |
| Answer: | The writer of the hymn “Amazing Grace” had an incredibly filthy mouth. During his time as a sailor he was: “admonished several times for not only using the worst words the captain had ever heard, but creating new ones to exceed the limits of verbal debauchery”. I would like to find out what he said. |
| Question 6: | If you won $1 Million, what would you do with it? |
| Answer: | I figured out over lockdown that my spirit animal is a lazy river so I would find/make/build my own and spend my days happily going where the water takes me, which is nowhere. |
| Question 7: | If you could learn to do anything, what would it be? |
| Answer: | I would like to learn how to pilot a glider. In my head it would be both very peaceful and exhilarating. |
