Joseph White

President / Principal Designer

Joseph White, CEO / Lead Designer at Crafted Design
 

Joseph has honestly played every role in the industry, starting from the bottom, or as he views it, the true beginning. Being an engineer at heart has led him to always take a logical, first-principles approach to solving problems.

Throughout his college experience, he ran both the Multimedia and Education Technology departments, growing them and effortlessly handling their operations. (By the time he left, it took two full-time staff members to replace their one student employee!) Once out of school, he took the first full-time AV position he could find: Building racks for the Simpsons Ride™ at Universal Studios Hollywood™. This discovery of theme park AV and themed entertainment led to him realizing this as his new passion.

From there, he worked his way up through the industry, wearing the hats of fabricator, installer, project manager, sales engineer, design engineer, and now CEO, all the while remaining the point person for client contact. Learning every part of the business gave Joseph an experience that instilled in him his philosophy that every system sound be carefully designed to fit both the budget and time frame required, without sacrificing quality. Video systems quickly became a specialty of his as well, mastering all the initials: HDMI, HDCP, EDID, ATSC, etc., and learning projection science and lens mastering from masters in the industry.

Never having forgotten audio, he became a subject matter expert regarding on-board audio systems, working with Alcorn McBride to develop the RidePlayer on-board audio system, which not only contained revolutionary sync capabilities but quickly became the standard on-board playback and show control device at every major theme park before it was even shipping.

Joseph’s reputation for excellence and flexibility in leading project teams has led to success on some of the biggest and coolest projects that no one is allowed to talk about, as those in the industry know.

Projects

Some of the wonderful and interesting projects Joseph has worked on include, but are not limited to:

 

Jurassic World Adventure, Universal Beijing Resort

  • Onboard audio and lighting

Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey, Islands of Adventure, Universal Studios Florida™

  • Onboard audio refit speaker design and manufacture

The Simpsons Ride™, Universal Studios Hollywood™

  • Queue audio and video, ride audio on-board, and off-board

The Springfield USA Expansion, Universal Studios Florida™

  • Kang & Kodos’ Twirl ‘n’ Hurl audio, RSS and FX triggering, restaurant and beer garden audio and video, parkwide BGM for the area

Harry Potter and the Escape from Gringotts™, The Wizarding World of Harry Potter™, Universal Studios Florida™

  • Queue audio and video, ride audio on-board, and off-board

Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey™, The Wizarding World of Harry Potter™, Universal Studios Japan®

  • Queue audio, ride audio on-board, and off-board, FX triggering and audio for the wand shop show, BGM and audio FX for retail and restaurants, parkwide BGM for the area

DreamPlay, City of Dreams Manila

  • Audio, video, show control, FX triggering, and show supervision for over one dozen attractions, as well as the general area

Journey of Lights Parade, Chimelong Hengqin Ocean Kingdom

  • System design, on-board show control programming, and on-board audio system programming