Albert Mandela (Albert Mandela)

Brooklyn High School

Class of 1975

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Albert Mandela - Class of 1975 - Brooklyn High School

First Name	Albert
Last Name	Mandela
Maiden Name	Mandela
Graduation Year	Class of 1975
Gender	Male
Current Location	Euclid
Relationship Status	Divorced
About Me	I've been an Electronic Technician on CT medical scanners, Digital Subtraction Angiography and SPECT (single photon emissive computer tomograghy) medical scanners as well as Instrumentation and Motor Control. In between I went back to school to learn Chemistry and worked at various places as a Chemical Lab Technician and Technical Support Chemist. Later I wound up using both my electronics and chemistry designing and building equipment to make a Kevlar composite friction material and ended up becoming the ISO9000 Quality Control Coodinator. I had been running sound at the Brewkettle on Saturdays in 2007 & 2008 and went back to school at Tri-C and enrolled into the Recording Arts & Technology (RAT) program. After taking care of my parents before their passing, I decided to try my hand at Stagehand and Sound Engineering. I presently work at the Nautica Stage on the River and MGM Casino Center Stage as a Stagehand and I run sound at the Nighttown Jazz Club in Cleveland Hts. I may be old but somehow I'm still able to unload 5 to 7 semi's, fly speaker stacks and video wall, build and set up lights & lighting truss, assemble stage decking and wire the microphones for the backline. I even will harness up and climb 40 ft in the air to run spotlights. I've had the opportunity and pleasure of working with and sometimes meeting some of the artists we listened to when we were in high school. I figured if I didn't take the opportunity now there would never be another to come along. Working with the talented Jazz musicians that come through Nighttown is another fulfilling passion. I don't know how many Grammy winners have complimented and thanked me on running their sound. Never could I have imagined I would...(read more)