AES Member Profile

Sean Olive

Job Title: Director of Acoustic Research
Company: Harman International

Status: Fellow
Member since: 1984
AES Position: Vice President - Western USA/Canada
AES Committees: Board of Governors, Vice Presidents, Nominations, Regions & Sections
Technical Committees: Automotive Audio, Perception and Subjective Evaluation of Audio Signals, Spatial Audio
Standards Committees: SC-04-03 (Loudspeaker Modeling and Measurement), SC-04-03-D (AES-1id-R)
Section: Los Angeles
Alt. Section: Vancouver

Personal website: http://seanolive.blogspot.com
Facebook Address: http://www.facebook.com/sean.olive
LinkedIn Address: http://www.linkedin.com/in/seanolive
Twitter Name: @seanolive

Audio Fields:

Product Manufacturing - Research & Development
Consumer - Home
Consumer - Car
Product Manufacturing - Hardware
Educational Institutions - Educator

Job Duties:

Researcher
Acoustician
Author/Journalist/Technical Writer
Educator
Manufacturer

About

Sean is Director of Acoustic Research for Harman International, a major manufacturer of audio products for consumer, professional and automotive spaces. He directs the Corporate R&D group, and oversees the subjective evaluation of new audio products including Harman's OEM automotive audio systems. Prior to 1993, he was a research scientist at the National Research Council of Canada where his research focused on the perception and measurement of loudspeakers, listening rooms, and microphones. Sean received a Bachelors in Music from the University of Toronto, and his Masters and Ph.D. degrees in Sound Recording from McGill University in Montreal. He has written over 25 research papers on the perception and measurement of audio for which he was awarded the Audio Engineering Society (AES) Fellowship Award in 1996, and two Publication Awards (1990 and 1995). Sean is the current Vice President for the AES Western US-Canada region.