John Wagner-Stafford with a Novation keyboard
Entertainment Production & Audio

Production & Audio — Entertainment, Film & Games

Production Management · Audio Post · Games, Film & TV

Coordinated 160-person creative teams at Ubisoft; ran a media business for nine years; and built a career in audio to match.

Production and audio experience spanning AAA video games, film and TV post, and a media business run for nine years. At Ubisoft Montreal, I coordinated large-scale creative production teams — up to ~160 people — on titles including Splinter Cell, Prince of Persia, and Myst, under tight deadlines and high-pressure delivery. At Ingenium Books, I co-founded and ran the company for nine years: full P&L, budgets, a contractor team, and vendors, while also producing and mastering its podcasts and audiobooks myself.

The audio side runs deep too: dialogue, SFX, Foley, and music editing across 300+ television episodes and 10 feature films, and studio work for artists including Leonard Cohen, Céline Dion, the Bee Gees, and Pat Metheny. It grew out of a full music career — professional musician, then recording engineer, then producer.

I'm looking for a production or audio leadership role — in games, film, TV, or media — where I can bring both halves of that experience: the discipline to run a production, and the technical depth to understand exactly what the people doing the work need.

Production Leadership

Production Management — Ubisoft Montreal

2000–2006

Coordinated large-scale AAA creative production teams — up to ~160 people — on titles including Splinter Cell, Prince of Persia, and Myst, across tight deadlines and high-pressure delivery cycles.

Co-Founder & CFO — Ingenium Books

2017–2026

Nine years running full P&L, budgets, and a contractor team for a media business — while personally producing and mastering its full audio output.

Hear the Work

A few selected samples — click play.

Ingenium Books Podcast — selects from Season 2

Podcast Episode — John Wagner-Stafford as guest

Immersive Audiobook — Nova, the Courage to Rise

Original Music — 2023 Indie Film Music Contest

End-to-End Audio Production

Podcast Production & Editorial Development

Long-form content from concept through publication — defining focus, coordinating guests, managing logistics, and shaping the final editorial approach. Produced and edited 100+ episodes as technical producer, published to platforms including Buzzsprout.

Audiobook Production & Narration Direction

Pre-production through delivery: assessing book, audience, and genre; narrator strategy and casting; directing performance; coordinating pickups; and overseeing recording through final master — traditional and immersive productions alike.

Recording & Production Oversight

Managing recording workflows across spoken-word productions — technical setup, session oversight, performance feedback, and coordination of creative and technical pickups.

Audio Post-Production

Raw recordings to finished masters: dialogue editing, breath and mouth-noise cleanup, pacing, pickup integration, mixing, mastering, technical QC, and platform delivery.

Film & Television Post-Production

Hands-on across 300+ television episodes and 10 feature films — dialogue editing, SFX, Foley, music editing, conforming, and sound-supervision roles.

Systems Expertise

Current Toolset

Logic Pro · Avid Pro Tools · Riverside · Vimeo · Loom · ACX · Author's Republic · Buzzsprout · SoundCloud. I understand not only how to use the tools, but how the pieces connect into a reliable production pipeline.

Digital Audio Foundations

As a product specialist on some of the industry's first commercial digital editing and console-automation systems (AMS/Neve AudioFile, Capricorn, Logic Series, DFC, Triconcept Scimitar), I trained recording professionals across Europe and North America and demonstrated the technology at major trade shows.

Music Background

Every field I've worked in comes back to the same instinct: go deep, do the work, keep it running.

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