Serving the entertainment industry worldwide, Setpoint D&P provides technical consultation, design, project management, and installation supervision tailored to the specific requirements of our clients”

 Project management deals with the overall planning and coordination of a project from the initial conception to the completion aimed at meeting the client’s requirements and ensuring completion on time, within cost and maintaining required quality standards.  Typically this can be divided up into 5 overlapping stages:  conception, design and planning, manufacturing, supervision and completion. 

Setpoint Design and Production provides the necessary management to make sure that the 5 stages of the project are met.  Setpoint coordinates services via third party shops for generating drawing packages, having engineering done as required, tracking and supervising the manufacturing process and coordinating the delivery and installation to the client. 

Joel has been working in the technical theater industry for over 17 years.  Working on local productions during in high school, he quickly found his calling. a degree in Technical Production from the North Carolina School of the Arts soon followed.  

In 1993, fresh out of university, Joel found himself in Las Vegas, working as an intern for EFX, the largest production show ever attempted in a city known for its excess. Production Resources Group (PRG), The production company in charge of the design and installation of EFX, was impressed with the young go-getter and Joel was promoted into a permanent staff position in 1994, a position he held until 1997. 

During his time at PRG, Joel worked on everything the company did, from industrials to permanent shows, as well as supervising field installations and the shop floor.  

In 1997, Joel helped install the rigging system for the Cirque Du Soleil production “O” at the Bellagio. He stayed with that show as the assistant head of rigging in charge of design and maintenance before moving on to install the production show De La Guarda at the Rio Hotel. 

Working with De La Guarda, Joel went to Korea as technical director to supervise the installation of the show there. He moved back to Las Vegas, briefly, to install the rigging for Celine Dion’s A “Brand New Day” at Caesars Palace.  He was only on that project for a few months before leaving to go to Montreal to work on another Cirque Du Soleil show.