Joe Aldridge has been at UNLV since 1974, serving as Technical Director from 1984 to 2005. He has been a member of IATSE Local 720 since 1975 working in most of the major hotels and casinos. He currently serves as a Chair of the Nevada Resort Association/IATSE Local 720 Training Trust. Joe has also served as Third Vice President of IATSE Local 720. Joe does free-lance lighting design and events coordination for local conventions. Joe has been active in USITT since 1985, serving as a panelist, giving workshops at several Conferences and as Conference Chair of the 1995 USITT Conference & Stage Expo in Las Vegas. He has served two terms as a Director-at-Large, and as Vice President for Special Operations. Joe is in his second term as USITT’s Vice-President for Conferences.  Joe also represents USITT on the Certification Council of the Entertainment Technician Certification Program, the governing body of ETCP.