My name is Luis Rivera and I am the Chief Technology Officer, Premier Video Tech, and Founder of LRAV, an Audio Visual company based in Orlando, FL. My journey in the audio visual industry started when I was just 12 years old, working with my family member to create a DJ company called Always a Party in 1999.
As I gained more experience and skills, I began freelancing for companies like Hi-Tech and AVW doing audio visual events. By 2006, I was working for many audio visual companies and Always a Party had evolved into Pro Audio Visual and DJ. In 2008, we dropped the DJ from our name and shifted our focus to corporate events.
From 2008 to 2016, I focused on becoming master certified in all areas of audio visual and worked on all types of logistics, trucking, and gear rentals. During this time, we serviced companies like Microsoft, Walmart, government organizations (including the White House), medical companies (Edwards and McKesson), and many other Fortune 100 companies.
In 2017, I founded LRAV to cater to a more demanding high-end service, which includes video going from HD to 4K, audio from analog to full digital, lighting going from analog to network-based, and network as a whole. We stepped into the Zoom world and were already highly skilled in the network base area, which allowed us to easily transition to the heavily virtual and network-based world that emerged in 2020 due to the COVID pandemic.
In 2021, LRAV became one of the first companies to bring all elements of virtual reality like extended reality, augment reality, and virtual reality inside a ballroom, arguably one of the first. In 2022, in-person events made a huge comeback along with hybrid events, and LRAV became a global leader in that space.
Today, LRAV is staffed with many full-time family members trained in all areas to the highest level of audio visual with truly the very highest technology offered today. Together with the very best clients, who we also call family, we continue to innovate and lead in the audio visual industry.
