Biographie
Sean "Spoole" Poole is a former show host at Inside Gaming before joining up with Rooster Teeth and becoming a member of the Funhaus team before leaving them on February of 2016. Since then, he is a former producer, editor, and personality at Rooster Teeth who primarily worked as a former host and former team member of the Funhaus team division of Rooster Teeth. Some of his other previous jobs besides Funhaus and Rooster Teeth include NBCUniversal Media, LLC.
Sean was born on August 14, 1986 in Seattle, Washington. For his education, Sean graduated out of Cascadia Community College earning a Associate of Arts (A.A.), Business Administration and Management, General, after studying for 3 years, beginning in 2004 and graduating in 2007. Later, he studied at Washington State University where he earned a Bachelor's Degree, Broadcast Management. His major courses included: Broadcast Production Major. Business Minor. His Activities and Societies included Cable 8 (student television) - Producer / Director of award winning film review show Always on the Movie. He studied for 2 years, beginning in 2007 and graduating in 2009.
After graduating, He worked on Attack of the Show! as early as 2008. After leaving Attack of the Show!, he worked as a Production Assistant at NBCUniversal Media, LLC based in the Greater Los Angeles Area for 23 months from July 2009 until June 2011. Here, he assisted in the production of daily live TV, wrote daily news segments for air, gathered assets for producers including capturing web videos to MinDV and XD Discs for ingesting into Avid and managed groups of interns.
Then, he worked as a Associate Producer for NBCUniversal Media, LLC based in the Greater Los Angeles Area for a 1 year and 1 month June 2011 until leaving NBCUniversal Media, LLC in July of 2012. There, he wrote and produced daily tech, gaming and entertainment related packages for air on G4TV's Attack of the Show, produced content for yearly live events including Comic Con and E3 and managed multiple nightly edits with a rotating team of editors.
After leaving NBCUniversal Media, LLC, he worked as a Producer, Editor, Host and Personality at Machinima for 2 years and 2 months from November 2012 until leaving them in January of 2015. There at Machinima, he wrote, produced, hosted and edited daily entertainment news, live event coverage as well as comedy packages for the Machinima and MachinimaETC YouTube channels. He also produced and edited hour long game plays into 10 minute let's play videos for the Inside Gaming YouTube channel.
He later worked as a producer, editor, host and personality at the Funhaus team division of Rooster Teeth,, based in the Rooster Teeth offices in the Greater Los Angeles Area. He produced, edited and occasionally on screen talent for video game let's play packages on the Funhaus YouTube channel. Daily used of key frame animating, quick cuts, applying masks and adding sound effects to enhance game play videos. He also oversaw the live production of our channel's live game streams on both the Twitch and YouTube platforms. Funhaus officially joined the Rooster Teeth family on February 5, 2015.
He was also called the Gavin of Funhaus in Let's Play GTA V Hunting Pack. He officially announced his departure from Funhaus (and subsequently Rooster Teeth) on Monday, February 8, 2016 after 1 full year of employment. He departed from Funhaus and Rooster Teeth on Friday, February 12, 2016. Despite leaving Funhaus and Rooster Teeth he has stated that he will still attend RTX and will continue to show up as a guest host in Funhaus and Rooster Teeth videos from time to time. Since leaving, he has moved back home to Seattle, Washington, his moving day starting on February 13 and returned home on February 19th. Since then, he spends some of his weeknight streaming to Twitch and has racked up to 40,000 followers by March of 2016. While not planning to become a full time streamer, he plans to stream part time as much as he can on his days off. His Twitch channel can be found at Spooleo.
Spoole has spent 6 years of professional television and web video production experience. He is presently applying skills ranging from writing, producing, editing, animating, photo shopping and entertainment/tech journalism. he also has professional experience with Adobe Premiere and Photoshop as well as a basic understanding of After Effects. He has also enjoyed live streaming on his personal Twitch channel for over a year and regularly makes use of products like X-Split and Open Broadcast Software and Twitter to cultivate an ever growing community.
