Jivan Tahmizian (born 7 January 1963; age 62) was a sound editor on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine as well as a dialogue editor on the video games Star Trek: Klingon and Star Trek: Borg.
During his time with the Star Trek franchise, Tahmizian also worked with many other members of the Trek sound crew on a number of feature films. Tahmizian, Ruth Adelman, Dale Chaloukian, Doug Davey, Jeff Gersh, Christopher Haire, Ashley Harvey, Bill Henderson, Mace Matiosian, Richard L. Morrison, Miguel Rivera, Masanobu Tomita, Audrey Trent, Chris Trent, Jerry Trent, Guy Tsujimoto, Eric Williams, and Bill Wistrom all worked on The Only Thrill (1997, starring Sharon Lawrence) and all except Harvey and Rivera worked on 1998's Family Plan; Tahmizian was a dialogue editor on both of these films. She's All That (1999, starring Gabrielle Union) featured sound work by Tahmizian, Adelman, Chaloukian, Harvey, and Audrey, Chris and Jerry Trent; Tahmizian was a foley artist on the film.
After completing his work on Deep Space Nine, Tahmizian was a dialogue editor in 2000 on both NBC's The Others and the film Fear of Flying (with Jeffrey Nordling); he worked with Ruth Adelman, Mace Matiosian, and Guy Tsujimoto on both of these projects. He was also a sound editor on Carnivàle (2003, starring Michael John Anderson, with Clancy Brown, Adrienne Barbeau, Patrick Bauchau, Toby Huss, K Callan, Frank Collison, Richard Fancy, John Fleck, Spencer Garrett, Brent Hinkley, Scott MacDonald, Matt McCoy, John Carroll Lynch, Robert Knepper, Jordan Orr, Rachelle Roderick, Ted Rooney, Diane Salinger, Deborah Strang, Time Winters and Gene Wolande), again working with Adelman and Matiosian, and sound supervisor on Lost (2004, with J. Paul Boehmer, Bill Cobbs and Lois Hall) working with Tsujimoto.
Tahmizian later worked with Ruth Adelman and Mace Matiosian as a sound editor on CBS' CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. He also worked as adr editor and sound editor, respectively, on Karroll's Christmas (2004, with Wallace Shawn) and Knights of the South Bronx (2005, with Brian Markinson and Kate Vernon).