CAREER:

Content design, creation and architecture

SKILLS: Information Planning, Production, Promotion, Partnerships
(presenter, writer, editor, producer, graphic artist,
business process designer, marketing strategist)
TOOLS: Dreamweaver, HomeSite, Fireworks, PhotoImpact, Photoshop,
Illustrator, Freehand, Flash, Expression, GIF Animator,
Painter, DeBabelizer Pro, Carrara, Bryce, Poser, Amapi
Project, MS Office 2000, Visio

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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE: Media Activity History

Freelance Writer-Editor

For government and business clients, 2000 to present
U.S. Bureau of Reclamation annual reports, brochure and web site
http://www.eovia.com/corporate/press_releases.jsp
Eovia, Inc. press releases 5 though 8.
Also created bacteriophage graphics pro bono at
http://www.phage.org/bgnws012.htm#submissions
http://www.phage.org/bgnws013.htm#submissions

WEB contractor

Temp contract with Intel, 1999
Project Managing intranet sites for Intel business units, including:
Intel Consulting and Programming Resources Publishing Unit
Intel® WebOutfitter™ Service Program Management
Intel Microcomputer Research Lab
(all sites behind the firewall)

Autodesk contract, Spring 1999
Produced site for new product, AutoCAD Map 2000

(since superceded)

Marketing Manager, Reserve America, Inc. 1998
for National Recreation Reservation Service Account

My credits for this job:
  • Designing, building and promoting 60 page informational web site,
    no longer active, but archived at:
    http://nanographer.tripod.com/sites_old_new.htm
  • Cultivating prospective content and marketing partners
  • Writing and Project Managing the marketing plan
  • Maintaining internal and external marketing efforts for federal clients:
  • USDA National Forest Service and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
  • Supervising and coordinating staff for various marketing research efforts
  • Supervising design and printing work for federal and state campground reservation clients


WEB public outreach consultant: 1996-1998
(designer/writer/photographer/coder):

U.S. Bureau of Reclamation
Lower Colorado Region
Virtual Water Conservation Center
No longer active, but archived at:
http://nanographer.tripod.com/sites_old_new.htm

This site is essentially my creation: branding, writing,
graphics design, coding, site organization, layout.

Mid-Pacific Region
(as team member through Modcom)
WaterShare, virtual water conservation center
http://watershare.mp.usbr.gov/resources/waterlearn.cfm
My credits for this site:
  • created the brand name and brand mission
  • designed the site organizational structure
  • researched/wrote/edited most of the copy
  • wrote/designed/storyboarded the WaterLearn episodes
  • illustrated the AgriWater episode myself
  • created the regional map
  • edited/rewrote/formatted/coded the lesson plans.

WEB promoter and facilitator in behalf of

The Tahoe Center for a Sustainable Future: Summer 97
  • promoting sustainable partnerships with the business community
  • writing a grant proposal to EPA for a sustainable community
    outreach process using GIS and Internet technology

ON-AIR television weathercaster and graphics designer/producer

KTVX (abc) Salt Lake City UT
weekday a.m. news

KNSD (nbc) San Diego CA
weekend news

KDRV (abc) Medford OR
weekday prime

KTVK (abc) Phoenix AZ
weekend news
film reviewer

VIDEO producer, writer, designer, director, actor

  • Roles in commercials and TV productions
  • "Flights of Imagination" video, Meteor Crater, AZ
    (won national award, JVC Professional Video)

  • "Northland Traveler," cable, Flagstaff, AZ

WRITER/DESIGNER, computer based instruction curricula

on contract to Wasatch Education Systems

PUBLISHER, National Parks Scenic Posters

from own photographs, Zion, Bryce, Grand Canyon

NEWSPAPER reporter, free lancer

  • Wrote full page retrospective for LA Times
    Sport section on 1932 Olympics
  • General assignment and environmental reporter
    Idaho Falls Post Register

  • Free lance environmental writer
    Sacramento Bee

 

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FULL PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE: Chronological Summary

  • web producer, contract
  • marketing manager
  • web outreach consultant
  • reengineering team leader, Hoover Dam
  • guide at Hoover Dam
  • independent scholar, writer, actor
  • on-camera t.v. weathercaster
  • tourism assoc. exec. director
  • award-winning media producer
  • scenic poster photographer/publisher
  • park and museum public information
  • California State Senate administrative asistant
  • newspaper reporter/editor


EDUCATION AND TRAINING

Stephan Covey Effectiveness Course
Conducted by National Park Service, Lake Mead NRA

High Performance Team Training
Conducted by Hoover Dam Quality Office

Two sessions of Reengineering Training
Conducted by Michael Hammer in Dallas and Boston

University of Nevada, Las Vegas
grad student in water resources management for 9 units, GPA 4.0;

University of California, Berkeley
Graduate School of Journalism
25 quarter units, GPA 3.7;
major in science journalism
minor in environmental science

University of California, Berkeley
graduated with
Bachelor of Arts, Honors, GPA 3.4;
major in geophysics
minor in geography

University of Utah
Department of Communication
attended as a non-major
4 units, GPA 4.0; graduate course in communication

Oregon State University, Corvallis
University of California, Davis
informal course audits


Thank You For Considering Me.

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