Work Experience

Video Editor / Graphic Manager

5/2006 - Present Lenan Corporation, Janesville, WI

I implemented all video equipment and filmed / edited to DVD videos for training, introduction videos to the in house theater (learning center) , and product promotional DVDs.

I designed promotional materials and coordinated with publishers for Magazine ads and Direct Mail.

I designed websites as needed, and trained the appropriate people how to use the backend properly for updates should they need to make them ( I.E. - thier department makes changes frequently or I am not around that day )

For video work, I primarily used FCP ( Final Cut Pro ), Motion, DVD Studio Pro, Soundtrack, Quicktime and Compressor.

For still image and print work ( magazines and direct mail ) I primarily used Illustrator, Photoshop, and Acrobat Professional.

For website work ( Site creation, implementation of sales-team ‘needs’, and monthly updates ) I used primarily a wordpress backend so I didn’t have to create a multi-leveled login with proper security from scratch, and then coded the pages in PhP+Html to form the frontend.  The exception was www.lanair.com, which I had to use ASP for, since the software our company owner someday plans to use for a shopping cart requires ASP to integrate into our in-house CRM and Purchasing software.

It should be noted, that in this position I regularly utilized the internet to research products, solutions, software “how to” videos, grab videos to convert for in-house-events, and submit videos to places like youtube, and our own Marketplace Believers websites.  Once every couple months I’d delve back into wordpress to learn any new changes introduced and see if I could update our current wordpress based sites without breaking anything we were currently running on the site as a plugin or custom piece of code.  ( I point this out because when I first joined our company owner was skeptical about allowing use of the internet, but soon came to realize that I could produce things for him with it, that he’s never had access to before.  It would be very hard, and to some extent not possible, to do my job without it. )

For Samples of my work:

www.lanair.com

Our company’s primary website, a massive overhaul from the yellow-and-white website that it once was, this site contains all of our product information and functions three-fold, as a landing-point for peole researching Lanair heaters, as a place to host our manuals and product-related video, and a sales-team tool.  Lanair runs ‘old fashioned’ and doesn’t use an online shopping cart as it created sales-team and distributor frustrations.

www.lanaircool.com

A good demonstration of a site I created for a product launch (we do not have video footage for the product yet) on using a flexible and free backend to implement a functional multi-browser compatable corporate frontend with CSS dropdown menus for wide compatability.

www.marketplacebelievers.org

Contains video work as well as web work.  Demonstrates a website for events with notifications designed to be used by members of Marketplace Believers.

Video Editor / Camera Operator

6/2005 - 2/2006 Fiskars Crafts, Madison, WI

Filmed and edited shows for Fiskars Crafts web-based series on crafting tutorials called “FiskarsTV”

For Examples visit

www.fiskarscrafts.com/tv

Software workflow involved Final Cut Pro, Compressor, Motion, and Soundtrack.

Video Editor / Camera Operator

5/2002 - 6/2002 Vico Auto, Milton, WI

Our group at school was asked to put together a video commercial and website for Vico Auto, a local used sports car dealer.

We had some students drive the vehicles and some of us lead them on the back of a truck filming them. Our first time doing something like this, the video was very jumpy (no form of steady cam) but ended up looking good in the end video.

We edited the video with Adobe Premiere and some (much faster) video editing software program we had at school who’s name I cannot recall.

The final product was shown in a theater before movie showings. The final edit ended up a faster speed (made the jitter disappear and movements seem much sharper/intentionally filmed).

The website was completed by a friend of mine (Jesse Morton), but the company did not pay - and so work on implementing the site stopped, and we cut off our work relationship with the company.

Education

7/2003 - 2/2006 Video and Motion Graphics - Madison Media Institute (MMI), Madison, WI

Associate Degree : Video and Motion Graphics
ProTools certified

Applications/Systems I am familiar with:

* Photoshop
* Mac OS 10+
* Windows OS (all)
* Illustrator
* Final Cut Pro
* DVD Studio Pro
* Motion
* Soundtrack
* Premier
* After Effects
* Video Toast
* Dreamweaver
* GoLive
* Microsoft Office (Word/Excel/Powerpoint etc)

I am familiar with both Mac and PC environments, and able to adapt from application to application pretty easily.

I also look somewhat dorky - which HAS to count for something. Dorky guys rule on computers - so thats like super bonus points.

Avid is to Video Editing as Qwerty is to Keyboard Layout. Design that does nothing but slow down workflow. I am not interested in using that software except where absolutely necessary, and even then - in short term.

Skills

Advertising - Marketing

DVD Authoring

Photo Manipulation

Graphic Design

Video Editing