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Information on My Latest Projects and Web UpdatesI have worked in the media field for most of my working career, presently employed by a state university facilitating interactive instructional television participants. I am also skilled in computer operation and functions as used by most businesses and industries. Previously, my experience includes college level teaching, ownership of a variety of successful media related businesses including a consulting service, video production company, still photography studio, and processing lab. I have written numerous newsletters for various companies and organizations, as well as had articles and photographs featured in national magazines and house organs. I have an excellent background and skills in management, planning, hiring of personnel, client/business relations, and detail follow-up. Highest Level of
Education: On site technical director in Prescott for interactive television classes delivered through the television services department of Northern Arizona University. Duties include operation of television control room utilizing a/v hardware for sending and receiving broadcasts from Flagstaff and other locations in the state and support services for students participating in classes at my location. Instructor/Lecturer 1977 - 1995 I have taught Instructional Media for Teachers; Beginning and Advanced Photography; Video Design; and other media classes as an Adjunct professor for several colleges and universities in Michigan and Arizona. I have also conducted numerous lectures and workshops on media and photographic related topics. Owner/Video Producer 1981 - 1985 Lakeside Productions, Grand Rapids, MI Produced Industrial videos and commercials for numerous companies and organizations in the West Michigan area. Clients included Amway, West Michigan Tourist Association, ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, ESPN and other local television stations. Owner/Photographer
1983 - 1993 Operated Photography studio and lab for commercial assignments and portrait photography. Industrial clients included City of Grand Rapids, Greenridge Realty, Visual Evidence Center, Capitol Records, and many other businesses and government organizations. I employed up to a dozen sub-contractors to help me produce quality media products for my clients. Other Experience includes familiarity with and use digital cameras for my web papers; producing newsletters and/or web pages for several organizations and companies; news production and directing for broadcast news stations, and freelance photography and videography assignments.
I attend the National Association of Broadcasters (N.A.B.) conference in Las Vegas each year to see all the new "toys" available for dissemination of information over radio, television, and computer networks. Hardware and all the trimmings have evolved over the years and the quality of products available today is remarkable! There are so many new and improved approaches to production, image gathering, news reporting, and commercial/industrial presentations that old producers like me really must keep up our studies just to figure out the changing vernacular of the media field! Gone are the days of photographic alchemy -- images are now bits of information. No more 50 pound movie cameras -- it's all done today using digital cams you can put in your pocket. And the images are cleaner and better! As a kid, I thought seeing an image appear on a piece of photographic paper in my darkroom was "magic"..... Now days everyone's a wizard, or uses one...... I used to spend my resting hours watching my favorite television shows. Now I spend hours in front of a "monitor", reading e-mail, creating video presentations, cleaning up my still photography, and/or researching everything I ever wanted to know about anything! I can also watch my favorite TV shows on my computer. I'm no longer a couch potato, I'm a vegetable with a key board in one hand and a mouse in the other..... I've always believed that life is a life-long learning experience, and the new technology in my media profession hasn't let me down. Keeping up is the problem now, and sometimes I wonder if too much knowledge can be all that good for me! The older I get, the more I realize the closer I'm getting to my end. I once read somewhere: "You learn as much as you can, and then you die..." It just goes to show you, there's always something.........
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