Professional Summary
Creative engineer with 13 years of video-production, 26 years of audio-engineering,
and 22 years of web-development experience, serving clients from sole proprietors
to large corporations. Holds a B.S. in Computer Information Science and runs a
tech-media company specializing in web design, video production, and audio engineering.
Experience
Field Producer & Editor — Okemo Valley TV 2023 – Present
- Record, edit, and publish town-hall and governmental meetings for six Vermont communities.
- Produce community programming (library readings, historical reenactments, music, interviews).
- Create on-air PSA bulletin graphics between shows.
- Upgraded green-screen studio, audio workflow, and overall production pipeline.
- Founded “Whiteboard Mondays” for weekly editorial planning and knowledge sharing.
- News compilations and promotional videos for Community-Matters.org fund-raisers.
- Eight training videos for the Safe School Ambassadors® program.
- 25 teacher–student highlight videos and 151 animated backdrops for The Dance Center (Santa Rosa, CA).
- Ideated, storyboarded, directed, and edited the PSA “One Cup” (litter-reduction campaign).
Website Designer / Developer — Dream-Create-Communicate 1995 – Present
- Planned, built, and maintained 105+ client websites (see portfolio).
- Produced eight educational CDs for Pulsewave.com (script, audio engineering, mastering).
- Managed brand identity across clients’ digital and print assets (logos, colors, collateral).
Software Consultant & Engineer — ProTransport 2015 – 2019
- Advised on $1.2 M logistics-software acquisition for 4 dispatch centers & 16 stations.
- Built “NewsToTheCrews” internal news channel, synchronized across 16 locations.
- Developed and maintained corporate websites for CA, IL, and FL ambulance subsidiaries.
Chess Instructor & Web Manager — Chess Club For Kids 2012 – 2020
- Replaced paper registration with an e-commerce system for program enrollment and payment.
- Taught chess alongside a 26-member staff, reaching 51 schools.
Server-Side Web Engineer — Hall Kinion 2001 – 2002
- Database-driven site development using ColdFusion.
- Created “Data2Go” chat/pager/cell-phone tool (Tcl) pre-smartphone era.
Senior Engineer — icPlanet Inc. 1999 – 2000
- Invented “Data2Go” (U.S. Patent US-20070150804-A1).
- Wrote ColdFusion front-end and Perl/Flash data-aggregation tools for labor-market forecasting.
System Tools & Gaming Engineer — Brøderbund Software 1993 – 1999
- Built Rugrats online teaser game (pre-movie release).
- Contributed to Carmen Sandiego Math Detective, Dr. Seuss Kindergarten & 1st Grade Deluxe.
- Automated asset processing pipelines for large-scale CD-ROM titles (see credits).
Audio Engineer & Studio Musician — GrooveFarm Productions 1987 – 2006
- Engineered recordings for Sol Horizon, The Ruminators, Terra Nova, Carnaval Spirit, Blind Curve, and guest artist Pato Banton.
Education
B.S. Computer Information Science — Sonoma State University 1989 – 1993
- Side-project: custom neural-network implementation.
- Expanded 4-member computing club to 35 active members.
Skills
- Soft skills: communication, collaboration, positivity, self-starter, team-builder, educator.
- Hard skills: Web design & project management, software engineering, video editing, audio engineering.
- Software: VSCode, Anthropic Cursor, DaVinci Resolve, Adobe Premiere, Photoshop, Krita
- Languages: C, C++, PHP, Python, JavaScript.
Other Activities & Interests
Homesteading & permaculture, cooking, music (drums & banjo), teaching and playing chess.
Artificial Intelligence
Wrote custom neural-network code at SSU in 1995; currently exploring local deployment
and customization of local LLM code, and other open-source models.