User:IvanRider

This page is about the Dozerfleet founder, here referred to as "myself, me, I," etc.

Resume
{| style="width:8.5in; background:offwhite; border:1px solid silver; padding:0.25in;" Executive Creator of Dozerfleet Productions / Preproduction &amp; Promotional Research Specialist&mdash;Television &amp; Digital Media Production
 * style="text-align:center;" | David Stiefel
 * style="text-align:center;" | David Stiefel
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 * Objective: Apply skills at preproduction research and development towards full-time work for a media venue, ideally aiming at non-linear editing and creative aspects of the production process.
 * Objective: Apply skills at preproduction research and development towards full-time work for a media venue, ideally aiming at non-linear editing and creative aspects of the production process.
 * Objective: Apply skills at preproduction research and development towards full-time work for a media venue, ideally aiming at non-linear editing and creative aspects of the production process.

Skills
Experience (in years) key: A = Academic experience &bull; P = Personal/Hobby-acquired experience &bull; F = Professional experience/application

1.  Adobe Creative Suite

2. Avid Media Composer

3. Sorenson Squeeze+ similar programs &mdash; 1A (Used for compressing video from HD to SD QuickTime and MPEG formats in post-production for Ferris State Live and Ferris in Focus.)

4. Markup languages (3A, 6P, 1F); XHTML, CSS, MediaWiki, Wikispaces, BBCode

5. Scriptwriting (5A, 1F)

6. Narrative Project Creation/Planning/Development (1F, 4A, 18P)

7. Production and Preproduction Writing (2A, 1F) Includes ad copy and documentary scripts both for academic and government access programming, as well as work for instructional videos. Talent extends to well-received dramatic short film writing and production.

8. Video Streaming (1A), using Adobe Flash and Dreamweaver. (Applied to making various videos for FerrisState.tv, plus the 90 Has No Secant official website)

9. Machinomics/machinma (5P) &amp; interaction with related communities. Resulted in the formal defining of the DVD-Storybook Hybrid Webcomic format.

10. Microsoft Office (5F, 11P, 11A)
 * Word and Excel used for internship at SWOCC Studios regularly.
 * Word and PowerPoint used often for various academic needs.
 * Access and Publisher used regularly for Data Entrist position at Stiefel Associates.

11. Website Administration (6P) {| style="width:8.5in; background:offwhite; border:1px solid silver; padding:0.25in;"
 * Managed files for multiple versions of Dozerfleet Productions’ Official Website
 * Administrator of DozerfleetWiki since 2007. (Wikispaces platform until 2008.  Wiki-Site platform until 2011.  Wikia since March of 2011.)
 * Operated The Dozerfleet Forum from 2008-2011. (ProBoards and Forumotion platforms)
 * Operated The Dozerfleet Blog in 2011. (Blogger platform)
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12. Promotional materials design
 * Channel slides for SWOCC Studios in 2010.
 * Operator of Utterly Sims, a downloadable content fan site for players of The Sims 2 and The Sims 3 which currently runs through DozerfleetWiki.
 * Inventor of the Call Center Question Prompting Assistant (QPA,) a simple HTML page tool that aids call center workers in handling phone call workflow.

Education
 Ferris State University  &bull; Big Rapids, MI &bull; (231)-591-2000 &bull; August 2006-December 2010 Bachelor’s of Science&mdash; Television & Digital Media Production 

 Lansing Community College  &bull; Lansing, MI &bull; (800)-644-4522 &bull; August 2002-May 2006 Studied Film Production, Computer Animation, Computer Programming, and Internet literacy

Career History
 Peckham, Inc.  Lansing, MI &bull; Call Center Staff Worker / Customer Service Representative &bull; May 31st&mdash;August 19th, 2011

Position required the acquisition of several multi-tasking skills necessary for answering phones. It also required acquisition of knowledge on several levels of law in order to educate callers on what they could and could not do with their concerns. Position was seasonal / temporary; required workers to go through extensive security clearance protocols.

 SWOCC Studios  33300 Nine Mile Rd., Farmington, MI 48336 &bull; (248)-473-2800 &bull; Video Production Intern June 7th&mdash;December 21st, 2010

Position required skills in Photoshop, Avid, ENG and studio camera operation, voice acting, setup and takedown of lighting; and other talents and equipment. Tasks included HD video capture to SxS cards and traditional miniDV tape capture, also audio mixing. Content was prepared for PEG programming.

Work included remote van production, visiting events with an ENG, some group and some individual event coverage, and getting stories on their appropriate channels in three-week-or-sooner deadlines, sometimes with deadlines as short as a week and a half. Special occasions of studio production included live election forum coverage.

 Stiefel Associates, Inc.  3125 N. Pine Tree Rd. Suite C., Lansing, MI &bull; (517)-393-3019 &bull; Data Entry Clerk &bull; June 2002-April 2006

This part-time job involved tracking purchase, sales, and invoice order data and keeping information relevant to said documents in an annually-arranged series of database tables with Microsoft Access 2000 (later 2003.) Orders being tracked included appliances and spare parts for commercial foodservice equipment. Items sold to various institutions in the state of Michigan including schools, prisons, restaurants, and retirement homes.

Additional responsibilities included filing paperwork and management of folders and cabinets, along with folder label design and occasional graphics needs. Also, file archival and warehouse stock rotation were essential duties. Business was a manufacturer’s rep firm.

 Meijer, Inc.  5125 W. Saginaw Hwy., Lansing, MI &bull; (517)-886-8101 &bull; Bagger/Utility Worker &bull; July 1999-September 2000

Duties involved loading groceries into bags, waiting on customers in the ready-to-go area, shopping cart retrieval, store cleaning/floor sweeping, and bathroom sanitation.

Portfolio catalogs
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Trivia

 * I have been raised Lutheran and was confirmed at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church on Burlingame Ave. in Wyoming, MI back in 1998. I consider myself still active in faith.
 * I'm an advocate of Young-Earth Creationism.

Politics

 * I supported Bob Barr for president in the 2008 elections.
 * I supported Stacey Mathia for governor of Michigan in 2010.
 * You can now download Stacey and her running mate at the Election 2010 page, courtesy of Utterly Sims.
 * I'm currently supporting Michele Bachmann for the GOP primaries for 2012.

Facebook quotes
The following are things I have put in the "Write something about yourself" box on my Facebook page, which were not quotes of a character from any work of mine.


 * Wherever there is doubt, I prefer whenever possible to ask questions and be honest rather than keep quiet and adopt a false face.
 * Ambiguity of word leads to wandering imaginations. The more horror stories you hear, the less you accept ambiguity.
 * There is nothing more transparent in any bureaucracy than a fragile ego. Under such a system, simply costing the system money and reputation is as bad as an actual felony.

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