Leadership
Training and Presentation Design
Technical Publications
CD, DVD, Web Producer
Corporate Communications
Phone: 520-991-1366
Executive training leadership position requiring:
2007 — PresentModular Mining, Tucson
Training Designer
Course Developer
Video & Multimedia Producer
Technical Photographer
Technical Writer
Moodle Developer
Creation of online classrooms.
Skill level: expert.
Lessons, multimedia, video, online tests.
See www.moodle.org
Wiki Developer
(Corporate Wiki)
Collaborative content development.
Skill level: expert.
See www.wikipedia.com
Documented technical inventions to date: 6
Creator: Product Video Libraries
Online versions of video
& data DVDs
Creator: Product Video Diaries
Online progress reports
on product developments published the same day they take
place
Honeywell, Tucson
Document editor and designer.
AlphaGraphics, Inc. World-Wide
Headquarters
Curriculum Developer
Training Designer
Director of Multimedia Services
Publication, CD, Video, Web and Music Producer
The corporate office building
where I worked.
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My Multimedia Lab
This is where I produced
large publications, CDs, videos and web-based training and sales
systems that my employer uses to sell its product and train its
staff world-wide. This lab space was set aside for my needs as
a multimedia producer & director. Part of the time I worked
here unassisted. The remainder of the time I worked with subject
experts to create multimedia training and sales products.
My “Larry King Jr.”
set. By using a common computer projector, shown here projecting
the image of the Earth, the “rolling” of videos taken
from TV or computer monitors is eliminated.
My Avid video editor. With it,
I can produce a broadcast-ready production in a matter of a few
hours. I did this on a regular basis when I produced corporate
communication videos and when I produced “hug” videos
for our customers when they attend a month-long training seminar.
My “Big Mac.” With this
computer I produced large (2,500+ page) PageMaker documents that
depict my company’s standard operating practices.
Video decks and my multimedia
PC. The video decks served as a source to the Avid’s digitizing
system and as a way of striking “one-off” copies for
clients and business locations.
Multimedia & Desktop Publishing Mac
Avid Express Deluxe
Web & CD Production PC
A Partial List of AlphaGraphics Projects
AlphaGraphics
Integrated Marketing. A four-CD set delivered to all store locations
world-wide to train all employees on the automated marketing
methods and systems.
The main Customer Service Representative
(CSR) training package. A two-CD set (over a Gigabyte of multimedia
and video content) delivered to all locations world-wide to train
newly-hired customer service reps
The
Operations Manuals. This is the primary documentation package
(1,200 pages, updated annually). This CD contained the entire
collection as PDF files, linked by a custom menu system.
A
two-CD set to train all employees on the use of the approved
point of sale system. 10,000+ files, 960MB on two CD-ROM disks)MCI International
Sales Agent: MCI Mail, MCI Fax Broadcast
Sold, installed, trained and supported MCI Mail and MCI Fax Broadcast in the US.
Seiko Instruments, USA
Director of Documentation
And Training
Seiko is a Fortune 50 company where, working with my training and documentation staff, we implemented all training courses, created all internal and customer's documentation, and published all newsletters and data sheets. My responsibilities included hiring and training of personnel, design of all training courses and training materials, evaluating instructors and documenters and marketing our training courses world-wide.
This is the lab Seiko provided me in which
to work. Pictured from left to right on the main work surface:
Apple Laserwriter NTX, Kodak Slide projector, Sony U-Matic 3/4
inch video recorder, Pioneer Level III Videodisc player, Macintosh
fx twin-monitor computer with a VideoLogic Mediator supporting
the left-hand monitor, Syquest drive, HP scanner, rack of audio
equipment, photographic copier stand. On the conference table:
four laserdiscs I created through the Torrance Pioneer plant that
contained the video components for the multimedia products I produced
for Seiko. On the wall: some of the 18 x 24 inch process-color
packaging prints that I designed to package Seiko's multimedia
products.
Here's a low-light view of my workstation.
Mounted atop the right-hand monitor is a Canon Hi-8 A1 Mark II
video camera. This camera was used to capture all video content.
It was also mounted to the photographic copy stand (pointing downwards
at the light table) so that video stills of artwork could be photographed
and frame-grabbed. The circuit board artwork, used as a background
for the multimedia packaging (below) was captured this way.
Created the Training Department, hired, trained and managed all trainers, created all product and training documentation and audio/video training aids, initiated the use of MCI Mail for the Sales Force, training all sales people in the use of MCI Mail including automatic distribution of sales leads, training materials, electronic quotations, and automated distribution of product data to management, the sales force and customers.
Training customers included: Motorola,
Intel, General Motors, and Hewlett Packard.
Marketed Seiko's training products world-wide through the use of direct mail, MCI Mail, and MCI Fax Broadcast.
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Partial front cover. Original size 13 x 13 inches. Featured the TT4000SC Class 1 clean room robot, the RT3200 and a TT and XM Series robot. Purple & teal background by ArtBeats. 3-D text by Macromedia 3-D. |
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Partial back cover. Original size 13 x 13 inches. Background is a robot CPU circuit board colorized and blurred by Photoshop. |
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Created two encyclopedic-length multimedia training systems. The two graphics (above) are taken from the larger, 13 x 13 inch computer graphics that I created to package Seiko's multimedia training products. In this design, only the spine panels were different, reflecting the name of the training product, inside. Director-authored multimedia ran from Syquest disks with all video and still photographs presented on the computer screen from a 12 inch laserdisc controlled by RS232. Access time for any photograph (or video) on the laserdisc: 1/4 second. These systems contained our complete field service procedures for two of Seiko's most popular robot systems. Containing up to four hours of non-compressed, 60-field, full-screen, broadcast-quality video each, these interactive training systems are the next best thing to having a visit from a factory-trained service person at a fraction of the cost and access time. Performed all video and digital still photography and multimedia programming.
Additional services provided to other divisions of Seiko: email and mass marketing training, custom programming to create a database product that is sold world-wide, color product photography, multimedia trade-show kiosk presentations, corporate video presentations, scientific newsletters, desktop publishing training and custom (Clipper) database application programs.
Wally Heider Recording Studios
Director of Maintenance & Training
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Control room of LEDE (live-end, dead-end) design by Chips Davis of Las Vegas, Nevada. |
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Main studio, also LEDE. UREI TimeAlign® speakers throughout. |
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Performed recording equipment maintenance for Wally Heider’s Hollywood studio complex. Responsible for all monitor system measurements and alignments. Performed speaker repair, microphone repair, console repair, studio rewiring. Trained all engineers using classroom training, studio training and live recording session work. Performed all experimental digital recording work. Sent as emissary to Japan for two months to train studio engineers in West Coast recording practices.
As a freelance sound engineer, I recorded: Frank Zappa (200 Motels, Filmore East, Just Another Band From LA, Overnight Sensation, Apostrophe), Alice Cooper, Ike & Tina Turner, Spirit, The Turtles, The Byrds and many others.
Visited Caracas, Venezuela for one month to train the Telearte sound engineering team. The Telearte sound studio is now so successful that recording sessions must be scheduled a year in advance. While there, I was fortunate enough to get invited on an expedition of my host’s PBY aircraft.
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Photo 1: The PBY
Photo 2: Checking the expedition Zodiac raft
Photo 3: Me flying the PBY!