Projects

Teaching

• JB 3623 | Internet Communications — Visiting Lecturer in the OSU School of Journalism and Broadcasting developing a curriculum for training young journalism, advertising, public relations and broadcast students in the use of the internet as a communication medium. Focus is on the use of Wordpress blogging software to learn graphic design and written communication for the web using basic HTML, CSS and graphics programs. (Spring 2006-Present)

Active Web Projects

• OColly.com — Currently reinventing the collegiate newspaper that I originally put online in 1996 into a modern media journalism teaching tool, including a custom content management system to support the publication of blogs, podcasts and video clips. This projects also involves developing a revenue stream through the hiring and management of student programmers, advertising sales people and content producers. (5/2007-Present)
• International Collection of Children's and Adolescent Literature — Create an online catalog of children's literature for the College of Education at the University of Arizona. (12/2006-Present)
• HDTV in Oklahoma — Created a basic web site for tracking the Digital Television transition in Oklahoma using phpWebsite content management system. In June 2006, the site was converted from phpWebsite to Wordpress so affiliate advertising programs would be used as a revenue stream. (2001-present)

Selected Completed Web Projects

• Stan Clark Companies — Provided initial design and other services to build the Eskimo Joes web and retail sites in 1996 and hosted half a dozen web sites during more than 12 years of service. (6/1995-9/2007)
• Humane Society of Stillwater — Designed and built a web site around phpWebsite content management system that could be updated by board members relatively untrained in HTML. (2003-present)
• Oklahoma State University HLC Accreditation — Provided technical consulting in the production of a 256 page book and built a static web site that was included on CD-ROM with that publication. Project involved the use of a document versioning system and collaboration among multiple offices, on-campus and off. (2004-2005)
• Lazy E Arena/Ranch — Designed and built inital web sites in 1997 that were updated in 2002. Currently provide technical support to internal staff. (1996-2006)
• National Wrestling Hall of Fame and Museum — Created web site covering the history of the sport, including searchable statistical data for more than 12,000 wrestlers in hundreds of events dating from 1904. (1998-2005)
• Oklahoma State University — Managed OSU home page and related pages through nine major design revisions over eight years and multiple technology changes. Millions of web pages were served using Macintosh technology from Mac 7.5 to Mac OS X Panther Server, including conversion to Apache, PHP and MySQL in 2002. (1995-2002)
• Stillwater Convention and Visitors Bureau — Designed and built a web site around phpWebsite content management system that could be updated by staff untrained in HTML. (2004)
• The Game and The Greg Swaim Show — Set up and hosted a streaming internet broadcast of these two shows in the spring and summer of 2000. The project included designing logos and creating an automated method for pulling the shows off the analog radio broadcast as well as creating archives that could be played back over the internet once the shows were over. Javascript were also written to detect whether the user had the Quicktime Plug-in installed. The scripts for automating the archival process were featured in the July 2001 issue of DV Magazine. (2000)
• Daily O'Collegian — Created the first web site for the student newspaper at Oklahoma State University. It has been maintained by students since its inception, as it was designed to. (1996)

Kiosks

• National Wrestling Hall of Fame and Museum — Using data from its public web site, Macintosh-based kiosks were built so that the data could be accessed via large touch screen monitors. Initial design used Netscape DHTML techniques while a redesign in 2002 moved the concept to Internet Explorer and then-current standards-based CSS and HTML. (1998-2005)

DVD and Video

• OSU Athletic Department — Specialized videography for Development and Major Gifts. (2006-present)
• Humane Society of Stillwater — Produce motion graphics, ads and content for 30 minute public access TV show. (2006-present)
• Stillwater National Bank — Ongoing projects include editing quarterly financial presentations and the development of multimedia for a variety of platforms. (2005-2006)
• National Wrestling Hall of Fame and Museum — Designed and Produced a DVD containing video bios of the nine 2005 inductees. The project was used as a looping intro in their theater and copies were provided to all inductees. (2005)

Film Production

Worked as a production assistant, grip, production coordinator and residuals coordinator for more than 10 years on a wide variety of film projects. Recurring clients included Lazy E Productions, Inc. and Brightwater Productions.

• Feature Films

  My Heros Have Always Been Cowboys (1989-94) [residuals] Shadows On The Wall (1988-94) [residuals] Dark Before Dawn (1987-94) [production coordinator] Near Dark (1986) [local production coordinator] Free EnterPrise (1986) [production coordinator]

• Documentaries

  Let's Get Lost, directed by Bruce Weber (1987) [production coordinator] Morgan Horse Show (1986) [production coordinator]

• Selected Commercial Credits

  Kerr-McGee, Brightwater Productions [production coordinator] (1992, 1990) Brunswick Rhino bowling balls, Brightwater Productions [production coordinator] (1990) AT&T, Cinematic Directions, directed by Haskell Wexler [production coordinator] (1988) Remington Park, Denali Films [production coordinator] (1988) Blue Cross & Blue Shield, Atkins Film/Video Productions [production coordinator] (1987)

• Music Video

  Toby Keith (1993)
• In addition, edited quarterly publications, compiled annual reports and served on several committees for the Oklahoma Film Office between 1986 and 1992.

Computers and Software

Owner and user of Apple Macintosh equipment since 1985, from Mac OS 1 to Mac OS X Tiger, from Motorola 68k to PowerPC to Intel.

Desktop Applications

• Apple Final Cut Studio, including Final Cut Pro, Compressor, Motion and DVD Studio Pro;
• Apple iLife '04 to '06, including iTunes, iMovie, iDVD, iPhoto and Garageband;
• Apple iWork '05 to '07, including Keynote and Pages;
• Adobe Creative Suite 2, including Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign;
• Macromedia Flash MX, including Sorenson Squeeze Flash video codec;
• Microsoft Office, including Word, Excel and Powerpoint since the original Macintosh versions back in the 1980s;
• Quicktime Pro, including streaming media, podcasts, and media conversion for iPod, iTunes and Windows Media;
• Bare Bones BBEdit, Textwrangler and Yojimbo;
• Omni Group's OmniOutliner and OmniGraffle;
• Filemaker Pro 2.x-8.x by Filemaker, Inc., and
• Applescript, Automator, perl, php and many other scripting languages.

Internet Applications

• Mac OS X Server, 10.0 to 10.4, including Quicktime Streaming Server;
• Apache, Webstar and IIS web servers;
• PHP, Perl, Ruby, Tango and Netcloak web scripting languages;
• MySQL, Primebase, MS SQL Server, and Butler SQL database servers;
• Wordpress, Gallery, phpWebsite and many other Web applications and scripts;
• Eudora Internet Mail Server
• BIND domain name server

Writing & Editing

• Extensive free-lance writing and editing experience for all media since 1982, including nearly fours years of reporting experience with newspapers such as The Daily Oklahoman and The Dallas Morning News.
• Projects included supporting the publication of a 4-color, 256-page publication for OSU's 2005 HLC Accreditation using InDesign and Version Cue, and writing four chapters of a Texas junior high computer literacy textbook for The Mazer Corporation in 1989. Also designed and edited Location: Oklahoma!, a quarterly newsletter published by the Oklahoma Film Office, from 1985 to 1992 and was editor of the 1982 Redskin Yearbook at Oklahoma State University.
• Additional experience includes editing, layout and design of numerous newsletters, journals and booklets.

Other Experience

• Pierson, Ball & Dowd — Freelance Legal Assistant. Performed legal, financial, statistical and factual research for Western Branch Office of Pierson, Ball & Dowd, a law firm specializing in First Amendment, communications and securities law under the direction of attorney Michael Minnis. (1983-1986)

Public Service

• Humane Society of Stillwater — Member of board of directors since 2003, personnel committee liaison, chairman of technology committee. (2003-2007)