Shawn Miller                                                

 

Website: www.shawnm.com

Email: Digimedia@shawnm.com

Email2: shawnm91@comcast.net      

 

Objective

Design exciting, innovative content for new media products.

 

Digital Media Specialist

Broad based experience in digital media creation and delivery:

 

   Sound design/engineering | digital media encoding | graphics clean-up | HTML programming | digital video editing | user interface design | cascading style sheets | DVD Authoring

   MiniDV camera operator | lighting instrument /control setup | graphics for broadcast

 

Software Skills

Sonic Foundry Sound Forge     Syntrillium Cool Edit Pro           Microsoft Office Suite  

Sonic Foundry Vegas               Cakewalk Pro Audio/Sonar     

Sonic Foundry Acid 4.0             Macromedia Flash / Director

Adobe Premier                         Windows Media Tools

Adobe After Effects                  Microsoft Windows XP / 2000

Adobe Photoshop                    Adobe Illustrator         

                                               

Hardware Skills  

Mackie 4 Bus Mixers (1604VLZ Pro/1642VLZ Pro)        Digital Camcorders (Sony DSR-PD150,

Mackie 8 Bus Mixers (32•8 / 24•8)                               Canon XL1s, Canon GL1/GL2)

Alesis Multi Track Recorders (ADAT LX 20/XT 20)          Flatbed Scanners (Umax/HP)

Multi-timberal Keyboards/Sound Modules                    Lighting Instruments -

Microphones (Shotgun/Large Diaphram/Lavalier)        -(Lowell/Photoflex/Arri/MR)

DDR (Accom WSD/Xtreme)                                           VTR (Sony DSR 1500/11)

 

Permanent Employment

 

Avanade Corporation

 

Media Lab Producer                         01/26/04 - present

Provide on-site, coaching, filming and editing in the ALKS Media Lab.  Develop CD material and liaise with external vendors to make the CD’s available globally.  Independently provide on-site technical support and troubleshooting for virtual and media lab hardware and software.  As required, provide technical online/phone, troubleshooting, and administrative support for InterWise (IW) software.

 

Agency Employment

 

Digital Media Specialist (Artsource)             11/03 – 11/03

Microsoft Corporation  (Microsoft Studios, Media Processing Team)                           

Redmond, Washington

 

Responsible for prepping images (PPT, JPEG, TIF, etc) for use in video production (aspect ratio, dimension conversion). Transfer images to and from VTR using the Accom WSD/Xtreme DDR.

 

 

 

 

 

Digital Media Specialist (Artsource)             10/03 – Present

Microsoft Corporation  (Global Learning Services)                              

Redmond, Washington

 

Responsible for taping, editing and publishing digital video (talking head) presentations using Microsoft Producer.

 

 

Digital Media Specialist (Artsource)             09/03 – 10/03

Microsoft Corporation  (Global Learning Services)                              

Redmond, Washington

 

Responsible for taping, editing and publishing digital video (talking head) presentations using Microsoft Producer.

 

 

Digital Media Specialist (Artsource)             09/03 – 09/03

Microsoft Corporation  (Microsoft Studios, Media Processing Team)                           

Redmond, Washington

 

Responsible for prepping images (PPT, JPEG, TIF, etc) for use in video production (aspect ratio, dimension conversion). Transfer images to and from VTR using the Accom WSD/Xtreme DDR.

 

 

Digital Media Specialist (Artsource)             07/03 – 08/03

Microsoft Corporation  (Global Learning Services)                              

Redmond, Washington

 

For this project, I was responsible for videotaping, digitizing, editing and making multimedia presentations from the Microsoft Windows CE DevCon. This conference consisted of 33 1 hour presentations, which were delivered by top Microsoft developers, program managers and executives.

 

Digital Media Specialist (Artsource)             06/03 – 07/03

Microsoft Corporation  (Global Learning Services)                              

Redmond, Washington

 

Responsible for taping, editing and publishing digital video (talking head) presentations using Microsoft Producer.

 

Digital Media Specialist (Artsource)             11/01 – 11/02

Microsoft Corporation  (Microsoft Global Learning Services)

Redmond, Washington

 

Responsible for taping, editing and publishing digital video (talking head) presentations using Microsoft Producer. Design user interface templates for MS Producer, using cascading style sheets, Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Photoshop. Also acted as chief audio advisor for the media specialists group under GLS.

 

 

Digital Media Specialist (Artsource)                         07/99 - 07/00

Microsoft Corporation  (Seminar Online www.microsoft.com/seminar)

Redmond, Washington

 

Responsible for recording, editing, encoding and scripting digital content [audio/video] using Microsoft Windows Media Technology for mass distribution over various mediums [internet\intranet\DVD\CD ROM\Audio CD]. Create digital video demonstrations for distribution to Microsoft’s worldwide sales force and other IT professionals.

                       

American Airlines Pilot Project

 

Produced and mixed two hours [music and voiceovers] of audio content for the Seminar Online Channel for American Airlines’ in-flight audio program. Served as primary voice talent for the course of the project.

               

Seminar Radio

 

Produced and mixed two hours of content for this project and served as primary voice talent.

 

Sound Designer/Song Writer (Artsource)    11/99

21st Century Publishing                                                www.21stcenturypublishing.com

Kirkland, Washington

 

Developed original sound effects and music to enhance game-play for the 21st Century 5.0 sailing simulator. 

 

Audio Engineer (Artsource)                           10/99

Activate                                                            www.activate.com

Seattle, Washington

 

Converted The New Testament (Christian Bible) from a series of audiocassettes (over 70 hours), to a series of .WAV files. 

 

Web Developer (*USWEB CKS)                    6/99

Washington Information Services

Olympia, WA.

 

Responsible for editing JavaScript and HTML pages on the Washington Information Services intranet, using Notepad and Microsoft FrontPage. Responsibilities also included graphics editing and clean-up using Photoshop 4.0.  

                                   

Freelance Employment

 

Digital Media Specialist                                  09/10/01 – 09/28/01

Microsoft Corporation                                      www.microsoft.com

Redmond, Washington

 

Capture video demonstrations of the Microsoft Windows XP product, and combine with voice-overs using Adobe Premier 6.0. Encode to Windows Media (version 8 CODEC) for distribution with “MCSE Training Kit: Microsoft Windows XP Professional [ISBN 0-7356-1429-6]”. Develop corresponding SAMI caption files for the hearing impaired. 

 

Web Designer                                                 04/01 – 05/01

National Sports Acupuncture Association         www.sportsacupuncture.com

Seattle, Washington

 

Redesigned the look and feel of the NSAA website and logo.

 

Sound Designer                                              10/00 – 11/00

Tooned-In                                                        www.tooned-in.com

Seattle, Washington                                       

 

Developed sound effects and music for various animated shorts.

 

 

Sound Designer                                              10/97

Villaresky Productions

Seattle, Washington

 

Developed original sound effects to enhance the award winning film short “Ferry”. 

 

References Available upon request

* On loan to USWEB CKS from Artsource.