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Danger Dean
Phone: (951) 595-3897
www.DangerDean.com
EXPERIENCE
Over 15 years of experience in online content management, multimedia production, web site development, navigation
structures, dynamic and static content maintenance, and graphical interfaces and marketing through social networks.
Multimedia Experience – Please visit www.DangerDean.com to view my online portfolio.
Ongoing multimedia projects include:
 “Life Worthwhile” - A video project centered around ordinary people doing extraordinary things with their lives
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within the local community.
 Episode 1 - http://www.lifeworthwhile.com/lifeworthwhile/videos.aspx
 Web Site – www.lifeworthwhile.com
“Project: CURIOUS” - An ongoing public web show that showcases the strange, weird and hilarious events from
all across the United States.
 Episode 1 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrke5J4HLT4
 Episode 2 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eizd0qswHo
 Web Site: http://www.lifeworthwhile.com/project-curious2.aspx
Past Accomplishments Include:
 RAM Commercial for Local Car Dealership – Filmed, edited and co-directed a television commercial for a local
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auto dealership located in Lake Elsinore.
 Link: http://youtu.be/cnE_Ht5NdoY
Military Family Videos (2009-2010) - Teamed up with local photographer to produce several videos that
represent families of the military and their love for one another. These projects were done on a volunteer basis to
show support for our military.
“Stratagem” (2006-2008) - Produced, directed, edited and filmed a micro-budget, feature-length film about an
escaped convict and two government agents that struggle to find the answers to a mystery involving large,
mechanical “human traps”.
 View the trailer here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDExXu1p3H0
Content/Web Development Experience
Most recent corporate scale projects include the following:
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NADA Guides (www.nadaguides.com)
SmartHome (www.smarthome.com)
Conexis (http://www.conexis.org/)
Word & Brown Insurance Administrators (www.wordandbrown.com)
CobraPro
America's Business Funding Directory (www.businessfinance.com)
Burger King Franchising Site
These design projects were complete design packages which included developing the graphic look and feel, the
navigational structure, the content conversion to HTML, and the interactivity using forms, discussion groups, etc.
MULTIMEDIA & VIDEOGRAPHY SKILLS
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Excellent understanding of the building blocks of storytelling and user engagement, (story arcs, suspense, climax,
comic relief, music, pacing, etc.) as well as how and when they should be used in order to keep the viewer
entertained.
Solid understanding of key concepts such as frame rate (FPS), POV, lighting conditions, pixel resolution, depth of
field and proper lens use.
Working knowledge of NLE’s (nonlinear editors) and how to perform nondestructive effects and filters. Also
understand core concepts, such as region codes (PAL vs NTSC), color correction, slow motion techniques,
compression and how each relates to the web.
Expert knowledge in streaming video content on the web. Understand the differences in compression types to
achieve clear video with short download times.
Experience planning and conducting indoor/outdoor testimonials and interviews of professional actors, as well as
nonprofessionals, on camera.
Experience working with sound equipment such as shotgun mics, lavalier mics, booms, etc. to capture the
clearest sound possible in unpredictable environments.
Able to quickly and efficiently adjust to different filming situations.
Expert knowledge of Adobe Photoshop to create online and offline content such as web banners, logos,
brochures, business cards, and other print media.
Ability to create eye-catching logo, transition and title animations using state-of-the-art software packages like
Adobe After Effects, Blender, Adobe Premiere, e-onSoftware's Vue 5.x-10.x, and more.
CONTENT MANAGEMENT SKILLS
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Fast and reliable content management for sites that exceed 1,500 web pages, with multiple user security roles,
object management, frameset management, and much more.
Excellent English communication skills, written and verbal. Experience in conveying complex software
instructions through professional technical writing.
Fast and accurate web content development. Can type 80 WPM with excellent skills using web editor tools such
as Macromedia Dreamweaver, Microsoft Office, Apache Open Office, Visual Studio 2010, Adobe Acrobat to
convert DOC, TXT, RTF, or other files to HTML, PDF, etc.
Extremely comfortable working with custom software platforms as well as various content management systems
including Wordpress, Magento, Blogger, DotNetNuke, Umbraco, Microsoft's SharePoint and more.
Proficient in web graphic design to create and modify banners, logos and other web images using state of the art
gif animation and/or 3D software. Expert usage of Adobe tools: Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects, Premiere as
well as other graphics, media and animation suites such as VUE, Flash, Sony Vegas Video, etc.
Very skilled in current standards of web design and web technologies in order to produce professional quality
websites with low download times. Skilled in web site maintenance for link assurance, debugging, etc.
Experience optimizing web content for search engines using meta tags, url rewriting, header tags, image file
name and more to create high-ranking pages within Google, Yahoo and many others.
Extensive HTML hard code background. Graphic mapping, forms, frames, tables, etc.
Possess programming skills in .NET to increase efficiency and speed performing repetitive tasks such as data
entry, watermarking images, etc.
SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT SKILLS
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Advanced skills in the Microsoft C# and VB.NET programming languages with SourceSafe integration.
Extremely comfortable with various technologies such as web services, window services, .NET Remoting, XML
Serialization and Deserialization, IIS configuration, multi-tiered application architectures, Active X controls, XMLbased code commenting practices for documentation generation, multi-threading, forms authentication, etc.
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Intermediate/Advanced skills in Microsoft SQL Server. Able to create complex relational data structures and
configure SQL to maintain data integrity by use of constraints, triggers, stored procedures, transaction rollbacks,
and cascading deletes.
Skills in MS SQL to create data driven applications such as online login accounts, shopping carts, search
engines, email forms, guest books, database page trafficking, credit card processing and database management
tools and more.
Modification and implementation of JavaScript to create mouse-over events, special effects, form mailers, drop
down menus, form validation, etc.
Troubleshooting skills for web design structure in all Windows platforms and in the Windows Internet Explorer,
FireFox, Chrome and Safari browser environments.
SOFTWARE PROFICIENCY
Windows 95 through Vista, Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2005-2010, SQL Enterprise Manager, Microsoft SourceSafe,
SQL 7.0-2008, Microsoft IIS, Adobe PhotoShop 7.0 and above, Flash 5.0 and above, Adobe Illustrator, Microsoft Access,
Microsoft FrontPage, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Apache Open Office, Adobe Premiere, Adobe After Effects,
Understand design strengths and weaknesses between the different browser environments; refresh, display, code error
forgiveness, etc.
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
11/2010 - Present
Self Employed – Costa Mesa, CA - CONTRACT
Continued work doing freelance video projects as well as web
development and Windows application development for start-up business
using Microsoft's .NET (C#) and SQL
5/2010 - 11/2010
Konica Minolta - Long Beach, CA - CONTRACT
Was part of a development team for creating and maintaining a web
application capable of filling and configuring print orders.
10/2005 – 5/2010
NADA Guides – Costa Mesa, CA – FULL TIME
Was part of a development team that focused heavily on creating dynamically generated web
pages built from a database that could perform for an audience of over 1 million page views per
day.
The following are some achievements while working for NADA Guides:
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7/2005 – 10/2005
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Designed and built a generic web service factory engine capable of returning XML based
data through user authentication. New data methods could be added with one line of
code.
Architected and created a configuration engine capable of reading XML files and
serializing them into .NET objects enabling administrators to change web application
configurations without restarting IIS.
Created a generic in-house windows application capable of dynamically reading any web
service, analyzing and executing the methods, and displaying the return XML through the
use of Reflection.
SmartHome – Irvine, CA – CONTRACT
Part of a development team that develops and maintains in-house web and windows applications
in C#, ASP, ASP.NET and VB6.
Word & Brown Insurance Administrators – Orange, CA – FULL TIME
Have played an integral part in the development and maintenance of several web site and
Windows forms related projects involving various technologies.
The following are some achievements while working for Word & Brown:
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Architected and built a secured “Single Sign-On” model to allow users from one web site
to log in to another site without the need to re-enter user credentials using .NET Web
Services.
Created a .NET themes engine in C# for allowing brokers to configure their own look and
feel for their customers, including customized logos, font colors, and the creation of
custom images using GDI.
Integrated a third party user security model (Secure Access - http://www.portsight.com)
that made use of role-based permissions and groups.
Created a Newsletter generation tool for the marketing department to create templatebased newsletters and send them to thousands of email recipients.
Produced several user maintenance sections that allow the additions and removals of
user roles, passwords, contact information, etc…