DAVE PARIS RÉSUMÉ
Contact:
daveparis@hotmail.com
319-447-0908
PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
MARKETING AND PROMOTION – VIEW MY DIGITAL PORTFOLIO
- Creating consistent, brand-specific promotional items and campaigns across print and digital mediums utilizing desktop publishing, audio, video, animation and web design in HTML5, WordPress, and Google Web Tools
- Participating in scheduled and impromptu live and taped interviews as a representative role
- Scheduling acts and events across multiple days to ensure variety and entertainment flow
- Developing and implementing social media strategies to engage target audiences and strengthen brand
- Writing and circulating specific, time-sensitive press releases to media to promote landmark events
- Meeting tight demands for promotional needs by writing script for radio commercials
- Integrating new members by welcoming families and youth with guided tours, advising programs, and processing and maintaining membership applications and status
LEADERSHIP AND NON-PROFIT COORDINATION
- Representing organization in leadership role to build community and public relations, gain support, and resolve conflict
- Collaborating with City of Cedar Rapids and non-profit Board of Directors for organizational initiatives
- Identifying grant funding opportunities, managing application process through to final submission
- Motivating, organizing, and delegating volunteer responsibilities at meetings and fundraising events
- Serving organizational and community needs by providing experienced promotional, logistical, and educational insight to curriculum and course planning
ARTS, ENTERTAINMENT, AND MUSIC
- Meeting with industry representatives, musicians, audio engineers, and investors to collaborate on resources, timelines, and musical direction to achieve project flow
- Mentoring musical, personal, and spiritual growth with musicians, artists, and students to improve marketability
- Writing, co-writing, producing, arranging, editing, and engineering songs for genre-specific projects under tight budgets and time constraints
- Recording and extensively editing professional quality audio tracks for time-sensitive releases and ensuring consistent quality audio for file transport into various studios and platforms to ensure deadlines are met
- Creating promotional and music videos for targeted markets through conceptualizing, animating and editing
- Managing financial, scheduling, and other bookkeeping for lesson instruction, live performances, and recording sessions
PROJECT MANAGEMENT, PROCESS IMPROVEMENT, AND TESTING
- Meticulously adhered to Agile principals and Lean Concepts of task workflow, customer collaboration, rapid delivery of useful software, and daily communication between team members
- Collaborated with managers, clients, and non-IT personnel to gather specifications, set deadlines, and complete client projects
- Organized, lead, and participated in debugging, testing, and solution-gathering of issues and fixes
- Lead hands-on testing initiatives for websites, applications, and data scenarios to ensure usability and consistency
- Overseen, edited and implemented project flow between department leaders for website redesign
- Effectively worked with Account Managers, clients, and non-IT personnel to gather specifications to complete client projects
- Provided cross-departmental training upon updates, releases, work-arounds, and new applications
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Efficiently manipulated images and user interfaces for brand-specific content displays between print and digital media via Desktop Publishing applications
- Dynamically provided product and region-specific results utilizing geographic data query results
- Effectively utilized format consistency within front-end design development to maintain client look and feel across mediums
- Displayed customized on-demand, time-sensitive and rights-based dynamic content for web, presentation, and print display
- Successfully automated design and data intensive email notifications with user-specific client content via scheduled executables and intranet applications to allow users direct management
- Participated in network administration duties regarding user’s rights, email issues and permissions
NON-PROFIT EXPERIENCE
K9COLA – Citizens for Off-Leash Areas
September 2014 – Present
- Head Chair – November 2016; Cedar Rapids, Iowa
- Vice-Chair – September 2014
Linn County Fair Board
January 2016 – Present
- Associate Member – Free Entertainment Tent Coordinator; Central City, Iowa
Eastern Iowa Arts Academy
November 2016 – Present
- Recording Studio Engineer; Cedar Rapids, Iowa
WORK EXPERIENCE
Eastern Iowa Arts Academy
April 2018 – Present
- Assistant Music and Arts Studio Director; Cedar Rapids, Iowa
Guitar Instructor / Session Guitarist
February 1990 – Present
- Private Instructor and Independent Contractor, Southeast and Eastern Iowa
Systems Analyst
October 2014 – August 2015
- ESCO Group; Marion, Iowa
Application Developer
August 2011 – February 2014
- University of Iowa – Research Information Systems Dept; Iowa City, Iowa
Software Engineer
April 2007 – October 2010
- AdTrack Corporation; Cedar Rapids, Iowa
Developer
September 2001 – April 2007
- OmniLingua Inc.; Cedar Rapids, Iowa
EDUCATION AND TRAINING
Bachelor of Liberal Studies in Organizational Studies with Arts Entrepreneurship Certificate
- University of Iowa, Iowa City; Anticipated Graduation: December 2017
- Dean’s List
- Indian Hills Community College; Ottumwa, Iowa
- President’s List
- Dean’s List
National Career Readiness Certificate – Gold
March 2014
- Cedar Rapids; Iowa
Agile for All
May 2012
- Onsite training; Iowa City, Iowa
- Microsoft Certified Course – Onsite training; Iowa City, Iowa
Getting Things Done Essentials
April 2012
- University of Iowa – Learning and Development; Iowa City, Iowa
Developing Web Applications with Microsoft Visual Studio 2010
April 2011
- New Horizons Learning Center; Cedar Rapids, Iowa
Intro to Project Management
December 2006
- Project Management Institute; Cedar Rapids, Iowa
Summer Shot Guitar Program
June 2004
- Musician’s Institute; Hollywood, California