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DAVE PARIS RÉSUMÉ

Contact:
daveparis@hotmail.com
319-447-0908

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

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

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

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

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