RESUMÉ

June 19, 2009 by MeshMarketer

JOSEPH DOWDY
1311 W. Cypress Ave., Unit B-8
Lom­poc, CA 93436
805.742.4631
joseph@meshmarketer.com

CURRENT CLIENTS for MESHMARKETER DBA
ParaPublishing.com: Social Media, Word­Press host­ing
AudioBookCoach.com: Social Media, Word­Press host­ing
Bayfront-Inn.com: Social Media, Google AdWords
Fitness805.com: Social Media, Google AdWords
Bragg.com: Google AdWords, cre­ated their Social Media cam­paign
TopCat-SB.com: Social Media, Word­Press host­ing
Lom­poc Record: Photo and Writing

VISIT LINKEDIN FOR RECOMMENDATIONS BY CO-WORKERS/CLIENTS

LINKS TO ONLINE VIDEO SAMPLES
Beliefnet.com (les­son taught by Rabbi David Wolpe)
Smith­son­ian Insti­tute Entry (doc­u­men­tary based on Charles Hol­lis Jones)
Video Pro­duc­tion Cred­its for “world’s largest pro­ducer of safety and train­ing films” and others

LINKS TO ONLINE PHOTOJOURNALISM SAMPLES
“Wal-Mart Issues Heat Up” (Lom­poc Record, July 2010)
“Spe­cial Olympian Faces Can­cer” (Lom­poc Record, June 2010)
“The Flight Jacket” pho­to­jour­nal­ism sam­ple from Oper­a­tion Desert Storm and 3d Marine Air Wing
Grif­fith Park Fire (2007)
LA Splash Promo for Scrib­blePress (2007)

LINKS TO MY FUN VOICEOVER DEMOS
Super Bass-O-Matic ’76
Comedic Styles

WORK EXPERIENCE SUMMARY

Joseph is an Inter­net Mar­ket­ing, social media and mul­ti­me­dia pro­fes­sional, producer-director-editor-videographer and is also a sea­soned 15-year IT professional.

His up-to-date skills in the social media realm cur­rently being employed with sev­eral clients ongo­ingly are also informed by his deep back­ground in voiceover, writ­ing, inter­net and pub­lic relations.

He has a sub­stan­tial back­ground in data­base man­age­ment and design of Lotus Notes/Domino data­bases as well as other RDBMS plat­forms in mixed-OS environments.

WORK EXPERIENCE

MeshMarketer—Lompoc, CA
Owner
April 2009–cur­rent

[see infor­ma­tion above regard­ing clients and ser­vices provided]

    Lom­poc Record—Lompoc, CA
    Stringer (part-time pho­to­jour­nal­ist on con­tract)
    June 2010–cur­rent

    [see links above to online writ­ing samples]

    Explo­ration Station—Grover Beach, CA
    Soft­ware Trainer (part-time con­trac­tor)
    April 2009–cur­rent

    • Teach­ing Google Adwords, Social Media, Microsoft Win­dows and Office, Picasa, Anti-Virus, etc.
    • Assisted in mar­ket­ing for Explo­ration Station

    Bragg Live Foods—Santa Bar­bara, CA
    Google AdWords PPC Man­ager (con­trac­tor as Mesh Mar­keter)
    Novem­ber 2009–    cur­rent
    Social Media Man­ager (con­trac­tor as Mesh Mar­keter)
    April 2009–    Jan­u­ary 2010

    • Cut Google AdWords bud­get by 80%, dou­bled CTR and low­ered CPC by half
    • Increased fol­low­ers by over 6,000% in nine months
    • Imple­mented one-message-email-based pub­lish­ing to blog, Twit­ter, Face­book, etc.

    Lib­erty Train­ing Institute—Los Ange­les, CA
    Com­puter Repair Trainer (part-time employee)

    May 2008–January 2009

    • First-ever Instructor-of-the-Month Decem­ber 2008
    • Train diverse stu­dents in com­puter repair
    • Re-develop cur­ricu­lum to mod­ern subjects

    Pharmavite—Northridge, CA
    Busi­ness Ana­lyst (open-length Adecco con­tract)
    May 2008–August 2008

    • Pro­vided help desk sup­port to migra­tion project to JD Edwards One/Peoplesoft/Oracle
    • Pro­vided qual­ity assur­ance for data migration

    Santa Mon­ica College—Santa Mon­ica, CA
    Com­mu­nity Ser­vice Spe­cial­ist II (employee)
    Novem­ber 2006–March 2007

    • Pro­vided soft­ware and mar­ket­ing train­ing to com­pa­nies as part of California’s Employ­ment Train­ing Panel pro­gram in top­ics rang­ing from Microsoft Office to dig­i­tal image manipulation
    • Respon­si­ble for two sets of lap­tops used for class­room train­ing includ­ing virus and sys­tem updates, installation/maintenance of soft­ware, setup/takedown/transport for sev­eral locations

    Sinai Tem­ple Library—Los Ange­les, CA 2002 to 2006
    Tech­nol­ogy Spe­cial­ist (employee)
    Decem­ber 2002–May 2006

    • Respon­si­ble for administration/maintenance of Alexan­dria server for both hard­ware and software
    • Func­tions included hard­ware and soft­ware instal­la­tion on all library PCs, pub­lic library patron sta­tions, trou­bleshoot­ing soft­ware and net­work issues, deploy­ment of patches/upgrades, eval­u­at­ing software/hardware solu­tions for library-specific appli­ca­tions includ­ing bar­code scan­ner solu­tions and MARC record import/export

    South­ern Cal­i­for­nia Edison—Rosemead, CA
    Process Spe­cial­ist (1 yr. ARC con­tract)
    August 2000–August 2001

    • Pro­vided sup­port to employ­ees hav­ing trou­ble with their PDAs (Black­berry and Palm) dur­ing the tran­si­tion from Exchange to Notes
    • Con­vinced rep­re­sen­ta­tive from Lotus Cor­po­ra­tion to update a Lotus Notes data­base I cre­ated for bug/fix issues shared between help desk and Messaging/Upgrade Team

    Edi­son Security—San Dimas, CA
    Senior Domino Admin. (6 mo. Mid­com con­trac­tor)
    1999–2000

    • Ini­tial assign­ment was to bring all soft­ware and Win­tel servers up to Y2K stan­dards before 12/31
    • Pre­vi­ous Notes Admin team had quit unex­pect­edly; mapped all servers for doc­u­men­ta­tion purposes
    • Used Server­Ad­min+ for day-to-day monitoring
    • Upgraded all work­sta­tions from R4 to R5 of Notes
    • Redesigned topol­ogy from sin­gle hub/spoke to dual hub/spoke
    • Man­aged Notes/Domino servers on Win­tel plat­form in con­junc­tion with LAN Administrator
    • Using Active Direc­tory, man­aged user accounts and trou­bleshot LDAP problems

    Farm­ers Insurance—Los Ange­les, CA
    Help Desk Tech­ni­cal Lead (6 mo. APR con­trac­tor)
    1998–1999

    • Hired in as the tech­ni­cal lead for the new help desk, sup­ported the man­ager in estab­lish­ing practices
    • Wrote and imple­mented migra­tion plan and tool for migra­tion cc:Mail users to Notes
    • Pro­vided some desk­top sup­port for users who were unable to describe or ade­quately report problems
    • Pro­moted to man­age help desk after pre­vi­ous man­ager was pro­moted to another project

    Taco Bell—Irvine, CA
    Data­base Admin­is­tra­tor (1 wk. agency con­trac­tor)
    1999

    Con­verted mar­ket­ing depart­ment File­Maker Pro data­base to Y2K-compliant specs as a back-up solu­tion to antic­i­pated problems

    Cal­i­for­nia Power Exchange—Pasadena, CA
    Lotus Notes Sup­port (6 mo. ARC con­trac­tor)
    1998–1999

    • Pro­vided desk­top sup­port to exec­u­tives, specif­i­cally with PDAs such as Palm Pilots
    • Assisted in the research and eval­u­a­tion of a Palm soft­ware pro­gram designed to delete duplicates
    • Pro­vided Lotus Notes 2nd and 3rd level support
    • Designed some data­bases on request such as an approval process data­base for man­ag­ing requests for the exec­u­tives and their assistants

    Hughes—Long Beach, CA
    Data­base Admin­is­tra­tor (1 wk. agency con­trac­tor)
    1998

    Fixed up File­Maker Pro data­base because of prob­lems between Mac and PC platforms

    Shimano—Irvine, CA
    Domino Admin­is­tra­tor (6 mo. Cor­pInfo con­trac­tor)
    1998

    • Pro­vided pro-active mon­i­tor­ing and imme­di­ate repair of downed Replic-Action processes between Lotus Notes and JD Edwards software
    • Trou­bleshot prob­lems on the Win­tel server itself when nec­es­sary includ­ing reboots and rebuilds
    • Pro­vided desk­top sup­port to users as needed for Lotus Notes as well as for Microsoft Office problems
    • Designed and imple­mented a help desk data­base sys­tem in Lotus Notes
    • Deliv­ered train­ing ses­sion for employ­ees on a com­pany retreat on Lotus Notes use

    Met­ro­pol­i­tan Water District—Los Ange­les, CA 1997 to 1998
    Help Desk Spe­cial­ist II (1 yr. ARC con­trac­tor)
    1997–1998

    • First real help desk job among many with ACD, first-level res­o­lu­tion expec­ta­tions and pro­ce­dures for troubleshooting
    • Designed process to out­put call sta­tis­tic reports into Microsoft Access, clean it up in Word and then put into Excel graphs for the help desk man­ager from Rem­edy software
    • Designed schemas in Rem­edy which were shared among other help desk specialists
    • Eval­u­ated break/fix soft­ware solu­tions in sup­port of 3rd level appli­ca­tion sup­port team

    EDUCATION

    Cer­ti­fi­ca­tions

    Cer­ti­fied Lotus Spe­cial­ist R4 Admin­is­tra­tor 1—6/98

    Microsoft Win­dows Cer­ti­fied Professional—8/96

    Train­ing Received

    David Rik­lan Inter­net Marketing—5/08

    R5 Domino Designer Fundamentals—11/01

    R5 Domino Appli­ca­tion Architecture—12/01

    Lotus Notes on the AS/400—9/98

    Win­dows NT 4.0 Server—7/98

    Lotus Notes Help Desk—6/98

    Help Desk Insti­tute Help Desk Training—12/96

    Admin­is­ter­ing Win­dows NT 4.0—11/96

    Broad­cast Jour­nal­ism School—5/90

    SKILLS

    Oper­at­ing Systems

    Win­dows 3.1/95/98/2000/XP/XP64/Vista/Vista64, NT 4.0, Mac OS 6/7/8/9/X (10.4) and IBM AS/400

    Soft­ware

    Microsoft Office: 95/97/2000/XP/2003 and for Mac 98/X/2004, Par­al­lels, Video Toaster, Sony Vegas + DVD Archi­tect, Final Cut Pro Stu­dio 2

    Data­base Administration/Design

    Lotus Notes/Domino, SQL, File­Maker Pro, Microsoft Access 95/97/2000/XP, DB2, Alexan­dria and
    JD Edwards One/Peoplesoft/Oracle

    Network/Security

    VPN, TCP/IP, Banyan Vines, Blue­tooth and DD-WRT

    Hard­ware

    PDAs, bar­code scan­ners, print­ers, dig­i­tal cam­eras, scan­ners, wire­less routers (Linksys and D-Link)

    Inter­net

    Dreamweaver, e-commerce, Google SEO, 1shoppingcart, AWe­ber, Con­stant Con­tact, 2checkout and inter­net mar­ket­ing strategies

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