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June 19, 2009 by mm

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JOSEPH DOWDY

601 W. Ocean Ave., Unit E,
Lom­poc, CA 93436
626.616.4694 M
joseph@beachheadcommunications.com

LINKS TO ONLINE SAMPLES

Moveon.org (Oliver Stone project for VoteVets)

Beliefnet.com (les­son taught by Rabbi David Wolpe)

Smith­son­ian Insti­tute Entry (doc­u­men­tary based on Charles Hol­lis Jones)

“The Flight Jacket” pho­to­jour­nal­ism sam­ple from Oper­a­tion Desert Storm and 3d Marine Air Wing

Grif­fith Park Fire (2007)

Video Pro­duc­tion Cred­its for “world’s largest pro­ducer of safety and train­ing films” and others

FUN VOICEOVER DEMOS

Super Bass-O-Matic ’76

Comedic Styles

SUMMARY

Joseph is a 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 import­ing and export­ing data­base data and in the admin­is­tra­tion and design of Lotus Notes/Domino data­bases as well as other RDBMS plat­forms in mixed-OS environments.

EXPERIENCE

MeshMarketer—Lompoc, CA
Owner
April 2009–cur­rent

  • Pro­vide Social Media for Fitness805.com, AntoniosHealingHands.com and other clients.
  • Pro­vide Google AdWords man­age­ment to Fitness805.com, Bragg.com and others.
  • Ded­i­cated web­host­ing and sup­port for Fitness805blog.com, WildSage.info and more.

Bragg Live Foods—Santa Bar­bara, CA
Social Media Man­ager (con­trac­tor as Mesh Mar­keter)
April 2009–cur­rent

  • Pro­vide Google AdWords man­age­ment and direction
  • Increased fol­low­ers by over 5,000%; ensured qual­ity viewership
  • Imple­mented one-message-email-based pub­lish­ing to blog, Twit­ter, Face­book, etc.

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

  • Taught Microsoft Office, Picasa, antivirus classes, et al
  • Assisted in mar­ket­ing for Explo­ration Station

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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