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Benjamin Adrian Alameda, CA 94501 |
Cell: e-mail for number E-Mail: ben@feedbackloop.net Web: http://www.feedbackloop.net |
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Ben Adrian Audio Present
Alameda, CA 94501 |
Owner/Operator Amp repair & modification. Custom amplifier building. Pedal building, repair, & modification. Freelance audio engineering, technical writing, & graphic design. |
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Label Art of California February 2006 - Present
290 27th St Oakland, CA 94612 |
Digital Prepress Set up client art for production on large scale digital and flexographic printing presses. Managed internal workflow in a high-volume, very fast production environment. Assessed and assured quality of client art. Occasional graphic design for clients. |
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Mr. Toad's Recording & Media February 2003 - Present
444 Townsend St. San Francisco, CA 94107 |
Mastering & Recording Engineer Lead and assistant recording and mastering engineer in both the analog and digital world. Tracked, mixed, and mastered projects on a daily basis. Lead engineer for audio transfers and restorations. Worked with a wide variety of clients and styles; from classical and jazz to hip-hop to hardcore metal with everything in between. Worked with damaged, delicate, and priceless master tapes of major artists. |
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CD Replication Manager Managed the CD manufacturing department. Brokered and co-ordinated between clients and a variety of vendors. Handled graphics files and audio masters from proofing stages to finished products. Dealt with multiple clients and vendors on a daily and first-hand basis. |
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Graphic Design, Pre-Press, Webmaster Worked one-on-one with clients doing design and layout for CD packaging for spot color and four-color offset printing. Performed a prepress check-up on every job to conform to the standards and limitations of offset printing. Familiar with all major design and layout programs. Co-designed and fully administered the large, detailed, and dynamic Mr. Toad's website using GoLive, hand coding, Javascript, CSS, and server side processing. |
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Simpson Strong Tie August 2005 - January 2006
4120 Dublin Blvd. Suite 400 Dublin, CA 94568 |
Web Maintenance & Development Created and maintained content for a large corporate website using HTML, CSS, and occasional ASP. Worked within strict style guidelines set forth by the company. Completed a high daily volume of HTML and graphic production work. Worked as a contract employee. |
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TechTV August 2002 - September 2002
650 Townsend St. Suite 500 San Francisco, CA 94103 |
Media Librarian (Contract Position) Filled media requests for a combination online/physical library. Filed and cataloged media in a networked Lotus Notes system. Maintained order and organization of library system. |
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Calhomefinder, Inc. April 2001 - July 2002
2116A Berkeley Way Berkeley, CA 94704 |
System Maintenance / Customer Support Maintained a SQL and Coldfusion search engine and related websites for a real estate search database. Provided support with site creation and maintenance including graphic and Javascript work. Also, did one-to-one support with clients using this service. |
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Publicis Technology Advertising Agency September 2000 - April 2001
945 Battery St. San Francisco, CA 94111 |
Interactive Developer Designed, developed, built, and maintained websites and documents, as well as other interactive projects such as CD ROMs, for a variety of clients as well as internal projects. Worked in an NT and UNIX environment, and developed in ColdFusion and PHP with mySQL. |
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Internet and Multimedia Research & Development (IMRD) Indiana University September 1999 - August 2000
107 S. Indiana Ave. Poplars 639 Bloomington, IN 47405 |
Online Developer Developed and encoded on-line versions of courses for a Big 10 university. Designed and edited in a Macintosh environment, developed in a UNIX, CGI, and PHP world. Tasks included encoding courses, interfacing with faculty and staff, graphic implementation, and development and conceptualization of entire courses. |
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Monster.com February 1999 - August 1999
2611 Waterfront Parkway Dr. Suite 100 Indianapolis, IN 46214 |
Information Coordinator Maintained web content on an NT server network for a large scale commercial site. Worked with Microsoft ASP/server side dynamic html. Job included a wide variety of web tasks including page maintenance, regular page updating, page creation, graphic creation and maintenance, and managing and maintaining uniformity and functionality. |
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Communications & Planning Office - UITS Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis August 1996 - February 1999
801 W. Michigan St. BS0001 Indianapolis, IN 46202 |
Communications Specialist Over the course of working for the Communications and Planning Office, job tasks have included web page creation and design, graphic design and layout, web page editing and maintenance, web content management, image creation and manipulation, technical/instructional writing, and recently a small amount of Java scripting. Fully comfortable working/editing in a Unix shell, as well as on both Macintosh and Windows environments. |
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Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis Fall 1993 - Spring 1998 |
Math Education and Anthropology Began at IUPUI as a full time math education major. Switched major to Anthropology (School of Liberal Arts) in spring of 1995, and began attending classes part time. |
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Carmel High School Graduated Spring 1993
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College Preparatory Classes Graduated in the top third of class. Curriculum stressed math, science, education, and music. Other awards: National Honor Society |
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recording, editing, mastering) |
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| References | Professional references and employer phone numbers available upon request. |