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Laura Baker Services Association (LBSA), Northfield MN: (ongoing 2008): Developing and producing eLearning courses for staff training. Includes writing content, rich media content production (video and graphics), narration audio production, and eLearning software programming using Adobe Captivate.

Funky Minds, Carver, MN: Produced 13-minute outreach and fund-raising video/DVD program for community-oriented nonprofit organization in 2007. Produced print materials and carried out fulfillment for end-of-year fund-raising campaign.

Malt-O-Meal Co., Minneapolis, MN: Training Programs: Produced two new employee training video/DVD programs in late 2007 and early 2008: Properly Damage Awareness for Forklift Operators and Case Audit Procedures for Quality Assurance.

Laura Baker Services Association (LBSA), Northfield MN: (ongoing): Produce eight video/DVD programs for use in outreach, fund-raising, and employee orientation and training in 2007. LBSA provides residential and schooling services to developmentally disabled clients in the central Minnesota area (including the Twin Cities).

Malt-O-Meal Co., Minneapolis, MN: Training Programs: Produced four new employee training video/DVD programs in late 2006 and first half of 2007: Code of Conduct Orientation; Temporary Employee/Visitors' Orientation to working/visiting a GMP area; three case studies based on use of the Six Sigma Kaizen process to improve company processes; Forklift Operators' Safety program.

TechniPac, Inc., Le Sueur, MN: Marketing Program: Produced a marketing video/DVD on a new packaging product for use in industrial and consumer applications. Program directed towards potential industrial customers who are interested in using this new type of packaging.

Malt-O-Meal Co., Minneapolis, MN: Training Programs: Produced two new employee training video/DVD programs: One on manlift safety (a personal transport system in use between floors at Malt-O-Meal's Northfield, MN, manufacturing plant) and one on quality control procedures for product packaging to used in company-wide applications.

Electromed, New Prague, MN: Produced training and marketing videos/DVDs for customers and clinic practitioners using SmartVest, a new respiratory vest system for cystic fibrosis patients and others with respiratory diseases that need percussion therapy. SmartVest replaces their MedPulse product, for which we also produced a training video program.

Gagnon, Inc. , St. Paul, MN (Refractory and Insulation Contracting): Safety Training Programs: Producing a 90-minute (30-module) interactive safety training and employee orientation video/DVD program for new hires in the refractory and insulation construction industry. Program stresses OSHA requirements for safe working and Gagnon's safety policies.

Malt-O-Meal Co., Minneapolis, MN: Training Programs: One-hour long training video program on understanding and preventing cumulative trauma injuries. 17 Employee and Safety Orientation Video programs for new hires at Malt-O-Meal's cereal manufacturing plants in Northfield, Minnesota, and its new plant in Tremonton, Utah. These videos focused on employee orientation, OSHA regulations, and fire safety.

Electromed, New Prague, MN: Produced a training video for customers and clinic practitioners using MedPulse, a new respiratory vest system for cystic fibrosis patients and others with respiratory diseases that need percussion therapy.

Cardinal Glass Industries, Northfield, MN: Produced a comprehensive series of safety training and new employee orientation video presentations (6) for the Cardinal CG coated-glass and glass tempering plant in Northfield, MN. Total length of finished video program: 27 minutes. Wrote the scripts, videotaped the material, and edited the video presentations. Production included a Spanish language version.

Wells Fargo, Minneapolis, MN: Wrote four comprehensive training manuals for Wells Fargo's Instant Cash Services' Training Department in downtown Minneapolis. Instant Cash Services is one of the country's largest ATM service providers, both for Wells Fargo banks and for other banks via contract services. These manuals train new project managers in the procedures required to bring contract banks onto the Instant Cash network. They focus on computer software use and customer service.

2 Men And A Truck, Burnsville, MN: Produced a customer information video for innovative moving company. Video provides prospective customers with information on contracting and office procedures and provides visual description of moving procedures.

Rice County Government, Minnesota: Rice County's Natural Treasures--Public Information/ Education Video Program: Produced a 25-minute video program that explains the natural history of the county's many lakes, describes a recent pilot program that cleaned up the pollution and algal blooms in one of the lakes, and encourages county residents to become involved in a countywide program to clean up and maintain the other lakes in the county. Video program is heavy on both natural science and citizen viewpoint. This is a comprehensive, information-packed video program that took nine months to produce. It involved numerous state and public agencies, including Rice County, the MN Dept. of Natural Resources, the MN Pollution Control Agency, the MN Geological Survey, Carleton College, the Cannon River Watershed Partnership, and others.

CSA Professional Services, Inc., Hopkins, MN: Wrote 55-page user's manual on procedures for accessing and working with information on SQL servers related to the Infinite Campus student information system. Focus of instruction was on using Microsoft Access to connect to, work with, and manipulate data on servers, and create reports from this data.

 

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Dennis Wilcox 220 Division Street Northfield, Minnesota 55057 507.645.1636 e-mail: denniswilcox@earthlink.net