Todd Ripplinger
todd@camineet.net - www.galaxy11.com
808.276.2276.mobile

Education
B.A., Columbia College Chicago
Major: Television
Emphasis: Graphics and Editing
Class Grade Point Average: 4.0 (4 Point Scale)

Professional Experience
ProLook Productions
Chief Editor and Animator / Technical Director
February 2003 - Present
Edited corporate candid videos, created custom animation using company logos, authored complex DVD-videos using Scenarist, videotaped upscale homes, photographed golf courses, updated and maintained company website, authored CD-Roms, retouched photos hundreds of photos in PhotoShop, built customized PC workstations

Columbia College Science Institute
Associate Director, Science Visualization Laboratory
May 2002 - February 2003, June 1999 - June 2000
Edited and animated educational science videos using the Pinnacle DC2000 (Adobe Premiere), Avid XPress, and Pinnacle CineWave (Final Cut Pro); authored science education related DVD-Videos using Scenarist and ReelDVD; videotaped science lectures and seminars on Betacam SX and DVCam; tutored students on graphics and video applications (After Effects, Lightwave, Avid XPress DV, Premiere, Final Cut Pro, etc.), encoded and compressed videos for archiving; managed, maintained, and upgraded a 15-workstation PC/Mac graphics/video editing computer lab; installed 1000 Base-T network; built Windows and Macintosh graphics workstations; duplicated videos; took digital still photographs and re-touched them in Photoshop

WREX-TV
Lead Graphic Artist, Master Control Operator
September 2001 - May 2002
Creative Services: designed original news graphics packages, wrote and edited topicals and POP's (using Matrox DigiSuite and Panasonic Post Box), created animation and edited video for station promos
Master Control Operator: operated master control for prime-time programming; setup Odetics system and DVCPro-25 tape decks for unattended overnight operation; recorded satellite feeds; duplicated local and regional commercials from Vyvx, DG, Betacam SP, and DVCPro-25; managed crawls and EAS tests; monitored closed captioning; performed basic maintenance on Harris transmitter
News Production: tape rolling, audio board, sports ticker, camera shading, created titles using Chyron and Photoshop, edited teases and opens

Shioya Education Branch Office
English Instructor
August 2000 - August 2001
Assisted in ESL (English as a second language) instruction in middle and elementary schools in Yaita-city, Japan; edited educational videos for Japanese students of English

Post Effects
Production Assistant
August 1998 - May 1999
Camera and 15' jib arm operator for many Bill Curtis cable programs and national commercials; assistant editor for corporate and trade-show videos; tape duplication using D-1, Digital Betacam, and other high-end tape formats; assisted as lighting grip, created image collages for virtual set backgrounds; operated bulk videotape eraser; helped with day-to-day operations of a professional production house

Knowledge
Software:
After Effects, Lightwave, Avid XPress, Scenarist, combustion, Photoshop, Premiere, Acid Pro, Soft Encode, Cool Edit Pro, Sound Forge, Reel DVD, Director, Dreamweaver, Flash, cleaner, TMPGEncoder, Helix Producer, Helix Server, Windows Media Encoder 9, Netscape Composer, Image Ready, PageMaker, Windows, Mac OS (9&X)

Hardware:
Betacam SX, Betacam SP, DVCPro, DVCam, Super 8, Grass Valley Group Switchers, digital routers, Odetics, DG, Vyvx, still 35mm, digital still cameras, film lighting, jib arm, dolly tracking, DVD-R/RW, networking equipment, PC building, Matrox DigiSuite, Pinnacle DC2000, Panasonic Post Box, Avid XPress

Awards
Columbia College Television Department
Genesis Award
First Place: Graphics Category
May 2000
Project: "Flatland"

Columbia College Television Department
Genesis Award
Second Place: Experimental Category
May 2000
Project: "E"

References
Mr. Brian Dressle
Owner, OVT Visuals
4130 North Claremont Avenue
Chicago, IL 60618
312.370.9837
brian@ovtvisuals.com

Mr. David Morton
Owner, Keart Multimedia
1422 North Bosworth
Chicago, IL 60622
773.395.3832
mediumcool@hotmail.com

Mr. Brian Read
Instructor, Columbia College Chicago
600 S. Michigan Ave.
Chicago, IL 60605
312.663.1600

Additional references, demo reel hard copies, and further information available upon request.