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BIO : Daniel Nielsen
Employment history
Traverse City, Michigan. Hired in 2004. Web Developer at not-for-profit destination marketing organization. I run the Web site www.mytraversecity.com. The site is built atop the ColdFusion engine, and most content is served from a series of databases. Since joining the company, I've installed PHP on the in-house server I'm responsible for, and have used PHP for some new features I've added to the site. My job is to use the Internet to show people the beauty of the Traverse City area and persuade them to vacation here.
Traverse City, Michigan. 15 years. My title was copy editor since the day I started until a couple of years before I left, but my actual duties shifted over the years. Most recently, I was webmaster of www.record-eagle.com. Before that, I designed and paginated special sections (71 of them in 1998) and our print business section using Quark XPress. I also designed, coded and perform daily updates for our web page, which we launched in November 1997. I built most of the site using plain HTML and a series of server-side includes, and most interactive features use the Perl CGI language. For more than 10 years, I designed the print business sections for the Record-Eagle, but, at various times, I also: designed the news covers and inside news pages; edited local and wire copy for style and content; wrote lead business stories; wrote feature stories; supervised our four-person newsroom photography department; shot photographs; wrote a weekly restaurant review column; wrote editorials; and created maps and graphics using Freehand and Quark. Growing regional business hub in resort area, city core population 21,000. Circulation 29,000 daily, 40,000 on Sunday.
Marquette, Michigan. Two years. Hired on as bureau reporter in Ispeming. Soon added page design duties for Saturday edition. After five months in bureau, moved to main office to take business editor position. 18,500-circulation daily, 35,000 on Sunday. Regional business center, population 23,000.
Durango, Colorado. Three years. Hired on as assistant sports editor. Soon promoted to chief photographer and business editor. Wrote business news, general news and general features; photographed; designed pages. Also managed 14-terminal front-end system. 6,000-circulation Monday-Friday; 9,000-circulation Sunday. Growing mountain town, population 15,000.
Kenosha News
Kenosha, Wisconsin. Five months. Part-time photographer at 30,000-circulation daily newspaper (took temporary job during relatively slow semester in graduate school).
Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Two years as graduate assistant. Photography instructor in the School of Journalism and supervisor of student photo lab and darkrooms. Oversaw staff of four student darkroom assistants. Taught undergraduate photojournalism class and several continuing education photography courses.
Humboldt Sun
Winnemucca, Nevada. Three years. Hired on as reporter/photographer and covered schools, sports, police, and natural resources at 6,000-circulation bi-weekly newspaper (it has since converted to daily circulation) for a year and a half. In an odd career twist, I then became pressman and operated a two-unit web offset press and handled all graphic arts darkroom work while functioning as entertainment editor for another year and a half. Isolated high-desert town, population 4,500. The former owners of the Sun, which they sold in 1998, Mark and June McMahon, operate the Western News in Libby, Montana.
Grand Rapids, Michigan. During four years of undergraduate study, was employed both as equipment manager for the Calvin College Orchestra and as stage manager for the 1,100-seat Fine Arts Auditorium.
Southkent News-Wyoming Advocate
Grand Rapids, Michigan. Reporter/photographer/page layout technician at 4,500-circulation weekly newspaper that no longer exists. Part time during college year, full time two summers.
Pak Sak, Inc.
Grand Rapids, Michigan. Drove a forklift and performed general labor in a plastic bag factory the summer between high school graduation and start of college.
Professional accomplishments
Selected for listing in 1993 edition of Oxford's Professional Who's Who and 1996 edition of Who's Who in Communications Technology.
Colorado Press Association annual contest 1987: Runner-up in photojournalism-news category.
Photos published in magazines: Outdoor Life, Desert, News Photographer, Durango, Nevada Outdoor Adventure (Reno), Exclusively Yours (Milwaukee), Marquette Journal (Milwaukee), Wisconsin Home Gallery (Milwaukee).
Photo published in book: "Outlaw: The True Story of Claude Dallas" by Jeff Long, published by Morrow.
Photos, distributed by Associated Press wire, published in newspapers stretching from San Diego and Tucson to Detroit.
Articles with photos, distributed by Associated Press wire, published in Michigan newspapers including: Detroit News, Detroit Free Press, St. Joseph Herald-Palladium, Marquette Mining Journal, Petoskey News-Review and Cadillac Evening News.
Freelance photos published in City of Winnemucca brochures and several City of Milwaukee publications.
In addition to photography, graphics creation, reporting and copy editing, I pride myself on the fact that I have worked as both a graphic arts darkroom technician and a full time pressman, adding depth to my newspaper experience.
Miscellaneous useless information
Read about the Yamaha RD-60 I owned back in the early 1980s.
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