Allen Huffman
alsplace@pobox.com

PO Box 7634
Des Moines, IA 50323

(515) 999-0227

101,032 visits (107 today, 689 this week, 1,111 this month, 1,111 this year) [152 yesterday. Best day was 171 visitors]

Creative/Media Experience:

Over the years I have worked in audio production, created video productions, and worked in printed media. I have audio experience from classic reel to reel tape decks on up to hard disk basd non-linear editing systems. Video editing that was once done on video tape is now done on desktop computers. Typesetting has turned into web site building on the Internet. I continue to learn as the technologies evolves. (For a listing of web specific experience, click here.)

2004-Current: Festivals International (Clear Lake, IA)

Editor of Regional Renaissance Reporter (sold to Renaissance Magazine in 2011). Video/audio editing for TV/radio ads. Designing/typesetting newspaper ads, event show guides, posters, tickets, and other printed materials.

2000-Current: AtTheFaire Web Services and Multimedia Productions (Des Moines, IA)

Home business producing TV and radio commercials for area businesses. Produced a promotional podcast for a Toyota campaign (via Pivec Advertising, Ltd.; Timonium, MD). Local clients include Sleepy Hollow Sports Park in Des Moines (winter and Halloween ads), Nebraska Renaissance Faire, Iowa Renaissance Festival, Des Moines Renaissance Faire, and Iowa Pumpkin Festival. Produced a 39 part video series documenting the construction of the Festival Park event center at Sleepy Hollow Sports Park, and another multi-part video series on their Halloween activities.

Also, web site design and hosting. This includes extensive work with Macromedia Dreamweaver and Fireworks as well as a HTML hand coding. Hundreds of HTML pages are maintained as well as dozens of PERL CGI scripts. Other related ventures include performing at Midwest renaissance festivals (presentation skills), and extensive digital photography of various events as well as the production of promotional videos for festivals and groups.

1995: East Texas Bilingual Specialists (Lufkin, TX)

Part-time position assisting with typesetting a weekly Spanish language newspaper. Production equipment was PC/Windows based (PageMaker) and duties included layout of pages, scanning of graphics, and working on the conversion from manual "cut and paste" layouts to all computer based layout.

1994: KUEZ 99.3 FM Radio (Lufkin, TX)

Part-time DJ primarily handling the insertion of commercials and local "live remotes" in satellite programming. Also ran syndicated programming on weekends including religious broadcasts at sister AM station.

1991-1993: ADworx Creative Services (Lufkin/Nacogdoches, TX)

Creation of radio advertisements for local businesses. Performance of custom music jingles and some voice-over work. Multitrack audio recording, MIDI music creation, and working with state of the art digital effects. Businesses included restaurants, auto shops, tanning salons, colleges and even radio stations.

1990-1993: Millionaire Studios (Lufkin, TX)

Assistant manager and, later, co-owner of this mall music store. Retail sale of instruments, accessories, T-shirts, etc. as well as a singalong karaoke-style recording studio. Audio engineering for singers and small musical groups in a multitrack recording studio was also common. Some time was spent running the second location in Longview, TX.

1987-1988: Pine Air Inc. KNOW AM 1420 Radio (Lufkin, TX)

Hired as station "go fer" then worked into running radio station automation. Eventual progression to overnight DJ position then finally morning show "on air personality". Duties included producing radio commercials and handling transmitter accounting paperwork. Station was destroyed in a fire and was never rebuilt.