David Nicholas Email & Phone Number

United States

United States

Manage a team of software and hardware engineers - developing: tools, metrics and methods for assessing platform competitiveness across business and market segments.

Portland, Oregon Area

Corvallis, Oregon Area

• Appointed Adjunct Faculty teaching social media for New Media Communications Department (NMC399).
• Created the course curriculum, class website and all related materials.
• Taught three classes simultaneously online and live format for College of Liberal Arts.
• Advise New Media Communications Advanced Gaming Lab. Responsible for equipment selection lab policy and procedure, documentation and maintenance.
• Panel Speaker – Broadcast Education Association (BEA), Teaching Mobile Technology.
• Speaker – Oregon State University Athletics, Social Media Life Skills.

Portland, Oregon Area

• Strategic management of projects and key accounts specializing in and related to usability, interaction and visual design of innovative technologies. Manage project scope, budget, schedules, vendors and stakeholder.
• Heuristic evaluation of mobile, 2ft and 10ft user interfaces. Identify trends and opportunities for improvement in current and future software / hardware releases.
• Partner with Intel’s Ultra Mobile Strategic Marketing and Engineering teams to develop valuable quantitative and qualitative product evaluation methodologies and metrics, benchmarks include:
• Internet Value Proposition – Influence the adoption and evolution of the testing methodology and procedure to quantify user experience across competitive hardware and software.
• Video playback – Research video formats documented known compatibility issues across competitive devices. Produce videos designed to maximize processor utilization and quantify user experience while viewing on mobile.
• Browser Technology – Research new technologies and plug-in’s. Analyze data and build reports to assess the relevance of emerging browser technologies and third plug-in’s.

Corvallis, Oregon Area

• Managed event and facility operations including equipment, staffing, budgets, schedules and customer satisfaction. Led and managed more than 20 part-time student employees including recruitment, retention, training and.
• Restructured the operations staffing protocol, reassigned staff and created a compensation incentive program to achieve strategic goals resulting in increased revenue and overall customer satisfaction.
• Developed and implemented social media communication tools to track employee schedules.
• Managed daily operations and audio and video as well as technical support of public, private and non-profit meetings, presentations and special performances.
• Department liaison and key contributor to the first OSU Strategic Diversity Action Plan.

Corvallis, Oregon Area

• Strategic business operations manager directly responsible for account management of Hewlett-Packard Corvallis Site projects and programs as sole video provider. Managed team of four full-time employees and multiple.
• Led team that produced Vid-net, an innovative internal socially driven multi-media distribution tool used to archive HP IP content.
• Produced multiple analog and digital video projects including new product demonstrations, proof of concept, historical perspective, industrial, informational, interview and internal process documentation videos.
• Developed, created and managed a webcast technology product used for internal meetings and presentations.
• Designed, procured and maintained technical video production equipment. AVID Composer suite, HD and analog video capture and reproduction facility. Responsible for training and documentation.

Bs, New Media Communications

Activities and Societies: Organizing Member of the New Media Club Leadership Corvallis Class of 2007

Theater Arts