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Web Sites
  • Geist Associates (this website), owner, designer and webmaster for online resume and portfolio.
  • Geist Images, owner, designer and webmaster for ecommerce site supplying high quality art prints for home or office and unique photographic note cards.
  • AlaskaLawHelp.org, assisted in initial development of site, including training of stakeholders and contributors on how to develop and upload web content.
  • Lectrosonics, Inc., redesigned older stale site to improve navigation, expand content and incorporate online (html) product catalogs. Responsible writing/editing majority of web content for current site.
  • Partners In Justice, redesigned site for non-profit legal services organization to improve image and navigation.
  • Midnight Sun Intertribal Powwow, designed and developed original site for 2002 event (website was redesigned shortly after I left the organization)
Video Productions (Video Samples are Windows Media files)
Technical Writing (including on line help applications)
  • KITT Plus, Reference guide for Knowledge Information Technology Tool used by Vermont Energy Investment Corporation. ComponentOne Doc-to-Help used as single source development tool.
  • Venue Receiver, Reference manual for modular Digital Hybrid Wireless receiver system used by major television and film production companies.
  • SM Operating Guide, Reference manual for SM-Super Miniature Digital Hybrid Wireless transmitter used on television shows (Oprah, Desperate Housewives, etc.) and other entertainment companies.
  • Section 8, DATA DIRECTOR, a chapter from a software manual for a multi-computer electronic test system, covers both hardware and software concepts. The original was developed on a UNIX-based system. This version was scanned into MS Word 2000 and Adobe Photoshop 5.0, then imported into Adobe Framemaker 6.0. (PDF 1.7M)
  • SDMS Help Application and Reference Guide - selections from the printed aspect of a single source project (on line help and user guides) for a Spatial Data Base Management System (SDMS) developed by BLM-Alaska. SDMS sould ultimately digitally record all legal land surveys performed in Alaska on Federal lands since pre-statehood. Three publications, in addition to two online Helps, were produced using RoboHelp to develop the source code. The SDMS Reference Guide focused on the interface and processes for entering survey and ownership data into the data base. The SDMS Web Users Guide was designed to assist individuals accessing SDMS from a BLM public site. The SDMS Quick Reference Guide was designed as a handout for individuals accessing the data base from the Internet. It would be available at BLM public access sites, or downloadable from BLM-Alaska.
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Alternative Energy/Appropriate Technology
Frontier Energy, Appropriate Technology in Alaska, 1979-1984
, selections from a publication describing appropriate technology grants funded during Governor Jay Hammond's administration (R-Alaska).
Product Catalogs
The following product catalogs were developed for Lectrosonics, Inc. Samples of the searchable HTML versions of these catalogs I created are available at the Lectrosonics, Inc. website.
  • Accessories Catalog - Includes photographs and descriptions of all the accessories Lectrosonics manufactures for its wireless microphone and audio processing products. (PDF 2.9M)
  • Sound Contractor Catalog - Identifies all the products and accessories available to Sound Contractors certified to sell Lectrosonic products. (PDF 1.5M)
  • UHF Vendor Catalog - Identifies all products and accessories for vendors certified to sell Lectrosonics UHF Wirless Microphone Systems and audio processing products. (PDF 1.4M)

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Consumer/Trade Publications
  • Fairbanks Arts (selections from the bimonthly 16-page magazine produced for Fairbanks Arts Association:
    • Lael Morgan - a profile of one of the founders of Epicenter Press (Seattle, WA). (PDF 1.2M)
    • Claire Fejes - a profile of one of interior Alaska's most remarkable artists. (PDF 1.2M)
    • Always Getting Ready - highlighting Jim Barker's ethnophotography of the Yukon/Kuskowkim River Delta region.
    • Utemon - Yupik playright draws heavily from his past to write a play about the future. (PDF 1.6M)
  • Harrowsmith Magazine
  • Spectrum Magazine (Alascom, Inc.'s in house magazine)
  • Cabin Magazine
  • Alaska Land and Home Magazine
    • Eagle on the Yukon - story about Dennis and Sheila Layman and the Eagle Trading Post, Eagle, AK. (1.2M)
  • Instant and Small Commercial Printer
  • Insurance Review

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Marketing Brochures/Flyers Proposals
  • Alaska Military Housing Maintenance, lead writer for a proposal for the complete maintenance of all Army military housing (on- and off-base) at Forts Richardson (Anchorage) and Wainwright (Fairbanks). (Proposal has been modified to remove names of submitting organizations.) (400k)

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