andrew Seger

Oakland, CA

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About

Andrew Kenneth Seger
Oakland, CA. 94609
andrewseger@gmail.com

QUALIFICATIONS
I have a rich background in media and music with experience spanning from live audio, to digital video, to web and graphic design, in addition to my active portfolio of musical scores. I have performed successfully both as a contractor and as an on-site employee for several media companies including ex'pression school for new media and sega. I have just completed my Master's Degree in Radio and Television at SFSU; focusing on the impact of score.

EDUCATION

2005-2007 M.A. - Radio and Television, San Francisco State University

1999-2001 B.A. - Film and Digital Media, University of California Santa Cruz

EMPLOYMENT

1/2008-6/2008 Lecturer, San Francisco State University
BECA 230 - Audio Production I.
A 70 student capacity audio production class that introduces the basics of audio for media production.

8/2007-12/2007 Lecturer, San Francisco State University
BECA 440 - Media Aesthetics II.
A 25 student capacity video production class that examines media aesthetics concepts as they apply to experimental video practice.

7/2007-present Musical composer and sound designer, feature length documentary, "Searching for Penn Su," Chul Heo, producer, (in production.)
Searching for Penn Su draws a parallel between the first Korean student in the US and another who came 100 years later, utilizing their personal stories to map out the history of US-Korean relations. This dialogue offers insight to America's progress as an advocate for democracy throughout the world, inevitably questioning the morality of its actions. This documentary comments on the present by examining the past and recounts a political history by telling a personal story.

4/2007 Recording engineer, Sisters Network San Francisco
Recorded radio ads for breast cancer awareness fundraiser. Ads ran on Bay Area urban market radio stations.

4/2007 Composer, SFSU PSAs, "Important Days," "Operation Guilt," & "Chances"
Scored 3 Public Service Announcements that aired on KSFS, San Francisco State University.

3/2007 Score, Turner Music Publishing, Inc., Adult Swim
Scored music for the live-action series FGSII (Fat Guy Stuck In Internet) to air on Adult Swim.

12/2006 Score, striking pictures
Scored music for strikingpictures productions' local union workers' documentary project.

12/2006 Recording engineer, TotallyLed Ministries
Recorded and produced radio ads for the play "Touch". These ads played on all local Clear Channel urban-market radio stations.

2/2006-12/2006 Graduate Assistant BECA 231, San Francisco, State University
A 25 student capacity class that taught the fundamentals of studio signal flow and ProTools 6.7. I held this position for 2 semesters and was asked to continue teaching the class.

2/2004-10/2005 Live Sound Engineer, The Ivy Room, 858 San Pablo, Albany, CA
Managed the sound needs of all of the bands/djs that performed. This included mic'ing bands ranging from 10 piece bluegrass ensembles, to African instrumentation, to laptops, and mixing onstage monitoring as well as the club PA.

6/2003-10/2003 Ringtone Composer, Modtones, San Francisco
Transcribed popular music into a General MIDI format to be downloaded as polyphonic ringtones. Software used: Reason 2.5, Micrologic, and Cubase SX.

4/2002-12/2002 Quality Assurance, SEGA America/Psinapse
Ensured the quality of emerging games. While only contract work, I began as one of 200 employees and by the end of the holiday run I was one of 6 remaining testers. Titles tested: Phantasy Star Online for the Xbox as well as Super Monkeyball 2.

8/2001-present Information flow/route management, 365 Media Group, Inc.
(NY Times, Wall St Journal, etc, distribution). Handle all small business account data as well as maintain returns information for all business newspaper transactions in the greater East Bay Area, using Quickbooks as well as the specialized route management software, Ivyroute.

2/20016/2001 Artsbridge Scholar program, University of California, Santa Cruz
Educational outreach program that took top students in their respective fields and had them teach their subject in the surrounding gradeschools. Taught 3rd/4th grade class the fundamentals of filmmaking, culminating in a 10-minute film production.

SOFTWARE
Adobe Photoshop 8 years
Microsoft Office 8 years
Mac OS 9/ Mac OS X 10 years
Windows 2000 /XP 10 years
Final Cut Pro / Studio 7 years
MacromediaFlashMX 4 years
Logic Pro 6 years
Ableton Live 5 years
ProTools 4 years
Quickbooks 7 years
Soundtrack Pro 2 year

REFERENCES
Available upon request.