Ted Wahler

Location: Greater Denver Area
Industry: International Trade and Development

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Ted Wahler's Overview

Current

• at WorldWide Outsource Solutions
• at WorldWide Media & Marketing

Past

Technologist, Technical Consultant, Post Production Solutions at Shadow Play Films
Executive Director at non-profit-media
Instructor / Mentor at Arts Street, Mayor’s Office of Workforce Development

Pilot Program Instructor, Automotive Technology / Auto Body Estimating at Community College of Denver
Teacher / Communication Specialist at Denver Public Schools
Instructor / Mentor at Arts Street, Mayor’s Office of Workforce Development

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I have a broad experiential base having successfully met the challenges of every professional pursuit that I have undertaken. I have excellent verbal and written communication skills that are scalable to all levels of interaction. I have worked in creative, technical, ownership, management, and educational environments with equal ease and proficiently. I am passionate about everything that I undertake.

My professional goal is to continue providing the highest level of service to the clients and colleagues that I work with while staying personally and professionally challenged, rewarded, and delighted with my accomplishments.

Specialties

• big picture critical thinking with attention to relevant details
• strong ability to see things clearly from all sides of the box - inside and out
• compassionate and insightful - providing an individual level of understanding to promote teamwork and overcome challenges
• a strong leader - competently managing people, time, and tangible resources
• unique blend of appreciation of both the technical and the aesthetic

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WorldWide Outsource Solutions

November 2008 – Present (3 years 4 months)

Boutique outsource provider. WorldWide Outsource Solutions strives to craft unique custom-tailored solutions for busy people. We are each most at-ease and efficient when we are able to focus on what we do best and none of us are the optimal solution for every task. WorldWide Outsource Solutions is all about making optimal connections to get things done right.

If you have expertise get in touch.

If you have a need get in touch.

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WorldWide Media & Marketing

January 1983 – Present (29 years 2 months)

WorldWide Media & Marketing has always been an innovator in media production, marketing, and branding strategies. As an early innovator of alternative production and distribution avenues I enjoy pioneering cutting edge technologies and methodologies. I am currently refining media, marketing strategies, branding, and placement opportunities in cyberspace.

As a full service media production and marketing company I have worked worldwide on a wide variety of projects with a diverse mixture of clients, talent, and colleagues. I have worked in both live and film-style production forms, in studio and on-location settings. Projects include; television programming, promotion and marketing pieces, live event support and coverage, news, corporate communications, music video, educational, training, artistic, home video programming, and internet delivered content.

Technologist, Technical Consultant, Post Production Solutions

Shadow Play Films

July 1992 – January 2007 (14 years 7 months)

Shadow Play Films, incubated in my WorldWide Media & Marketing office, grew into the well respected production company that it is today due to the dedication, creativity, vision, and hard work of partners David Priest and Brenda Rundback. With 300+ television programs airing worldwide, SPF is now a well respected production company.
My duties at SPF included the management of the IT and engineering needs of the entire operation consisting of media production workstations, office workstations, a fiber channel network, ethernet network, admin server, FTP server, a 5000+ source media library, an entirely digital audio/video workflow between the machine area and the media editing workstations, and all of the associated technology to link the operation together into a cohesive transparently creative environment. I participated as a daily contributor to the projects that were in production, the maintenance and tracking of these projects, and the follow-up as projects were completed.

Executive Director

non-profit-media

June 2003 – November 2004 (1 year 6 months)

“Harnessing a passion for the media arts to fuel success & self–determination.” is the mission statement of non-profit-media. NPM is a youth–staffed production initiative working on real–world projects by partnering with professional production entities to help fast–track a select group of young media producers through their school years and into their careers. With the objective to create a perpetuating scholarship fund we hope can insure that none of these inspired youth are denied an education due to financial hardship. We aspire to create a self–perpetuating production company that will provide young filmmakers the resources to fuel their creative passion as they grow and blossom into the future of filmmaking.

Instructor / Mentor

Arts Street, Mayor’s Office of Workforce Development

August 2003 – October 2003 (3 months)

http://www.arts-street.org/
Instructor / Mentor for a unique arts focused, job based, after school program. Responsible for developing and implementing a curriculum to teach job and life skills to a group of 14 – 21 year old at–risk inner city youth. I taught the young crew how to plan and implement the production of a video program through the hands–on process of actually making the program that we completed. We researched and effectively created a short documentary piece examining the subject of why school-age youth are not in school, from the perspective of youth that are surrounded by it and live it.

Pilot Program Instructor, Automotive Technology / Auto Body Estimating

Community College of Denver

Educational Institution; 501-1000 employees; Higher Education industry

June 2003 – August 2003 (3 months)

As unlikely as it may seem my previous careers (1970's) included a run as a Master Mechanic and auto repair garage owner. It was from this background that I eagerly undertook this rewarding assignment.

This was a partnership between CCD, the Mayor’s Office of Workforce Development, and the Youth Opportunity program.

A class of 14 recent High School graduates from family backgrounds where they were the first in their family to finish school and start college were given the opportunity to learn basic automotive technology and auto-body shop estimating as a career option. We combined comprehensive formal textbook learning with hands-on, intensive estimating software training, job site visits, and active discussion forums. The class completed a 1200 page textbook with chapter reviews and exams, a industry leading auto-body shop estimating software training, and several live general mechanical and auto-body work experiences.

Teacher / Communication Specialist

Denver Public Schools

Educational Institution; 10,001+ employees; Primary/Secondary Education industry

August 1999 – July 2003 (4 years)

http://www.dosomethingreal.com/
Professional / Technical Instructor for the Digital Film Production department at CEC. Along with my partner Robert Newman, we provided large crew digital film production, as well as post–production instruction. The program is a highly successful half–day, four-semester college/work prep High School vocational program designed as the gateway to further formal education and training and/or as preparation for employment.

As the technical interface within the program I was also responsible for designing, specifying, budgeting, ordering, installing, configuring, troubleshooting, and maintaining, all production equipment, Macintosh computer workstations, and related software packages for our media production lab, studio, and location production unit.

Instructor / Mentor

Arts Street, Mayor’s Office of Workforce Development

October 2001 – December 2001 (3 months)

http://www.arts-street.org/
Instructor / Mentor for a unique arts focused, job based, after school program. Responsible for developing and implementing a curriculum that teaches job and life skills using the shell of operating a video production company with benchmarks, deadlines, and a deliverable to our sponsor / client. These youth started the program with no knowledge of video production and completed a highly acclaimed promotional video that is being used across the nation by the US Department of Labor. Representative from the US Department of Labor in Washington DC traveled to Denver upon learning of the project to witness this group at work and were compelled to participate by the youth.

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Interests:

• access to relevant education for everyone • the future of the next generations and the outcome of the existing ones • productive media; production, dissemination, and consumption • the internet as a unifying tool to explore the world beyond our fingertips • social justice for the clearly visible as well as the less clearly visible • technology as a tool for positive growth • information delivery to expand horizons • environmental preservation • interpersonal relationships

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