Nick Dynice

Current
  • Community Marketing Manager at Heavybag Media
Past
  • Dealer Repair Account Manager at Usaco Service Company
  • Product Support Manager at Usaco Service Company
  • Product Support at Kenwood USA
Education
  • Long Beach City College
Connections
36 connections
Industry
Marketing and Advertising
Websites

Nick Dynice’s Summary

Interests are in proactive product support using social media. Merging PR, Marketing, and Product Support. All are customer touch-points, all should be given the same amount of consideration. 10 years in music and audio production, location sound, and sound reinforcement. Blogging, podcasting, and installing and editing wiki and related software for 2 years. Currently studying the Ruby scripting language and the Ruby on Rails framework.

Nick Dynice’s Specialties:

Web strategy, customer service, consumer electronics, music production


Nick Dynice’s Experience

  • Community Marketing Manager

    Heavybag Media

    (Privately Held; Marketing and Advertising industry)

    2008Present (less than a year)

    At the time of this writing I am only 3 days into this position, so the description and title are subject to change.

    Heavybag Media is a social media marketing company that provides and executes on social media strategies for companies. I help develop strategies along with the rest of the team along with maintaining accounts for existing clients.

  • Dealer Repair Account Manager

    Usaco Service Company

    (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Consumer Electronics industry)

    April 2007May 2008 (1 year 2 months)

    I was the the point of contact for dealers, manufacturers, and some customers. Usaco Service is authorized servicer of over 20 different manufacturers of TV car stereos and over 15 differnt extended warranty policies. It was my duty to sort through the repairs, figure out which warranties were valid, obtain service documentation for technicians, along with scheduling some of the field technician appointments. I was also the point of contact for several dealers who's store stock TVs required service.

  • Product Support Manager

    Usaco Service Company

    (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Consumer Services industry)

    April 2004March 2007 (3 years)

    Managing a team that assists end users of Kenwood home audio and car audio products with operation and installation of products via phone and e-mail. Products types include home theater receivers, DVD players, CD players, cassette decks, VCRs, speakers, GPS systems, media players, and car audio including CD players, amplifiers and speakers. Requires communicating with many different types of people, and being able to explain concepts to the end users and dealers in many different situations.

  • Product Support

    Kenwood USA

    (Public Company; 51-200 employees; Consumer Services industry)

    April 2000April 2004 (4 years 1 month)

    Assisting end users of Kenwood home audio and car audio products with operation and installation of products via phone and e-mail. Products types include home theater receivers, DVD players, CD players, cassette decks, VCRs, speakers navigation systems, media players, and car audio including CD players, amplifiers and speakers. This required communications with many different types of people, and being able to explain concepts to the end users and dealers in many different situations.


Nick Dynice’s Education

  • Long Beach City College

    Certificate, Recording Engineering, 19951997

    I was at the top of my class. Students would come to me for advice on music production and recording techniques, and I was eager to help. My projects included songs on 16 track 1/2 inch analog, 24 track ADAT, and 24 track 2 inch, and extensive MIDI sequencing, sampling and sound design. Today I own many synth and a Mac-based digital audio workstation.

    Activities and Societies:
    LBCC student chapter of the Audio Engineering Society.

Additional Information

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Nick Dynice’s Interests:

blogging, reading blogs, podcasting, rss, open source, wikis, social media, ruby, ideas, innovation, collaboration, CRM

Nick Dynice’s Groups:

Current:
BMI, http://bmi.com
BarCamp LA http://barcampla.org

Past:
The Association of Support Professionals, http://asponline.com
Audio Engineering Society, http://www.aes.org


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