Richard (Nate) Gay

Current

• Community Relations Manager at Vivox

Past

• Crew at Cold Stone Creamery
• Music Artist at Shinebox inc
• Computer Graphic Consultant at Red Key Partners

• IT Intern at Department of Homeland Security
• Computer Graphic Consultant at GlaxoSmithKline

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Education

• Northern Virginia Community College

Connections

40 connections

Industry

Think Tanks

Richard (Nate) Gay’s Summary

I am capable of doing anything; all it takes is a little inspiration, ingenuity, and integrity to get the job done. My goal is to deliver the best quality work in a reasonable amount of time while having the most amount of fun. I'm confident and I'm good at what I do.

Richard (Nate) Gay’s Specialties:

Designing Effective Flash Presentations, Problem Solving, Solution Managment

Richard (Nate) Gay’s Experience

• Community Relations Manager

  Vivox

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Telecommunications industry)

  June 2007 — Present (1 year 4 months)

• Crew

  Cold Stone Creamery

  (Restaurants industry)

  April 2005 — May 2007 (2 years 2 months)

• Music Artist

  Shinebox inc

  (Marketing and Advertising industry)

  May 2007 — May 2007 (1 month)

  Worked to provide a rap song that matched criteria of marketing campaign.
  
  http://MySpace.com/natestigate

• Computer Graphic Consultant

  Red Key Partners

  (Human Resources industry)

  November 2005 — December 2005 (2 months)

  • Created a flash promotional to announce new company launch.
  Result: Positive feedback from RedKey Partner consultants and client base.
  
  http://thehspn.com/nate/im/clients/redkey/announcement/

• IT Intern

  Department of Homeland Security

  (Government Agency; Government Administration industry)

  December 2005 — December 2005 (1 month)

  Contract with Dyonix
  • Worked with Windows 2003 Server systems and Microsoft SQL 2005 to install an updated version CaseTrakker.
  • Installed CTWeb on the Production CaseTrakker System. I remotely viewed and and determined perfomance issues with Windows 2003 Server systems and recommended improvements.
  • Ported part of the DHS SQL database over to a test server which I set up.
  • Created a how-to guide on porting the database for future refrence.
  • Helped with data entery into their CaseTrakker system.
  • Edited parts of http://www.dhs.gov and updated some of the html code to transitional xhtml code.

• Computer Graphic Consultant

  GlaxoSmithKline

  (Public Company; GSK; Pharmaceuticals industry)

  November 2004 — February 2005 (4 months)

  • Created a flash invitation and supporting graphic models for a team conference.
  Result: Generated more interest than expected. The original 40 person conference was opened up to accommodate more that 60 GSK employees and special outside guests. Because of the conference limitations, other employees were turned away.
  • Tutored GSK staff member in Macromedia Flash Technology.
  Result: GSK employee is now creating her own Flash files.
  • Created an automatically updating screensaver to support team change.
  
  http://thehspn.com/nate/im/clients/gsk/futuresearch/

Richard (Nate) Gay’s Education

• Northern Virginia Community College

  2005 — 2007

Additional Information

Richard (Nate) Gay’s Interests:

Problem solving, relationship building, overseas and in-nation travel, languages, skiing, football, Baseball, snowboarding

Richard (Nate) Gay’s Groups:

FBLA 2003-04, 2005-06.

Richard (Nate) Gay’s Honors:

CIW Associates,

Richard (Nate) Gay’s Contact Settings

Interested In:

• career opportunities
• consulting offers
• new ventures
• job inquiries
• expertise requests
• business deals
• reference requests
• getting back in touch