I thrive on structuring, designing, and writing content whether it is for a book, course, or reference guide. It is similar to structuring a comedy, drama, documentary, or any other editing project. I have created courses for e-Learning as well as hard copy as well as in person, classroom delivery. I've also delivered all the editing courses that I've designed as both a trainer and college instructor.

The subjects I've developed courses for vary from Microsoft software products and sales licenses to digital editing and broadcast software to editing history and theory. Currently I am part of a crack team that is creating training to help implement PeopleSoft software across a large mortgage company. I am enjoying this corporate experience of working in a cubicle surrounded by team members after a year of intense, at-home book writing.

Below I've listed the major projects that I've worked on. Please feel free to contact me for any of these services at info@gaelchandler.com.

Designing and writing e-Learning and classroom courses on PeopleSoft and ELM software for Human Resource employees, managers, and administrators.

• Wrote bi-level tutorial on licensing procedures for hundreds of Account Managers and Distributors in Microsoft’s Embedded Systems Group.
• Wrote tutorial modules on Windows and Office XP Professional software for Microsoft sales partners, preparing them to convince customers worldwide to upgrade to the new software.
• Revised and re-wrote “Classroom in a Box” workbook and CD ROM about Windows Server 2003 to be used as a training and reference tool by thousands of Microsoft Distributors, Resellers, and System Builders.
  

Instructional Designer and Trainer

• Developed courses and trained managers, operators, and engineers at TV stations across the US, leading them through the changeover from manual, tape-based transmission to automated, server-based transmission.
• Developed and delivered Super User course with handouts, flow charts, and diagrams for Starz Encore Channel managers and engineers.
• Designed and taught course, creating hands-on teaching exercises and handouts based on learning preferences at Starz Encore Group. Empowered managers nervous about how to teach with practical experience and an action plan.
  
  

Trainer and College Instructor

• Designed and delivered courses for hundreds of professional film and TV editors and post-production supervisors on Lightworks, a digital editing system, in Hollywood and around the US.
• Created and taught editing courses to graduate and undergraduate students from AFI and USC, and at CSULA, CSULB, CSUN, and LMU.
• Originated and taught Lightworks class for Tektronix marketing executives in Korea, motivating them as sales representatives for the editing system.
• Designed and trained Lightworks online system class at KTVX and KWSU, enabling each television station to make the crossover from tape-based editing to electronic editing.
  

Writer

• Author of Cut by Cut: Editing Your Film or Video, a 400 page practical guide that teaches editors how to turn raw footage into polished shows for the screen, tube, or web. Created 50 original tables, forms, check lists, and flow charts for the book and wrote the index. Due out December 15 from publisher Michael Wiese Productions.
• Five feature screenplays, one of which is optioned and another of which won the Scriptwriters Networks’ Producers Outreach Program contest.
• Articles, newsletters, brochures, flyers, resumes, book proposal and index.
  
  

Education

• Instructional Design Certificate from CA State University, Northridge.
• ASTD “Train the Trainer” certificate course.
• Honor Graduate with two BAs from Sonoma State University in
  Communication Studies and Hutchins (Liberal and Independent Studies.)

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