Don Burnett has over 30 years of experience in multimedia development, training, and support roles. He has extensive experience with Microsoft technologies like Windows Presentation Foundation, Silverlight, ASP.NET, and Expression products. Some of his past roles include training instructors at Microsoft, developing websites and applications for various companies, and creating multimedia content and assets. He also has experience in mobile app development for Windows Phone and Kinect-enabled kiosk creation.
2. Training and Support Manager
1984 to 1992.
Commodore brand hardware including
8-bit and Commodore-Amiga
With Newtek Video Toaster hardware.
Involved in sales and support of
broadcast video computer hardware
studio-in-a-box products for video
editing, titling, 3d and 2d animation.
Assisted Commodore in testing of
their operating systems from version
1.0 to 3.0 of Amiga Operating System.
3. Columbia Cable of Michigan
Ann Arbor and Brighton
Customer Service Representative
Advertising Sales Technical Admin
Advertising scheduling and Insertion,
TV Guide Channel, Information Channels,
Public Service Announcement admin.
4. Multimedia assets administrator, responsible
for asset prep and conversion, from Art to Title
Engineering & development.
Assisted with WinToon APIs for MSI and
Microsoft with Michael Winser and Bill Wagner.
Multimedia Developer Training instructor at
Microsoft Redmond Campus. Systems
administrator, overseeing asset
development for engineering operations.
Developed prototype over-the-wan
based asset approval system over Microsoft
Exchange server. Testing and approval of
CD-ROM video streaming with engineering
Personnel.
6. Website Manager and Technical
Document creator for Old Kent
Bank Documentation
Tools:
Dreamweaver & Fireworks, Word and
PowerPoint and Adobe PDF Creator
8. Created website for Michigan-
Based employment recruiter.
Tools:
Dreamweaver & Fireworks, ASP.NET
9. ASP.NET based website for
Telecom industry recruiter.
Tools:
Dreamweaver & Fireworks, ASP.NET
10. Team Leader:
Work Efficiency Portal for
Auto Industry
Tools:
Dreamweaver & Fireworks, ASP.NET
Co-developed LeanExperts.com web portal to help
assist automotive and manufacturing
organizations in "lean" concepts and six sigma
style operations. Worked from concept through
initial development. Team Development leader.
Responsibilities: hiring, development, and setting project goals and milestone evaluations.
Product development went into beta as project lost outside investment as economy hit a rough patch
and principles were forced to put project on indefinite hiatus.
11. Marketing Webmaster
Tools:
ASP.NET, Flash, Dreamweaver,
Photoshop
Produced Rich Internet Marketing
Application
for telecommunication tradeshows, and
managed content and created content
for HarmonyCOM corporate website.
CreatedFlash based content for
corporate marketingCampaigns.
12. IT SERVICES Company
Tools:
Dreamweaver & Fireworks, ASP.NET
Contract software developer and consultant for
Perodon.com IT infrastructure solutions
organization.
Visteon/DST SQL and web development and
other IT consulting and development.
13. City of Birmingham Waterworks
Birmingham, Alabama
Tools:
Dreamweaver & Fireworks
14. Windows Media Player Store
Smart Client Team Lead Developer
Built Windows Media Player Store
Application- Visual Studio 2005, ASP.NET
15. Click Once Application
Tools:
Expression Blend 1,0, Expression Design
Click-once install over the web WPF
Windows Application. Integrated with
WPF Blog Website.
16. Co-editor and content producer for
Microsoft's website that introduced the
world to WPF and Silverlight technologies.
Assisted Microsoft with the website and
training for Microsoft's Phizzpop's Design
Challenge to advertising agencies
worldwide.
19. WPF Training for User Experience
Team at Practiceworks, LLC.
Researched and created
designer /developer workflow
assessment for company
Tools:
Expression Blend, Microsoft WPF, and
Sketchflow.
20. Website Design & Deployment
Tools:
Expression Web, Silverlight, Flash and
PHP. Implemented Google Maps,
Directions. And Google Checkout for
electronic payments.
Social Media Interface via Twitter,
Facebook, And Friendfeed.
21. Website and Facebook App
Designed and developed website for
Michigan Recruiter. Including Facebook and
Social Networks interface to aggregate
content to over fifty social networks.
Applications: Expression Web, Facebook
Developer, Twitter API, LinkedInk Friendfeed,
RSS
22. Mobile Application Development
And Training Services
Provided training on WPF and Blend on
Microsoft's behalf to Ford and University of
Michigan students as part of the
American Journey 2.0 project.
Built Windows Phone 7 Mobile Application
Including support for Facebook, Twitter, RSS
and Open Data Protocol. Also Netflix, NY
Times and others. Created Desktop (Mac &
PC), Web (Silverlight, Facebook) , X-Box and auto
versions of application, as well as embedded version.
23. Washtenaw Community College LifeLong Learning
program instructor for Microsoft Expression Blend
and Sketchflow with Windows Presentation
Foundation. Instruction on Microsoft X-BOX Kinect
Natural User Interaction design and development
with OpenNI for kiosk development.
Instructed student teams and created a Kinect
enabled kiosk as a class project promoting
Washtenaw Community College’s lifelong learning
program. Used by the college to highlight their
programs at promotional events.