Emily Siefken
5154 N. ClARK APT # 306
Chicago, Il 60640
http://www.emilysiefken.com
CURRENT POSITION
Graduate Student- The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
EDUCATION
MFA Performance, Art & Tech Studies SAIC.
BFA, Lake Forest College, Lake Forest, IL. Electronic Media Arts, History-2005 Central Texas College, shipboard courses U.S. NAVY (1997)
Interior Communications Electrician, U.S. NAVY 1994-2003.
Highly disciplined, relatable, funny, motivated, and a life-long team player, my work and interests overlap in unconventional ways always resulting in innovative strategies for conducting business or realizing conceptualizations.
As a former electrical and electronics engineer, specializing in the procurement, maintenance, quality assurance and safe use of all shipboard electronics and electromechanical systems (desalination, evaporator-condenser probes/equipment), I know that my unique job history will integrate nicely with the position of Product Manager.
I have over ten years of managerial experience serving as Closed Circuit Television Operator, Engineering Plant Replacement Parts Petty Officer from 1995-2000 and I have 5 years of experience with MSDS and QA directives held to the highest standards of OSHA guidelines. My assignment as a boot camp instructor (2000-2003), besides providing comic relief, proves that, when given any task, resources, hardworking partners and motivated subordinates, we can achieve labor intensive tasks. My military evaluations systematically break down all achievements further, if needed.
Possessing a vast repository of management experience and skill sets, particular to technologically driven business, I will draw from past training in the following:
* Skilled engineer, shipboard communications/telephone systems, propulsion plant operations.
* Closed Circuit Television shop supervisor, managed million dollar budgets submitted reports.
Recommended digital versus analog equipment from 1996-2000 saving over 300,000 in 2 years.
Television /VCR Repair video technology, documentary filmmaker., crime scene photographer.
* Electronics engineer, power distribution, AC/DC circuits, digital systems, Radio Frequency.
Motor Controls
* All shipboard navigation, gyrocompass, dead reckoning systems, aircraft navigation platforms.
* Manpower, resource manager, Quality Assurance equipment tester-lowest discrepancy rates 1999.
* Proven leader of more than two thousand men and women: basic military training (highest honors).
Skills, followed by jobs held during my academic studies from 2003 to present-
(Website design) Dreamweaver, Flash, some MySQL, some PHP, Fireworks, BBedit, Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator.
(Interactive/motion detection software/hardware) Director, Processing, some Java scripting Arduino, Basic Stamp, Video editing- Final Cut Pro Editor, IMOVIE, IDVD.
Electronics and Electro-mechanical Systems Technician. Fabricating, welding /machining equipment operator. C&C routing, fast rapid prototyping equipment run by RHINO/Maya.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2007-present Teaching First Year Studies WIRED course in computer literacy and basic web design.
2007-present Graduate Admissions.
2007- Teaching Assistant Fundamentals of Art with Technology.
2007 Teaching Assistant, Early College Program (figure drawing).
2007 Teaching Assistant TICA (Teacher Institute for Contemporary Art).
2007 Teaching Assistant Electronics, SAIC.
2006 Teaching Assistant Robotics and Kinetics Laboratory SAIC Chicago.
2006 Stuart Rodgers Photography office assistant.
ARTIST EXHIBITS
SOLO
2007 MCA Chicago Here/Not There Performance Series performed Tomb of the Known
http://www.mcachicago.org/exhibitions/exh_detail.php?id=176#_self
http://www.emilysiefken.com/welcome.html
GROUP SHOWS
2007 VOID GARDENfresh Gallery Exhibited Assume The Watch
2007 Women at War, Soldiers, Sisters, Survivors Sarah Lawrence College. First performance of Tomb of the Known
SCHOLARSHIPS, GRANTS, DONATIONS AND AWARDS
2007 Honorarium Here/Not There-Tomb of the Known MCA Chicago.
2007 SAIC funding Here/Not There-Tomb of the Known MCA Chicago.
2007 SAIC Funding Women at War: Soldiers, Sisters, Survivors Symposium, N.Y.
2006 Grant The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
2003-2005 Lake Forest College Merit Scholarships.
1993-2005 Montgomery GI Bill Award (2003-2006).
1993-2006 Navy Achievement medal, superior service in Recruit Training, (2003), outstanding service in photography and public affairs, community relations and rebuilding projects (1999) and outstanding service in electromechanical systems repair (1997)
Training in emerging technologies and performance helps me to hone my skills as a macro thinker. For your corporation, I can make connections that are seemingly disparate, in order to review old or new products, pitch a sale, or compete with other enterprises. I would like to be the employee who presents perspectives from both real world experience and disciplined conceptual thought processes.
I seek a position within your company commiserate with my experience and education.
While I am an actively showing artist and lecturer, allow me to meld knowledge that I have with new visions.
Thank you for your valuable time and consideration.
Very Respectfully,
Emily Siefken