Jason C. Pace

+1-251-***-****

abm7zi@r.postjobfree.com

http://www.linkedin.com/pub/jason-pace/8/951/b4a

SUMMARY

. Community manager, social Media Expert, Project Manager,

Events Coordinator, Trainer, Social Networking

Evangelist, Virtual Reality Developer, Business

Relations and Marketing, Virtual Goods and Services

Professional Highlights

. Over 6 years experience with community management and

virtual worlds.

. Highly innovative, excellent communication skills.

Social media expert.

. Effective and flexible leadership style, project

management skills.

. Blogger, skilled writer and presenter.

. Affiliations with open source development groups,

knowledgeable of open source.

. Highly skilled community manager with huge, expansive

social network. One of the most dominant people in

social media events and community involvement.

. Charismatic, marketing knowledge.

. Skilled trainer.

. Backgrounds in both open source software Developer and

IT industry.

. Trained show voice and public speaking abilities.

. Accomplished and commended trade show track organizer.

. Skilled at developing effective strategies for

accomplishing a project, able to step in and fill in

most gaps in productivity should the need arise.

. Very computer-literate, and knowledgeable of the

internet, social media.

. Highly skilled virtual reality builder and developer.

Community Manager

. Work as an online community leader, manage community

assets and resources, host community outreach, build and

develop a community from scratch into a powerful online

resource. 6 years experience.

Social Media Expert

. Work as social media manager, keeping an eye on new

emerging media technologies, staying abreast of

implementation strategies and worth of various tools for

different business applications. Perform communication

audits, make recommendations on social media deployments

to clients. Budgeting and analysis of ROI on social

media strategies.

Project Manager

. Work as project leader, able to accomplish large goals

needing large teams of employees. Maintain group morale,

make employees excited about a job, minimalist

management style which generates respect of workers.

Able to see a project through to the end, and handle

most steps of production and client interaction. Keen

eye for scope-creep and other obstacles. Completed

several large and complicated simulator and technology

projects. Skilled builder.

Events Coordinator

. Primary host of Nokia Connected Worlds in Second Life

and Lively. Worked to develop relationships with event

partners, actively involved in numerous Second Life

events such as vBusiness Expo 2008, live music, and

hosting my Business Education panels monthly. Able to

plan large events and see them through to completion.

Finally, I am also one of the lead organizers for Second

Life Community Convention (SLCC), a major virtual

reality convention in San Francisco. Highly organized

and extremely punctual.

Trainer

. Able to train people to use social media tools at expert

levels rapidly, get them excited about using them, and

maintain high retention levels by showing them how those

tools can make them more productive in a fun way.

Social Networking Evangelist

. Extremely involved in many forms of social networking,

such as blogging, Ning, LinkedIn, MySpace, Twitter,

Facebook, and podcasting. Actively help host three

popular online television programs. (Metanomics,

Connecting Worlds, and The Second Question). Hydra

Shaftoe, my online handle, is a well-known internet

personality. Also heavily involved in Second Life

culture, and actively work as a social networking hub in

the virtual world.

Virtual Reality Developer

. Work with clients to develop strategies for bringing

effective and useful virtual presences to life. Have

developed large simulator clusters for numerous

corporate clients, charity simulators for Canadian

national newspapers, National Health Service of England,

Department of Defense, and worked with Sprott-Shaw

University, among many other clients.

Business Relations and Marketing

. Travel to trade shows, represent my company as its

public go-to person, deal with customers and ascertain

their needs, write and/or proofread company publications

for distribution, international business travel, and act

as charismatic representative.

SKILLS

Proficient in: MS Word and Office, MS Project, TUTOS

Project Manager software, Google Docs

project management system, Windows Server

2003 administration, Photoshop, publishing

programs, Second Life.

EXPERIENCE

2008 INDEPENDENT CONSULTANT/VARIOUS CLIENTS

To 2009 SOCIAL MEDIA MANAGER AND SEO ANALYST

. Work to see to it that a client has a full

implementation of an effective social media strategy.

Perform community communications audits, analyze web

behaviors of customers and clients, and find ways to use

social media to improve workplace performance and job

satisfaction of employees. Leadership-based dual

approach to my public web presence used to not only

represent corporate interests, but also garnering over

40 relevant pages of Google entries about my work.

Worked in a training capacity, teaching employees to use

tools such as Ning, LinkedIn, Skype, virtual worlds, and

Google Documents for business applications.

VIRTUAL REALITY CONSULTANT, COMMUNITY MANAGER, AND EVENTS

PLANNER

. Worked to ensure that communities in Second Life are

able to reach out to their target demographics in order

to bring great minds together for the best possible

results. Largest partner is currently my voluntary work

for Nokia Corporation - host events to promote Nokia in

virtual reality, and am in charge of setting up virtual

meetings and social media promotion. Host of Nokia's

Virtual Business Panels and the Nokia Connecting Worlds

series. Host of Nokia's virtual world recruitment fairs.

Host the popular live science comedy TV show "The Second

Question", work as correspondent and segment host for

the popular broadcast "Metanomics", and act as host of

the Virtual Business Education panels held monthly, help

organize trade shows and events such as vBusiness Expo

and American Cancer Society Relay for Life. A massive

list of social contacts allows me to accomplish the

impossible and strong friendships with experts in many

diverse fields make it possible to both save a lot of

money for an employer through understandings of mutual

assistance and leveraging of my status in the Second

Life community.

. Familiar with other virtual worlds, and spend a great

deal of time in worlds such as Entropia, Eve, dGig, Age

of Conan, Lord of the Rings Online, World of Warcraft,

Ultima Online, and the open sim worlds, and am able to

pick up new world environments quickly. Prolific online

gamer.

2007

To 2008 Contractor/Various clients

Second Life and Social Media development firms

. As lead project manager, organized the processes of

getting simulators built to client specifications,

maintained quality control, and kept employees happy and

motivated. Worked as a visionary, able to come up with

creative solutions, and had an eye for innovative and

different techniques of accomplishing goals in more

efficient manners than industry-standard. Worked as the

public representative of the company, and kept regular

office hours, staying actively involved with the

developer community.

. Organize, set goals, maintain quality control, keep

employees motivated, provide project status updates,

work with other project managers to assure timing of

mission-critical deadlines

. Worked as public liaison of the companies I contract

with, representative at trade shows, international

travel, cost-assessments of projects

. Plan events, increase company presence, work with

advertisers, help manage business affairs

2006 Purple Stripe, LLC

To 2007 CONTRACTOR

. Second Life development firm

. Sales and marketing, advertising, building

. Project management, worked with teams on such projects

as "The Reincarnationist", and an undisclosed shipyard's

virtual facilities

2004 Rayco Supply

To 2006 NETWORK TECHNICIAN

2002 Mobile County Public School System

To 2004

NETWORK TECHNICIAN 2002 To 2003

NETWORK ADMINISTRATOR 2003 To 2004

EDUCATION

& TRAINING

2009

. Currently working on PMP certification, PMI member.

2005

To 2008

. Work as trainer for new SL entrepreneurs

2003

. Leviton-Bose certified installer

2001

. MCSE training

2000

. Dale Carnegie training for charisma and personality

development.

2000 University of Alabama

. Bachelors of Arts

. Received full scholarship

1997

. Student ambassador to Ichihara, Japan for sister cities'

exchange

AWARDS

& HONORS

. Imagina 2009 Intraverse 2nd place to Nokia corporation

(Prestigious Community management and simulator design

awards in Monaco)

. Innovirtua Award, FLCC 2006-2009

. Best track - SLCC 2009 San Francisco

References

Glenn Fisher (Glenn Linden) -Director of Business Development -

Linden Research

Glenn Fisher

Linden Lab

Director of Business Programs

http://secondlifegrid.net/

+1-650-***-**** (cell)

+1-415-***-**** (direct)

+1-415-***-**** x 7319 (Linden Lab main number)

fishglenn (AIM/YIM/Skype)

SL: Glenn Linden

*He worked with me planning Second Life Community Convention (major social

media trade show I helped run), knows extensively of my work with Nokia

corporation, and knows of my 100,000+ follower fan base for my social media

work and online television shows.

Active voluntary position Tim Gorree - Lead IT Systems

Architect - NOKIA Corporation

abm7zi@r.postjobfree.com

+358*********

Espoo, Finland

*Director of NOKIA Corporation's virtual worlds and social media presence.

Sponsor of NOKIA Connecting Worlds series, owner of Nokiaears.ning.com

Previous "Day job Jerry Long - Network Administrator - Mobile

County Public School System

abm7zi@r.postjobfree.com

251-***-****

*Hiring/on-boarding manager, supervisor when I worked here as a network

technician.

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