Emily Siefken
5154 N. ClARK
APT # 306
Chicago, Il 60640
emberzee@yahoo.com
http://www.emilysiefken.com
CURRENT POSITION
Graduate StudentChicago
The School of the Art Institute of
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, evaporatorcondenser 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:
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Skilled engineer, shipboard communications/telephone systems,
propulsion plant operations.
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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.
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Electronics engineer, power distribution, AC/DC circuits, digital
systems, Radio Frequency.
Motor Controls
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All shipboard navigation, gyrocompass, dead reckoning systems,
aircraft navigation platforms.
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Manpower, resource manager, Quality Assurance equipment testerlowest discrepancy rates 1999.
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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.
2007Teaching 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
2007
VOID GARDENfresh Gallery Exhibited Assume The Watch
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