Daniel Alan Miller

Hello World,

I work at the Ethnic Cultural Center of the University of Washington as their Information Coordinator, I make sure that everything and everyone is working smarter, faster, better with the use of technology. Web design and social media included. Using Wordpress, Mailchimp, Picnik, and other modern web applications, I strive to push the ECC team to be trendsetter in terms of technology on the UW campus.

From June 2008 to May 2009 I lived and studied abroad in Egypt, France, and Canada and had many great adventures in those amazing countries. I started in Egypt at the American University of Cairo for their Summer Intensive Arabic Program. I then studied French language and culture at the Universite de Nantes in France for the fall. And finally, studied from January to May at Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario where I was a part of a graduate program You can read more about my my travels here.

For the 2009 - 2010 school year I was the University of Washington Google Ambassador! It was an awesome journey going and speaking to many different people on campus on what they can do with Google Apps. The best part is seeing the instant level of efficiency and self confidence that people obtain equipped with these tools. Seeing self proclaimed "non techy" people evolve into Apps users with modern collaboration tools is an awesome experience.

I have finished my undergraduate degrees and now planning on applying to a couple technology related fields. Currently, I'm interested in pursuing a graduate degree in informatics, but also looking towards public affairs, hopefully someway I will be able to combine the two and work someday for the government, an NGO, or the United Nations! (or maybe Google?)

In the meantime however, I love reading Digg, Arstechnica, Lifehacker, ProseBeforeHos, Mashable, and many other blogs, not to mention articles and updates on ICTs, Civil Society, and technology.

If you would like to look at my CV, you may follow this link.

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Daniel Alan Miller
Web Build Lead at Nordstrom
Information Technology and Services | Greater Seattle Area, US

Summary

A student of the world. I found that the greatest education I ever received, in a true Rousseau fashion, was traveling and studying abroad when the world became my classroom. I was able to study abroad for an entire year in Egypt, France, and Canada, each allowing me to study and develop my academic repertoire in more ways that I had imagined.

I've had definitely a keen interest in technology and the Internet from a young age and has fueled my interest in reading and learning about many of the tools that it offers to us. I am always in the mindset of "what can this do for me?" and try to keep as many these tools on my palette at once.

I found that amongst many other things, I was drawn to learning languages and international studies during my undergraduate years at the University of Washington. I've taken elementary levels of Arabic and I am quite proficient in French, my capacities in either language benefited during my trips abroad.

Being financially independent throughout my undergraduate years required that I find a job, and I eventually found myself at the Ethnic Cultural Center. Here I was able to meet a diverse range of students, and use my father's lessons of customer service in the real world. Later when I became the Technology Coordinator, I would begin to leverage social media, web services, and most importantly begin using Google Apps. Integrating all these elements with our team, our work became more rapid, more efficient with our time, and delivered more valuable results.

In the future, I hope to continue using social media and my knowledge of the Internet to improve the organizations or businesses that would seek to hire me. Ideally, mixing my knowledge of foreign cultures and languages. In the future I hope to attend grad school and hope to study concurrently public affairs and information technology, or gain entrance into a Technology focused MBA program.
Specialties: Wordpress, and other CMSs, Social Media, usability, office suites, French language, web analytics and web programming, Master of Google Apps

Experience

  • Dec 2011 - Present
    Web Build Lead / Nordstrom
  • Sept 2011 - Present
    Creative Web Developer / Nordstrom
  • Aug 2010 - Present
    OMA&D ECC Information Coordinator / University of Washington
    Web Producer for all online content. Manage social media and marketing efforts of the ECC, including event programming and creating email campaigns. Most importantly, assisted other staff members with technical needs and information management.
  • May 2009 - Present
    Ethnic Cultural Center - Technology Coordinator / University of Washington
    I work at the Ethnic Cultural Center of the Office of Minority Affairs & Diversity as the Technology Coordinator. Updated and maintained the Ethnic Cultural Center website and Construction Project website, utilizing analytics data to maximize website potential. Created and maintained a web presence via social networks with great success, including writing status updates, blog posts, in coordination with videos.
  • Sept 2009 - Present
    Google Ambassador for the University of Washington / Google
    I evangelize Google and all their wonderful products to staff, faculty, and most importantly students!
  • Jan 2009 - Present
    Student Consultant / LASI World Skills
    Through the North American Mobility Exchange helped LASI World Skills improve their organizational model, giving consultation on possible revenue sources and organizational structure. NEWS & Publications
  • Mar 2007 - Present
    Student Resource Coordinator / Ethnic Cultural Center
    Oversaw operations throughout the building each evening, including building security and closing procedures. Helped student organizations operate in any capacity that they might need maximizing their potential as organizations.

Education

  • 2011 - 2012
    University of Washington, Professional Continuing Education
    Certificate in Python Programming
  • 2005 - 2010
    University of Washington
    Bachelors of Arts in French, International Studies
    Activities: Ethnic Cultural Center, Cultural Diversity Committee, HUBRATS
  • 2009 - 2009
    Carleton University
    Certificate in Public Affairs
    Activities: Masters of Public Administration Student Association, French Toast language learning social group.
  • 2008 - 2008
    American University of Cairo
    Certificate in Arabic Language
  • 2008 - 2008
    Institut de Recherche et de Formation en Français Langue Etrangère - Université de Nantes
    IRFFLE in French Language

Additional Information

Websites:
Personal Website, Google Profile, My CV
Honors:
North American Trilateral Mobility Exchange Recipient Equal Opportunity Program Endowed Scholar Award Equal Opportunity Program Scholarship National SMART Grant Recipient Husky Pride Student
Interests:
Technology, Web Design, Non-profits, Open Source, Development, Supplemental Democracy strategies,
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Posts

April 19, 12:35 AM
How to hook up TVersity to a Google TV

Last night I was hunched over my teeny HP 2604ca tablet watching a movie when my girlfriend suggested that I should just transfer the movie file i had to her HP laptop and then hook it up via HDMI to her 40" Sony Google TV.


No. I thought. That would be way too complicated not too mention too much effort. 

Knowing that Google must have implemented some awesomeness in their TV platform (although a bit slow for my likes) I quickly googled and came across TVersity. This amazing application which has a worthy free version automatically will share and stream your media to other devices on your network. Although their website is painful to look at with small illegible text - you can go straight to the download page here and find the the list of features here as of version 1.9.3. 


Play Internet audio, image and video streams and RSS/RDF/ATOM/OPML feeds and podcasts on your TV, Stereo and other connected devicesThe media server streams media from the Internet and delivers it to connected devices via HTTP, the only protocol supported by those devices
Play Premium Internet content on your TVA full list of supported sites is available hereThe only truly universal media server (including support for the Apple iPhone, Sony PSP, the Sony PS3, the Xbox 360, the Nintendo Wii, The Nokia 770/N800 and many more devices)Use the same server for home and mobile networked devices (with multimedia capabilities) whether they support UPnP AV / DLNA or just have a web browser or an RSS/Podcast Reader
Enter your own Internet URLs or select from the bundled Audio and Video GuidesThe media server is bundled with hundreds of TV stations from all over the world and thousands of radio stations
Play your ENTIRE media collection on your connected devicesFinally almost any content that plays in Windows Media Player can be played on any of the supported devices disregarding their codec limitations
Automatic Real-time Seamless TranscodingLet the Media Server automatically detect when a given media needs to be transcoded for playback on your media player
Very fast browsing of your media library with unprecedented speed for huge libraries (up to 100,000 items and more)The Media Server has a very short response time, allowing faster browsing of your media library
Advanced searching and smart playlistsThe Media Server supports keyword searching as well as advanced search experssions and allows search results to be saved as playlists
Easy to use Graphical User InterfaceControl the media server locally or remotely by running the GUI as a web application (both MSIE and Firefox are supported)
Support multiple devices simultaneouslyConnect every room with a TV and other connected devices you own to the same media server
Share media with friends and family via RSSSynchronize your media library with remote installaions of TVersity or with remote Podcast managers like iTunes
Support for all leading tagging formats and then someID3v1, ID3v2, Ogg Vorbis comments in Ogg, FLAC, and MPC/Ape, iTunes AAC tags, MPEG4 tags, ASF tags (WMA, WMV, DVR-MS)
Intuitive NavigationFinally a media server that organizes your media properly, maintaining the order of songs, supporting extensive navigation criteria and doing it all very fast
Manage cache of transcoded mediaNo need to transcode the same media twice
Pause Live Internet feeds just like with TivoWatching live Internet TV and listening to live radio stations have never been so much fun
Runs as a serviceYou no longer need to log on to your computer for the media server to start
Works well on slow system while providing real benefits on faster onesTranscode Internet videos (300 kbps) on very slow systems and downsample high definition videos to standard definition on fast ones
Raw digital camera image supportcrw, cr2, nef, nrw, mrw, orf, raf, dng, erf, x3f, dcr arw, raw, kdc


Installing TVersity took maybe 60 seconds and although it notified me that I needed to restart before the service would work, I was able to open it immediately after installing and tell it to scan my folder of media files for it to add to the library. 



On the home screen of the Google TV simply select Media Player and then there is an option to stream from network or a computer where it will automatically detect DLNA enabled devices on your home network. Underneath your computer name it will say TVersity Server which you can click and then navigate through your media library. Upon finding what you want to watch it will be automatically streamed at the best quality per TVersity's default settings and video control can all be done conveniently from the Google TV remote.

Spare the hassle of cables and other nonsense to watch what you want on your TV. Just tell TVersity to scan your media folder and get to watching what you want.

via Google TV | via TVersity

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