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Our President
Derrick Freeman, Instructor, Video Streaming and Compression Consultant
Derrick Freeman earned a Bachelor's Degree in Communication from DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana. He started his career at WHIO TV as an Editor and Technical Director for the cable news operation. Derrick has 11 years of experience in video production, 9 years of videography experience and 8 years of experience as a non-linear editor. He has been compressing video for 8 years and has spent the last 7 years researching streaming media. Derrick was an instructor in the Design Department at Sinclair Community College in Dayton, Ohio for 5 years. He taught Computer Basics for Mac, Digital Video and a Interactive Digital Theory.
Derrick managed the website for the City of Dayton Television Network's Video Streaming Channels for 4 years. Their streaming channels were featured in Sorenson Media's on-line video showcase. In addition to Derrick's consulting and training work at Freeman Compression Inc., he manages the Streaming and Compression Training Division for GeniusDV. Outside of his teaching and consulting duties Derrick has been a speaker for the WEVA Expo and NAB Show discussing video streaming and compression and writes tutorials for "Studio Monthly" magazine and GeniusDV.com.
He works with video compression and streaming tools such as: Episode, Sorenson Squeeze Compression Suite, Flip4Mac, Wirecast, QuickTime Pro, Dreamweaver, QuickTime Streaming Server, Wowza Media Server, Windows Media Streaming Server, MPEG Streamclip, and Sawmill Professional. Derrick is a Certified Sawmill Trainer. He has also been a beta tester for Sorenson Media and Telestream's Flip4Mac compression tools.
Derrick has provided video streaming and compression training to the following colleges and universities: Valencia Community College, Wichita State University, Ohio State University, William Woods University, Southeastern Oklahoma State University, University of Vermont, St. Philip's College, Sinclair Community College, Queens Mary College in the United Kingdom, Georgia College & State University, Wright State University, Emory University, University of Central Florida.
In addition to Derrick's work in Video Streaming and Compression, he was a member of the Visual Communications' Advisory Committee at Sinclair Community College in Dayton, Ohio. He served as a member of the Digital Design Advisory Committee for Miami Valley Career Technology Center in Clayton, Ohio and was part of the Ohio Valley Chapter of Media Communications Assoc. Intl. (formerly ITVA).
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