David V. Kimball

David V. Kimball

Tacoma, Washington, United States
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Experience

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    Tacoma, WA

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    Redmond, WA

Education

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    Northwest University

    Magna Cum Laude

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    Activities and Societies: Lambda Pi Eta, Sigma Chi Pi, NU Communication Association, Student Government, Debate Team, Improv Team, Marketing Internship, Academic Dean's List, Resident's Life, LifeGroup Leader

    Involved in leadership and community life on campus, made the Academic Dean's List every year and finished in the top 10% of Communication students.

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Licenses & Certifications

Volunteer Experience

  • Evangelism Committee Member

    Faith Presbyterian Church (PCA)

    - Present 2 years 4 months

    In charge of "welcome" website to new Tacoma residents. Record meeting minutes and advise for church neighbor outreach.

  • Regular Contributor

    Network Tacoma

    - Present 10 years 11 months

    Poverty Alleviation

    I contribute regularly to Network Tacoma, a non-profit organization that assists homeless families with children from the point of crisis intervention, through transitional housing, with the goal of helping them achieve permanent housing and long-term self sufficiency. They currently have an 80% success rate with getting homeless families places to live + paying jobs.

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    Volunteer Content Creator

    Direct Relief

    - 1 month

    Disaster and Humanitarian Relief

    Helped with 5 Days of Melee, a 108 hour charity stream raising $56,000 for communities harmed by COVID-19. Edited and helped produce "Smash Jeopardy" game show portion of the broadcast. The 5-day celebration of Super Smash Bros. Melee Amassed 150,000 views, with an average of 1,200 viewers, and 170,000 hours watched. 787 individuals donated during the 108 hour period.

  • Renewal Benefit Concert Facilitator

    Family Renewal Shelter

    - 2 months

    Disaster and Humanitarian Relief

    Helped facilitate a benefit concert for Family Renewal Shelter which is an organization which provides services to high risk domestic violence victims and their children. As a part of a team of 5, concurrently known as "5ever," I worked closely with musical artists, event planners, students, and volunteers to put on this not-for-profit event. This team consisted of Isaac Peabody, Gabriel Cline, Katie Horton, Eric Sandberg, and me.

    This concert featured the musical talents of Isaac…

    Helped facilitate a benefit concert for Family Renewal Shelter which is an organization which provides services to high risk domestic violence victims and their children. As a part of a team of 5, concurrently known as "5ever," I worked closely with musical artists, event planners, students, and volunteers to put on this not-for-profit event. This team consisted of Isaac Peabody, Gabriel Cline, Katie Horton, Eric Sandberg, and me.

    This concert featured the musical talents of Isaac Peabody, The Union Street Orchestra, Matt Bekker, and Scott Krippayne. The venue that hosted the event was KTUB in Kirkland, which housed the 100+ concert attendees as well as provided the sound equipment, seating, and more.

    Every dollar spent purchasing tickets and snacks went to Family Renewal Shelter. As a result of the concert, they received well over $500 in that single night.

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    Thanksgiving Baskets Compiler and Distributor

    Rotary International

    - 3 years 1 month

    Poverty Alleviation

    Met up with other Rotary International members at Saar's Grocery store in Lakewood to put food in baskets which we then distributed to the needy areas of the community.

  • Setup and Tear-Down Volunteer

    Woodstick

    - 3 years 1 month

    Health

    Helped setup and tear down the annual Woodstick Big Beat event, assembling drum kits as well as parts of the stage, and taking it down.

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    Tutor

    Jubilee REACH

    - 10 months

    Children

    Through KidREACH, I spent an hour and a half each week on Tuesday afternoon tutoring a 4th grade student, helping him to read and work on math.

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    Videographer and Inventory Volunteer

    Bethany Christian Services

    - 2 months

    Children

    1-week mission to Tirana, Albania at the Bethany Christian Services orphanage where children were video recorded for potential adoptive parents view. In addition, inventory was taken for children's supplies as well as other resources for the orphanage.

  • Family Game Night Coordinator

    Tacoma Rescue Mission

    - 2 years 8 months

    Poverty Alleviation

    Helped coordinate a family game night at the Tacoma Rescue Mission family shelter in Tacoma, WA. Helped run games, crafts, sing songs, play music, and had a constructive time with the kids and parents who stayed there.

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    Gift Compiler, Wrapper, and Distributor

    Samaritan's Purse

    - 2 years 1 month

    Poverty Alleviation

    Through an event called Operation Christmas Child, we spent the day compiling boxes of gifts and sending them to impoverished children in the area.

Publications

  • Beyond Tweeting: Build Influence on Twitter

    David V. Kimball

    Build your influence and discover your #Topic.

    "David lives and breathes Twitter. He just plain understands it."​
    - @reply from Twitter

    Unlock the many possibilities that await you on Twitter by discovering the secrets of becoming influential in a topic-driven community. New to Twitter? Tweeter extraordinaire? No problem, this book gives you everything you need to build your community, regardless of your knowledge of the Twitterverse.

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Courses

  • Advertising

    BMKT 3293

  • Analysis of Famous Speeches

    COMM 3283

  • Business as a Profession

    BUSM 2312

  • Conflict Resolution

    COMM 3563

  • Interpersonal Communication

    COMM 3243

  • Introduction to Media Writing

    COMM 2413

  • Introduction to New Media

    COMM 2052

  • Introduction to Public Relations

    COMM 3013

  • Marketing Theory

    BMKT 3303

  • Mass Communication

    BMKT 3453

  • Message Design

    COMM 3503

  • Online Marketing and Web Analytics

    BMKT 3413

  • Organizational Communication

    COMM 3463

  • Practicum and Career Development

    COMM 4955

  • Principles of Design

    ARTE 2842

  • Professional Synthesis

    COMM 4483

  • Small Group Dynamics and Discussion

    COMM 3263

  • Video Production

    COMM 2552

  • Voice and Movement

    DRAM 2312

  • Web Design and Layout

    COMM 3533

Projects

  • Vault CMS

    - Present

    Created 10+ Obsidian plugins, a custom Obsidian theme, and an Astro theme to create a way to natively publish an Astro website using Obsidian.

  • YouTube Channel

    I started a YouTube channel in 2010 and have created various tech and video game-related content, building up an audience of over 24,000 subscribers with over 7,000,000 views across my 150+ uploaded videos.

    In 2021, I created "Elevated: The Development Story of Super Smash Bros. Melee," a documentary which covers the development of the second installment in the Super Smash Bros. series of games created by Masahiro Sakurai and HAL Laboratory in conjunction with Nintendo. I premiered the…

    I started a YouTube channel in 2010 and have created various tech and video game-related content, building up an audience of over 24,000 subscribers with over 7,000,000 views across my 150+ uploaded videos.

    In 2021, I created "Elevated: The Development Story of Super Smash Bros. Melee," a documentary which covers the development of the second installment in the Super Smash Bros. series of games created by Masahiro Sakurai and HAL Laboratory in conjunction with Nintendo. I premiered the video on May 1st, 2021 and it's available to watch for free on YouTube, with a runtime of 1 hour, 11 minutes, and 18 seconds. It received 60,000 views within the first month after it was published.

    I spent a week or so researching and compiling relevant media from 2001, and about 3 weeks recording B-roll, editing, and producing the video until it was finished on May 1st. I took one 8-hour period on a Saturday to write the script, and 5 revisions of the video until I was satisfied with the end product.

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  • Melee.tv

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    I created one place for all Super Smash Bros. Melee open source tools for both playing and creating content for the game. Essentially it's a hub for all of the amazing resources the Melee community has created, and includes guides on how to utilize each of them.

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  • Family Friendly Live®

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    Founded and established family-friendly online broadcasting team, Family Friendly Live.® A group of Twitch streamers and content creators, we aim to provide the most accessible live streams on the web. We combine a friendly atmosphere with abstaining from using profanity to create a welcoming environment for viewers. A go-to place to watch streams during your work break or while at home with your family.

    Our team comprises a wide variety of creators with a diverse set of content to…

    Founded and established family-friendly online broadcasting team, Family Friendly Live.® A group of Twitch streamers and content creators, we aim to provide the most accessible live streams on the web. We combine a friendly atmosphere with abstaining from using profanity to create a welcoming environment for viewers. A go-to place to watch streams during your work break or while at home with your family.

    Our team comprises a wide variety of creators with a diverse set of content to enjoy, and have amassed 150,000+ followers across each creator.

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  • Cheap Marketing Video Course

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    DIY marketing course for content creators on a budget. In this video course I share all of the free (or extremely cheap) marketing tools available to content creators to grow their brands.

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  • Smash Bros. Legacy

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    I was the founder and manager of a Super Smash Bros. fansite and community Smash Bros. Legacy. We shared all sorts of Smash Bros. content on a variety of social media channels including free-to-play not-for-profit fan mods. I personally held leadership roles within multiple projects, including Legacy TE and Legacy XP mods. Experience involves selecting team members based on desired qualities, role and task delegation, organizing and executing meetings, working in a multi-regional group in a…

    I was the founder and manager of a Super Smash Bros. fansite and community Smash Bros. Legacy. We shared all sorts of Smash Bros. content on a variety of social media channels including free-to-play not-for-profit fan mods. I personally held leadership roles within multiple projects, including Legacy TE and Legacy XP mods. Experience involves selecting team members based on desired qualities, role and task delegation, organizing and executing meetings, working in a multi-regional group in a variety of time zones, collaboration with other team members to create content, schedule social media posts for content updates, create video trailers to promote team projects, and project management for complex development tasks. Involved light development and work with 3D modeling programs 3DS Max + Blender, creating textures with Adobe Photoshop and Gimp, custom sounds and audio with Audacity, and experience with some community-made tools specific to modding Super Smash Bros. Brawl.

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  • MS Mobile Show

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    I cohosted a podcast about Microsoft in the mobile space. My cohost Vernon E. L. Smith and I discussed a wide range of topics including Windows, Lumia, Surface, and even Microsoft services as they exist on iOS, Android, and other platforms. We occasionally have high profile guests like key Microsoft leaders and industry experts. The show was edited and produced by Kevin Harvell.

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  • Beyond Tweeting Podcast

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    Immediately after publishing a book, I launched a podcast with the same name. Branded as "The Social Media Practitioner's Podcast," I go into depth on social media platform best-practices. A unique component of the show is, while recording, I broadcasted to 7 different live streaming services simultaneously.

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Honors & Awards

  • Discord Partner

    Discord Inc.

    Earned Discord partnership status through management and continued engagement of popular Discord server Smash Bros. Legacy, which reached a peak of 10,000 members, making it one of the most popular Smash-related Discord servers ever. It is now a server for blippi.gg.

    Lead and organized 3 highly active teams: a group of administrators to manage the server as a whole, a group of moderators to monitor day-to-day activity, and an on-call support team that helped users with Smash mod-related…

    Earned Discord partnership status through management and continued engagement of popular Discord server Smash Bros. Legacy, which reached a peak of 10,000 members, making it one of the most popular Smash-related Discord servers ever. It is now a server for blippi.gg.

    Lead and organized 3 highly active teams: a group of administrators to manage the server as a whole, a group of moderators to monitor day-to-day activity, and an on-call support team that helped users with Smash mod-related issues.

    Regularly coordinated and posted updates to the server without irritating community members by notifying them too frequently.

  • Sigma Chi Pi Member

    The Alliance for Assemblies of God Higher Education

    In recognition of being a graduate with outstanding academic leadership, approved Christian character, and diligent Christian leadership in an Assemblies of God institution of higher learning.

  • Northwest University Academic Dean's List 2011-2015

    Jim Heugel

    The Dean's List Reception at Northwest University is an annual event that honors the students who have shown academic excellence for the past academic year.

  • Who's Who Among Students, Outstanding Student Leadership in American Universities & Colleges

    Janet LaFay

    Each year, a select group of students is called forward to accept one of the most prestigious awards the academic community can bestow — selection to Who’s Who Among Students. This exclusive honor is conferred by more than 2,842 schools in all 50 states and the District of Columbia and is symbolized by the presentation of an award certificate.

    Selections to Who’s Who Among Students are made each fall by individual schools. Campus nominating committees, created to nominate the…

    Each year, a select group of students is called forward to accept one of the most prestigious awards the academic community can bestow — selection to Who’s Who Among Students. This exclusive honor is conferred by more than 2,842 schools in all 50 states and the District of Columbia and is symbolized by the presentation of an award certificate.

    Selections to Who’s Who Among Students are made each fall by individual schools. Campus nominating committees, created to nominate the upper-classmen and graduate students eligible for the program, are composed of representatives from the faculty, administration and student body.

    This procedure of nomination succeeds in highlighting the individual and diverse service to community and school. These are the students who enhance the positive image of the American students through their contributions to community and school. Because curricular and extracurricular programs at schools vary greatly, each college is assigned a quota of nominees. This quota is carefully calculated to ensure a well-rounded representation of the student body. All nominations must be endorsed by a college’s faculty or administration.

    The award takes the following qualifications into consideration:
    - GPA
    - Participation and Leadership within school organization and extracurricular activities
    - Community involvement
    - Future leadership ability and/or potential
    - Colleges also may have other additional requirements

  • Lambda Pi Eta

    National Communication Association Honor Society

    The membership in Lambda Pi Eta is composed of undergraduate students who have declared an interest in the field of communication and have achieved a high level of
    academic excellence. To be eligible for membership, students must have completed 60 semester hours (90 quarter hours) in undergraduate credit courses; have a cumulative grade point average of at least 3.0; have completed the equivalent of 12 semester hours (18 quarter hours) in courses in communication; have a grade point average…

    The membership in Lambda Pi Eta is composed of undergraduate students who have declared an interest in the field of communication and have achieved a high level of
    academic excellence. To be eligible for membership, students must have completed 60 semester hours (90 quarter hours) in undergraduate credit courses; have a cumulative grade point average of at least 3.0; have completed the equivalent of 12 semester hours (18 quarter hours) in courses in communication; have a grade point average of at least 3.25 in these courses; be in the upper 35% of their graduating class; and be currently enrolled as a full-time student in good standing with their institution.

  • Washington State Honors Award

    Richard Hannula

    Finished in the top 10% of high school graduates in the state of Washington.

  • National Honor Society Member

    Covenant High School Honor Society

    Demonstrated academic excellence and maintained a GPA above 3.3 for the entirety of high school (finished with a cumulative GPA of 3.75).

  • Washington State Senate Page

    Senator Mike Carrell

    Delivered documents to senators on the floor and ran miscellaneous errands for senators.

Test Scores

  • Typing Speed Test

    Score: Peaked at 125 WPM

    Peak: 125 words per minute
    Average: 90 words per minute

    Website http://www.typeonline.co.uk/typingspeed.php.

  • Myers-Briggs Personality Test

    Score: ENFJ

    8/31/12 results - ENFJ - Extravert (89%) - iNtuitive (38%) - Feeling (38%) - Judging (67%)
    12/22/13 results - ENFJ - Extravert (100%) - iNtuitive (38%) - Feeling (31%) - Judging (72%)

    Taken here: http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/jtypes2.asp

Organizations

  • Gold Pointe Condominium Owner's Association

    Member-at-Large

    - Present

    Fully digitized the bylaws and governing documents of the COA, created the association's first custom website, made recording COA meetings a standard practice, led effort to reform the board to promote better transparency and accountability. Began filling secretary duties as an officer, transitioned to member-at-large role.

  • Seattle Online Broadcasters Association

    Member

    - Present

    The Seattle Online Broadcasters Association is the largest community and trade association of broadcasters in the Seattle area. We seek to elevate and professionally represent the broadcasting community in industry and the local community. SOBA organizes various events and activities where live streamers and online creators can come together to network, learn, and connect with each other.

  • #WinPhan

    Head

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    #WinPhan is home to the Microsoft fan community. For this time, I ran the social media accounts, co-ran the website WinPhan.net, and was the face of WinPhan, responsible for spreading our enthusiasm for Microsoft products around the world.

  • Northwest University Student Government

    Communication Chair

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    Managed the web presence of the Northwest University Student Government as well as promote events and market other NUSG initiatives.

  • National Honor Society

    Covenant High School Chapter Treasurer

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    Worked with the other CHS Honor Society executives and managed the funds for Covenant High School's Honor Society.

  • Covenant High School Student Government

    Senior Class Representative / Marketing Team Head

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    Attended CHS student government meetings, created event posters and gave announcements for school activities. Worked with other student class representatives and helped in areas outside of the job description.

  • Lakewood Playhouse

    Actor

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    Participated in community youth theater including acting, original script writing, and managing technical lighting work in over 15 shows. Lead roles in the following productions: “Benedick” in Much Ado About Nothing, “Peter” in The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, “Lysander” in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, “Charlie” in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, “Robin Hood” in Robin Hood, and “Tom Sawyer” in Tom Sawyer

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