User:DHillMSP
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David W. Hill is a 34-year old native of Radcliff, Kentucky. He currently lives in Hopkins, Minnesota.
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Educational Background
After having graduated as Valedictorian and President of the Senior Class at North Hardin High School, David attended Southwest Missouri State University (known now as Missouri State University-Springfield) on a full-ride Presidential Scholarship. He graduated from SMSU in 1996 with a Bachelors of Science degree in political science and public administration magna cum laude in the Honors College.
David subsequently attended the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities where he completed 16 hours of graduate work in economics, statistics and public finance. He was forced to leave the Humphrey Institute in 1998 owing to extreme stress resulting from the death of his partner in 1995.
Professional Background
Best Buy Co., Inc.
David has been an employee of Best Buy Co., Inc. since 2001. He was hired as an Administrative Assistant for the Real Estate Department of the recently-acquired Musicland Division. He remained in that position until Best Buy sold Musicland to a private equity firm in 2003.
After overseeing the transfer of Musicland's real estate portfolio, David transferred to become a Business Systems Analyst, first for the company's Display Management department and eventually for its GNFR (goods not for resale) Systems team. He currently oversees the operations of a website responsible for most project management of fixture and electronics deployment projects for the company and spending about one-quarter of its annual capital expenditures, currently totaling nearly a quarter-billion U.S. dollars. He is also overseeing development of a next-generation website to replace the one currently in service.
David is also the sole remaining co-founder of Best Buy PRIDE, the GLBT employee group at Best Buy. Started prior to formal recognition by the company in late 2002, the group at the corporate headquarters has grown into a major regional sponsor of GLBT causes in the six years it has been in existence. It has also spawned a number of similar, company-supported organizations within Best Buy's field operations across the United States.
Nonprofit/GLBT Community Involvement
David has also been extremely active in the GLBT community. He helped re-found the SMSU Gay and Lesbian Alliance in 1993, shortly after coming out of the closet. He served that organization for three years as its Treasurer.
David has held two positions on the board of Twin Cities Pride - Fund Development Director between 1998 and 1999 and as Vice President of Administration from 1999 until 2008. While in this role, a world-class IT infrastructure has been developed and the organization's budget and attendance at its events has nearly doubled. David assumed the Chairmanship of the organization's Board of Directors in August 2008, where he is overseeing its transition from an all-volunteer "working board" to one that has a volunteer policy board and a combination of paid and volunteer staff to handle day-to-day operations.
David also serves as a Vice President of Operations for InterPride, the international association of LGBT Pride organizers, where he is responsible for overseeing both the organization's methods and standards, as well as operations in the north-central United States, British Isles, Australasia, South America and southeast Asia. He has served in InterPride since 1999, when he became the organization's Parliamentarian. He has served as a Vice President of Operations since 2004 and will be retiring from this position and the InterPride Board at the organization's Annual General Meeting in October 2008, owing to his local commitments.
All Things Trek
David has been a fan of Star Trek for as long as he can remember. He has the entirety of TNG on VHS tape (taped mostly from the syndicated satellite feeds) and DS9 on DVD. He also played the FASA RPG developed in the 1980's, continuing playing it well into his collegiate years. He still has an intact collection of those RPG books.
David auditioned for and won the role of "Starfleet One Communications Officer" in the upcoming production Operation Beta Shield.
David is currently in the beginning phases of developing his own Star Trek fanfilm production, as yet untitled, which he is hoping to get off the ground in the next year.
Skills/Resources
David is experienced with and has access to most of the following software:
- Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, Visio and Project)
- Adobe InDesign v2, CS2 and CS3
- Adobe Illustrator CS2 and CS3
- Adobe Photoshop CS2 and CS3
- FileMaker Pro
- iWork (Pages, Numbers and Keynote)
- Final Cut Pro
He is also in the beginning stages of teaching himself LightWave 9.2.
