Daniel Parks has over 15 years of experience in education, social services, media production, and commercial installation. He holds a B.A. in Media Arts from the University of South Carolina and has managed residential facilities, counseled families in crisis, and taught life skills. His career also includes commercial furniture installation, catastrophe adjusting, writing, editing, and founding a charitable search-and-rescue organization serving homeless individuals and families in need. He has extensive skills in applications such as Microsoft Office, Adobe software, and digital media production.

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EDUCATION
2001 Cal State San Bernardino, CA
2002 University of South Carolina Columbia, SC
 B.A., Media Arts  Psychology Minor  Palmetto Fellow  Music Scholarship  Dean’s List  SC Star Scholarship  University
Scholar Academic Scholarship
WORK EXPERIENCE
2014-2016 House of Hope Orlando Orlando, FL
Overseer, Teacher, Counselor, House Manager
Managed a house of residents with addictions and trauma, taught life skills, and counseled families in crisis.
Taught teenaged students in a school setting, graded papers, assessed academic progress.
Facilitated non-profit donations and conducted weekly meetings with all staff to assess residents progress.
Maintained landscape and sprinkler systems, kept property up to fire and waste code, conducted campus repairs.
Certified in child restraint and CPR through Crisis Prevention Intervention.
2012-2014 Sustainable Solutions 35/Green Gen 35 Greer, SC
Commercial Installer
Duties included demolition, reconfiguration, space planning, commercial furniture building and installation, product delivery,
furniture evaluation, and furniture repair.
Duties also included warehouse management, receiving, shipping, palletizing, stocking, taking inventory, and driving.
2009-present Searchlight Greenville Greenville, SC
Founder, Co-Director
Co-director of a search-and-rescue style benevolence charity that focuses on helping homeless individuals, people recently released
from prison, families on the street, and impoverished neighborhoods.
Work includes collecting donations, aiding in addiction recovery, feeding and clothing the poor, connecting people with existing
resources, helping with job placement, transporting people to interviews, providing temporary housing for people in transition, and
creating and executing training classes for volunteers.
2008 JEL Adjusting Bradenton, FL
Catastrophic Adjuster
Photographed, scoped, and sketched damaged properties.
Built accurate repair estimates and valuations for residential properties that included labor, materials, and equipment at the
component level.
Activities included investigating initial damages, handling reinvestigations and supplemental claims.
2006-present Eastern Gate Media Greenville, SC
Writer, Editor, Producer
Designed original productions in digital formats. Included writing, scripting, mastering, editing, and duplication.
Prepared and edited manuscripts and books for publishing.
Projects included nonfiction works, novels, tests, layouts, and textbooks.
Worked with authors published through Winepress, Xlibris, JEL Pub.
SKILLS
Applications: Proficient in a variety of word processing, graphic design, adjusting, and digital media applications like Microsoft
Suite, Adobe Software, Xactimate, Inkscape. Experience in management, creating content and classes, media production,
commercial furniture installation, adjusting, counseling, shipping and receiving.