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Bob Kiger
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900 N. Cleveland St. #153
Oceanside, CA 92054
(760) 966-5081
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email: bob@cruiserbob.com
home pages: http://cruiserbob.com
Objective:
Using my talents to improve the human condition.
Work Experience:
2001 - Present - Videography Lab
- independent research into life in the "Age of Videography"
- develop camera systems and post production workflows
OCT 1999 - Present - Developing
eco-tourism along the Pacific Coast
- Traveled from Vancouver to Puerta Vallarta
extensively through Baja
- Handpicked sites suitable for bicycle
adventures
- Fully restored a vintage 1966 Airstream Safari
trailer, learning electrical, plumbing, LP gas, aluminum finishing and
woodworking.
- Editing autobiography entitled "Down That
Long Lonesome Highway"
- Finishing 150 page coffee table book/ebook
entitled "Tour da'Maui"
JAN 1999 - OCT 99 - Independent Bicycle
Advocate
Researcher and Writer
- Worked under the direction of San Diego
Superior Court
- Developed report to revitalize "hike &
bike" camping along Pacific Coast Bike Route which is currently
under review by the California State Parks Dept.
DEC 1997 - May 2002 - Cruiser Bob's
Oceanside BikePackers
Proprietor & Tour Designer
- Design of facilitated bicycle tours that
emphasize coordination with public transit
- "BikePacker Bootcamp" workshops on
bicycle camping and "survival" techniques
- Design and production of "Tour
d' Oceanside" program for Oceanside, California.
Final details of the tour are now under construction.
SEP 1996 - NOV 1997 Manufacturer's
Marketing Representative
Outside Sales & Marketing
- Representing Andiamo Sport, Ortlieb
Adventure Gear, Old Man Mountain Racks, BOB Trailers, Nice Lites, Laser
Lights, Mimbres Man Cycle Attire, LockPump2 Proway Cycle USA
& other products for bicycle commuting and touring
- Territory from San Luis Obispo to the Mexican
Border entirely by bicycle & Amtrak.
1982-1996 Cruiser Bob's Downhill Maui,
Hawaii
Founding President
- Created and actualized the world's first
downhill bicycle adventure.
- Marketed the company globally using proprietary
bicycle helmet-camera.
- Designed and produced print logos, ads and all
collateral materials
- Built annual sales to $2.5 million per year.
- The Maui bicycle industry is now a $10 million
per year industry
1972-1982 The Videography Studios Los
Angeles, CA
Founding President / Producer / Director
- Defined the word "videography". (Oct. 1972 - American Cinematographer
Magazine)
- Built the "original" Videography
Studios, film production technique / electronic technology.
- Produced over 2500 regional and national TV
spots and shows.
- Specialist in Ultimatte blue screen
effects. Winner of 11 Monitor awards.
- Videography has grown to a multi billion dollar
per year industry in its 35 year existence
1970-1972 Freelance TV & Film
Production LA, CA
Associate Director / Editor / Writer
Encyclopedia Britannica Films, The
Haboush Company, KCOP-TV, Sutherland Learning Associates, Universal
Commercial Industrial Films, & Wakeford-Orloff.
Education:
1967-1970 Rochester Institute. of
Technology New York
- BS, Professional Photography with minor in
Business Administration.
- Graduated Cum Laude.
- Editor & General Manager of RIT Reporter
(college magazine).
Lecturing:
- 1972-present Videography Seminars for: SONY
Institute, UCLA, USC, Brooks Inst. of Photography, Maui Community
College, Televisa (Mexican TV Net) and Hollywood IATSE craft
union personnel.
- 1994 Bicycling & eco-tourism at 2nd
World Congress on Tourism & Sustainability. Montreal. Quebec,
Canada
- Currently offering mobile presentations at
California colleges on EXCITING CAREERS IN VIDEOGRAPHY
Memberships:
- Wally Byam Caravan Club International
- Directors Guild of America
- National Assoc. of Broadcasters (peripherally)
- Hawaii Visitors Bureau
- League of American Wheelmen (Bicyclists)
Interests:
- Computer graphics, logo and web page design,
photography, camping, cooking, puppeteering, writing & adventure
bicycling. Traveled twice around the world by bicycle / air / sea since
1990, visiting 32 countries, pedaling over 25,000 miles.
Significant Production Credits:
- 1973-1974 Associate
Producer and Assistant Director Under the Law a Phillip
Abbot Production for the US Justice Department.
- 1974-1975 Designed Quad split editing system
first used on ABC's Barney Miller Show and edited the
first season of the series.
- 1978-1980 Produced the award winning "Duke
of Cheddar" commercial series featuring Jonathon Winters
for Freeto-Lay.
- 1979 Produced and directed 30 minute
documentary on Kemp-Roth tax bill for Republican
National Committee. The bill was enacted into law.
- 1979-1982 Produced, videographed and directed
the award winning Food series for Safeway Supermarkets.
- 1981 Produced The Great American Beer
Test series for Schlitz beer telecast live from New
Orleans in the 1981 Super Bowl.
- 1979-1982 Produced (& Directed some of)
entire Sanyo "That's Life" commercial series
featuring Susan Anton.
- 1980 Produced & Directed 60 second TV
commercials featuring Ronald Reagan and Gerald Ford for Republican
National Committee. (NOTE: Bob Kiger has no political affiliation
and was hired for his directing abilities only!)
- 1980-1982 Produced Motown music videos
featuring Rick James and Marvin Gaye, that broke first
black artists onto MTV.
- 1984 Produced & Directed "Cycle To
The Sun", bike race and 30 minute TV music video show about the
"climb against time up the steepest highway on Earth" for KGMB-TV,
Hawaii.
- 1986-1995 Coordinated production with (and
appeared in) television feature coverage of CRUISER BOB'S HALEAKALA
DOWNHILL, Maui, HI, including: Turner Broadcasting's "Portrait
of America", ABC's "Good Morning America", MTV's
"The Real World", several segments for "Entertainment
Tonight", "The Regis & Kathy Lee Show", "PM
Magazine" and score of European and AustralAsian shows.
- 1984 Design consultant on Costa Rica Downhill
bicycle adventure.
- 1991-1996 Designed and lobbied for Maui's first
Greenway, resulting in $3.5 million in Federal funding through the
Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1992. (ISTEA)
- 1998 Designed "Tour d'
Oceanside" a multi-faceted bicycle campaign for the
City of Oceanside, CA
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