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DANA L. STAMOS
PUBLIC
RELATIONS/COMMUNICATIONS
Dana Stamos was born in
Hollywood, California on February 6, 1955. She attended the
University of Redlands graduating with a B.A. Degree in English,
and with minors in theater and religion. While attending
Redlands, Dana participated in a foreign studies program, living
in Salzburg, Austria. While there she studied European culture,
art history, and the governments of Europe. During her junior
year in college, she toured with an acting troop, traveling in
the United States and in Canada’s Newfoundland and the British
Maritimes.
After graduation, Dana became the
Awards Coordinator for R.I.M, a Hollywood company who produces
millions of dollars in public service television programming. As
R.I.M. Awards Coordinator, Dana coordinated and helped produce
the first R.I.M. Awards program shown on KABC Television. R.I.M.
awards are similar to the Emmy’s or the Oscar’s, awarding
quality media in television, motion pictures, art, music, and
literature.
Dana has worked in public
relations and as media coordinator for numerous organizations.
She has organized major press events for key political figures,
and has assisted in events coordinated by the White House Staff
Office.
Dana has three almost grown
children who were born in Santa Cruz, California. In Santa Cruz
Dana owned and operated the Santa Cruz Fitness Center. In 1986
she moved to Reno, Nevada. She now resides in the beautiful
Carson Valley . For more about the Carson Valley, visit Dana's
web site
Carson Valley Online.
Dana has been the Area Director
for Washoe County Special Olympics. She coordinated hundreds of
athletes and coaches in 15 different sports and organized
numerous local and state games. She was the Executive Director
for the Reno Executive Club, planning events for hundreds of
Reno’s top executives. She has also been President of the Sierra
Nevada Chapter of the ASSOCIATION OF COREL ARTIST & DESIGNERS
and is a member of the local Craftman’s Club.
Dana owns and operates Visual
Impressions a graphic design, digital imaging and web design
company. She is a CORELDRAW! instructor and in the past she was
part of COREL Corporation’s beta team. Her clients include
national companies like RMX, for whom she has produced
everything from business cards through full color brochures,
trade show booth graphics, web sites and building signs. She has
produced menu’s and table tents for numerous restaurants and ads
for companies like Enterprise Rent A Car, Red Robin and Crystal
Springs Water Company. Dana has enjoyed designing and producing
projects such as the Beat the Heat Contest for Mc Donald’s and
KREN Television and she has designed everything from back stage
passes for musicians like Dru Hill and for Budweiser, Coors and
Planet Hollywood. She has even designed music CD’s.
Dana is experienced with working
with service bureaus and all types of printers. She has prepared
files and run film from different film imaging devices such as
Linotronics both as PC and Mac files and produced files for
embossing dies, foiling dies and die cutting dies for all types
of projects including video boxes and cardboard mailers for the
very new idrom’s.
Dana has created web sites for
the law firm of Brooke & Shaw, for Patty Sheehan’s Par 3 Golf
Company, for RMX, and a site for digital artist Jim Van Schaack,
who draws beautiful digital pictures of many of America's most
famous haunts. She has also designed and maintains many web
sites relating to the martial arts, a few of those are:
USADOJO.COM,
Goju-Shorei
Systems,
A.T.A.M.A. and
Classical Dimension.
Dana has worked with computers
for many years and has taught both MAC and PC based systems to
people of all ages. She took a year off from her business and
set up a computer lab for the teachers and students at Brown
Elementary School as her way of contributing to education in
Nevada.
Dana is a 5th Degree Green Belt
in Tang Soo Do Karate. She has studied Danzan Ryu JuJitsu and
Goju-Shorei Karate and Goju-Shorei Weapons with Master Dave McNeill.
She is also studying Isshin-Ryu Karate and Kyusho-Jitsu with
Master Glenn Ristine and she is part of Kyusho-Jitsu Kenkyukai. She is on the National Board of
A.T.A.M.A. (American Teachers Association of the Martial Arts)
and Design and Martial Arts are her passions. Dana feels very
blessed to have found success doing the things she loves to do
and her earnest desire is to continue to grow both as an
individual and as a designer.
dstamos@atama.us
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