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Ed Dudkowski is an experienced pioneer of commercial, public television and video production systems, with over 38 years in several disciplines including video system design, development and engineering, non-fiction programming research and development, broadcast journalism, concept, producing, writing, directing, camera, editing, production management and packaging for market.

Ed Dudkowski, Inventor

His specialty is in the area of information (non-fiction) video production systems development, services and how-to training and development. His background includes extensive personal computer industry interface from the early days of the Apple II and PC to the present non-linear, digital post-production video workstations and internet "webcasting".

He has accurately forecast several major electronic communications trends and changes throughout his career. He was a self-taught electronics experimenter since he was 7 years old and an amateur radio operator (KN1RRZ) in high school.

Historically, he is credited with creating the first commercial "mini-cam" broadcast quality video production system in the United States, which included development of early inter format video editing systems and techniques.

Ed developed early home video "how-to" programming which won numerous national awards. When IBM introduced the first personal computer, the IBM PC, Ed was sole-sourced to create two major video training program series for IBM to teach educators how to use the PC in education.

Ed and a partner operated a Northern California broadcast quality video production and post-production facility for 16 years which had one of the first interformat microprocessor based video edit suites in the US until it closed in 1992. Dudkowski has been a free-lance producer, director, writer videographer/editor since then. In the mid 90s, he developed and directed a new how-to program pilot and 26-week program series which was enthusiastically accepted by more than 225 PBS affiliated stations nationwide called Sewing Today for the Vogue-Butterick Company.

His list of clients includes IBM Corporation, Apple Computers, Intel Corporation, 3M Company, Lifetime Cable, Safeway Stores Corporation, Valu-Rite Pharmacies, ScienceBased Health, Chronicle Videocassettes, Sunset Books, Harper and Row, Lockheed Missiles and Space, and McDougal-Littel Publishing (college textbooks). He has earned numerous national industry awards and credits for program design and production; and development of state-of-the-art video equipment and production methods and techniques, several of which have become industry standards.

As director of television programs, commercials and public service announcements he has directed celebrities as diverse as Jack Lemmon, Eddie Albert, Tommy Smothers, Leslie Neilson, Julia Child, Arnold Palmer, Peter Norton, Bill Blass, Paul Anka, Nancy Fleming, Jim Lange, Merle Ellis and others.

As an outdoor recreation videographer, he has delivered tourism promotion videos for the Siskiyou (Mt. Shasta) Economic Development Council, The City of Redding (CA), Lasson County (CA), Dance Country (McCloud, CA), Trees of Mystery (Klamath, CA), Lake Shasta Houseboats, the Yreka-Western Railroad and the McCloud Railway Company. He has shot and directed in Barcelona, Florence, Paris and Zurich among other places. His skills include extensive experience with food and retail product table-top advertising agency broadcast shooting and directing.

He has been a television news assignment editor, writer and producer at KRON-TV (NBC), KPIX-TV (CBS) and KTVU-TV (Fox). In college he worked extensively in the public TV arena with KVCR-TV24 in San Bernardino, CA. Ed is a long-time resident of Northern California and an avid and enthusiastic fly fisherman, skier, cook and traveler. He has a son and daughter. He has been an active Eagle Scout parent for 9 years and was Troop Parent Committee Chairman. He is now a member of the Marin (County, CA) Telecommunications Agency Steering Committee for Public Access and the Media Coordinator of the Spiritual Enrichment Center of Marin.