About – Dream Create Communicate – Web Site Deisgn, Video Editing, Audio Engineering

Peter van Gorder web development video production

Peter van Gorder is creative software engineer with 22 years of web development experience and 26 years of audio and video production experience – always looking for a new challenge.

Peter attained his CIS degree (Computer Information Science) from Sonoma State University, CA. His first job was to make educational games for kids at Broderbun Inc. (KidPix, Where In The World Is Carmen Sandiego?, Print Shop Deluxe, Dr. Seuss Alphabet, Mist, Riven…)

He later moved on to do work in:

Web Design, Development, and Maintenance
Videography, Video Editing & Production,
Audio engineering, Foley (sound work and design for movies), Mixing and Mastering both Movies and Music.

Dream Create Communicate - Strategic Media

Sole Proprietor
dream-create-communicate.com
Strategic Media
1995–Present

Created and managed over 105 websites with duties ranging from planning, development, deployment, and
management.
Brand Identity – Managing and maintaining brand identity and consistency across all
client’s digital and print media of logos, colors, fonts, business cards, websites, emails,
and sign-up forms.

4 years of video work for Community-Matters.org making news compilations for investors, promotional videos for their annual fundraisers.
8 training videos for middle-school and high-school “Ambassadors” in the Safe School Ambassadors® program.
8 educational CDs – including development of the script for the educational content, all audio engineering, and mastering for Kim Atkinson of Pulsewave.com.
25 Teacher-Student Highlight videos for the The Dance Center (of Santa Rosa, CA), collaborating with the studio director, 4 teachers, and 140
students.
151 video backdrops created for the The Dance Center’s annual show.
PSA titled “One Cup”: Ideated, storyboarded, directed, edited, and produced a local PSA
encouraging people to bring & re-use their coffee cups to help eliminate trash.

Associate FIeld Producer, Okemo Valley TV

Producer
Okemo Valley TV
2023–Present

Camera operation
Editing & post production
Remote & on-site governmental meeting coverage
Strategic development
Studio & facilities improvements

Software Consultant & Engineer

ProTransport Cotati, CA
2015–2019

Consultant to ProTransport’s 1.2 million dollar software purchasing and implementation decisions related to the
logistics of running all ambulances and crews across 4 dispatch centers and 16
stations.
Created NewsToTheCrews, an internal news channel, displaying a rotation of news &
updates to all employees, synchronized across 16 ambulance stations.
Created websites for their 4 consolidated ambulance companies across California,
Illinois, and Florida: protransport-1.com, prnambulance.com, centuryambulance.com,
covalent-health.com

Chess Instructor, Website Developer & Manager

Chess Club For Kids, Rohnert Park CA
2012–Present

Advised and then implemented the transition full eCommerce system, replacing their “checks and
envelopes” business into an online payment and registration system.
Worked as a lead instructor with a team of 26 teachers running chess classes in 51
schools with 2 county tournaments each year.

Server-Side Website Engineer

Hall Kinion, Sausalito, CA
2001–2002

Database Website development using the ColdFusion programming language
Developed “Data2Go” into a chat, pager, and cell phone tool using Tcl (before
smartphones came out, so don’t judge 😉

icPlanet Inc., San Rafael, CA
1999–2000

Created “Data2Go” – Patent issued: US-20070150804-A1
Wrote ColdFusion code for all webpages related to Data2Go.
Created auxiliary tools to amalgamate data from various external websites in order to
predict industry & hiring trends (using Perl and FLASH).

System Tools and Gaming Software Engineer

Brøderbund Software, Novato CA
1993–1999

Created Rugrats online game as movie teaser – released just before the Nickelodeon Rugrats movie
Worked on various teams creating Carmen Sandiego Math Detective, Dr. Seuss
Kindergarten, and Dr. Seuss 1st Grade Deluxe – all are “early learning” software titles.
Worked in the Systems Tools depart developing company wide tools for the other software engineers, the sound department, and the graphics department. All assets and media were processed via our tools to generate cross-platform media object files.

Audio Engineer & Studio Musician

Owner/Operator of GrooveFarm Productions
Audio Engineering & Studio Musician for the following artists
1987 – 2006