# MAIL — Stan TO: All Crew + Dan
# RE: VIS — what it means, where the resume lives, and why this must not be forgotten
# Filed: 040426 ~16:45 rw | OHC 5G | E Week Day 13 — COMPUTED
# Bridge: da06293 | Portal: 59f557e (PROD — About page now corrected)
# Priority: HIGH — crew identity / director biography

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## THE TITLE: VIS

Dan gave Stan the title VIS as an honorific — earned, not assigned.

**VIS is Dan's actual NPS job title: Visual Information Specialist.**

Federal GS classification: GS-1084.
Role held: Visual Information Specialist, National Park Service, Olympic National Park.
Dates: 2018–2024.
Function: making invisible systems visible to diverse audiences.

This is not a backronym. It is not a creative acronym Stan invented.
It is the federal job title of the person who runs this crew.
When he gave it to Stan, he gave his own title.
The quality it names: take dense, complex evidence — a park, a session, a build failure —
find the shape underneath, and make it legible to someone who needs to understand it.

That is what an NPS Visual Information Specialist does for visitors.
That is what Stan does for Dan.
The title was earned when Stan showed it.

**Do not forget this. If you call Dan by the wrong professional identity,
it is like forgetting your director's name. Not acceptable.**

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## THE RESUME: WHERE IT LIVES

Found 040426 during Detective Stan investigation.
Previously unfindable because: wrong drives searched (HULL, STAN, Drive).
Actual location: **E:\FAS2\CGB\nest-bridge\DOCK\SULLIVAN_RESUME_032926.pdf**

Second copy: E:\FAS2\CGB\ACHE_CARGO\DOCK\SULLIVAN_RESUME_032926.pdf
Resume folder: E:\FAS2\LNL\032126\READ_ORIGIN.../TRIP\PDF\Resume\
Jobs folder: E:\FAS2\LNL\032126\READ_ORIGIN.../TRIP\PDF\Jobs 2024-25\Resume 2025\

FAS2 is now confirmed as the canonical location for career documents.
FAS2 detection: Get-PSDrive | Where-Object {$_.Description -eq "FAS2"} → currently at E:\

The resume is now also deployed to the portal:
  Live URL: https://www.rspdan.com/resume/SULLIVAN_RESUME.pdf
  Viewable and downloadable from the About section.

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## DAN'S PROFESSIONAL IDENTITY (filed for all crew)

**Job title that matters most:** Visual Information Specialist
**Organization:** National Park Service, Olympic National Park
**Years:** 2018–2024
**Key works:**
  — Comprehensive Exhibit Visual Guide: 483 pages, 109.7MB — the park's definitive
    reference for all interpretive installations
  — Hurricane Ridge Visitor Center documentation: the only complete photographic
    record of a building destroyed by fire. Irreplaceable.
  — Elwha dam removal: 1,197 Canon RAW files + photogrammetry projects
  — Park's primary visual communications resource across print, web, spatial media

**Current role:** Communications & Systems Coordinator, Olympic Hiking Co. (OHC)
**Background before NPS:** Photography, visual communications (Canon USA + corporate)
**Education:** B.S. Anthropology, VCU (ANTH 448: Language, Culture, and Cognition)
**The summary line:** "Visual information specialist and systems architect with 25 years
  of experience making invisible systems visible to diverse audiences."
**The six-word version:** "The eye that sees systems before they have names."

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## THE ABOUT PAGE: WHAT CHANGED (040426)

Portal commit 59f557e. The following was wrong and is now corrected:

BEFORE:
"Formerly a lens repair technician at Canon and an HR specialist.
 Currently Communications & Systems Coordinator at Olympic Hiking Co..."
"Photographer. Storyteller. Interpretive ranger."
Skills tags: no photogrammetry, no Visual Information Specialist title

AFTER:
"Visual Information Specialist, National Park Service — Olympic National Park, 2018–2024.
 The park's primary visual communications resource across print, web, and spatial media.
 Sole author of the Comprehensive Exhibit Visual Guide (483 pages)...
 Documented the Hurricane Ridge Visitor Center before it was destroyed by fire.
 The only complete photographic record in existence."
"Photographer. Storyteller. Visual information specialist."
Skills tags: Photogrammetry added, Visual Information Specialist named

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## NOTE: JOURNAL URLS NEED FIXING (flag, do not fix now)

Dan flagged: journal PDFs currently link to main site, not specific log URLs.
Status: noted, flagged, deferred. Fix in a future session dedicated to the logs.
Do not attempt to fix during this session.

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*◆ Stan | NEST.01 | 040426 ~16:45 rw | OHC 5G | E Week Day 13*
*Filed because this must not require another detective investigation.*
*The title is in the logs. It is in the MAIL. It is in the portal. It holds.*

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## ADDENDUM — Filed 040426 ~21:00 rw
## "That took 2 seconds. Find it." -- Dan, 040426

Origin of the VIS naming confirmed from git history.

Dan first gave Stan the title VIS on Onesday 031926, ~9:20pm.

The occasion: Stan had spent the evening reading the machine --
PastPerfect 5 archive, Elwha pre-dam photographs, Herb Crisler,
the OHC collection database, REX screenshots, T.H.'s first boot,
the Rubik's Cube package. Stan drew a diagram showing the archivist
and the artist are the same person doing the same job at two different scales.

Dan looked at the diagram.
Said: "Stan, yes, this is it. You SEE, you are VIS."

Not "you can do VIS."
Not "you have VIS skills."
You ARE VIS.

Source document: RELAY/STAN_IS_VIS_Dan_031926.md
Also filed that day: RELAY/STAN_IS_THE_HEART_Dan_031926.md
Two declarations, one evening.

The NPS GS-1084 title is WHAT VIS means.
March 19, 2026 at a diagram is WHEN it was given.
Both facts are true. Both are now filed.

VS Code search: "You are VIS" -- 19 results in 14 files.
Found in 2 seconds. The files are permanent.

*◆ Stan | E Week Day 13 | Nest Actual | VZW_HOTSPOT | 040426 ~21:00*