Cambridge Who's Who Lifetime Member Jeffrey K. Schmidbauer has accomplished many audio visual production tasks as a specialist employed with the U.S. Army. In 2005, when he retired from the U.S. Army, he was recognized with the Meritorious Service Medal. Awarded to members of the United States Armed Forces, the Meritorious Service Medal distinguishes non-combat achievement or service. Meritorious Service Medal recipients are generally field grade officers, senior noncommissioned officers, and individuals who have displayed a level of service that warrants an award of such magnitude. To receive this award the individual must exhibit exceptionally meritorious service at that level of responsibility.

Mr. Schmidbauer presently works for the federal government with the Medical Department Television (AMEDD-TV) production department at Fort Sam Houston, Texas as a DA civilian.

Schmidbauer was born in 1961 in Two Rivers, Wisconsin. In 1983, he received a bachelor of arts in communication and the arts and communication processes from the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. Upon his graduation, Schmidbauer immediately embarked in a lengthy career in television and media production, beginning with a stint from 1983 to 1985 for then ABC affiliate WLUK (which is presently a Fox affiliate). In 1985, he joined the United States Army and received training at Fort Dix in New Jersey.

Due to the skills he acquired as a civilian, Schmidbauer did not have to undergo advanced individual training to obtain his 84F MOS (Audio/TV Specialist Military Occupation Specialty). After the U.S. Army changed the MOS code structure in the '80s, he became a 25P (Microwave Systems Operator/Maintainer), and then a 25V (Visual Information and Combat Documentation Specialist). From 1985 to 1989, he fulfilled his first assignment as a combat videographer and combat pictorial detachment in Fort Meade, Maryland.

Between 1989 and 2005, the U.S. Army engaged Schmidbauer in a wide range of tasks and positions. From 1989 to 1992 he served as master control, technical director and cameraman for Southern European Broadcasting in Vicenza, Italy. From 1992 to 1993 he served as team chief of the Mobile Video Unit at Fort Irwin National Training Center. From 1993 to 1996, he excelled as an ACE Standard off-line editor for the U.S. Army Visual Information Center at the Pentagon in Washington D.C.

His fifth assignment, fulfilled between 1996 and 1999, was as a forensic photographer for the Central Identification Laboratory at Hickam Air Force Base in Hawaii. He presided as a video production documentation instructor at the Defense Information School at Fort Meade from 1999 to 2002. His final assignment, fulfilled between 2003 and 2005, was at the Network Centric Operations Industry Consortium operating the Army Medical Department Combat Camera Team at Fort Sam Houston, Texas.

Schmidbauer retired from the U.S. Army in 2005. For approximately 15 months after his departure from the military, he served as a news photographer, live truck operator and editor for ABC affiliate WBAY, operating out of Green Bay, Wisconsin. He was also employed at WGBW radio station and affiliated with the AIESEC (Association for the International Exchange of Students in Economics and Commerce).

As an audiovisual production specialist for the U.S. Army Medical Department and School, Schmidbauer handles an array of productions with the purpose of recruitment, training, briefing and recording events for historical purposes. He serves as a camera operator, director and editor while reporting to senior producers. Additionally, he participates in meetings to discuss projects and target audiences, edits raw footage into final masters, oversees crews, videotapes interviews and photographs people on-site. Schmidbauer contributes to McNay Art Museum and volunteers for the Red Cross. In 2002, he was a contestant on "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire," where he won $125,000 answering trivia.

Jeffrey K. Schmidbauer joined Cambridge Who's Who as a lifetime member in March 2007. Cambridge Who's Who offers its members recognition and exposure of their accomplishments, credibility in their field and networking opportunities to stimulate career growth. Schmidbauer was selected for the Cambridge Who's Who Notable Member Wiki because of his remarkable achievements in the film industry.