Princeton
University (Princeton, NJ) 09/89 - 06/93
BA, Politics [BA Thesis: "The Politics
of Art: Reconciling Ideals to Reality in NEA Policy"]
Lacoste
School of the Arts (Lacoste, France) 06/92 - 08/92
University-level courses in painting, drawing, sculpture,
art history
EXPERIENCE
Independent
Contractor (New York, NY) 1999-present
Freelance
designer, producer, writer, and project manager specializing
in digital technology. Clients (and projects) include:
• The
Museum of the City of New York (Exhibition
design)
• Swinerton
Builders (Interactive CD proposal)
• Bronx
Charter School for the Arts (Print
logo + collaterals)
• The
Near East Foundation (Annual report, brochure, collaterals)
• Portico
Research (Brand redesign—website, print, and
collaterals)
• Web
Lab (Consultant on Web Lab projects promoting interactivity
and social discourse)
• Dress
for Success (Annual Report design & production)
• Interworld
(Wrote & edited strategic whitepapers on B2B and
B2C e-commerce.)
Pratt
Institute (New York, NY)
Visiting Instructor, Foundation Department (1/04 -
present)
4-Dimensional Design I and II (course
materials)
Teacher,
Saturday Art School (02/02 - 05/02)
"Dream Machine" animation class for 8-15 year-olds.
New
York Institute of Technology (New York, NY)
09/04 - present
Visiting Instructor, Communication Arts Department
Multimedia Tools, Graduate Level (course
materials)
Juno
Online Services (New York, NY) 03/98 - 08/99
Product Manager
• Worked with technical and business staff to set business
priorities, determine feature sets, write functional specifications,
and track development of e-mail client software, including
Juno version 2.011, v. 3.0 and v. 4.0.
• Planned and executed large-scale usability testing,
including recruiting, writing test plans, conducting tests
and analyzing results.
The
Advisory Board Company (Washington, DC)
10/93 - 09/97
Consultant (04/96 - 09/97)
• Managed strategy studies regarding trends and best
demonstrated practices for client base of more than 300
leading financial services companies worldwide.
• Held primary responsibility for research, analysis
and written and graphic presentation of strategy studies
delivered to senior executives across client base.
• Managed team of analysts, supervising performance
and development
Analyst
(05/95 - 04/96)
• Performed research, analysis and writing for team-based
strategy studies.
• Trained junior staff in research methodology and
industry trends.
Research
Associate (10/93 - 09/94)
• Performed topical primary and secondary research
as well as basic qualitative and quantitative analysis.
EXHIBITION HISTORY
•
SIGGRAPH
2004 Art Gallery
(Los Angeles) - "anthroDance"
animation; collaboration with Beth
Warshafsky.
• SIGGRAPH
2003 Art Gallery (San Diego) - multimedia prints.
• AIA
Gallery (Portland, OR) - "harmonic" Solo
Show, April 2003.
• Steuben Gallery (Brooklyn, NY) - Pratt Institute
MFA Thesis Show, November 2002.
• Pratt CGIM Gallery (Brooklyn New York) - "Sugar
& Spice" Group Show, April 2001.
• D.U.M.B.O. General Store (Brooklyn, NY) - “Here
and Now” Group Show, September 2001.
SKILLS
• OS proficiency: Macintosh, Windows, UNIX
• Software proficiency: Microsoft Office, Visio, Adobe
Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe After Effects, Adobe
Premiere, Final Cut Pro, Alias Wavefront Maya, HTML, Javascript,
Dreamweaver, Director, Flash, Deck, Quark Xpress, Lexis/Nexis
and UMI databases.
ACTIVITIES AND INTERESTS
• The
Survivor Fund - Cofounder and webmaster of non-profit
organization founded to support The Bellevue/NYU Program
for Survivors of Torture and related programs.
• Contributing writer for Pixel (Pratt Institute CGIM
newsletter). (link to articles)
• Outward
Bound - Mojave Desert, CA (1995); Lantang Valley, Nepal
(1997).
• Project Northstar - Volunteer tutor for children
living in homeless shelters (1993-1996).
• Interests include drawing, reading, writing, toys,
museums, theater, live music, running (NYC marathon 1995),
rock climbing, and mountaineering (summited Mt. Kilimanjaro
1997; Denali/Mt.
McKinley 2001).
