SPECIAL SKILLS
EDUCATION
Cornell University Ithaca, NY • May 2003

College of Arts & Sciences • Bachelors : Visual Studies
New York University NY, NY • Jan 2006
Masters : Interactive Telecommunications Program, GPA 3.97
Honors Tisch School of the Arts Scholarship • Finalist: Cornell Council for the Arts Outstanding Senior Artist Award • Cornell Presidential Research Scholars Program and Scholarship • Jesse H. Jones and Mary Gibbs Jones Houston Endowment Scholarship • Knauss Family Scholarship • Charles Moss Theatre Arts Scholarship • Cohen Dramatic Arts Scholarship
DIGITAL VIDEO & SOCIAL MEDIA
"Helping Johnny Remember":
Short Film
NY, NY • May 2010 • 2m24s, Archival Footage re-animated in Adobe After Effects
Watch here. Awards - ReMixed Media Festival 2010 Galapagos Art Space Brooklyn, NY Showings - EXILE Gallery Berlin July-Aug '10, International Streaming Film Festival The Hague '10, Open Video Conference NY, NY Oct '10 Press: G4TV Web Soup, G4TV Attack of the Show, BoingBoing.Net, NYMAG Vulture Blog, TheDailyWhat, Comedy Central Tosh Blog, Radio3 CBC Canada Web Views: 100k+ Vimeo, 40k+ Youtube, 32k+ Liveleak.
ArdisHealth: Video & Social Media NY, NY • Oct 2008-present • Video & Social Media Producer
Build brand awareness and following through social media networks. Create and run social media campaigns. Manage and assign tasks to Social Media team. Discover and implement new tools for monitoring and responding to brand feed back over social media networks. Manage and conceive SEO campaigns. Write, direct, edit promo spots and web series. Conceive & implement social media campaigns, viral marketing, and blogs for products & services that are demographically targeted and contextually relevant to both brand and audience.
ThisIsWhereIDoThings.com: Webseries/Blog NY, NY • July 2009-present • Editor
A hub for various single theme blogs and engaging viral video blog series. Comment on latest trends in social media and technology.
HowNotToDateOnline.com: Webseries/Blog NY, NY • November 2008-present • Editor
I shoot (in HD1080i30), edit, and artistically direct for this video webseries and blog. Distributed blog over social networks and gained fan following.
Cut From the Same Cloth: Theatre NY, NY • August 2009 • Videographer
NYC Fringe Festival.
DebWebsterBlog.com: Webseries/Blog NY, NY • July 2008-present • Video Editor & Designer
I shoot (in HD1080i30), edit, and artistically direct for this video webseries and blog.
Disruptive Pictures: Feature Film NY, NY • June 2006-Oct 2008• Visual Effects & Unit Production Manager
Created cartoons and motion graphics. Assisted editor in capturing, cloning, and cutting on this big budget, "irreverent" Untitled Foreign Policy Documentary. Organized and coordianted logistics behind location shoots and production assistant hiring. During shoots, managed flow and production team, kept shoot on schedule and running smoothly.
DrunkenStepfather.com: Webseries NY, NY • June-Aug 2007 • Video Editor

Made 28 short videos that captured the banality and cynical humor in everyday urban life, with a side of social commentary.
GRAPHIC DESIGN & ADVERTSING
Whomi NY, NY • 2007 • Graphic Designer
Designed covers for Whomi's signature personal agendas and customized products.
TransMedia NY, NY • 2003-05 • Senior Art Director
Responsible for software skinning and UI, website devlopment, designing marketing and product branding. Made sure all marketing materials and product were visually and message integrated. Edited client videos and created 3D animated promotional videos for TransMedia at NAB 2004 & 2005 in Las Vegas.
Mickey Mantle’s Restaurant NY, NY • Summer 2003 • Graphic Designer
Schwartz Ctr. for the Performing Arts Ithaca, NY • 2001-03 • Graphic Designer
Alley Theatre Houston, TX • Summer 2002 • Design Intern
BRSG Advertising Inc. Houston, TX • Summer 2000 • Design Intern
IMAGING & NEW MEDIA
Virtual Cab Ride : Installation Nice, France • Jan-June 2006 • 3D Modeler & Designer

Assisted Jean-Marc Gauthier (NYU) with texturing and modeling for this interactive installation. Utilizing video sensors, laser scanning, AI, and two-story high screens—viewers take a ‘virtual cab ride’ along 42nd street between Lexington and 7th Ave.
In A Painting : Short Film 12 min, HD 720 • Jan 2006

Directed, edited, scored, and color-corrected this short film as my thesis project.
Madame Hollywood : Installation NY, NY • Dec 2005 • ITP Winter Show

Interactive 3D game with photographic texturing, character animation, and particle effects displayed on three eight-foot projections.
Press : Short Film 7 min • Spring 2003 • Prod. Ast. & Co-writer
Finalist in Experimental Short Film at the Ivy League Film Festival 2003.
Cornell Presidential Research Scholars Ithaca, NY • 1999-03 • Video & Installation

With University funding, created several digital video art series, sculptural video & light installations, and multi-media performance art pieces.
Exhibition: Stella’s Bar and Restaurant Ithaca, NY • Spring 2003 • Mixed Media Paintings
Glassell School of Art Houston, TX • Summer 2001 • Museum of Fine Arts Houston
NASA Johnson Space Center Houston, TX • Summer 1999 • McKay Mars Meteorite Research Team

Using a Phillips Scanning Electron Microscope, imaged subsurface biological samples from possible Martian analogues. Presented images and findings at the Lunar and Planetary Institute’s 2000 Astro-Biology Conference.
SOFTWARE SKILLS : MAC & PC
Editing Final Cut Pro, Adobe Premiere, familiarity with Avid
FX & 3D Combustion, Adobe After Effects CS3, Shake, Motion, Maya 8.5, Virtools Dev
Sound ProTools, Apple Soundtrack, MaxMSP & Jitter
DVD DVD Studio Pro, Toast
Design & Web CSS & HTML & Actionscript, Quark, InDesign, Photoshop & Illustrator CS3, Painter IX, Flash CS3, Dreamweaver CS3, Fireworks, Director
Social Media Coordination Web Apps HooteSuite, Tweetdeck, NetVibes, Twine, knowledge base of various network bundling apps & widgets
Other MPEG Streamclip, Compressor, Quicktime VR, Microsoft Word, Powerpoint, Excel
LANGUAGES
Spanish Fluent
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