SUMMARY
CORE COMPETENCIES
APPLICATIONS EXPERTISE
WORK EXPERIENCE
DESIGN PORTFOLIO
PRESENTATIONS
EDUCATION

SUMMARY

Instructional technology specialist with a strong background in multimedia authoring, graphic design, web-based publishing, photography & digital imaging, video & audio production, and streaming media technologies. Experienced educator and support provider through one-on one consultations, on-line training, workshops, large classroom environments and peer-to-peer small group settings. Skilled technical writer and editor. Familiar with internet and intranet networks and a wide array of desktop maintenance and support issues.

CORE COMPETENCIES

Teaching and training
On-line learning and distance education
Multimedia design and scripting
Web design
Web and web-based multimedia accessibility
Information design
Graphic Design for Print, Web, Powerpoint, and Flash
Digital imaging
Project management
Cross-platform experience (Mac and PC)
Strong communications skills
Creative problem solving

APPLICATIONS EXPERTISE

Adobe Photoshop 7
Macromedia Flash MX
Macromedia Dreamweaver MX
RealMedia product suite (RealServer, RealProducer, RealEditor, RealSlideshow, RealPresenter)
Various SMIL creation and editing utilities
Various web and multimedia accessibility tools and software applications
Adobe Premiere 6.5
Media Cleaner 5
Sonic Foundry Sound Forge 4.5
Macromedia Fireworks MX
Sonic Foundry Acid
Adobe Illustrator 10
Macromedia Freehand 9
Macromedia Director
Adobe InDesign 2
Quicktime Pro
imovie
DVD Studio Pro
Microsoft Office Suite

   


WORK EXPERIENCE

UNC-CH Center for Instructional Technology
7/99-present
Multimedia Consultant
Contact: Kathy Thomas

RESPONSIBILITIES:
Research and implement solutions for developing and distributing instructional multimedia
Develop on-line documentation and training for multimedia applications
Support and co-administer campus RealMedia Server
Campus-wide support for multimedia, graphics and web design software applications
Project management for CIT multimedia support initiatives
Instructional design and development for selected faculty-led projects emphasizing multimedia technologies


KEY ACCOMPLISHMENTS:

Worked across departments and schools to develop coherent support infrastructure for emerging multimedia technologies. Founded and led a campus-wide organization for multimedia support professionals at UNC-CH called MEDIA. Developed and maintained widely-used documentation for the use of multimedia materials in instruction at UNC-CH.
Provided critical consultation and support for IBM-FITAC grants and numerous other faculty-led projects involving instructional multimedia.
Developed institutional support for Macromedia Flash at UNC-CH. Primary central campus support provider. Developed and led training workshops at the ATN Training Center and routinely provided one-on-one support for Flash.

UNC-Chapel Hill School of Journalism and Mass Communication 
8/00-12/00
Lecturer
Co-taught Journalism 188, Cybercasting and Cyberpublishing with ibiblio.org founder Paul Jones
Contact: Paul Jones

ZoomCulture 
8/99-7/00
Instructional Multimedia Consultant
Contact: Josh Heuchen

RESPONSIBILITIES:
Flash development
Planning for Zoomculture's Online Media Production School
(http://www.zoomculture.com/zschool/)
Technical writing

KEY ACCOMPLISHMENTS:

Designed architecture for key components of the Online Media Production School
Developed definitions for terms related to computer-based multimedia technologies in the ZSchool Glossary

Cisco Systems 
8/99-5/00
Web Designer and Developer
Contact: Jonathan Walker

Designed and built Macromedia Flash-based training program for Cisco's project monitoring software called the Test Case Tracking Tool.

ibiblio (formerly called SunSite and MetaLab), UNC-Chapel Hill
3/96-6/99
Web Developer and Audio/Video Engineer
Contact: Paul Jones

RESPONSIBILITIES:
Research and implement solutions for developing and distributing multimedia
Design and build multimedia web pages
Shoot and edit live video
Configure and maintain multimedia workstations (Windows NT, 95, and 98)
Technical support for multimedia applications


KEY ACCOMPLISHMENTS:

Pioneered the application of streaming technologies in teaching at UNC-CH
Developed standards, strategies, and best practices for producing and distributing web-based multimedia that have been widely adopted at UNC-CH

Cisco Systems 
2/99-6/99
Web Developer
Contact: Anna Hodgkin
Constructed a 20-page section of Cisco's Partners' Web site

UNC-Chapel Hill Department of English
9/93-present
Teaching Fellow in Film and Composition
Contacts: Howard Harper, Department of English; UNC-Chapel Hill Composition Office

RESPONSIBILITIES:
Instruct freshmen in basic writing and upper-classmen in introductory film criticism

KEY ACCOMPLISHMENTS:

designed and led an initiative to integrate multimedia web technologies into the teaching of film criticism at UNC-CH
wrote two successful grant proposals for the project totaling over $60,000

UNC-Chapel Hill School of Medicine, Program on Aging
10/98-7/99
Web Developer
Contact: Rebecca Hunter
Designed web-based multimedia training to assist rural health practitioners in care for the elderly

William Blake Archive
(summer, fall, 1998)
Imaging Specialist
Contact: Joseph Viscomi
Scanned and color-corrected 4x5 slide reproductions of Blake's illuminated books

 

DESIGN PORTFOLIO

Instructional Design

Flash

PRESENTATIONS

Multimedia Accessibility Initiatives at UNC-Chapel Hill, Teaching and Learning with Technology Expo, Greensboro, NC, April, 2002
Publishing Streaming Video, Paul Jones's JOMC 192 Class, UNC-Chapel Hill, 9/21/99
English 42 Web Site: UNC-Chapel Hill Technology Expo, February, 1999
Using the Canon XL1 Digital Video Camera: Paul Jones's JOMC 192 Class, UNC-Chapel Hill, 10/22/98
Digital Audio and Video in the Classroom: UNC-Chapel Hill English Department Faculty, 9/23/98
Publishing Streaming Video, Paul Jones's JOMC 192 Class, UNC-Chapel Hill, 9/17/98
English 42 Web Site: UNC-Chapel Hill Chief Information Officer Marian Moore, 3/97
English 42 Web Site: Selected by Marian Moore to demonstrate innovative teaching with technology to the UNC-CH Board of Trustees, 4/97
English 42 Web Site: UNC-CH Chancellor Michael Hooker, UNC-Chapel Hill English Department Technology Expo, 8/97

ACADEMIC PRESENTATIONS & PAPERS

"A New Medium for Film Studies: Using the Tools of the World-Wide Web to Blow up Blow-up" Coming Down Fast! Replaying the 1960s July 10-12, 1998, The University of Wolverhampton, and the Lighthouse Media & Conference Center (Multimedia Presentation & Installation)
"Virginia Woolf, Sir Thomas Browne, and The 'Art of Perpetuation' in To the Lighthouse" Annual Conference sponsored by the Virginia Woolf Society, 1997
D.H. Lawrence and the Surrealists spring 1995 seminar paper

EDUCATION

M.A., English, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1996
B.A., English, Asbury College, 1992, Magna Cum Laude