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Director of Production, Adwalker Inc., New York, NY 2006-2009 Responsible for directing and supervising all production for the US office of Adwalker, an immersive media technology solutions company. Designed, developed interactive applications for proprietary web technologies based (Java, JavaScript, XML, Flash, Flex, etc.) out of home advertising platform. Projects included media delivery to cell phones, PDAs, iPods and other mobile media devices, as well as integrated social media elements. Served as primary liaison with other technology partners. Clients: Samsung, Boost Mobile, Sony Electronics, Thomson Reuters, Emusic, Diageo, Alcone, DMG, Starcom, GM R*Works, DDB, Mediavest, NBC Universal, MTV Networks, The CW Network, Telemundo, Yahoo, Comcast, American Express, Hasbro, Unilever, Bank of America, and Wachovia.

Technical Director, Pinky Dinky Doo, Cartoon Pizza, New York, NY 2004-2005 Created methodology and supervised production for the animated television series, Pinky Dinky Doo, a co-production with Sesame Workshop. Oversaw an in-house crew of over 40 Flash animators and production artists. Produced all visual effects animation for the series. Authored animation production bible. Aired on Noggin, Nick Jr., BBC and CBC in 2006.

Creative Director, ADM Multimédia Bt., Budapest, Hungary 2001-2003 Developed and directed all art production for the company, which produced music and video multimedia events. Created all promotional material for both print and web applications. Clients: United Nations Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK), SOS Kinderdorf, Wizart.hu, Sziget Fesztivál, Kultiplex, and MediaWave.

Senior Technical Director, Wildbrain, San Francisco, CA 1999-2001 Supervised all production for wildbrain.com, an animation portal, resulting in over fifteen hours of original Flash based content produced for the company’s website as well as for other clients. Established all production methodologies and standards for Flash animation and streaming digital video production. Trained and supervised animators and production artists. Produced corporate IDs and other branded material designed for use both in internet as well as broadcast applications. Oversaw production budgets and scheduling. Clients: Cartoon Network, Yahoo, and Sony ScreenBlast.

Senior Technical Director/Partner, Media Concrete, San Francisco, CA 1995-1999 Directed all art production, established methodologies for all projects, evaluated new technologies and production tools, wrote technical design documents for all projects, and trained production artists and animators. Projects included CD-ROM and online games, multimedia presentations for corporate clients, content development and execution for distance learning, and information and user interface design. Was commissioned by the Microsoft Network to direct and develop multimedia web content. As a partner in the company, was involved in all aspects of business operations including bidding, budgeting and scheduling. Clients: Multimedia – California Teachers' Association, Creative Wonders, IBM Corporation, IDEO San Francisco, Living Books, Microsoft Network, Mirvo Toys, Prodigy, Purple Moon Media, Silicon Gaming, Ziff Davis, ZD University. Web Design - Bank of America, IQ Financial, ODS Corporation, Seafirst Bank, University of Leadership, Vanstar Corporation, ZD University Consulting - Global Business Network, Hewlett-Packard Labs, IBM Corporation.

Senior Technical Director/Technical Director, (Colossal)Pictures, San Francisco, CA 1992-1995 Established Colossal Pictures’ digital production facilities for their New Media Group, a division established for the development of original content as well as managing projects involving emerging technologies, such as CD-ROM games and interactive television. Created a start-to-finish production process for all new media projects. Created and oversaw methodologies for all aspects of production. Projects included five shrink-wrapped products for Brøderbund Software, Electronic Arts, Living Books and Hasbro Interactive; user interface prototypes and demonstrations for Time Warner Inc., QVC, America Online and Warner Music Group.

Production Artist, (Colossal)Pictures, San Francisco, CA 1990-1992 Served as production artist on numerous commercial animation projects. Tasks included ink and paint, rotoscope, in-between animation, model making, typography, print work, and photography. Clients: Multimedia - America Online, Brøderbund Software, Electronic Arts, Living Books, Hasbro Interactive, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, Schlumberger Limited, Time Warner Inc., QVC, Warner Interactive Feature Films/Commercial - American Zoetrope/Dracula, Bubble Yum, Coca Cola, Fruit by the Foot, Global Business Network, Hershey's Kisses, Honey Comb, Liquid Television, McDonald's, Monroe Shocks, MTV Music Awards.

Miscellaneous Work Experience 1982-1990 1988-90 Art Handler, Judson Art Warehouse and various galleries, New York, San Francisco 1987 Architectural Draftsman and Model Maker, Banque Mondiale, Dakar, Sénégal 1986 Architectural Draftsman and Model Maker, Fox and Fowle Architects, New York, NY 1985 Film Dept. and Client Services, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY 1984 Assistant Editor, Big Blue Marble, New York, NY 1984 Assistant Editor, Assistant Cameraman for miscellaneous documentary films, NY 1983 Art Department Production Assistant, C.H.U.D. feature film, New York, NY 1982 Engineering Department Assistant, Lowell Light, Inc., New York NY

Education and Certification BA in Sociology/Anthropology, Bard College, Annandale-On-Hudson, NY, 1987 Apprenticeship at The Fabric Workshop, Philadelphia, PA, 1988 Career Discovery Program in Architecture, Harvard School of Design, Cambridge, MA 1986 Diploma, Stuyvesant High School, New York, NY, 1983 PMP certification with Project Management Institute – valid through 2012

Interests Sculpture, Typography, Architecture, Music Composition Adwalker, Inc.

Role: Director of Production Responsibilities: Production Management and Execution, Creative Direction, User Interface Design, Technology Development Adwalker: MSNBC Inauguration 2009

Project: NBC Universal used Adwalker’s proprietary digital marketing platform to capture and distribute personal moments during the 2009 Inauguration. Brand ambassadors took photos of spectators, re-sized and cropped them, and finally sent the branded images to the participant’s email and mobile accounts. Photos sent to phones were optimized for their particular make and model. Adwalker: NBC Universal Upfronts

Project: NBC Universal hired Adwalker for their 2008 Upfronts. The mobile platform was used to entertain guests as they waited in queue for the main event. Participants could opt to take an Office themed personality quiz, test their television trivia knowledge, or have their horoscope read. Adwalker: Ford Sync

Project: Adwalker’s unique media platform was used to promote Ford’s voice activated Sync capabilities with a tradtional sweepstakes along with the ability to upload mp3 playlists to iPods and other digital music players. Participants signed up for the sweepstakes via the touchscreen. Devices were then connected to the platform and songs selected. The files, along with a new playlist, were then downloaded to the device. Adwalker: eMusic MP3 song purchase

Project: Adwalker partnered with eMusic to promote their DRM free music subscription service and sell song pack- ages in the Out Of Home arena. Participants were able to purchase download codes using their credit cards. Trans- cactions were processed over a secure wireless network. Credit cards were swiped using the platform’s magnetic stripe reader, and unique download codes were printed on the spot. Adwalker: BusinessWeek

Project: BusinessWeek used Adwalker to reach out to its advertisers to create brand awareness and exposure to the social network aspect of their website. Users could explore various sections where user generated content is featured, as well as participate in a poll with the chance to win an iPod. Pinky Dinky Doo

Role: Technical Director Responsibilities: Production Methodology and Management, Effects Animation, Animation Library Development ADM: Corporate Identity

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Role: Creative Supervisor/Technical Director, Motion Graphics Animator Responsibilities: Supervised all digital art production. Created all animated id's. Trained animators and production artists. Established standards and practices for all online material. Bissap Baobab: Web Site

A Drastic Measure: Web Site

Role: Art Director California Teacher's Association: CTAB

Role: Creative Supervisor/Technical Director, Motion Graphics Animator Responsibilities: Supervised digital art production; created and supervised all production methodologies; worked jointly with art director to flesh out graphic templates; created 2d animations, transitional elements and special effects. IBM: Insurance Research Center "Road Show"

Role: Creative Supervisor/Technical Director, Motion Graphics Animator Responsibilities: Supervised digital art production; created and supervised all production methodologies, including the drafting of the technical design document; created 2d animations, transitional elements and special effects; digitized, and composited all live action elements. Purple Moon: Secret Paths in the Forest

Role: Creative Supervisor/Technical Director Responsibilities: Supervised digital art production and all production methodologies; created palette architecture; composited and timed animation. Brøderbund: Koala Lumpur

Role: Creative Supervisor/Technical Director, Colorist, Animator Responsibilities: Supervised digital art production; created all color models for characters; created and supervised production of backgrounds; created palette architecture; composited and timed animation. Hasbro: Play-Doh Creations

Role: Creative Supervisor/Technical Director, Colorist Responsibilities: Supervised digital art production and all production methodologies; created color models and palette architecture; composited and timed animation. Living Books: Ruff's Bone

Role: Creative Supervisor/Technical Director, Colorist, Animator Responsibilities: Supervised digital art production, including scanning and ink and paint; created and supervised all production methodologies; created all color models for characters and backgrounds; created palette architecture; composited and timed animation. Living Books: Moon Child

Role: Art Director Prodigy Network: Prototype

Role: Art Director ZD University: Tutorial Series

Role: Creator, Director, Animator ODS Corporation: Web Site

MasterPak: Web Site

Role: Art Director A Subtle Plague: Implosion CD ing's still the same. river · noth- And so like west of that most travel- brain. I got ers that make it flying through my this far he brain. I got west of that river · nothing's still the same. Big, big car a driving · driving through my brain. I got west of that river · nothing feels the same. Big, big plane a flying · appeared out of the big woods like in a movie the highway opened up before his thumb. And we all held our breath wondering what he kept in his knapsack. It was an all of a sudden jolt that hit the driver on the travelers face of loneliness for a companion. And we all wondered what treasure the travel- er had. Would he take out a dream or a nightmare? And would he take the driver to his destination in one piece? This album is dedicated to the babies: Cheyenne Charas Sounyatta (9/26/92)- who is a Subtle Plague baby, Otis (9/26/92)- who's father played drums for us some time, and who created the original steelophone, Carly (10/92)- who's father was our first guitarist, Sierra Annabella (7/13/93)- who's father played horns and percussion, Selomé Shelina Indigo (10/6/93), the newest member (not forgetting Sounya and Florian!) through my rolling, rolling Big, big train a lonely. California you're so ed. California must be punish- belief creates a new demand. nary land where every old This imaginary tale of an imagi- the sea I invent who come to be. ieve. From the dust, to smog, believe, there are many things I'll ach- a haze of dreams. I believe, Murdered by their schemes. Trapped in plane. By wagon · by train car the mind at bay? the end is that all to say · something keep · practiced poets of these careful times. But in A Yes I've seen you're vision one thousand times detail. To be · above the earth but to see its every ber, remember. distinguish. She cries out to remember, remem- spi- the woman's unspoken anguish · two pasts I must it commands attention from my spider world. Like ders. Yet this image recalls a time so unreal · that are real to a certain sense. My sense is the spider sits over again: The awning break · False nests · the doorman scream · pale dust · they were all around him · false quests · they'd read all about him · dried crusts · the words that he had · confessed · the end- ings were bad · but hushed · the characters mad · assessed · his ending was sad. · my lust. in perfecter silence · then the man in uniform · screaming at the mother in the camp · on wall, in my room, in my house, the woods. The spiders silence mirrors my world · as the poster reflects · a past now muted. 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Got the means of a Pin it down by a rejection letter, mail to ing was bad. · my lust. the characters mad · assessed and end- · but the ending was bad hushed and crusts · by the words that he had confessed false quests · but darkly affected dried who · pale dust was tightly connected The doorman knew · false nest a publisher landlady who thought: apple in the worm. I'm the snake you forgot to hate. There's no avoiding what I do, you can't deny I'm part of you. I'm quite aware of the things I lack, when times were good I cut you slack. So when it all comes down in the years ahead don't deny how we lay in bed, and it's our child who wants us dead. Lonely lodger held his head each long night 15 years. time Six stories falling through · you are the tenant of a dream · inventing every have for scene · behind each curtain to see a nov- that el idea to fear. have Airman's dream · something moving he's been watching flies on the wall. Every passing character had insane motivations · like the 'Taxi Driver's' mirror scene · the siamese lovers or dogs the air, or so it seems. And each trial pumps no fuel through our highway hearts. Loaded like a million movie end- ings · gunning for a sunset near the city dump. All that broken glass running out of gas. I have for finer things. I no use what no brings. I no time to question things. I have no use for what that brings. I'm busy being a business being Many places I've to go · many things I've to build. No supply, I'm supplier. No demand, I'm demander. I'm busy being a business being. I'm the in themes still the bouts with violent unspoken schemes all saw them at your feet. Theo Denaxis plays drums on all tracks except Welcome to the West, which is Sean. Tom Watson plays guitar on the ends of Hey, Cop! and Busy Business. Lynn Johnston plays sax on California Must Be Punished. The Rilke String Quar- tet plays on Former Employee Massacre. 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