Resume

Work Experience
2/2009 – 11/2010         Planners Collaborative, Inc.           NASA Ames Research Center
Multimedia Director
  • Responsible for video and web media production at NASA Ames Research Center
  • Video production, post-production, and delivery of video to mobile, web, DVD, and Blu-Ray.
  • Created several videos to support public outreach for LCROSS mission. Videos can be seen here.
  • Created K-12 educational material for several programs. Most of this work is available at http://quest.arc.nasa.gov.
  • HTML development (HTML, AJAX, CSS, PHP, MySQL) of many sites for NASA Ames
  • Created interactive multimedia programs for the Ames Visitor’s Center and the Ames Exploration Encounter
1/2004 – current           New Media Services                         Sacramento, CA
Owner/Primary
  • Contractor for several clients including, Harvest-Communications, NASA, Diocese of San Jose developing multimedia and HTML content
  • Built ecommerce web sites for clients using open source PHP tools
  • Designed new media advertising campaigns with elements such as email blasts, viral videos, personalized URL web sites, Flash games.
  • Focused work on WordPress platform, customizing templates, adding widgets, integrating custom database fields
  • LAMP Server administration
  • Programming in HTML5, CSS, Javascript, Actionscript, PHP, MySQL
  • Mobile app and mobile web development
2/2005 – 2/2008            The Clausette, Inc.                          Sacramento, CA
Director/Principal
  • Owned and ran a business selling women’s footwear over the Internet
  • During peak sales year, grossed 2.4 million USD.
  • Responsible for all web development and design, operations, marketing, sales, and technology development.
  • Worked with Amazon.com to double sales during 2007 – 2008.
8/2001 – 12/2003             eGetgoing                                          San Jose, CA
Media Production Supervisor
  • Product Manager of interactive educational tools for teens dealing with drug and alcohol prevention.
  • Quality assurance and testing of products and internal tools in their development stages.
  • Shot video on DVCAM, logging, capturing, editing, and audio mastering.
  • Designed and developed interactive product training delivered as Flash over the Internet.
  • Produced content (video, music, voice-over, flash animations, and HTML) for various projects.
1996–2001                    Motorola                                         Ventura, CA
Systems Engineer
  • Rollout of 2G and 3G CDMA wireless telecommunications systems in South Korea; Osaka, Japan; and Tel Aviv, Israel.
  • Development of web content for training and system deployment projects. Developed Internet database interfacing using Perl and PHP.
  • Technical writing of system deployment manuals.  Translated technical documents into HTML. Performed tool evaluations and made purchase recommendations.
  • Managed field-test activities in various system optimization projects.  Data analysis and manipulation with VB, Perl, and Unix shell scripting.

Education
1992–1994                    Purdue University                   West Lafayette, IN

  • Major: Liberal Arts
  • Focus: Theater – Technical Design (Lighting and Sound Design)

1999 – 2001                  University of Maryland        Distance Learning

  • Computer Studies