Professional Narrative

Jay is Web communications manager in Communications and Media Relations at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine. Previously, he was an associate director at Dartmouth College and leader of the Web Publishing Services group. As a producer and project manager, Jay worked with campus departments and other Web professionals to analyze, architect, produce, and sustain web communications. Before Dartmouth, he produced and edited videos and Web sites for schools and labs at MIT.

He is also the publisher and producer of Web sites for WGBH/Boston alumni, Friends of the Maine Audubon Hog Island Center, and Nature Compass, which serves nature education, conservation, and recreation organizations in northern New England.

Jay graduated summa cum laude from the Boston University College of Communication where he studied media criticism, film history, educational technology, broadcast programming and production, and computer science.

He began his professional career at WGBH-TV as stage manager, camera operator, video switcher, and production assistant for news, public affairs, how-to, sports, and performance programming, including This Old House, Evening at Pops, Masterpiece Theatre, Mystery, and NOVA.

As video editor, he prepared stories for the Ten O'clock News with Christopher Lydon as well as for primetime on-air promotion. He also completed the on-line broadcast masters for national and local programming.

At the Public Broadcasting Service headquarters near Washington, DC, Jay wrote, produced, and directed promotional spots and programs for use by stations nationwide.

Subsequently, he was promotion manager for Vermont Public Television — which serves Montreal and northern New England — and was the first executive director for RETN, the educational cable channel serving Vermont's Champlain Valley.

He also served as multimedia instructor and the first web designer for the web office at the University of Massachusetts campus in Lowell.