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Resume

Professional Experience

Bates College – Lewiston, ME – 2006–present

Web communications manager, Communications and Media Relations (4/06-present).

  • Collaborate with faculty, students, staff, and alumni on institutional planning and online communications. Monitor industry developments in Web communications and report to groups across campus.
  • Manage information architecture projects for president's office, advancement, alumni, master planning.
  • Coordinate Web production projects and coach editors on information architecture with legacy content management system.
  • Co-founder, Integrated Knowledge Environments project (with Cornell University). Founder, Colby/Bates/Bowdoin Web Forum. Member, Web Oversight Committee. Founder, Bates Web Roundtable. Member, Web Management Team.

Dartmouth College – Hanover, NH – 2001–2006

Associate director, leader, Web Publishing Services (8/04-4/06), and senior Web producer (1/03-8/04) and Web specialist (2/01-12/02), Communications Services.

  • Provide program leadership — strategic direction, staff leadership, and project management — in Web communications planning, implementation, and evaluation.
  • Lead and supervise four staff and independent contractors on behalf of more than 80 departmental clients.
  • Manage information architecture and content development for Computing Services Web presence, including profiles, tutorials, and historical content.
  • Active member of Ivy-Plus University Web Roundtable (co-host, 2004) and Dartmouth Communications Committee. Founder of the Dartmouth Web Producers and Content Developers groups.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology – Cambridge, MA – 1996-–2001

Post-production producer (9/99-1/01), desktop video specialist/editor (10/97-8/99), and project contractor (12/96, 2-4/97, 5/97) for media production unit serving academic, research, and administrative groups across the MIT campus.

  • Produced and edited video news releases, research demonstrations, faculty profiles, and promotional videos for Web streaming, CD-ROM, and videotape distribution.
  • Produced, designed, edited, and managed Web sites including project demonstrations, video streaming, and how-to guide. Served as first project manager for MIT World on-demand video service.
  • Collaborated with faculty, staff, and students in artificial intelligence, engineering, humanities, and the Media Lab, as well as external clients including the PBS Business and Technology Networks.
  • Developed interdepartmental project proposals and budgets, and coordinated project teams consisting of senior management, administrative staff, and technical contractors. Tracked schedules and $195,000 annual budget.
  • Supervised post-production, duplication, and archiving staff, contractors, and interns. Responsible for day-to-day operations including post-production facilities maintenance.

University of Massachusetts – Lowell, MA – 1997

Web designer (3–10/97), instructor (9–12/97), database developer, and videographer/editor for campus communications department (independent contractor).

  • First member of Web office established to serve departments across campus.
  • Shot and edited videos about campus-community initiatives for the University of Massachusetts chancellor.
  • Taught undergraduate course on desktop video production as part of multimedia certificate series.

Regional Educational Television Network – South Burlington, VT – 1994–96

First executive director of educational cable service for regional K-12 schools, colleges, and the University of Vermont (8/94-8/96).

  • Developed organizational mission, wrote non-profit bylaws and policies, and designed media center facilities.
  • Established 24-hour service of local and acquired programs, including live, satellite, and videotape origination.
  • Supervised production staff, volunteers, and interns. Taught portion of college-level course on digital video editing.
  • Directed educational multi-camera productions including classes, demonstrations, and performances.
  • Created Web site, viewer guide, and on-air database of upcoming programs and events.
  • Expanded channel awareness through consistent graphic design on-air and in print.

University of Vermont/Vermont Public Television (ETV) – Colchester, VT – 1987–93

Promotion manager (12/87-9/90) and project contractor (7-11/91, 1-3/92, 11/92-2/93) for university-founded PBS station serving Vermont, northern New York state, and Montreal.

  • Analyzed market research, conducted focus groups, and coordinated interdepartmental study of station identity.
  • Developed, wrote, and supervised promotion and outreach campaigns for local and national programming.
  • Received PBS promotion campaign awards for Venturing, A Vermont Christmas, and The Governors.

Public Broadcasting Service – Alexandria, VA – 1986–87

Writer/producer (video promotion associate) for network creative services department (7/86-11/87).

  • Produced 10-second to 30-minute promotional videos for PBS stations nationwide, including a program-length preview for the national press tour and an on-air campaign for the nine-hour Holocaust documentary, Shoah.
  • Wrote scripts; prepared off-line edits; hired and directed announcers; and supervised online edit sessions.
  • Selected visuals, music, and ambient soundtracks. Trained staff in off-line post-production techniques.
  • Served on design team for first online edit suite at network headquarters dedicated to video promotion.

WGBH Educational Foundation – Boston, MA – 1980–86

Video editor (11/85-6/86), assistant director/editor (12/84-10/85), studio technician (1/81-12/84), production assistant (1/81), and news assistant (9/80-1/81, paid internship).

  • Developed and edited primetime promotion spots and breaks for local and national programming.
  • Completed online broadcast masters for PBS series and specials including Frontline, Masterpiece Theater, American Playhouse, This Old House, The Victory Garden, and Evening at Pops.
  • Edited stories for The Ten o’clock News. Assembled interviews for A Salute to “The Jewel in the Crown.”
  • Served as camera operator, stage manager, and video switcher for live and live-on-tape multi-camera news, public affairs, performance, how-to, and sports programs produced in the WGBH studios and on location.
  • Assisted director of national PBS broadcast on the first Reagan inauguration.

Education

Vermont College of the Union Institute and University – Montpelier, VT – 1990–93

Master of Arts, transpersonal psychology, human development, and community service, Graduate Program (10/90-5/93).

  • Researched and compared European, American, and Asian theories of lifespan human development, lifelong learning, and community service, focusing on the work of Ken Wilber and Robert Kegan.
  • Completed training and practicum during establishment of Vermont Respite House, a residential hospice.
  • Integrated theory and practice into thesis on cyclical patterns in human development from birth to death.

Boston University – Boston, MA – 1978–81

Bachelor of Science, broadcasting and film, College of Communication, School of Public Communications (9/78-5/81).

  • Placed on Dean’s List every semester; graduated summa cum laude, second in COM/SPC class.
  • Coursework included liberal arts core curriculum with major in media studies, including theory, history, programming, production, technology, visual literacy, and criticism. Minor concentration in computer science.
  • Completed internships at WGBH news and Vermont ETV (PBS). First undergraduate teaching assistant at COM/SPC.
  • Studied freedom and constraint in the British media during summer term at the University of London (7/80-9/80).
  • Transferred to B.U. after two semesters in the University of Vermont Arts and Sciences program (9/77-8/78).

Professional Presentations

  • Monitoring Your Web Identity – Higher Education Web Conference (10/07).
  • Principles of an Effective Web Experience – Bates Communications and Media Relations (4/07)
  • Integrated Communications and the Bates Web – Bates College Board of Trustees – College and External Relations Committee (1/07); Office of College Advancement (3/07); President's Council (3/07); Office of Admissions (4/07).
  • Down a 2.0-Way Street: Trends in University Web Communications – University of Southern California (2/06).
  • The 2.0-Way Street: Content and Collaboration in the Web 2.0 World – Dartmouth Computing (12/05).
  • Buyer Beware: How To Get The Most Out Of Your CMS Vendor – Web Content Management Conference (12/05).
  • Sustaining Web Content Management – Higher Education Web Conference (11/05).
  • Does the Web Mean the Death of the Print Magazine? – University Research Magazine Association (9/05).
  • Toward an Integral Web: Visions, Themes, Trends in Web Communications – Dartmouth Communications Committee (9/05).
  • Pathfinding in the CMS Jungle (co-presented with MIT) – NERCOMP Annual Conference (3/05).
  • Sustaining the University Web: Strategies for Success – OmniUpdate User Conference (3/05).
  • Keeping It Fresh: Sustaining the University Web – EDUCAUSE Western Conference (3/04).
  • Digital media and the Web experience – MIT Freshman Advising Seminar (11/00).

Community Service

Web publisher, content editor, and interface designer for WGBH Alumni. (3/07–present)

Creative consultant for "Voices of the Great Marsh" video, presenting the natural and cultural heritage of the largest salt marsh in New England. (3/01)

Member, New Hampshire Public Radio Community Advisory Board (2004-06). Member, first nominating committee, Vermont Public Radio Community Advisory Board (1993).

Founder, publsher, and executive producer for The Compass, a non-profit Web site supporting nature education, recreation, and conservation organizations in Northern New England. Produced and maintained over 700 pages of content with over three-quarter million page views per year. Tranisition of sites to local control underway. (12/95-present)

  • Appalachian Mountain Club – Andover committee (5/98–12/04)
  • Audubon Vermont (12/01–6/03)
  • Barnet, Vermont (5/01-2/06)
  • Eight Towns the the Bay – coastal MA (1/98–3/01)
  • Friends of Our Trails – Newburyport, MA (8/98–3/06)
  • Green Mountain Audubon Society (11/95–12/01, 6/03–6/07)
  • Green Mountain Club – Burlington section (11/95–3/08)
  • Green Mountain Club – Northeast Kingdom section (5/00–6/03)
  • Ipswich Bay Circuit Trail Committee (3/00–12/01)
  • Lake Champlain Maritime Museum (12/97–2/00)
  • Lebanon (NH) Historical Society (6/02–4/07)
  • Lebanon (NH) Outing Club (11/03–6/06)
  • Maine Audubon – Friends of Hog Island (1/03–3/08)
  • Winooski Valley Park District (5/01–12/03)

(8/2/2008)