I was raised in Central Nyack, NY – a diverse suburb of NYC. Both of my parents were music educators – my mother a piano teacher, and my father an accomplished musician, teacher, composer, and orchestra conductor. My creative outlets were mostly musical, with many years of musicianship, DJ and music remixing work eventually leading to video editing. I have worked most of my life in the NYC area, and a few years since 2007 in Syracuse, NY. I currently reside in the Concord, NH area employed by Granite State College as a Rich Media Specialist within the Instructional Design department.

Communication and Marketing: I’ve been a professional video editor and graphic animator since 1990, and a web designer since 2008. I have worked with directors, producers, marketing staff, educators, higher education administrators and fine artists to create and publish works for exhibition, advertising, instruction, corporate promotion, broadcast and webcast.

Instruction: In 2011, I  earned my MS in Instructional Design, Development & Evaluation at Syracuse University’s School of Education, also serving as a graduate assistant for the Office of the Dean. In addition to developing instructional systems,  I have provided classroom and one-on-one instruction for secondary school and university staff and students, and composed live screencapture demonstration support for online access.

CREATIVE SERVICES:

Video and Graphic animation

• Video editing on Final Cut Pro 6.x and Avid Media Composer.
• Graphics animation via Adobe AfterEffects.
• Green screen compositing and image repair via Adobe AfterEffects.
• DVD authoring and burning.
• Color correction and legalizing video for broadcast.
• Open captioning web video files for accessible online review.
• Final program mastering and output to broadcast quality digital video formats: Digital Beta, HDCam, DVCProHD.
• Sound editing, sound effects, and sound design via library of 100+ CD collection.
• Music research and editing via library of rights-controlled stock music.
• Digitizing from various tape formats and ingest from P2 MXF formats to quicktime file format.
• Conversion of various video and SWF formats to other formats for web or DVD.
• DVD extraction and conversion to editable file formats.
• DVD extraction and conversion to downloadable and streaming web video formats.
• Compression of raw video and audio files for downloadable and streaming web video formats.
• Still photo conversion to various formats for tv and web.
• Conversion of timelapse still photo files to video.

Web Design:

• XHTML, CSS coding and modification.
• User-based Design analysis for interface architecture.
• Page rendering Adobe Dreamweaver, Adobe Photoshop.
• WordPress blog and bbPress forum installation and theme modification via CSS, HTML and basic PHP.

INSTRUCTIONAL SERVICES:

• Instructional analysis, design, and development.
• User-based Design consulting.
• Narrated realtime screencapture tutorial via IshowU HD and SnapzPro for online review.
• In-class demonstrations, workshops and one-on-one instruction on video shooting, lighting, editing, graphic animation and web-based CMS with Ensemble Video.

TECHNICAL SERVICES:

• Install, setup and maintain Apple Final Cut Pro editing systems via AJA digital video card products.
• Apple desktop and laptop setup and troubleshooting.
• Apple laptop hardware repair.
• Video/audio cabling and termination.

I have also been an avid bowler and self-proclaimed evangelist on behalf of the integrity of the sport. I have earned numerous team and individual championships, and several 300 and 800 honor scores.