Objective

To do what I love and to do it right.

Education

Bachelor of Arts in PhotoJournalism from the University of California at Santa Cruz.

Honors and Awards

• I was the Project Cool sighting on September 25, 1996 for the fray.

• I won the David Siegel High Five Award for Excellence in Site Design for the week of Aug. 2 - 9 1995 for Dive Travel Express.

• I won the David Siegel High Five Award for Excellence in Site Design again for the week of July 10 - 17 1996 for Tweak.

• Porter College Service Award, 1995, for "consistent, meaningful commitment to enhancing the quality of student life at Porter College."

• After my year as Senior Editor (1993-1994), the Fish Rap was rated as the number one student newspaper by a campus housing survey.

• Silver Award in the PhotoJournalism category from the Society of Newspaper Design. 1993.

• Good Times Amateur Photography Contest, August 5, 1993. I won 2 of the 6 categories and was the only winner under 30 years old.

Employment History

• Creator, leader, founder, designer, whatever - the fray. San Francisco, CA. Duties: I created the fray as an example of how it should be done. August '96 to present.

• Production Manager - HotWired's WebMonkey. San Francisco, CA. Duties: coordinate the production process, write html, debabelize images, consult on interface issues. July '96 to present.

• Assistant Production Manager - HotWired's Signal. San Francisco, CA. Duties: daily web page production and design. May to July '96.

• Founder and Creative Director - Tweak Magazine. San Francisco, CA. Duties: I created the entire site from the ground up: design, editorial ... everything. January '96 to May '96.

• Assistant Production Manager - HotWired's The Netizen. San Francisco, CA. Duties: daily web page production under extreme deadlines. February '96 to May '96.

• Assistant Production Editor - HotWired. San Francisco, CA. Duties: web page testing and production in a variety of browsers and platforms. Proficiency in UNIX and emacs required. September '95 to February '96.

• Web Site Designer - Dive Travel Magazine. Santa Cruz, CA. Duties: direct the transition of a full color magazine to the World Wide Web, in charge of the entire design and implementation. May to August '95.

• Computer Consultant - Arts Division, UC Santa Cruz. Duties: keep all the art professors on speaking terms with their Macintoshes. Help manage a file server, web server and a QuickMail server. Ethernet networking. June to September '95.

• Editorial Assistant - Visual Ink Publishing Company. Santa Cruz, CA. Duties: take photos, write and edit stories for several publications from a newsprint quarterly to a full-color glossy magazine. April '95.

• Editor Emeritus - The Fish Rap Live!, UC Santa Cruz. Duties: represent the Fish Rap in the UCSC Media Council, supervise the staff, write and edit stories, page layout, suggest story ideas, work with writers. October '94 to June '95.

• Photography Intern - The Anchorage Daily News, Anchorage, Alaska. Duties: my internship called for me to shoot 100 photos. I shot 200. July to August '94.

  

• Senior Editor - The Fish Rap Live!, UC Santa Cruz. Duties: oversee all aspects of the paper. Run meetings, balance finances, supervise editors and writers, write and edit stories, write editorials, page layout, suggest story ideas, work with writers. October '93 to June '94.

• Photography Editor - The Fish Rap Live!, UC Santa Cruz. Duties: shoot photos, supervise other photographers, write stories. October '92 to June '93.

• Desktop Publishing - Re:Porter, a biweekly newsletter for Porter College. Duties: write news briefs, page layout. March '93 to June '95.

• Darkroom Attendant - UC Santa Cruz Photography Services. November '92 to June '93.

• Photographer - Greer Dance Troupe documentary project. UC Santa Cruz. October to December '92.

• Staff Photographer - City on a Hill Press. UC Santa Cruz. January to June '92.

• Photographer & Photograph Sales - Karousel Kids Theatre Company. Duties: Entrepreneurial business. I shot photos of the cast and performances and sold them during the shows. Claremont, California. June to September '89.

References, hard copy and letters of recommendation are available upon request.

For examples of my web site design, please see my Portfolio

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