ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL CAREER OBJECTIVES

Innovate, plan, implement, and administer programs in the media arts at the university level. Develop new, and expand existing programs, utilizing creative funding opportunities. Increase public awareness of the media arts. Develop Distance-Education programming across the curriculum.

COLLEGIATE TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Adjunct Faculty, Media Arts, Cerro Coso Community College

· Online instruction

o Creating curriculum and teaching for the Media Arts department in an online environment.

· School to career/tech prep articulated outreach

o Creating curriculum for and teaching Digital Video Production to high school students.

o Representative and liaison for Cerro Coso Community College to Burroughs High School.

o Responsible for facility, supervising maintenance of hardware and software, peripherals and network.

· Instruction in digital animation

o Lab practicum instruction.

· Media Arts Faculty Tutor

o Tutoring Media Arts students in the Learning Assistance Center.

EDUCATION

2001 – 2002, Academy of Digital Animation, Cerro Coso Community College

Production planning and implementation, creation of vector graphics, using vector graphics in animation, creation of banner ads and splash screens, 3D character and scene modeling using NURBS and Subdivision techniques, 3D animation using Lattices, Inverse and Forward Kinematics, texturing using shaders and Deep Paint 3D, importing and exporting models, creation of QuickTime Movies, creation of expressions using VB Script.

Sequence of Instruction:

- Writing for Media Arts

- Animation Production Art

- Principles of Animation

- Animation II

- Digital Character Animation

- Web Animation with Flash

- Fundamentals of Game Design

- Animation Programming

1993 – 1998, California State University, Chico

Sequence of Instruction:

- Computer Assisted Art

- Computer Graphics for Artists (two semesters)

- Color Theory/Design

- Beginning Painting

- Intermediate Life Drawing

- Early History of Interiors

- Roman Art

- Modern History of Interiors

- Medieval Art

- Chinese and Japanese Art

- Art History Special Problems (two semesters)

DEGREES

Certificate in Digital Animation

Cerro Coso Community College, Ridgecrest, CA

Bachelor of Arts, Art/Art History

California State University, Chico, CA

ORGANIZATIONS

SIGGRAPH, L.A. Chapter