Functional Analyst

Avenue A | Razorfish

(Public Company: 1001-5000 employees: MSFT: Marketing and Advertising industry) January 2007– May 2008 (1 year 5 months)

• Work on large-scale Web projects, including CondeNet’s social media/creative multimedia scrapbooking site for teenage girls, Flip.com, the financial magazine site Portfolio.com, and Disney’s ESPN.com.

   

• Worked on Facebook Application development on one-year anniversary of Flip. Gathered and documented business requirements, create functional specifications. Organized and structured central intranet wiki for site features and supporting materials. Collaborate with design, technology, and user experience teams on site interaction design features and functionality.   

(Public Company: 10,001 or more employees: TWX; Broadcast Media industry) August 2001 – December 2006 (5 years 5 months)

• Started one month before 9/11 & wrote the on-screen 2-deck headline “ticker” from 2001-2003, through some of the most intense breaking news in recent history.
• Cyberculture/cult media columnist for HLN on CNN.com, 2002-05: BuzzFactor, HotWired.
• Developed intranet HLN blog on spec, 2003. Project reborn for entire CNN newsgroup, 2006.
• Freelanced CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360” April 2004. Completed copy editor training.

Chris has 3 recommendations (1 manager, 1 co-worker, 1 partner) including:

• Herb Sierra, Editorial Manager CNN Headline News, Turner Broadcasting, Atl, GA
• Art Harris, Owner, Busystreet Productions LLC
• Al Matthews, Writer, CNN Headline News
  

   

School of Journalism, University of Montana

(Educational Institution: 501-1000 employees: Higher Education industry) August 2005 – December 2005 ( 5 months)

• Taught one-semester endowed visiting professorship, including seminar on weblogs and citizen journalism movement, while on leave from CNN.
• Co-advisor to student newspaper, directing the RSS-based redesign of CMS and its online edition.
• 300+ attended public lecture on warblogs vs. traditional journalism delivered for the endowment.

Chris has 1 recommendation (1 co-worker) including:

• Prageeta Sharma, Director of the Creative Writing Program, University of Montana, Missoula

   

(Educational Institution ; 1001-5000 employees ; Higher Education industry) August 1998 – May 2002 (3 years 10 months)

• Department of English, MA in Professional Communication Program, Clemson University, Clemson, SC.
• Specialties: Visual Communication, New Media and Web Design, Interaction Architecture and Usability, Professional Communication, Pilot Laptop Program.
• Taught graduate seminars in Visual Communication, Rhetoric of Web Publishing, Writing for Electronic Media; Undergraduate courses in Professional/Technical Communication, Laptop Composition, Honors Composition, Writing for Electronic Media, Writing to the World Wide Web.

Chris has 2 recommendations (1 co-worker, 1 partner) including:

• Lorien Patton, Artist, Freelance
• Bernadette Longo, Assistant Professor, English, Clemson University

   

Director, PSA Interactive Resources Studio: Sponsored Research Grant

Clemson University Public Service Activities

(Educational Institution ; 1001-5000 employees ; Online Media industry) May 1999 – May 2001 (2 years 1 month)

• Received $100,000 grant over 3 school years to create and direct the PSA Interactive Resources Studio for Clemson Public Service Activities (1998-2001).
• As Director, implemented redesign of the PSA web portal and about a dozen PSA client sites with staff of graduate assistants and undergraduate programmers.
• Implemented formal usability study post-launch with coded video data. Hosted and directed other grant-funded, nationally-published graduate thesis usability studies.      

Computer Consultant

Cisco Systems (Albany, NY office)

(Public Company ; 10,001 or more employees ; CSCO; Computer Networking industry) May 1997 – December 1997 ( 8 months)

• Created Excel database for the NYS government contract; planned and designed local node of the Cisco Web behind a firewall for NYS contract price list, demo inventory, and promotions. Set up demo web server.      

Graphic Designer

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, School of Architecture Lighting Research Center

(Educational Institution ; 1001-5000 employees ; Publishing industry) January 1996 – May 1997 (1 year 5 months)

• DTP for research publications & large posters.
• Technical schematics, photo-editing, illustration.
• Poster designs won Society of Technical Communication award.      

Grad Research, Marketing, and Teaching Assistant (while completing Ph.D.)

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

(Educational Institution ; 1001-5000 employees ; Research industry) August 1993 – May 1997 (3 years 10 months)

• Marketing and Recruitment Grad Assistant: Electronic Media, Arts, and Communication (EMAC Program). Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY. (1995-96) Marketing and Recruitment, Lead Web Designer. Won RPI Founders’ Award for work with EMAC (highest award given at the university).
• Teaching Assistant: Language, Literature and Communication, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY. (1994-96) Courses: Expository Writing (pilot course for computer-assisted teaching), Writing for Electronic Media, Writing to the World Wide Web (new courses I developed), computer workshops for faculty.
• Research Assistant: Language, Literature and Communication, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY. (Fall 1993) NSF-funded Design Conference Room for Computer-Supported Collaborative Work.