SKILLS:
•Final Draft & Microsoft Office
• Adobe – Photoshop & After Effects
• Standard Conversions, working with both SD PAL, SD NTSC, & HD at various frame rates
• Final Cut Pro & Avid X-Press
• Patching & Routing
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Vancouver Film School – Professional Development
Full Scholarship Recipient – Script Magazine
• Work shopping with other writers.
• Completion of one feature, two television scripts, and numerous shorts.
• Produced Web Series.
• Infusion of voice, style, structure, the art of pitching, and much more.
Berwyn Editorial – Post Production
Editing and Finishing Assistant
• Work with clients in Final Cut Pro and Avid Composer to meet editorial deadlines.
• Archive Flame and Smoke projects and Prep for operators before sessions.
• Create Volvo tags detailing individual lease options associated with different regional dealerships for on-air trafficking.
• Produce slates and Post-prep audio by making OMF files and work picture. Conform in Avid.
• Start Projects in Unity or XSan. Digitize and Sequence material for the assigned editor.
Video Tape Operator
• Perform quality checks for on-air dubs by checking both video and audio scopes to ensure adherence to television standards.
• Create dubs in various analog and digital formats including DVD, Digibeta, BetaSp, etc.
• Experience with compressions using QuickTime Pro, Compressor, Cleaner, and Episode.
• Worked with various aspect ratios and standards while supporting editors with technical issues.
Duplications Coordinator
• Educated and Guided client in making dub decisions to ensure outcome met exact requirements.
• Billed dub requests and Provided estimates to clients.
• Prepared FedEx packages and Performed basic quality checks.
Future is Now – Post Production
Assistant Editor
• Worked freelance on MTV short series, Dove Presents about a designer preparing for Fashion Week.
• Digitized and Sequenced dailies in Avid Composer.
• Collaborated with the editor.
MTV Networks, On-air Promos Department of Noggin and The N
Intern
• Invited to write sample promo scripts based on performance.
• Worked closely with producers in sessions and observed how editing decisions were made based on written copy.
• Gained understanding of workflow from script to screen.
• Trusted by Producer to operate the Avid in order to create talent reels.
• Organized entire tape library by airdate, network, and program.
• Scheduled entire programming for GAS network for one week.
Katharine Gibbs School
Teacher’s Assistant
• Provided technical assistance to peers for Photoshop, After Effects, and Avid.
• Writing assignments were used as examples during class.
Teach for America, AmeriCorps, Mario Salvadori Middle School
Teacher of English and Social Studies
• Wrote a successful grant to DonorsChoose.org that led to supplies being donated to my classroom.
• Used multimedia to illustrate literary concepts and elicit analytical thinking on a unit based on Edgar Allen Poe’s short stories.
• Started an after school Writer’s Club & Gospel Choir.
EDUCATION:
Teachers College - Columbia University
• Master of Arts in the Teaching of English, May 2004
Syracuse University, S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications & School of Arts and Sciences
Bachelor of Arts, Magna Cum Laude, in English & Television and Film, May 2002
• Minor in Educational Studies, School of Education, National Golden Key Honor Society
CONTINUING EDUCATION:
Katharine Gibbs School – AAS ’06 in Digital Filmmaking and Multimedia – 3.9 GPA
NOTED ACCOMPLISHMENTS:
• Commissioned to rewrite a screenplay for Freedom Williams of C & C and the Music Factory
• Received a full scholarship to the Vancouver Film School in Writing for Film and Television
• Writer of “Divine Mirage,” Supernatural Spec Teleplay submitted to the 2008 ABC Writing Fellowship
• “I Will Fly.” Published by Illiad Press, Received Editor’s Choice Award
SELECTED WORKS & PRODUCTIONS:
Writer, Producer "Inspiration Transformed" C3 STORIES
- 3rd Installment to the contemporary remake of the Anne of Green Gables Series
Writer, Producer, Editor"Finding Inspiration" SULLIVAN ENTERTAINMENT
- Winning Short in the Anne of Green Gables Online Film Festival
Writer, Producer, Editor "Inspiration Found" C3 STORIES
- Short Submitted to the Anne of Green Gables Online Film Festival – 2nd in Web Series
Co-Writer, Producer, Editor "Lost?" C3 STORIES
- Music Video Submitted into the Coldplay video competition for the song titled Lost?
Cinematographer, Producer, Editor "Apartment 309" C. S. VERNON PRODUCTIONS
- Shortly after their mother dies, two teenage girls must find a way to escape her drug dealing boyfriend
Co-Writer, Co-Producer, Co-Director, Editor, Cinematographer, "The Heights" – “Pilot” VISIONARY CREATIONS
- Pilot Episode for a 1⁄2 hour television series dealing with inner-city youth.
Producer, Director, Editor, Graphics, Cinematographer Electronic Press Kit VISIONARY CREATIONS
- Video Promoting a Soca recording artist
Producer, Director, Editor, Graphics, Cinematographer "Rugrats" VISIONARY CREATIONS
- A Music Video utilizing childhood cartoons juxtaposed with genuine youth moments
