Experience

National Center for Supercomputing Applications

• United States
• Research Services
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Visualization Designer

  • Feb 2022 - Present

• Multimedia Specialist

  • Jan 1995 - Feb 2022

  Scope of Position / Summary:Assist in daily functions of the Advanced Visualization Lab in the production of scientific visualization, video, audio, and multimedia programming for the staff, users, and national computational science community in a creative, timely and broadcast-quality manner in an advanced media environment. Key Responsibilities:• Coordinate and handle project inquiries from users and staff, and determine appropriate media and procedures for presentation of scientific research based on the needs of the researcher, animator and other members of the AVL team.• Serve as webmaster of the Advanced Visualization Lab and eDream, responsible for the creation and maintenance of respective websites, which includes graphic design, CSS, JavaScript, Flash animation, which may include programming duties as assigned. • Advanced scientific animation using both commercial and in house tools, including projects for museums, NASA and other AVL collaborators.• Serve as producer, director and/or operator to process media content. This means sometimes directing, coordinating, and working with co-workers on a variety of media projects. These jobs include computer graphic animation processing, computer and video graphic productions, video compositing and editing, videography, photography, script writing, video duplication, and other related tasks. • Operate a variety of advanced media systems for video production.• Provide demonstrations of content produced by AVL for public outreach• Oversee curation and conversion of NCSA’s visualization archive housed on physical media.



WICD TV

• Director

  • Aug 1988 - Aug 1996

  My responsibilities included:Directing the 6 & 10 pm live newscastsManage a crew of 12 for each live broadcast.Coordinate production of various pre-recorded public affairs shows that aired throughout the week.Work with News Director and Producer to ensure that the News and Production departments worked smoothly on all on air content. My responsibilities included:Directing the 6 & 10 pm live newscastsManage a crew of 12 for each live broadcast.Coordinate production of various pre-recorded public affairs shows that aired throughout the week.Work with News Director and Producer to ensure that the News and Production departments worked smoothly on all on air content.