Experience
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The New Yorker magazine (cartoons)
Alta magazine (cartoons)
The New Republic magazine (cartoons, reporting, editing)
Mother Jones magazine (reporting, editing)
The San Francisco Bay Guardian (reporting, editing)
UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television (graduate-level instruction in 2D digital animation and sound editing)
Graverobber Productions, creators of Chicken Big and The Beef Sumo Show (storyboard, animatic, character design, Flash character animation)
Consumer Financial Service Corporation (illustration, copywriting, editing)
Wise World Prep (higher-education application essay consulting)
Charles Schwab & Co., Inc. (editing)
Alexis Harte, Oscar-nominated composer (music video animation, story development, directing)
The New Yorker magazine (cartoons)
Alta magazine (cartoons)
The New Republic magazine (cartoons, reporting, editing)
Mother Jones magazine (reporting, editing)
The San Francisco Bay Guardian (reporting, editing)
UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television (graduate-level instruction in 2D digital animation and sound editing)
Graverobber Productions, creators of Chicken Big and The Beef Sumo Show (storyboard, animatic, character design, Flash character animation)
Consumer Financial Service Corporation (illustration, copywriting, editing)
Wise World Prep (higher-education application essay consulting)
Charles Schwab & Co., Inc. (editing)
Alexis Harte, Oscar-nominated composer (music video animation, story development, directing)
Degrees
Harvard University — BA English, Phi Beta Kappa, top GPA among my fellow English majors
UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television — MFA Animation
Continuing education coursework
Rhode Island School of Design (digital and traditional illustration)
UC Berkeley (anatomy, portraiture)
California College of Art (illustration and freelance business practices)
San Francisco State University (2D digital animation)
Stanford University (fiction writing)
Harvard University — BA English, Phi Beta Kappa, top GPA among my fellow English majors
UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television — MFA Animation
Continuing education coursework
Rhode Island School of Design (digital and traditional illustration)
UC Berkeley (anatomy, portraiture)
California College of Art (illustration and freelance business practices)
San Francisco State University (2D digital animation)
Stanford University (fiction writing)
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Software skills (advanced)
Pro Tools Photoshop TVPaint Premiere Office Animate After Effects Software skills (basic) Harmony Illustrator Flix Final Cut Pro Final Draft SketchUp |
Traditional media skills
Writing (scripts, grants, fiction, organizational communications, personal statements) Editing (structure, line, fact-checking, copy editing, proofreading) Illustration Cartooning Life drawing Comics Watercolor Colored Pencil Line drawing Music composition, arranging, and performance Music theory Sound editing Teaching UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television (graduate-level animation, postproduction sound editing) UCLA Summer Institute, Traditional Animation program Original music |
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