Al Olsen Email & Phone Number

United States

Software and Media production

New York, United States

Heavy Music Production.

Greater New York City Area

- Designed and developed a full research infrastructure that connects various online and offline data collection tools with an experiment administration system, data extraction and post processing utilities, data visualization dashboards of game logs and biosensor physiological data for monitoring research participants activities in real time; in sum, a full spectrum of research tools to empower, facilitate and accelerate the research process of multimedia environments.- Designed and developed the flagship multimedia learning research platform that enables researchers to design and administer research experiments across an ecosystem of surveys, apps, games, simulations and virtual reality applications. The app was produced using Agile methodology, AngularJS and a Laravel 8 headless API infrastructure. This product has yielded 20+ research studies and scientific article publications.- Designed the UI and UX for a wide range of learning environments leveraging research in theoretical psychology and HCI scientific foundations on all platforms including web, mobile and virtual reality. These research instruments include video games, simulations, web-based learning environments and cognitive psychometric tasks. These instruments were funded by various funding institutions including the National Science Foundation, the Institute of Education Sciences, the National Institutes of Health, Melinda and Bill Gates Foundation, and various New York University seed programs.- Designed and implemented audio designs for various mobile video games, virtual reality video games and simulations, using state of the art audio production software and leveraged spatial audio techniques in VR apps.- Designed and conducted a Video Game curriculum for a High School Summerprogram that generates over $200,000 in revenue every summer.- Served as a project manager for various projects and managed teams of designers, researchers and developers

Greater New York City Area

Provide courses both in the undergraduate and graduate levels.In this course, students are introduced to Bash, HTML, CSS, and Front-End Web Design. Students learn how to program web sites at the Front-end level. Students are expected to master the skill of reading and writing HTML,CSS and introductory JavaScript.

New York, New York, United States

Compose Guitars, Bass and Lyrics. Arrangements and Full sound production.

Greater New York City Area

Founded in 2017, MindWareMedia designs and develops software products for various research initiatives. The focus of the company is that of developing software products and digital learning environments using scientific theory found in cognitive psychology and cutting edge digital technologies with the goal to support and enhance learning, streamline research in cognition and learning, promote equity and well being. MindWareMedia has had the privilege to work with researchers from academic institutions including New York University, City University of New York, Columbia University, Stanford University, Vanderbilt University, University of California Irvine, University of California Riverside and University of Washington in projects funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), Institute of Education Science (IES), National Institute of Health (NIH) and the Melinda and Bill Gates Foundation.

New York City

Analyzed, Designed, Developed, Implemented and evaluated creative solutions for various clients.

Greater New York City Area

Designed, Develop and Conduct a Full Stack Development intensive program where students are introduced to Front end and Back end technologies to create Dynamic Web sites and Web Applications.

Greater New York City Area

Conduct a Web Design Intensive course that teaches Web Development best practices in a studio based learning environment. The learners gain expertise in HTML, CSS, JavaScript and Collaborative Development in addition to technical problem solving, design and computational thinking.

Union Square

Teach a yearlong video game design and programming studio class that aims at teaching Video Game media production and Object Oriented programming to students.

Union Square

In charge of information architecture for the various career development events and announcements and the design execution of screen, interactive and print media.

New York City

In charge of all technical aspects of the foundation including network administration, database design and architecture, web presence, and production of several research and development applications that support the care of children with traumatic brain injuries including a Food and Medical Care tracking system, Multimedia learning environments that teach colors, numbers, the alphabet and objects and a web app repository where medical and legal professionals could interact and exchange information and ideas via forums and document upload capable repositories that supported the crafting of the Pediatric Acquired Brain Injury Act, which was introduced to the United States Congress in 2009 to extend the care and education of children that suffered Traumatic Brain Injuries.

New York City

In charge of the web development. Also, over see the technical aspects dealing mostly with multimedia content and its optimization and user experience. The site is developed using the LAMP environment.

New York City

Assisted in creating graphics for the Deskloops application software Developed the product's website

Greater New York City Area

Created web and graphic media for various clients that included political campaign websites. Managed political donation databases, donation web pages, generated lists using Microsoft Sql Server for FEC Filings and for massive emailing, developed custom made database applications to manage different data tasks such as database cleaning and managed opt-out email address.

New York City

Provided technical and media production support to students and answered questions regarding the use of Adobe products such as Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash among others, as well as with Web Development languages such as HTML, CSS, JAVASCRIPT, ASP and SQL.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Educational Communication And Technology

Core courses on Audio production and Research

Master'S Degree, Digital Media Design For Learning, 3.97

I completed a Master of Arts degree in an Educational Technology Program titled Digital Media Design for Learning with a concentration.

Bachelors Of Fine Arts, Electronic Design And Multimedia, 3.0

Coursework in Computer Science

Associate Degree, Applied Sciences On Digital Media Arts, 3.90

I completed an Associates degree in Applied Sciences Digital Arts concentration