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Stoneham, Ma, Us

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Built a successful freelance business partnering with the following clients: • Late July Organics• Whole Foods Market • Vida Health• Forge Worldwide• State Street Global• Quickbase• The Boston Foundation• Continuum Design • Soup2Nuts (PBS & Adult Swim)• Above Summit

Waltham, Ma

Senior member of Vistaprint's global marketing team leading the concepting and production of on-brand campaign content (social media, activations, digital, print, OOH, video, UGC, blog, PR), for Vistaprint’s customer base of small business owners. Utilized skills in art directing, motion graphics, video production, illustration and graphic design.

Worked as a multimedia designer within the newly formed marketing team of the Harvard Innovation labs. Projects included creative development and design for printed marketing materials, digital design (website, email blasts, social media), documentary photography/videography and video displays.

Cambridge, Ma

I worked with a small multimedia team in the MIT Media Lab where I collaborated on a wide variety of tasks such as filming, producing, editing, and online publishing of video content from the lab’s lectures, research projects and events. My animation and graphic design background was put to good use in the creation of informational motion graphics used to explain complex research concepts. Visit http://labcast.media.mit.edu/ to see samples of this work.

Danvers, Ma

Successfully launched Neal Advertising's in-house video production studio. Responsible for the graphic and video production of commercial advertising for broadcast and digital. Collaborated on all aspects of production including pre-production, videography, editing, motion graphics, and distribution.

Boston & San Francisco Bay Area

Key member of a small new media startup focused on location based multimedia for mobile devices and the web. Art directed several award winning productions including two mobile video tours of the New England Aquarium, Walking Cinema: Murder on Beacon Hill, and the Gloucester Harborwalk app.

Belfast, United Kingdom

Awarded a grant from Northern Ireland National Lottery fund to spend two months at Digital Arts Studios developing new animation work. I also gave a masterclass and presentation of my portfolio.

Newton, Massachusetts, United States

Sanglaburi, Thailand

I was awarded a grant from the Massachusetts College of Art upon graduation to travel to Thailand and work at a neohumanist orphanage and art therapy center located on the Thai-Burmese Border.

Watertown, Ma

Worked on background and character designs, lip-synch, and animation for nationally televised programs aired on PBS kids and Cartoon Network.

Bfa, Animation

Professional Studies, Documentary Video Production