Blake Ferris

Past

• Coordinator, Exhibition Management at Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
• Office Manager at Heritage Square Museum
• Account/Project Manager at Eriksen Translations, Inc.

• Translator at Freelance (Self-employed)
• Operations Director at GiantChair
• Editor, Environment Directorate at OECD

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Education

• Ecole des hautes Etudes en Sciences sociales
• Université Paris Sorbonne (Paris IV)
• University of California, Los Angeles

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Connections

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Industry

Museums and Institutions

Websites

• My Website

Blake Ferris’s Experience

• Coordinator, Exhibition Management

  Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

  (Non-Profit; Museums and Institutions industry)

  November 2007 — February 2009 (1 year 4 months)

  Assisted the Director of Exhibition Management in the planning, budgeting and expense tracking of MOCA exhibitions, and created museum-wide online project management tools. Reviewed contracts. Supervised approvals of press and marketing materials created for MOCA-organized exhibitions appearing at other institutions and liaised with counterparts at these venues.

• Office Manager

  Heritage Square Museum

  (Museums and Institutions industry)

  February 2007 — November 2007 (10 months)

• Account/Project Manager

  Eriksen Translations, Inc.

  (Museums and Institutions industry)

  October 2004 — December 2006 (2 years 3 months)

  Managed Eriksen accounts including VoIP telephone provider Skype, the Guggenheim Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and UNESCO. Identified and developed prospects for new business. Assembled linguist teams, developed budgets and managed large localization projects.

• Translator

  Freelance (Self-employed)

  (Self-Employed; Writing and Editing industry)

  2004 — 2006 (2 years )

• Operations Director

  GiantChair

  (Museums and Institutions industry)

  1999 — 2001 (2 years )

• Editor, Environment Directorate

  OECD

  (Government Agency; International Affairs industry)

  June 1992 — November 1998 (6 years 6 months)

  Edited OECD Environment publications, identified potential projects for publication, oversaw translations and publication development. Wrote press releases and articles for industry and policy journals. Represented OECD at the Frankfurt Book Fair.

Blake Ferris’s Education

• Ecole des hautes Etudes en Sciences sociales

  DEA , History and Political Science , 1996 — 1998

• Université Paris Sorbonne (Paris IV)

  Licence , British Literature , 1995 — 1996

• University of California, Los Angeles

  B.A. , English , 1986 — 1989

  Cum Laude

Additional Information

Blake Ferris’s Websites:

• My Website

Blake Ferris’s Interests:

Visual arts, photography, literature, cooking, translation, history, France, web 2.0.

Blake Ferris’s Contact Settings

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