
Owner of envizualize
Greater Philadelphia Area

Owner of envizualize
Greater Philadelphia Area
Visual explainer, video producer, animator.
Creating approachable, engaging, animated videos that explain products, services, or processes.
(Media Production industry)
December 2008 — Present (8 months)
Create "envizualizations", animated videos that explain how products, services, and processes work.
(Media Production industry)
January 2005 — Present (4 years 7 months)
Produce, shoot, and edited short web video features including comedy, quirky takes on city life, and interviews, and distributed them through the blog, jonnygoldstein.com. Interviews included Amanda Congdon (Co-Producer and Host of a Videocast for NBC and former host of internet videocast Rocketboom), Mikey Sklar (who was subsequently featured on the Daily Show), and Douglas Rushkoff (Best-selling author).
(Public Relations and Communications industry)
April 2008 — December 2008 (9 months)
Plan, shoot, and edit videos for clients marketing and communications needs.
(Entertainment industry)
July 2007 — August 2008 (1 year 2 months)
Produce and host weekly interactive online live streaming video talk show "Jonny's Par-tay." The Par-tay features people who do interesting things, especially in the realms of online culture, business, and technology. Guests appear in person in the studio or remotely via web cam. Guests include the likes of Loic Le Meur (CEO Seesmic.com), Chris Brogan (Social Media Explorer), and Kathryn V. Jones (Live streaming video drama pioneer).
Jonny's Par-tay incorporates audience interaction via a live chat room and via audience web cams.
(Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Media Production industry)
June 2007 — April 2008 (11 months)
Produced online media communications and help formulate strategy for such communications for the National Community Reinvestment Coalition, a non-profit trade group of over 600 member organizations which seeks to increase economic mobility and access to credit for working families. Since it is a small organization, I wore a lot of hats. On the production side, I shot and edited videos and distributed them online via YouTube and blip.tv. I executed online advocacy campaigns using the Democracy in Action platform. I project managed a major website redesign. I also did some visual design work.
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Entertainment industry)
August 2006 — December 2006 (5 months)
Produced, and hosted groundbreaking interactive live web video talk show called "Reinventing Television," about the ongoing video revolution. Production: Developed concept, booked guests, researched news developments and guests, created illustrations, selected and edited video clips to be played on show, wrote questions and monolog. Hosting: Performed monolog, interviewed guests, moderated viewer text chat and live phone call-in sessions.
Guests included innovative Web Video producers Daniel McVicar (latenitemash.com, The Bold and the Beautiful), Zadi Diaz (JetSet Show, Smashface Productions), Brian Conley (Alive in Baghdad).
(Public Company; 201-500 employees; IVIL; Media Production industry)
April 2006 — July 2006 (4 months)
Procured shooting permits, chose locations, recruited production assistants,directed man-on-street interviews, inteviewed subjects, supervised videographer.
(Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Education Management industry)
October 2005 — July 2006 (10 months)
Managed groundbreaking technology education after school program with more than one hundred high school students in the Bronx, New York. I played a key role in hiring, training, support and supervision of 10 technology education instructors. Students learned video production, videoblogging, and digital audio production.
(Media Production industry)
1999 — 1999 (less than a year)
M.P.S. , Interactive Telecommunications , 2002 — 2004
The Interactive Telecommuncations Program at NYU is recognized as one of the world's premiere interactive technology programs.
From a May 6, 2007 New York Times article:
"A department within the Tisch School of the Arts, I.T.P. (and its predecessor, the Alternate Media Center) has been known for more than 35 years as a hothouse for innovations that use technology to connect people to one another and to the rest of the world in new and unpredictable ways.....Graduates of the program populate some of the world’s largest and most influential media, design and technology firms, as well as start-ups of many stripes."
BA , English Literature , 1987 — 1991
1989 — 1990
-Tisch Fellow (NYU)
-Mind Sports Olympiad Silver Medalist (Mind Mapping, 1999)
-2nd Place Playing Card Memory Event (North American Memory Championship, 1999)
-Phi Beta Kappa