Michael Pick

Current

• Lightbulb Engineer at Automattic

Past

• Motion Designer/Screencaster at Smashcut Media
• Executive Editor, Video Producer at Robin Good's Media Network

Education

• University of Southern Queensland
• University of Southampton
• University of Southampton

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Recommended

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Connections

86 connections

Industry

Design

Websites

• My Blog
• My Blog

Michael Pick’s Summary

I make WordPress TV

Michael Pick’s Specialties:

WordPress, motion graphics, motion logos, video demos, video editing, web video, internet tv, animation, final cut pro, mac, osx, After Effects, Photoshop, Illustrator, 3D, screencasting, Automattic, screencasts, facilitation, elearning, information design, convergence media, instructional design, multimodal learning

Michael Pick’s Experience

• Lightbulb Engineer

  Automattic

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)

  August 2008 — Present (1 year)

  As the resident lightbulb engineer at Automattic my job is to inspire those eureka, lightbulb-over-head moments, and hopefully to turn people on to the possibilities of the WordPress platform. Mostly by means of kick-a## video.

• Motion Designer/Screencaster

  Smashcut Media

  (Media Production industry)

  June 2007 — July 2008 (1 year 2 months)

  I made motion graphic promos, animations and screencast tutorials for a whole range of fortune 500s, web start ups and other businesses - most commonly for use on the interwebs

• Executive Editor, Video Producer

  Robin Good's Media Network

  (Internet industry)

  August 2006 — August 2007 (1 year 1 month)

  Writing, researching and editing content for the http://www.masternewmedia.org and http://www.masterviews.com websites, in addition to conducting interviews and networking with web startup CEOs and producing screencast video recordings for the web.

Michael Pick’s Education

• University of Southern Queensland

  M.Ed (Distinction) , Education (technology & applied linguistics) , 2006 — 2007

• University of Southampton

  MA (Distinction) , Film , 2001 — 2002

• University of Southampton

  BA (1st class) , Film and English Literature , 1998 — 2001

Additional Information

Michael Pick’s Websites:

• My Blog
• My Blog

Michael Pick’s Interests:

semantic web, microformats, open source, japan, mobile web, mashups, screencasts, screencast, screencasting, voice over, voice work, product demo, web video, motion graphics, motionography, typography, instructional design, usability, internet tv, web video, convergence media, WordPress, animation, iPhone, bloggings, blogs, After Effects, Final Cut Pro

Michael Pick’s Groups:

•    Creative COW (Communities of the World)
•    DataPortability Project
•    Automatticians

Michael Pick’s Contact Settings

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