
Community Platform Director at kgbweb
Greater New York City Area

Community Platform Director at kgbweb
Greater New York City Area
Masters , Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP), Human-Computer Interaction , 2005 — 2007
Studied under Red Burns, Dennis Crowley, Nancy Hechinger, Tom Igoe, Raffi Krikorian, Steven B Johnson, Daniel Shiffman, and Clay Shirky.
My projects received press from CBS News.com, CNet, Consumerist, Der Spiegel (Germany), Eyebeam’s reBlog, Gizmodo, La Nacion (Argentina), Lifehacker, Makezine, Mañanas Informales (Argentina), MTV News, Rocketboom, Turbulence.org, Washington Post.com, We Make Money Not Art, WIRED.com
Bachelor of Fine Arts , Film and Television Production with a Minor in Media, Culture, and Communication , 1998 — 2002
•Leadership: NYU Media Ecology Orientation Leader; NYU Program Board Concert Booking Committee; Teacher's Assistant for Film Editing Workshop.
• Scholarships: Tisch School of the Art’s Dean’s Grant, 2000 - 2002; Tisch School of the Art's Sight & Sound Award for Excellence in Documentary Filmmaking, 2000; National Scholarship Trust Fund of the Graphic Arts, 1998 - 2000.
• Internships: Outreach at Amnesty International, Marketing at Astralwerks Records, Marketing at Warp Records North America, Technical Support and Graphic Design at Digital Club Network (founded by Andrew Rasiej).
Ignite NYC, Garage Geeks, Microsoft Research Design Expo, NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP), ETech 2007, SXSW 2007, Come Out and Play 2006, Inter-Society for the Electronic Arts (ISEA) / ZER01 2006, Urban Informatics, SXSW, New York Public Library, Eyebeam
• Co-moderator & Organizer, Porter Novelli’s Social Media for the Social Good with Jeff Pulver, David Armano, Beth Kanter and Randi Zuckerberg. SXSW Interactive. Austin, TX 2009.
• Guest Lecturer & Critic, “TExperience." Bezalel Academy of Art & Design, Jerusalem, Israel 2007.
• Presenter, Ehavorial Advertising: Tracking, Targeting and Technology Conference. In conjunction with Esther Dyson, StopBadware.org and Harvard Law School’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society. Federal Trade Commission. Washington, D.C. 2007.
• Presenter, Sonic Body Pong. O’Reilly Emerging Technology Conference (ETech). San Diego, CA. 2007.
• Presenter, eParole. Microsoft Research. Awarded by Ze Frank, Jason Kotke and Steven Levy. Redmond, WA. 2006.
• Sonic Body Pong: MOD Festival, Guadalajara, Mexico, 2008; HaPzura Festiva,. Tel Aviv, Israel, 2007; Come Out & Play Festival, NYC, 2006.
• Creative Commons Game: Eyebeam, NYC, 2006.
• Pulse Presence: Sony Technology Wonder Lab.