Joshua Stortz

Current

• Principal and Executive Producer at The Vesuvius Group, LLC
• Virtual World Content producer at Second Life (Self-employed)

Past

• Intern and Observatory Employee at Maria Mitchell Association

Education

• University of California, Santa Barbara
• San Francisco State University
• Contra Costa Community College

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Connections

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Industry

Primary/Secondary Education

Websites

• My Company

Joshua Stortz’s Experience

• Principal and Executive Producer

  The Vesuvius Group, LLC

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Online Media industry)

  September 2006 — Present (2 years 1 month)

  Co-owner and executive producer responsible for project building and management of virtual world spaces within Second Life and other online platforms.
  
  Skills/Experience includes:
  - Extensive 3D building
  - Scripting
  - Filming and editing of machinima
  
  Projects/Clients include:
  - Bumbershoot Arts Festival/Sudo sim in SL
  - Ramapo, NY school district
  - Poser 7 launch event/e frontier software
  - Morpheus Media
  - Beliefnet.com
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  The Vesuvius Group is a collective of idea conceptualizers and techy creatives working together in Second Life on collaborative projects that make a difference. Our team members come to this virtual space with real world experience as the foundation of the services we provide including project management, event planning, marketing, art direction, design, scripting, machinimatography, 3D building and texturing.

• Virtual World Content producer

  Second Life (Self-employed)

  (Self-Employed; 1-10 employees; Online Media industry)

  January 2005 — Present (3 years 9 months)

  Freelance content creation for various entities within the virtual world Second Life (www.secondlife.com).
  
  Projects included work for:
  - Ramapo, NY school district space in SL
  - Relay For Life
  - House of RFyre
  - Splo Museum/Exploratorium
  
  Own and operate a successful stortfront in SecondLife under the name Amulius Lioncourt

• Intern and Observatory Employee

  Maria Mitchell Association

  (Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Research industry)

  June 2004 — August 2004 (3 months)

  Observatory Employee
  - Public viewing nights
  - Daily observatory tours
  
  Intern
  - Researcher in astronomy and astrophysics

Joshua Stortz’s Education

• University of California, Santa Barbara

  Physics 2006 — 2009 (expected)

  Physics Circus - A group that would go around to different elementary schools and teach physics through fun interactive demos

• San Francisco State University

  3D Modeling 2007 — 2007

  Class in Maya

• Contra Costa Community College

  Physics 2001 — 2006

  Activities and Societies:

  CSE-Mesa

Additional Information

Joshua Stortz’s Websites:

• My Company

Joshua Stortz’s Groups:

Help Hookup - Startup Weekend SF

•    Help Hookup - Startup Weekend SF
•    Professional Second Lifers

Joshua Stortz’s Contact Settings

Interested In:

• career opportunities
• consulting offers
• new ventures
• expertise requests
• reference requests
• getting back in touch