New Media Creative Conceptualizer & Consultant
Greater Boston Area
- Current
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- Principal & Executive Creative Director at The Vesuvius Group, LLC
- Web 2.0 Specialist / Blog Mistress at Global Kids
- Virtual World Content Producer at Second Life (Self-employed)
- Freelance Graphic Designer at studio h2o (Self-employed)
- Past
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- Creative at DeskHappy
- creative at Startup Weekend - Boston, deskhappy
- Graphic Designer at NEBCO
- Media Technical Assistant at Bristol Community College
- Education
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- University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
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Joyce Bettencourt’s Summary
I am a creative conceptualizer with professional experience in virtual world development, blogging, podcasting, machinimatography, graphic design (web/print), illustration (traditional & computer), animation (Flash), character and concept generation.
Joyce Bettencourt’s Specialties:
networking, project management, creative conceptualization, photoshop, design, 3D texture creation, illustration, machinima, storyboarding, writing
Joyce Bettencourt’s Experience
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Principal & Executive Creative Director
The Vesuvius Group, LLC
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Online Media industry)
September 2006 — Present (2 years 11 months)
Co-founder and executive creative director responsible for project building & management of virtual world spaces within Second Life (SL) and other online platforms.
Skills/Experience includes:
- Texture creation
- 3D building
- Event planning and hosting
- Scriptwriting, storyboarding & filming 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
- Combined Story
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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, machinimatography, scripting, 3D building and texturing.
thevesuviusgroup.com -
Web 2.0 Specialist / Blog Mistress
Global Kids
(Non-Profit; E-Learning industry)
February 2006 — Present (3 years 6 months)
Web 2.0 specialist and designer, editor & webmaster for the NYC non-profit, Global Kids' outreach blog - www.holymeatballs.org.
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Virtual World Content Producer
Second Life (Self-employed)
(Self-Employed; 1-10 employees; Online Media industry)
January 2005 — Present (4 years 7 months)
Freelance content creation and event planning/hosting for various entities within the Virtual World Second Life (www.secondlife.com).
Avatar Name: Rhiannon Chatnoir
Projects included work for:
- Global Kids, Inc., NYC, NY
- Katrina Relief Fund
- Burning Life
- Relay For Life
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Freelance Graphic Designer
studio h2o (Self-employed)
(Self-Employed; Myself Only; Graphic Design industry)
January 2003 — Present (6 years 7 months)
Freelance web/graphic design. Clients include:
- Shadow Productions
- Gourmet 8
- Westport River Gardeners
- Wild Again
- The Natural Body -
Creative
DeskHappy
(Graphic Design industry)
January 2007 — July 2007 (7 months)
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creative
Startup Weekend - Boston, deskhappy
(Graphic Design industry)
2007 — 2007 (less than a year)
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Graphic Designer
NEBCO
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Graphic Design industry)
October 2000 — April 2007 (6 years 7 months)
Responsible for the design and overall look and feel of corporate generated websites and printed media. Design templates and user interface for the company's portal website along with client sites focusing on insurance related products and services. Work with marketing team to design printed materials such as ads, brochures, direct mail & trade show displays. Work closely with Business and Insurance Product Managers, as well as Information Systems group in creating designs that are visually effective, consistent with corporate branding and highly usable to our clients.
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Media Technical Assistant
Bristol Community College
(Educational Institution; 201-500 employees; Information Services industry)
January 1998 — October 2000 (2 years 10 months)
Design informational tags, forms, handouts, procedural and tutorial manuals. Provide technical support to faculty, staff and students regarding PC and Mac software, hardware. Install computer software and maintain workstations. Also responsible for Audio, Video and Media collections.
Joyce Bettencourt’s Education
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University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
BFA , visual design / illustration , 1989 — 2000
- Activities and Societies:
- Member of Student Activities Board, Campus Design, CIT and a student member of Graphic Artist Guild and the Society of Children's Book Illustrators
Additional Information
Joyce Bettencourt’s Websites:
Joyce Bettencourt’s Interests:
art, design, virtual worlds, social media, machinima, podcasting, gardening, travel, people
Joyce Bettencourt’s Groups:
Second Life, Second Life
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Women 2.0 -
NetSquared -
KIVA -
International Society for Technology in Education -
TakingITGlobal -
Women for Women International -
Metaverse -
Grasshoppers -
Web 2.0 -
OpenMetaverse Foundation -
Virtual Networker Society -
GamesProducers -
Association of Virtual Worlds -
PodCamp -
Serious Second Life Meetup of Boulder -
Global Kids -
New England Tech Professionals Network -
Generation X -
FREE ONLINE MMORPG & MMO GAMES | MMO hub.org -
World Gaming Executives -
Professional Second Lifers -
Business Her Way -
Social Media Mafia -
Second Life Resident -
Hooray for Hollyworld! -
Knowledge Networking -
Immersive Environments -
The New Media Consortium -
MarketingProfs -
SLinked -
Organizers' Collaborative -
Girl Geek Dinners -
Museums In The Digital Age -
VirtualWorlds -
SLED - Second Life Educators -
Social Media for Social Change -
Metaverse Mashup -
The Business of Street Painting Art
Joyce Bettencourt’s Honors:
· Convergence Art Festival 2002, Providence, RI
9/2002
Printing Industries of Rhode Island award for the chalk pastel painting entitled "Apollo". http://www.caparts.org
· Convergence Art Festival 2001, Providence, RI
9/2001
Printing Industries of Rhode Island award for the chalk pastel painting entitled "Victory and Liberty".
· Convergence Art Festival 2000, Providence, RI
9/2000
People's Choice award for the chalk pastel painting entitled "Icarus".
· Bierstadt Society, New Bedford, MA
7/1999
First Place Award, Graphic category
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