
Digital Production Assistant and Well-To-Do Man About Town
Greater Pittsburgh Area

Digital Production Assistant and Well-To-Do Man About Town
Greater Pittsburgh Area
I'm a quirky, passionate and dedicated young professional with a lot of big ideas and a lot of great designs floating around in my noodle. My goals are to find a niche, find a voice and help the voiceless say what needs to be said.
Cartooning, social trends, Internet marketing, Internet, Web design, design, illustration, computers, networking, branding, quirky branding
(Public Company; IPG; Marketing and Advertising industry)
September 2009 — Present (5 months)
As a digital production assistant, my main responsibilities include:
* Conducting important brand research
* Compiling reports and presentations
* Facilitating communication between management and design teams
* Designing miscellaneous graphics
* Assisting in planning and executing social media campaigns
* Offering expertise in the various facets of digital production
* Assisting with Web development and quality control
* Compiling statistical reports in a timely matter
(Sole Proprietorship; Computer Games industry)
April 2007 — Present (2 years 10 months)
• “Blog” formatted website receives over 50,000 unique visitors per day, dealing with digital multimedia,
graphic novels and niche forms of entertainment.
• Coordinated planning, implementation and production of over 30 feature-styled columns, digital news
aggregation and detailed analysis of daily digital entertainment news.
• Attended and reported on the lucrative 2006 Electronics Entertainment Exposition, an annual press-
exclusive trade show pertaining to the digital entertainment industry. Coverage included live updates
from show floor, keynote presentations and exclusive hands-on demonstrations.
• Quickly composed time-sensitive news articles for publication immediately following release.
• Coordinated and participated in round-table discussions pertaining to the digital entertainment industry,
downloadable in an Internet audio format with over 2,000 weekly subscribers.
• Created and preformed a unique radio personality named “Mitch on Mars”, attracting 500 subscribers to
popular syndication.
• Administrated and moderated online chat forum with over sixty unique users connected simultaneously.
• Designed, created and shipped all merchandise sold, raising over $2,000 in sales.
(Public Company; IPG; Marketing and Advertising industry)
June 2009 — August 2009 (3 months)
* Brand development, Directed Pittsburgh-centric video series, web site function design, Web design and prototyping, content assistance, photo and trend research.
(Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)
September 2008 — December 2008 (4 months)
• Designed and authored a series of internally-published video tutorials to assist University staff and
faculty with operating a complex content management system.
• Overhauled a student blog promotion by reorganizing and redesigning the project’s web design,
internal structure and projected abilities within an extremely limiting budget.
• Responsible for documentation and organization of goals and aims for many projects relating to
advertising and marketing for the University.
Bachelors , Mass Communications , 2006 — 2010 (expected)
Cartooning, advertising, design, banjo, being tall, computers, the Internet, technology, gadgets, learning new things, illustration, social networking, burritos
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Point Park University Presidential Scholarship, 2006 - 2010