Personal Statement
I am an Independent Producer of electronic media for documentary and educational products. I work on all kinds of projects, from solo production of single-broadcast video stories to consulting on scalable content generation strategies for large-scale products. I specialize in content for science and medicine. I spend a lot of time focusing on the interface between those who have something to say and those who want to learn. I am the story teller whose job it is to make it compelling.
By training, I am a photographer, ethnographer and designer. By inclination, I am a documentarian and journalist. I have over twenty years experience producing media. I've been a photojournalist, a typesetter, a copy editor, a writer and a videographer. I've produced short videos and photo stories, documentary treatments and news reports, radio stories and animated computer games. I've designed things from posters to books, slide shows and Web sites, from characters to computer interfaces, from exhibits to complicated systems for using images in interactive applications.
Nine years in an advanced research institute have given me a broad knowledge of new technologies, including game and simulation technologies, pedagogical agents, user tailoring, and broad knowledge of technologies of distribution, including Semantic Web and new interaction technologies in both client and server applications. Learning new skills was a constant. My creative practice currently focuses on re-polishing fundamental story-telling skills. Oh, and I'm learning ActionScript, the language of Flash.