Resume

S C I E N C E & Art   Experience

Art Director/Lead Art
Duquesne University, 2007-present
Regenerative Medicine Partnership for Life
Graphic Artist, June 2006 - 2007
Tissue Engineering for Life, May 2005 - May 2006
STUDIO for Creative Inquiry at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA

• Darwin2009: Exploration is Never Extinct! www.sepa.duq.edu/darwin

• Public art and exhibit design for museum and public institutions

• Development of innovative education tools, including on-line resources, curriculum for classrooms, games, video games and ESL tools; evolution curriculum integrated into 25 Pittsburgh Public Schools. See curriculum and games

• Co-producer of video games at Entertainment Technology Center, at Carnegie Mellon University

• Print design, marketing and education products

• Web design, development and editing; development of interactive educational tools for different audiences. Including main web site: www.sepa.duq.edu, and the Lab: www.sepa.duq.edu/thelab

• DVD authoring and distribution

• Concept art, storyboarding and screenwriting for animated movies

• Collaborated with the Carnegie Science Center, Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Children’s Museum, National Aviary, Pittsburgh Zoo & PPG Aquariums, Phipps Conservatory and Carnegie Mellon University’s Entertainment Technology Center

• Team management

D E S I G N & Communication

Concept Art
Wherever Games 2010/11

Illustration and Interface Design
Orange Mico, LLC 2010

Design Consultancy - Web design
Department of Mathematical Sciences
Carnegie Mellon University, 2008
• Publish date August 2008

ICTI - Program in Applied Mathematics
Carnegie Mellon University, 2007
• http://icti.math.cmu.edu/index.html

Modern Methods of Variation
Irene Fonseca and Giovanni Leoni , 2007
• http://www.math.cmu.edu/~leoni/book1

Pittsburgh Tissue Engineering Initiative
Pittsburgh, PA
September, 2006 - 08
• www.ptei.org
• Responsible for SEO, maintenance

School of Computer Science Career Center
and
Mellon College of Science Career Center
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
June - August 2006
• Developed two web sites for career orientation purposes.
• School of Computer Science Career Center
• Mellon College of Science Career Center

Derek Wahila
Pittsburgh, April-May 2006
• Assisted in coding a web site in CSS/HTML.
• Peter Margittai web site

Sinuate Marketing
Boston, March-April 2006 (remote)
• Created and implemented website for a financial group SUISSE FINANCE (AMERICA)
• Suisse Finance web site

Center for Arts Management and Technology (CAMT)
Pittsburgh, PA, March 2006 - September 2006
• Integrated coldfusion into HTML pages, to suit existing websites  
• Worked on three projects with CAMT (Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council, Hawaiian Artist Roster)

Opera Theater of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA, February 2006
• Re-designed the web site for a striking dramatic effect
• Implemented a new web site within two weeks to showcase the 2006 season of shows.

Web Designer
Internship with Patrick Meagher, NY, NY
June 2005
• www.shartshop.org
• Implemented web site from Patrick Meagher's design
• Worked in colaboration in conceptualization.

Web Designer
Engineered Tissue Mechanics Laboratory, Pittsburgh, PA
April, 2005 - January 2006
• Created lab presentation poster
• Designed and implemented new web site
• http://www.pitt.edu/~msacks/etml.html

Web Designer
Society for Contemporary Craft, Pittsburgh, PA
August 2004 - present
• www.contemporarycraft.org
• Independently programmed website from existing design
• Produced a guidebook for website branding and updating

Minority Science Outreach Facilitator
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
January 2004 – May 2004
• Re-designed MSOP website to provide a more dynamic interaction with prospective students, teachers
and parents
• www.cmu.edu/MSOP

Outreach Assistant/ Graphic Layout Assistant
Society for Contemporary Craft, Pittsburgh, PA, Summer 2004
• Introduced, developed and designed a tour guide for gallery visitors
• Designed the layout of a “Suggested Reading” pamphlet

Art staff
The Tartan, Carnegie Mellon University Newspaper, Pittsburgh PA January 2003, November 2003
• Created illustration work to accompany articles

SCIENTIFIC Experience

Summer Undergraduate Research Grant with Dr. Charles A. Ettensohn
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, Summer 2003
Profiled the developmental activity of b-catenin during sea urchin early embryogenesis.

Laboratorial Researcher for Dr. Allison Barth
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, Summer 2002
Mapped the barrel field in mouse cortex in the context of studying neuron plasticity in sensorial learning.

Laboratorial Research Assistant for Dr. Darin Laird
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, September 2001 - March 2002
Synthesized and perfected reactions of pyrrole monomers for polymerization.

Laboratorial Research Assistant for Dr. Richard Pilston
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, September 1999 and 2000
Synthesized novel polythiophene materials. Evaluated polythiophene material for optical properties.