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Web Development & Programming
- Develop comprehensive eCommerce and eLearning sites with LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP)
- Design complex databases normalized utilizing Entity Relationship Diagrams (ERD)
- Develop Content Management Systems (CMS)
- Develop cross browser PHP, ASP, AJAX, and HTML
- Program Access and Word forms and automation with VBA
- Program Java with Integrated Development Environment (IDE)
- Optimize sites for Search Engines (SEO)
Business Management
- Founding member of arts not-for-profit
- Work with business plans, budgets, & IRS forms
- Work with board members, artists, and interns
Audio & Media
- Compose, design sound, and create interactive media using Java and the Java Music Specification Language (JMSL)
- Engineer, produce, and master albums
Experience
Gotham Writers’ Workshop
555 8th Ave, Suite 1402, New York, NY 10018
The leading creative writing school online & in NYC, teaching more than 6K students per year
Senior Information Architect (May 2002-Present)
- Worked with Director of Online Services to architect, design, and develop all front-end websites and back-end database software including Online Classroom software, Teacher and Student Information Systems, and associated web portals
- Redesigned website to optimize usability and Search Engine Rankings based on best practices and focus group insight
- Worked with President and Dean of Faculty to develop relevant and unique tools for online instructors
- Worked with Staff to develop office automation tools to expedite administrative tasks
- Provided technical support to all students
Waxfruit Arts Media
Ironworks Building, 715 South 3rd Street Studio 202, Philadelphia, PA 19147
NY not-for-profit dedicated to promoting the works or emerging and established artists
Co-Founder | President | Director of Technology (April 2006-Present)
- Conceived, architected, and developed FlickTracks - an aide to filmmakers and producers in licensing music legally
- Developed unique AJAX based eCommerce system to present the entire process on just one page
- Created Content Management System and integrated streaming audio via Flash and AJAX for end user sampling
- Automated the real-time generation of legal contracts as PDFs based on end user license requests
- Developed an automated music consulting service using complex data mining techniques pulling from expert industry experience, National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) data, and client interviews
- Worked with lawyers, accountants, online merchant banks, board members, volunteers, and artists
Metropolitan Center for Urban Education
726 Broadway, 5th Floor, New York University, New York, NY 10003
Federally funded program to assists NYC public schools work with at-risk students
Project Associate for Safe and Drug Free Schools (9/1999-3/2002)
- Conceived, designed, and programmed a city-wide student information database application using Access and VBA
- Designed interactive online courses and taught training workshops to support project
- Provided quality assurance solutions to repair flawed spreadsheets designed by previous employees
- Participated in federal grant writing, research, data manipulation and analysis
Cooperative Astrophysics and Technology Satellite (CATSAT)
Morse Hall, 39 College Road, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH 03824
NASA funded Gamma Ray Observation Satellite
Systems/Electrical Engineer (9/1998-9/1999)
- Designed space tolerant analog and digital systems using radiation hardened parts
- Developed automated hardware testing software for satellite power system using C and GPIB
- Managed small staff of engineering students in all aspects of their work and conducted staff reviews
- Related skills: PCB design and layout, noise reduction analysis, laboratory testing, and data analysis
Education
Masters of Music, Music Technology
New York University (2001)
Bachelors of Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of New Hampshire (1997)
Awards, etc.
Guest Speaker: Java Music Systems: Real Time & Real World Performances
NYU (2007, 2006)
Margaret Jones Award Winner for Java Music Systems
NYU (2001)
Compositions / Performances
Incandesentient (2007)
Debut: November 15, 2007 / 7-10 PM
New York Center for Arts & Media Studies (NYCAMS), New York, NY
- A real time audio environment & composition consisting of harmonically aware synthesized fire
- Accompanied Are You Going to Sweat on my face, again? by Holly Faurot and Sarah Paulson
- 3-hour performance consisting of 10 performers, 3 video monitors, neon, 4-channel video component (live & pre-recorded)
- Developed using the Java Music Specification Language (JMSL), Wire, and Java
Watch What You Say! / Learning to Speak (2007)
Debut: August 25, 2007 (WWYS)
Projects in Transit (P.I.T.), Brooklyn, NY
- Genetic algorithms are used to investigate evolving words from random letter combinations.
- Populations are created, ranked, displayed, and spoken aloud by a voice synthesizer.
Perhaps I’ll See You Again (Someday) / Demo (2006)
Debut: November 30, 2006 / 7-9 PM
Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, NY
- A real time audio sample windowing and progression program to deconstruct multiple audio tracks and reconstruct them into longer pieces in rhythm at variable and user controlled tempos.
- Accompanied I want to see you limp with pleasure by Holly Faurot and Sarah Paulson
- 2-hour performance with 12 performers, 5 video monitors, 5-channel video component (live & pre-recorded)
- Developed using the JMSL and Java
Aquarium (2006)
Debut: July 8, 2006 / 12 PM -12 AM
Projects in Transit (P.I.T.), Brooklyn, NY
- An audio environment & composition consisting of an underwater instrument and live audio processing
- Accompanied Aquarium by Holly Faurot and Sarah Paulson – a 12 hour performance extravaganza
- Instrument consisted of a Fish tank, hydrophone, metal pipes, balloons, tubes, and computer processing via Wire
You Have Access / My Cold Limbs (2006)
Debut: March 15, 2006 / 8-10 PM
New York Center for Arts & Media Studies (NYCAMS), New York, NY
- First incarnation of the real time audio sample windowing and progression program to deconstruct multiple audio tracks and reconstruct them into longer pieces in rhythm at variable and user controlled tempos.
- Accompanied You have access to my cold limbs by Holly Faurot and Sarah Paulson
- 2-hour performance / installation with 12 performers, 6 video monitors, 2-channel video component (live & pre-recorded)
- Developed using the JMSL and Java
(S)warm (2005)
Debut: July 30, 2005 / 9-11 PM
Projects in Transit (P.I.T.), Brooklyn, NY
- A swarm of insects follow and play a score
- Accompanied Spring Fever by Holly Faurot and Sarah Paulson
- 2-hour performance / installation with 5 performers, 4 video monitors, 2-channel video component (live & pre-recorded), 800 lbs of dirt
- Developed using the JMSL and Java
Sunset Beach (2004)
Debut: September 25, 2004 / 9 PM -10:30 PM
Projects in Transit (P.I.T.), Brooklyn, NY
- An autonomous surf-rock band creates and performs pseudo-random instrumental music
- Accompanied Sunset Beach by Holly Faurot and Sarah Paulson
- Developed using the JMSL and Java
Somnialis (2001)
Debut: May 10, 2003 9-11 PM
Space 317, Brooklyn, NY
- Composition based on slowly evolving melodies and syncopation
- Accompanied In/On Strap[ing] by Holly Faurot and Sarah Paulson
- Developed using JSML, MIDI, and Java
Big Bang Theory #1 (2001)
Debut: May, 2001
New York University, New York , NY
- Demonstration piece for a sonar controlled MIDI instrument, the Sonaphone
- Composed while at NYU for a classes in Advanced Computer Music Composition and Java Music Systems
- Developed using the MIT Handyboard, a Polaroid Sonar transducer, and interactive C
Releases
Joel Mellin: TBD (2008)
Musique Impossible (USA)
- Retrospective of avant-garde computer music composition
Hotel Harrison: An Elegy for George Harrison (2006)
Stereorrific Recordings (USA)
- Original release of Somnialis
Easy To Be Free: The Songs of Rick Nelson (2006)
Planting Seeds Records (USA)
- Musician, Producer, Engineer, and Mastering for Jeff Mellin’s version of Garden Party
Miss Mary: Ready 2 Pop (2005)
Stereorrific Recordings (USA) / WIAIWYA (UK)
- Writer, Musician, Producer, Engineer, and Mastering
I’m with Cupid: A Waxfruit Transatlantic Valentine (2004)
Stereorrific Recordings (USA) / WIAIWYA (UK)
- Producer of Compilation, Contributed 2 tracks
50,000,000 Elves Fans Can't be Wrong: A Transatlantic Pop Christmas (2002)
Stereorrific Recordings (USA) / WIAIWYA (UK)
- Producer of Compilation, Contributed 1 track
Jeff Mellin: Good for a Gander (2001)
Stereorrific Recordings (USA)
- Musician, Producer, and Engineer
Miss Mary: Hey Blue (2000)
Stereorrific Recordings (USA) / WIAIWYA (UK)
- Musician, Producer, and Engineer
The Oscillators: Incog-neat-o! (2000)
Stereorrific Recordings (USA)
- Writer, Musician, Producer, and Engineer
Jeff Mellin: Saves the World (1999)
Stereorrific Recordings (USA)
- Musician, Partial Producer and Engineer
The Oscillators: Let’s Rock Instead (1998)
1998 / Stereorrific Recordings (USA)
- Writer, Musician, Producer, and Engineer
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