Professional speaking Summary

In 1991, I started my career in public speaking and teaching. Since then I have rarely turned down an opportunity to engage with professionals and students about technology-related topics. My goals are always:

Conferences & Lectures

2009OMMAHollywood, California

Moderated Panel: Open Social Marketing Opportunities

  • Moderated a panel where technologies such as Facebook Connect and Open Social can be used for marketing...

2009Cognitive Design symposiumKarlsruhe, Germany

Panel: Mining User Experience Design

  • Spoke about how User Experience design documentation can be used to communiate the full experience of a product or website
  • Listen to MP3 (53 minutes)

2008Art Center College of Design Pasadena, California

Panel: Interaction Design Symposium

  • Opportunity for lead interaction designers at LA-based interactive agencies to present their work and their thinking of contemporary interaction design education

2008Interaction design association SalonLos Angeles, California

Panel: Methodology Madness

2005DVD Entertainment conference Los Angeles, California

Panel: DVD Games (Moderator)

2001Lake Placid Film Festival Lake Placid, New York

Panel/Topic: internet Tech/Indy Film

2000How Design Conference Atlanta, Georgia

Topic: Creating Original Content for the Web

2000digital coast conference Los Angeles, California

Panel/Topic: Creative Capitalization

  • Panel subhead: Getting your Online Entertainment Project off the Ground by any Means Necessary.
    Successful producers and artists explain their path to funding success.
  • Other speakers on panel: Kevin Foxe (Blair Witch), Tom Winkler (doodie.com)
  • Location: The Directors Guild of America
  • Conference organizers: Xeni Jardin and Jason Calacanis

2000New york New Media Association (NYNMA) Meeting New York, New York

Topic: Entertainment On The Web

2000Arkansas State University Jonesboro, Arkansas

Topic: Creating Web-based Entertainment Properties

2000Art Center College of Design Pasadena, California

Topic: Managing an Internet Business (Electronic Hollywood) Specializing In Original Content

  • "Digital Designers @ Work" Series; lectures were open to the entire Digital Media Department

2000Res fest film festival conference New York, New York

Topic: Creating Animated Movies With Flash

  • Other panelists included Marina Zurkow and Micahel Overbeck
  • Followed by a screening of CyberSlacker; a cartoon I directed and produced.

1999South-by-SouthWest Interactive Festival (SXSW) Austin, Texas

Topic: Animation on The Web

  • Panel moderator: John Andrews (Klasky Csupo, Inc).
  • Other panelists: Mike Curtis (frogdesign), Lisa Goldman (construct), Ralph Mittman (Macromedia)

1999Harvard Business School (New York Trek) New York, New York

Topic: Making Multimedia Content For The High-Tech Industry

  • Lecture was held at the Sony Headquarters Building

1999School of Visual Arts (SVA) New York, New York

Topic: Client Services: From Project Management to Team Work

  • Lecture to an "Intro To Web Design" class

1998Syracuse UniversitySyracuse, New York

Topic: A Career in New Media

  • Lecture to students majoring in Computer Graphics

1996PC Expo New York, New York

Topic: Multi-user Environments

  • Demoed Malice Palace graphic chat sponsored by Samsung

1996Slacker cyber conference Bath, UK

Topic: Electronic Publishing in NYC

1995macworld San Francisco, California

Topic: Keynote

  • Demoed Word.com electronic magazine
  • Other speaker: John Perry Barlow

1995Internet world Boston, Massachusetts

Topic: Low Bandwidth Design: High-tech, Low Class

1991intertainment conference Los Angeles, California

Panel/Topic: Interactive Magazines - The Next Publishing Revolution

teaching Experience

Fall 2008Art institute of california - hollywoodLos Angeles, CA

Course: User Experience Design Professor

  • 12-week course covering research, information architecture, and interaction design.
  • See syllabus here

2002 – 2003 DHIMA Institute of the Arts Los Angeles, CA

Multimedia Instructor

  • Taught a comprehensive web development course covering interaction, information design, usability, site architecture, optimization, branding, type, and color issues.
  • Topics included: DHTML, HTML, CSS, Dreamweaver, Flash, and JavaScript.
  • http://www.ehollywood.net/dhima (course syllabus)

1993 – 2000 New York University’s ITP Program New York, New York

Multimedia Instructor

  • Taught courses called "Electronic Publishing" and "Web-based Animation" for the Interactive Telecommunications Program at New York University.
  • Lectured on the development process for creating low-bandwidth presentations, cartoons, and games using Macromedia Director and Flash for distribution on the Internet and in fixed-format media

Writing / Published articles

2007  Interactive TV: A Shared Experience; TICSP Adjunct Proceedings of EuroITV 2007; Amsterdam, The Netherlands

  • "Imagining the YouTube Model for Interactive Television" (PDF)
    Abstract: User-generated content (UGC) is a social revolution waiting to be experienced on interactive television (iTV). The actual content is not necessarily radical, but the effect of its mass distribution on video sharing sites is becoming ubiquitous. This paper proposes a retooling of YouTube’s user interface for iTV and considers the technological and business constraints preventing true convergence.

2004-2005 Medialine magazine