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Creative Director & Executive Producer of the two-time Webby Honoree Award winning original series, GameZombie TV

About GameZombie
In less than two years time, GZ has produced over 250 hi-quality, original game videos for global webcast. Official YouTube Partner status, various distribution contracts, and a rapidly expanding fan base have pushed GameZombie into the elite of game media. After winning a 2008 Webby Honoree Award, GZ is one of the few companies to repeat the feat in 2009.

Coming soon: Season 2 of GZ's smash hit, ButtonMashers, and a brand new video game show called Ultimate Challenge that's sure to be hit with video game fans around the world!

Work
Founder, Creative Director & Exec Producer
GameZombie TV

Faculty
Media Arts & Game Development Lab
University of Wisconsin at Whitewater

Education
PhD, Curriculum & Instruction,
Educational Communications & Technology
University of Wisconsin at Madison
(Expected: 2013)

M.S., Telecommunications,
Indiana University at Bloomington

B.S., Radio-TV-Film
B.A., History
University of Texas at Austin
Highest Honors, Phi Beta Kappa

Web Awards & Distinctions
2009 Webby Honoree Award
2008 Webby Honoree Award
25 front page video stars by DailyMotion
3 full months on the front page of Revver
10 front page editor's picks on Crackle
10 featured videos on YouTube’s Gaming Channel
20 featured videos on Gametrailers
2 full months on the front page of Bebo
over 50 additional featured GZ vids
over 7 million global video views

Background & Goals
I grew up in New England, Southern California, and Europe, went to high school in Chicago, and received highest honors degrees in History and Film Production from the University of Texas at Austin. Upon graduation, I tried my hand at a writer’s life, traveling throughout Central, South, and North America, a journey that resulted in the novels, Fury & Redemption and Bad Blood Born. In the fall of 2006, I entered the Telecommunications Program at Indiana University at Bloomington. My thesis project was the two-time Webby Honoree Award winning original series, GameZombie TV. I am currently a faculty member at the University of Wisconsin at Whitewater in their Media Arts & Game Development Lab. Simultaneously, I’m pursuing a PhD in Curriculum & Instruction, Educational Communications & Technology, at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. My professional objective is to design cutting edge, hands-on new media education projects--like GameZombie--that compete and succeed on the web.

SPECIAL AREAS OF INTEREST IN DIGITAL MEDIA:
New Media Production, Social Media Optimization, Game Media, Project Management, Writing & Producing for Web Video

PROFESSIONAL OBJECTIVE:
To design cutting edge, hands-on new media education projects that succeed on the web

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ButtonMashers Season 2 - Episode 5

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