Teachers College, Columbia University

Master of Arts in Art and Art Education and Creative Technologies

New York, NY
May 2019

Bennington College

Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Arts – Self-Directed

Bennington, VT
May 2014

Robert McNeel & Associates

Certified Authorized Rhinoceros 3-D Trainer

Seattle, WA
December 2015 – Present

Teachers College, Columbia University

Arthur W. Dow Scholarship

New York, NY
Spring 2019

Westchester Community College

Adjunct Faculty

• Developed a Mixed-Reality Curriculum Certificate Program for Fall 2021.

• Created a Game Design course for young adults.

• Teach the foundation of Game Mechanics.

• Instruct the fundamentals of Unity 3-D.

• Debug students’ games.

• Organize a games show at the end of each course.

Peekskill, NY
July 2019 – Present

InGenius Prep

Academic Mentor

• Developed an online eight-week new media program for high school and college students.

• Teach new media technology.

• Advise students in creating their digital new media portfolio.

New Haven, CT
November 2019 – Present

Adelphi University

Adjunct Faculty

• Created a graduate new media course.

• Taught Digital Foundations in Makerspace Education.

• Presented in the fundamentals of new media creation and development.

Garden City, NY
January 2020 – June 2020

Maker-State

Maker Fellow

• Conducted STEAM education afterschool classes for K-12 children.

• Designed and implemented lesson plans.

New York, NY
November 2019 – January 2020

Teachers College, Columbia University

Thingspace Makerspace Practitioner/Fellow

• Advised the Thingspace administration on ways of incorporating the space into the life of the community.

• Worked on extending the outreach of the Thingspace to other departments and schools in the University.

• Counseled professors and staff on ways of improving the Thingspace.

• Collaborated in the decision to evaluate and purchase new equipment and software.

• Maintained the makerspace studio to assist the Art and Art Education Program in achieving its goals.

• Instructed students, staff, and faculty in the use of the equipment, programs and tools.

• Managed woodshop, metal shop, electronic soldering station, laser cutter, 3-D printer, and CNC machine

• Maintained computers, Thingspace website, and digital file system.

• Partnered with faculty to synchronize the Thingspace with curricular objectives.

• Hosted and conducted workshops as needed.

New York, NY
September 2017 – March 2020

MakerSpace NYC

K-12 Maker Educator

• Conducted STEAM education workshops for K-12 children.

New York, NY
September 2019 – November 2019

Teachers College, Columbia University

Research Assistant

• Digitized an eighty-year photo archive.

• Thematically organized the photographs.

• Created a database of the archive.

New York, NY
September 2019 – January 2020

Teachers College, Columbia University

Macy Gallery Assistant

• Curated shows and exhibitions.

• Installed and de-installed each show and exhibition.

• Cataloged each exhibit.

• Debugged new media pieces within the shows or exhibits.

• Served as the official photographer of Macy Gallery.

• Created a virtual space of Macy Gallery which will be hosted on the Teachers College website.

• Maintained the virtual space of each show and exhibition presented at the Macy Gallery.

New York, NY
September 2018 – September 2019

Teachers College, Columbia University

Instructor

• Taught Level I Rhinoceros 3-D.

• Reviewed the fundamentals 3-D Slicers (Cura, MakerBot, FlashPrint), Adobe Illustrator, and RhinoCAM.

• Instructed students in the use of 3-D Printing, Laser Cutting, and CNC’ing.

New York, NY
July 2019 – July 2019

Teachers College, Columbia University

Games Research Lab Monitor

• Assisted students with their game projects.

• Maintained the space, equipment and digital and physical games catalog.

New York, NY
September 2018 – June 2019

Teachers College, Columbia University

Workshop Instructor

• Designed a Level I Rhinoceros 3-D workshop.

• Taught Level I Rhinoceros 3-D workshops.

• Instructed in the fundamentals of digital 3-D modeling.

• Guided students in learning RhinoCAM.

• Facilitated the 3-D printing, laser cutting, and CNC’ing of student models.

New York, NY
October 2018 – May 2019

Teachers College, Columbia University

Sculpture as Making: Guest Lecturer

• Taught the fundamentals of 3-D modeling.

• Instructed students in basic circuitry.

New York, NY
March – April 2019

GRL Brownbag Workshop

Workshop Instructor

• Designed a Level I Rhinoceros 3-D workshop.

• Taught the fundamentals of digital 3-D modeling and 3-D printing.

New York, NY
October 2018

Creative Technologies Bootcamp

Instructor

• Designed a creative technologies curriculum for K-12 educators..

• Taught the fundamentals of digital 3-D modeling and 3-D printing.

• Conducted five 3-D modeling workshops.

New York, NY
July 2018

Modes of Collaboration: CTC Symposium V

Co-creator, Instructor

• Helped developed the idea for the Symposium.

• Invited Speakers to participate in the Symposium.

• Conducted the Augmented Reality Workshop.

New York, NY
July 2018

Teachers College, Columbia University/James Baldwin School

Thingspace Fellow, Instructor

• Familiarized the students with the digital equipment.

• Taught the fundamentals of 3-D modeling using TinkerCAD to produce student models.

• Designed tiles with mathematical Islamic patterns.

• Created patches in Adobe Illustrator which were then digitally embroidered.

• Prototyped/fabricated all the student work using the laser cutter and 3-D printer.

• Designed and sculpted puppets for school animation.

New York, NY
November 2017 – May 2018

Agro Hub International Ltd

Resident Director of Marketing Agro Hub Salt United States

• Helped establish a network of distributors for Argo’s Himalayan salt products.

Karachi, Pakistan
September 2015 – 2016

Robert McNeel & Associates

Teaching Assistant: Rhinoceros 3-D
Supervisor: Mary Ann Fugier – McNeel Technical Support and Training

• Teaching Assistant, Online Level I and II intensive courses.

Seattle, WA
July 2014 – March 2015

Incline Press

Fieldwork Term: Incline Press
Supervisor: Graham Moss - Master Bookbinder, Printer, and Publisher

• Gained a working knowledge of an Arab press.

• Learned to design, set, print, sew, and bind books.

• Produced a chapbook – A Garland of Love Songs by Robert Burns as a final project.

Oldham OL1 1SJ, UK
January – February 2013

The Earth Institute, Columbia University

Fieldwork Term: Global Masters Development Program
Supervisor: Dr. Lucia Rodriguez

• Our team helped design event-related materials including promotional documents and materials for the Masters in the Development Program Summit held in Dhaka, Bangladesh in February 2012.

• Participated in the MDP Summit in Dhaka, Bangladesh.

New York, NY
January – February 2012

Rackstadmuseet

Internship: Rackstad Museet
Supervisor: Director Richard Sangwill

• Learned the basic elements in designing exhibitions for museums.

• Visited several museums.

• Assisted in the gift shop.

• Conducted an art class for visiting students.

Arvika, Sweden
April – May 2010

Teachers College, Columbia University

Creative Technologies Exhibition “DeCentralized”: Ezekiel’s Wheel

• Created a multimedia 3-D installation using acrylic, wood and Augmented Reality.

• Finalist for the Myers Prize

New York, NY
June 2019 – July 2019

Teachers College, Columbia University

Creative Technologies Exhibition “Modes of Collaboration”: Macy Gallery

• Created and rendered a digital 3-D model of Macy Gallery,Teachers College, using Rhino 3-D.

• Model will be hosted on the website of Creative Technologies Certification Program, Teachers College.

New York, NY
September 2016 – September 2017

Robert McNeel & Associates

Authorized Rhino Trainer Certification: 1815 Mining Safety Lantern

• Created and published on the Company’s web site a tutorial illustrating a detailed process of modeling a Welsh miner’s safety lantern using the modeler Rhino 3-D.

Seattle, WA
December 2015

Bennington College

Senior Show 2014 “Things Have Changed Between Us”: Clash of the Titans

• Designed and 3-D printed a three-piece study of a circle in sacred geometry using Grasshopper.

• Designed and 3-D printed a chess set in Maya.

• Designed and laser cut a chess board in acrylic.

• Created an animation of a 1999 World Chess Match (Kasparov vs. Topalov) using augmented reality (Junaio).

Bennington, VT
May 2014

Bennington College

Independent Study: Rome Data Collecting
Self-Directed Fieldwork Term:

• Researched and collected data about Ancient Rome (673 BC to 1476 AD).

• Organized the data into seven distinct categories.

• Created an initial analysis and visualization of the data to create a sculpture.

Bennington, VT
January – February 2014

Bennington College

Animation Showing: Memories

• Designed the characters and set as silhouettes in Rhino 3-D

• Laser cut the set and characters.

• Animated the video Memories using Dragon Frame.

Bennington, VT
December 2013

Bennington College

Digital Stone Project: Injustice to Destruction

• Collected data on Juvenile Drug Arrests in the United States from 1964 through 2009.

• Translated this data into an advanced digital design.

• Visualized the data as a marble sculpture.

Bennington, VT
February – April 2013

Garfagnana Innovazione SRL

Digital Stone Project: Injustice to Destruction

• Translated the drug data into a marble sculpture with a five-axis CNC cutter, hand finishing the piece.

• The sculpture was on exhibition in Italy for over a year.

• The piece was part of an exhibition at William Paterson University in the Spring of 2015.

Gramolazzo, Lucca, Italy
June – July 2013

Bennington College

Fieldwork Term: Model Green Meadow Waldorf High School
Supervisor Dr. Aaron Chia-Yuan Hung

• Completed a two-floor 3-D Model of Green Meadow Waldorf High School.

Bennington, VT
January – February 2011

Green Meadow Waldorf School

Senior Project: Green Meadow Waldorf High School
Mentor: Dr. Aaron Chia-Yuan Hung

• Used Google SketchUp to complete the first phase of a 3-D digital model of the Green Meadow Waldorf High School main building referring to the blueprints of the classrooms.

• Corrected the incomplete blueprints by measuring each room’s components by hand.

Chestnut Ridge, NY
April 2010

Dicapo Opera Theater

Dicapo Children’s Opera Chorus & Opera Theatre Company: Singer/Actor

• Sang and performed with the Chorus for 9 years.

• Appeared with the Opera Theatre Company in 8 Operas in New York City.

• Appeared as part of the National Lyric Opera in Manchester, NH;
  Cape Cod Community College, MA; Worchester State College, MA; and the Count Basie Theatre, Red Bank, NJ.

New York, NY
September 2001 — May 2010

3-D Programs

• Rhinoceros 3-D

• Grasshopper

• Maya

• Blender

• Google SketchUp

• Tinkercad

• Fusion 360

Game Engines

• Unity

• Vuforia

• Unreal Engine

• GameSalad

2-d Programs

• Adobe Creative Suite

• Gimp

• Inkscape

• Dragon Frame

• Final Cut

• iMovie

• Audacity

Essental Programs

• Mac OS

• iWork

• Windows OS

• Microsoft Office

• Google Suit

• Data Visualization

• Canvas

• Moodle

• Zoom

Coding

• C#

• Python

• JaveScript

• Lua

• Processing

• Scratch

• TurtleArt

Fabrication

• 3-D Printing

• Laser Cutting

• CNC’ing

• Physical Computing

• Woodworking

• Metalworking