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Geoffrey Long |
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55 Falmouth St. Belmont, MA 02478 |
www.geoffreylong.com glong@dreamsbay.com |
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Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Game Lab
2007-present |
Researcher and Communications Director After completing my Master's degree in 2007, I stayed on at MIT as the Communications Director for the newly-founded Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Game Lab, where I also conduct research into transmedia narratives and help teach courses on interactive narrative. My design responsibilities include identity design, print design and web design (including the creation and maintenance of gambit.mit.edu); my writing responsibilties include authoring papers and blog posts; and my academic responsibilities include lecturing in multiple courses and working to launch a series of books with the MIT Press |
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Convergence Culture Consortium at MIT
2005-present |
Media Analyst, Transmedia Storytelling At MIT I researched the business, aesthetics and production of transmedia storytelling under the direction of Henry Jenkins; my work for the Convergence Culture Consortium also included logo design, website design and management, and writing for the group's weblog (www.convergenceculture.org). I remain affiliated with the Consortium as an Alumni Researcher and contribute frequently to the group's weblog and publications |
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The Dreamsbay Company
2000-present |
Founder / President President and founder of a creative consulting company and network (www.dreamsbay.com). Clients have included The Voice Disorders Center at Harvard University, Voiceproblem.org, BroadReach Healthcare, The Virtual Book Tour, Untyped, CollaborationTown, Sound Advice, Miriam's Kitchen, Keith K. Annis Photography, NerdUp, LLC, Cultural Axis Partners, and The Milwaukee Theatre Collective |
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Inkblots Magazine
1994-present |
Founder / Editor-in-Chief As founder and editor-in-chief, my responsibilities include content creation and management, recruiting, advertising, design and production of both print and online versions of an independent literature, culture and technology magazine (www.inkblotsmag.com) |
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Tohubohu Productions
2003-present |
Founding Member / Producer In 2003, my interest in filmmaking led to my helping create a rapidly-growing independent film collective (www.tohubohuproductions.com); our most recent film, Screening Process, ranked in the top 15 films in the 2004 National Film Challenge and won Best in Genre, Romance |
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CollaborationTown
2003-present |
Advisory Board Member Served as a consultant and advisory board member to a politically-minded theater troupe producing new off-Broadway plays and musicals in New York City (www.collaborationtown.org); a recent piece, This is a Newspaper, was featured in the New York Fringe Festival |
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The Advisory Board Company
Dec. 2000-Oct. 2002 |
Graphic Designer, Web Designer, Web Producer I started at The Advisory Board as a graphic designer, then became their first full-time web designer and finally the web producer. Responsibilities included managing and participating in design teams for interactive projects (including advisoryboardcompany.com, americanhealthline.com, H*Works, and various internal applications and intranet sites); teaching classes on interactive design, information architecture, and related subjects; and numerous print projects including books, posters and advertisements |
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RBB Systems, Inc.
1996-2000 |
Media Specialist As the media specialist, responsible for design, production and maintenance of corporate web site (www.rbbsystems.com), newsletter, trade and in-house literature, press releases |
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Additional experience
1996-2000 |
At Kenyon College, my projects included for site design, production and maintenance for Kenyon Student Athletics Illustrated, an online-only student athletics magazine (www2.kenyon.edu/orgs/ksai); logo design and website production for Summer Send-Off 2000, the campus-wide Kenyon College festival (www.dreamsbay.com/sendoff); design and production of Hika, Kenyon's oldest student literary magazine; construction of "virtual coffeeshop" QTVR navigational metaphor for Endstop Magazine; and poster design and other promotions for the Stage Femmes, a feminist theater troupe. While studying abroad, I was responsible for layout and design of Arts and Entertainment section for Exeposé, a weekly university newspaper in Exeter, England | ||
Education |
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, Massachusetts Class of 2007 |
Master's of Science in Comparative Media Studies Media analyst with the Convergence Culture Consortium |
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Kenyon College
Gambier, Ohio Class of 2000 |
Bachelor
of Arts in English and Philosophy Concentrations in Creative Writing and the Integrated Program in Humane Studies Graduated cum laude Richard F. Hettlinger Award in IPHS |
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University
of Exeter
Exeter, England 1998-1999 |
Kenyon study abroad program | ||
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Triway
High School
Wooster, Ohio Class of 1996 |
Member,
National Honor Society National Merit Commended Scholar Xerox Award in the Humanities Daily Record Editor's Award |
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Skills |
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General experience
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Project management, client relations, film production, magazine editing, creative consulting, problem solving, information architecture, product development, interface design, analytical thinking, strategy, planning and documentation | ||
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Expert technical expertise
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Adobe PageMaker, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe ImageReady, Adobe Illustrator, HTML, PHP, JavaScript, CSS, Macromedia Flash | ||
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Advanced technical expertise
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Microsoft Office, Adobe Premiere, Quark XPress, Corel Bryce, ASP, XML, XSLT, MySQL, Macromedia ColdFusion | ||
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Moderate technical expertise
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Apple Final Cut Pro HD, Apple Motion, Adobe AfterEffects, Apple QuickTime VR, Metacreations Carrera, Macromedia Director, Metatools Infini-D, Metacreations Painter | ||