EDUCATION
Master of Fine Arts (Design and Technology)
The New School, New York, NY May ’10
Bachelor of Science (Advertising Art)
Seton Hall University, South Orange, NJ May ’06
Bachelor of Arts (Fine Art)
Seton Hall University, South Orange, NJ May ’06
EXPERIENCE
Art Director
Freelance, New York, NY [Jun '08 - Present]
Currently working with major mobile developers in order to design and build
applications and games for the iOS and Android platforms.
Associate Professor
New York Technical Institute, New York, NY [Jun '11 - Present]
Currently building and executing the undergraduate game design program while teaching advertising and multimedia classes to graduate level students.
Adjunct Faculty
Monmouth University, Montclair, NJ [Jun '11 - Present]
In charge of building curriculum for web and mobile interface design classes.
Adjunct Faculty
Seton Hall University, South Orange, NJ [Aug '11 - Present]
Charged with developing the curriculum for Introduction to Flash Animation, Game Design and Advanced Computer Animation.
Teaching Faculty
Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ [Jun '11 - July 12’]
In charge of building the creative technology curriculum for their new education program grant. Classes include adult continuing education and child development.
Adjunct Faculty
The New School, New York, NY [Jul '10 - July ‘12]
Responsible for teaching continuing education students web site design in Adobe Flash and HTML 5 for Interface and Website Design.
Youth Educator
Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ [Dec '10 - Aug ‘11]
Tasked with building and teaching the curriculum for Game Design and Illustration in the Academically Gifted and Talented Youth Program.
Adjunct Faculty
Wagner College, Staten Island, NY [Sep '10 - Present]
Created the curriculum for the Computer Games program using industry standard programs such as Unity and Unreal Editor. Also, created the curriculum for the continuing education Graphic Design and Illustration programs.
PUBLICATIONS
“Things We Can’t Believe Exist” | The Village Voice, ‘10
“Play the Awesome Das Racist Game” | New York Magazine, ‘10
“The Volume: Music News of Note” | Time Out: New York, ‘10
“Whose that Brown?” | Stereogum, ‘10
“Eliminating Barriers to Get Your Indie Game Published” | Communique Pr, ‘10
“The New School Becomes LittleBigParsons” | Playstation Blog, ‘08
SHOWS
Bumpin’ | Digital Shoreditch , ‘12
Sweatshop Superstar | Games and Toys with a Twist at Hostos, ‘12
Sweatshop Superstar | Parsons at Babycastles, ‘11
Mosh Pit | OneZero Parsons MFADT Thesis Exhibition, ‘10