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Alexander Ross

Education

Georgia Institute of Technology

MS in Information Design & Technology
Thesis Mathematix: A Math Education Tool

May, 2004

Boston University College of Communication

BS in Communication
Major in Mass Communication, Minor in Mathematics

May, 2002

Work Experience

Do Something, Inc.

Creative Director

Develop and maintain all aspects of the Do Something brand
Design, maintain, and administer dosomething.org including graphic design, database design and management, dynamic website design and implementation, etc.
Supervised transition of dosomething.org to Drupal CMS.
Responsible for all print materials (layout, graphic design & pre-press), including BUILD magazine (circulation 100m – 450m, 32pps) published 3 times per year.
Managed employees (content developers, programmers, etc.), and projects (dosomething.org, online game development, social networking, etc.)

August, 2004 – Present

Student Teacher Enhancement Partnership (GA Tech)

Fellow at Stone Mountain High School’s science department

Designed a website (www.bleen.net/step) and several educational tools and simulations (www.bleen.net/step/students/tools) for students in chemistry and physics classes
Gave lectures, designed labs and led exercises in chemistry and physics classes

May, 2003 – May, 2004

P.R. Lind & Company

Accessible Web Application Developer - (Sub-Contract)

Design and implement a handicapped accessible (w3c and section 508 compliant) online game to educate people on the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) of 1990.
Project planning, PHP programming, postgreSQL database design, graphic design

May, 2003 – December, 2003

Pearson Education

Lead Multimedia Developer - (Sub-Contract)

Lingo and Actionscript programming for The Precision Planner, a curriculum tool for teachers
Project strategy & Database design

January, 2003 – June, 2003

Georgia Tech School of Literature, Communication & Culture

Research Assistant – NEA/AFI Casablanca Project (Dr. Janet Murray)

Database design for an annotated version of the film Casablanca (1942)
Designed a commentary and annotation tool for Casablanca

May, 2002 – May, 2003

Boston University Office of Information Technology

Multimedia Developer

Web page/graphic design; SMIL file design; Multimedia for the web
Formal instruction in software packages such as Dreamweaver and Fireworks

July, 2001 – May, 2002

Boston University College of Communication

Teaching Assistant

Assisted Professors Jonathan Adams, Jim Lengel and Rob Schadt in courses focusing on interactive design using Director, Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Premiere and other applications

September, 1999 – June, 2002

Microcenter Education

Adult Education Instructor

Provided formal instruction in programs such as MS Office, Photoshop and Filemaker Pro

May, 2003 – May, 2004

Skills

Expert:	Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Flash, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Director Lingo, Actionscript 2, XHTML, CSS 2, PHP, MySQL, PostgreSQL 508/w3c compliant web design, director/flash integration
Proficient:	Cold Fusion, Quark Xpress, Premiere, Final Cut Pro, SoundForge, MS Visio Javascript (DOM), AJAX Flash MX2004 component design, MM Studio MX 2004 javascript extensibility

Expert:

Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Flash, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Director

Lingo, Actionscript 2, XHTML, CSS 2, PHP, MySQL, PostgreSQL

508/w3c compliant web design, director/flash integration

Proficient:

Cold Fusion, Quark Xpress, Premiere, Final Cut Pro, SoundForge, MS Visio

Javascript (DOM), AJAX

Flash MX2004 component design, MM Studio MX 2004 javascript extensibility