Alex Morse

| alexmorse@solarcomputing.net | alex@spalab.net |

Resume

Skills & Software
Skills:
HTML/XHTML, CSS. Website Production, Redesign and Maintenance. Blogs, Forums, Custom Applications. Graphics Design, Optimization, Compression. Project Management. Banner/Ad production. JavaScript/JQuery. Sound Design and Audio Production, Recording, Editing, Mixing. Analog and Digital Audio production, including for the Internet and Sound for Games.
Software:
Homesite/Notepad, UltraEdit/SCUnipad, Unicode. Photoshop. Fireworks/ImageReady. Krang Content Management System and Custom CMS development and production. WordPress platform for blogs and custom applications. PHPBB forum/OSCommerce customization (STS). Adobe Acrobat/Distiller. ProTools, Audition, Waves/DSPFx, DirectX and TDM plug-ins, Acid, Reason.
Experience

Penton Media Inc.

Tech Producer

2005 - present

Build and Maintain Penton magazine websites enterprise-wide, including blogs, forums, "micro-sites", and full magazine redesigns. Penton's magazines span the technology and trades industries as well as entertainment technology and multimedia magazines (Mix, Remix, Electronic Musician, RER Magazine, Broadcast Engineering, EC&M, Telephony Online). Development/production and support for all aspects of Penton's online products. Maintain metrics/statistics and tracking systems as well as deploying advertising across all products.

www.penton.com

Freelance - New York/Washington, D.C.

Producer/Web Developer/Sound Designer

2002 - 2005

Designed and built hand coded websites. HTML, CSS, Javascript, Flash, and sound production. Worked with designers to built sites from their Photoshop and/or Illustrator designs; managed website projects and client relationships. Sound design and audio production.

Please view my portfolio for a complete list of clients and projects.

Oculant - New York

Web Developer

2001 - 2002

Developed client sites and extranets in HTML from Photoshop design documents. Configured bug/issue tracking system. Built and managed all-browser testing stations. Built physical networking infrastructure. QA Testing.

www.oculant.com

SPALAB - New York

Interactive Developer/Sound Designer

2000 - 2001

Built websites using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and Flash. Sound design for websites and online games. Managed Internet radio including production, musical program, feature development, documentation, license and broadcast agreements. Streaming audio consulting and production. QA Testing.

www.spalab.net

Oven Digital - New York

Production Manager/Web Developer

1998 - 2000

Built award winning websites, kiosks, ad banners, games and graphics. As Production Manager trained junior developers, wrote technical guidelines; managed clients and projects. Sound design and production. 3d/games consulting. QA Testing.

Muze Inc. - New York

Music Data Editor

1996 - 1998

Worked to create the largest and most ubiquitous commercial music database. Muze is found in department store kiosks and online. Managed the new releases into the database, contributed reviews, and tracked published data for theft and license violations.

www.muze.com
Education & Training

George Mason University - 1995

Georgetown University, McGhee Center - Alanya, Turkey

Bachelor of Arts - History

JavaScript I
NYU SCPS - New York

ProTools Training - 02/2003
FMC Training, New York

Awards

Prism Business Media

Prism - Entrepreneur Award 2006


Macromedia Showcase:

OneMansEye.com - 2001

Spalab.net - 2000

Oven.com - 08/1999


Digital Club Network & Festival:

One Show Award - Network & Festival website.


Hookt.com:

One Show Award - Best broadband site.


DIRECTOR-3D.com:

ComedyCentral's "Battlebots" - Online game.


Museum of Modern Art:

01.01 - Yahoo Internet Life 2001 Best Art Musueum Site.

07.99 - Ask Jeeves Silver Platter Site Award.

05.99 - Cool Site of the Day.

05.99 - Education World Best of May, Art Safari Website.

12.98 - Time Out New York, Top Ten Best Web Sites.

10.98 - Shift Magazine 100 Best Web Sites.

07.98 - Fierce site of the Week.

06.98 - Suite 101 Arts and Technology Top 5 Sites.

04.98 - Museums of the Web Conference - 1998 Best Overall Site.

04.98 - Silver Pencil Award from The One Club for Art and Copy.


Print Magazine:

"The Crow" - website.