Joel Weisberg Résumé
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SUMMARY
Multimedia professional with extensive experience in Web development/design, Webcasting, digital photography, design and digital illustration, streaming video, production of video and audio programming. Excellent project management skills. Proficient with most Web, print, and media tools including:
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WORK EXPERIENCE
Interactive Producer 2006– Present
ISM Strategic Marketing, Boston, MA
- Produce interactive presentations and Web design projects, banner ad projects and email campaigns
- Develop project plans and budgets, project documentation, including schedules, purchase orders, user manuals, statements of work and other client communications
- Hire and supervise freelance designers, developers, copywriters and programmers
- Research production, programming and other resources for existing and future projects.
- Perform discovery and determine project scope.
- Develop and document information architecture
- Manage project content assets in a variety of media
Freelance Multimedia Consultant 2001 – Present
- Plan, produce, and direct Webcasts
- Create video, audio, and multimedia programming
- Design, develop, and produce internal and external Web sites for a diverse group of clients
- Create still photographs, photo illustrations and graphic design
- Design and produce material for presentation and seminars
- Design databases for business systems, such as CRM, accounting and inventory, using Microsoft Access and FileMaker Pro
Executive Producer 2003 – 2005
MultiMedia Pros, Inc., Salem, MA
- Produce audio, video, DVD, CD-ROM, print and Web design projects
- Develop content and edit and write copy for client projects as well as company sales and marketing materials
- Create visual designs and photo illustrations
- Create marketing photographs for client projects
- Sell multimedia services for a growing Webcasting and multimedia production company, which includes servicing existing accounts and cold calling new accounts
- Perform voice-over work on various audio projects
- Hire and supervise freelance personnel
- Manage online marketing initiatives, including search engine optimization
- Design and program databases for client projects and in-house systems
Features Producer, 2000 – 2001
ZCast.tv – Ziff Davis Media, Medford, MA
- Created, developed and produced six pre-recorded weekly shows that aired regularly on the ZCast.tv streaming media Web site
- Coached editors, analysts and writers from 16 Ziff Davis Media publications to develop an on-air talent pool
- Played a major role in establishing the ZCast.tv brand as the premier technology-based Web casting site
- Wrote, directed, shot, edited and appeared in Webcast programs
- Collaborated in initial ZCast.tv site design and development
- Created original copy and graphics for the Web site
- Produced live Webcast event programming
Photo Editor, 1994 – 2000
eWEEK, formerly PC Week – Ziff Davis Publishing, Medford, MA
- Assigned and directed photographers and purchased art for both the print and online editions of a national IT newsweekly
- Created extensive photo illustrations and graphic design work for print and Web
- Photographed news events, environmental portraits and product photos for the publication
- Worked with internal clients and freelance photographers to ensure consistency and meet the organization’s high standards
- Organized and managed a library of more than 125,000 images
- Designed, developed and managed a system to track a $300,000 annual photo and illustration budget
- Instituted a program to equip and train reporters to supply images and sound files for PC Week Online
- Created and produced both pre-recorded and live internet Webcasts in the studio and on location
- Set up Webcasting studios for PCWeek Radio and eWEEK Webcast
- Acquired and managed capital equipment worth more than $80,000 for photo, audio and video inventory
- Won the PC Week Editorial Excellence Award and the Ziff Davis Chairman’s Circle 1999 Award for outstanding contributions in editorial content
Freelance Photographer and Photo Assistant 1985 – 1994
- Engaged extensively in corporate/industrial, still life, product and portrait photography in the Boston area
EDUCATION
A.S., Information Technology, Northern Essex Community College (In Progress)
Certificate in Web Design and Development, Northern Essex Community College (In Progress)
