jennifer gilomen

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experience

Director of Independent Media, Bay Area Video Coalition, 2009 - present 

• Developing and running innovative public media programs for documentary storytellers and transmedia artists
• Partnerships with local, regional, and national organizations
• Facilitation of trainings, development laboratories, showcase events, industry panels 
• Oversee operations of two local cable channels with multiple live television and web production sites, with corresponding web systems
• Supervise program staff, collaborate across program areas

Lead Developer, Strategic Initiatives, Bay Area Video Coalition, 2007 - 2009

• Developing strategic national initiatives in public media
• Presenting and designing program ideas, analogies, and models
• Researching and analyzing the Next Generation Internet and digital distribution networks
• Forming strategic partnerships and collaborations
  

Digital Storytelling Institute Manager, Bay Area Video Coalition, January 2006 – June 2007

• Traveling throughout the state of California to train nonprofits in the art and practice of telling stories with multimedia tools
• Providing technical, editorial, and programmatic evaluations and assistance for participating organizations
• Conducting program outreach activities, such as events, promotion, awards, partnerships, and distribution
• Developing workshop models and curriculum
• Supervising young filmmakers in the creation, distribution, and publicizing of short-format content on multiple platforms and devices
• Managing program budget and instruction staff

Producer and instructor, Bay Area Video Coalition, April 2005 – December 2005

• Instruction of YouthLink Digital Arts, a media and design program for underserved youth
• Wrote curriculum for YouthLink programs
• Created online job campaign tool myjobpath.org, including direction, production, and Internet delivery of over sixty short videos; user interface design work; information architecture; and content writing, editing, and management
• Produced Queer Youth Speak video in conjunction with the San Francisco Public Library, and mentored youth in video production through the project

Communications manager, Bay Area Video Coalition, March 2001 – December 2005

• Content management, writing, and editing for BAVC newsletter, Web site, and print materials
• Redesigned, maintained, and programmed Web site; supervised Web staff and interns
• Implemented online database and store for BAVC products, classes, and services
• Managed advertising budget, ad placements, membership, and promotional sponsorships

Freelance new media specialist, Forward Films (self-owned company), San Francisco, CA, January 2001 - present

• Writer, editor, and tour coordinator, San Francisco Public Library’s Out at the Library exhibit, 2005-2007
• Freelance photography and writing, Girlfriends Magazine and Curve Magazine, 2004-2006
• Editor, Treasures, Treasure Island Development Association, 2006
• Web designer/producer, linesballet.org, colage.org, dianacage.com, galagostudio.com, presspasstotheworld.com, capecodfilms.com, colage.org/ylap
• Videographer and Director of Photography, Tin Can Films’ Pre-nup, Breakthrough Collaborative, Contemporary Jewish Museum, and others, 2003- 2006
• Director and youth mentor, In My Shoes: Stories of Youth with LGBT Parents, COLAGE, 2005
• Instructor, basic video production workshops, 2003-2004

Information designer, NBC Internet, San Francisco, CA, March 2000 - January 2001

• Web design, information architecture, and user interface planning and design for several NBCi Web sites, including NBC.com, NBCi.com, and Snap.com
• Wrote and produced online documentation and instructional help

Usability specialist, NBC Internet, San Francisco, CA, December 1999 – March 2000

• Planned and conducted usability studies, including focus groups and one-on-one evaluations
• Delivered user interface recommendations based on user testing, feedback, and surveys

Research associate, p.s.l. marketing resources, San Francisco, CA, August 1999 – December 1999

• Conducted qualitative research studies, subsequent analysis and reporting
• Provided development recommendations to software and internet producers such as National Geographic and Mattel interactive divisions

Assistant engineer, Duke Engineering and Services, Chicago, IL and Atlanta, GA, Summer 1998

• Designed and programmed software for use in evaluating structural beams
• Traveled to Atlanta, GA to work on time-sensitive structural evaluation project

Creative copy writer, WPGU-FM Radio, Champaign, IL, 1997 - 1998

• Wrote radio spots and anecdotal scripts for disc jockeys that were produced and aired

education

• University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: B.S. Civil Engineering, December 1998
• San Francisco State University: multimedia studies coursework, 1999
• U.C. Berkeley Extension: integrated marketing communications coursework, 1999
• Bay Area Video Coalition and Film Arts Foundation: documentary coursework, 2001 – present
• Harvey Milk Institute: photography coursework, 2002
• City College of San Francisco: intermediate Spanish coursework, 2003-2004
• Asociación Centro de Estudios de Español Pop Wuj, Guatemala: Spanish Intensive, 2002

technologies

• Video: Final Cut Pro, Soundtrack, LiveType, iMovie, Premiere, Compressor, Cleaner, multi-platform delivery, Audacity
• Web: HTML, Dreamweaver, Photoshop, Illustrator, Fireworks, Flash, streaming media compression, Acrobat

• Video: After Effects, Pro Tools
• Web: PHP, mySQL, Javascript, XML, CGI, Access, Microsoft.NET, Visual Basic, VRML, 3D Studio Max

activities & interests

• Filmmaking, photography, and screenwriting; social documentation; graphic arts and design
• Reading and writing; Spanish language and Latin American studies; film studies
• International travel; ecotourism
• Soccer, hiking, and roller skating
• Member, Film Arts Foundation and Bay Area Women in Film & Televistion
• Organizer and film festival curator, Ladyfest Bay Area women’s art festival, 2002
• Berkeley All-Blues Women’s Rugby Team, 1999-2002
• Volunteer, Artists’ Television Access, 1999-2001