Copyright 2006 Matt Daly mailtomeal

Resume

In a State of Limbo

My college career was initiated first under pretenses of confusion and lack of direction. The radio station was always there, however, my sanctuary in the storm of insecurity and malaise. It was KRTU that introduced me to the field of communications; the department became my home, and for those next three years I would spent countless hours in the famed labrynthine lab, toiling away at whatever varied academic and personal pursuits would arise. During the course of my time at university, I studied theoretical concepts that tapped from practically every field of study in existence. Such is the nature of the beast that is communications. Interests that flowered within the belly of said beast include:

Games for the Web Community Radio Digital Art Electronic Music

Film-Making Film Analysis Web Design Propaganda Analysis

... and these would be only a taste of what both academia and my flowering personal interests would throw at me. If I was looking for a focus, then the field that I fell in love with has been both my blessing and my curse. I'm a generalist, and as a result, my interests are highly varied. When I enlisted as a communications major, it quickly became apparent that I was immersing myself into a cornucopia of interests that would put me very much in the kid-in-candy-store position. My weekly radio show for 4 years running soon donned the very appropriate title In Limbo. If I began my college education in the midst of confusion and uncertainty, then the state that I leave school in has brought me full circle. Only now, I operate under organized confusion; my interests have expanded and flowered, and I want to pursue those interests abroad.

My dominant interests lie in the realms of video editing, audio synthesis/engineering/editing, radio hosting/programming, game development, web development, as well as literary/multimedia investigation within the realm of propaganda analysis and game studies primarily.

I suppose these interests would fit collectively into the realm of

New Media

That is where my passion lies.

Education

Distinctions

  • Trinity University Dean's list 2005
  • The Blanchard Award for Excellence in the Field of Communications

Conferences

Film

  • Proficiency in Adobe Premiere Pro (including in combination with Photosohp filmstrip rendering) & experience with Adobe After-Effects
  • Experience in every facet of the amateur film-making process: writing, storyboarding, camera-handling, blocking, editing, etc.
  • Filmed, wrote, produced, edited a large number of shorts and two 30-minute features.
  • Produced ad bumps both for TigerTV station (video) and KRTU FM (audio)
  • Active and continued interest in screenwriting, with five 20-30 pg. screenplays completed , two of which I've taken through the production process. Currently working on two more.
  • Experienced in animation, rotoscoping, machinima, and other experimental visual motifs.
  • Experimenting with using level design to build virtual sets for rotoscoping superimposition.
  • Experience overseeing blocking/organizing studio work for short sitcom production.

 

Aural

  • FM Radio show host for 4 years running: In Limbo hosted weekly on KRTU FM 91.7

  • Wrote, interviewed, cut, and produced a number of news pieces for Focus on the Arts, a radio news series on local San Antonio cultural activities and events.

  • Active in the CD receipt and reviewing process, uploading music into the RCS digital song library for automation and live DJ play at KRTU.

  • Proficiency in digital audio editing and sequencing tools, including Sonic Foundry Vegas & Sonic Foundry Soundforge
  • Studio composition and engineering work, using Pro-Tools , Propellerhead's Reason , and other sequencing and synthesis tools, both digital and analogue.

 

Art

  • High proficiency with Adobe Photoshop , with a wealth of experience in digital art and photomanipulation, as well as producing and distributing PR material.
  • Heavy amounts of collage work (digital and hardcopy) since grade-school, culiminating to a library of works ranging from original to purely sample-based.
  • Far-reaching experience in massively multiplayer onlinge games(starting with Merdidian 59 to present), and lots of time spent in the production and filming of Machinima video.
  • Experience in level design for games, as well as 3D computer game texturing and basic model manipulation using Milkshape 3D and Blender
  • Developed several text-based puzzle/adventure/rpg games for the computer
  • Currently acting lead designer on a 3D card-based, real-time strategy computer game, Ethyria
  • A heavy involvement in academic investigation into games, on aesthetic, psychological, and social levels, among others. My work in MMO ethnographic research entailed my immersion into two large-scale MMO's, and has been disseminated within online academic circles.
  • Experience in HTML, Macromedia Dreamweaver , and the production and maintenance of websites.

I've stated my case, you can email me at krtu.inlimbo@gmail.com