Professional and Academic Portfolio

Technical Documentation/ Grant Writing

"No Frills Frame" A Tech Writing Student's Guide to Frame Maker 8 (PDF)

Completed Spring 2009 alongside three UMass PWTC Students using Adobe FrameMaker 8

Taking Pictures of Footsteps (PDF)

A Proposal on behalf of 826 Boston, a non-profit tutoring and writing center for children ages 6-18. The research proposal investigates the importance of the visual arts (namely photography) in childrens learning and development of creativity.

Your UMass Blog (PDF)

A Professor's Guide to using the UMass Wordpress Blogging software. Created in Adobe InDesign.

Academic Writing

Comparing Dutch Baroque and American Post Impressionist Symbolism in Portraiture(PDF)

Art History essay completed in Fall 2008 using minimal secondary sources. Focused on observation and scrutiny of artist's method.

Web Design

The Smith Family Spelling Bee

A literary, musical, artistic space for artists to collaborate with one another sharing mediums and themes. Site currently uses CSS and Flash, awaiting further content.

Vegetable Syntax

Personal Blog. A Catalog of travel experiences, musical interests, academic pursuits and foodie recipes.

Soundscapes

An Appeal For The Album; An autobiographical piece in which the author reflects on his past as a music pirate (MP3)

The Baffin Region; A look at what it might have been like to actually listen to the radio...as it once was (MP3)

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