Rebecca Mazur
Job Experience
July 21, 2004 - Present: Web Programmer, Kenyon College.
Maintain and develop public-facing web sites and applications. Support and train content maintainers. Evaluate new web tools and services. Manage Kenyon Today (faculty/staff news site). Aid in other areas where necessary, including writing for the web and the Alumni Bulletin, graphic manipulation and design, and management of social networking. Advise on usability and accessibility in ongoing design and maintenance of the website.
June 2000 - July 2004: Student Web Developer, Denison University
Acted as liaison to academic departments and offices. Designed and implemented web applications. Trained staff site maintainers. Aided in visual design of site launched in 2003.
Other Experience
2004 - Present: Co-director, Wolf movie project
Direct, manage, and recruit artist volunteers. Maintain public-facing Wolf site. Develop and maintain home-grown Wolf file-management system. Manage Wolf social marketing through Facebook, YouTube, and other similar sites. Animate and aid in other stages of film development.
Computer Skills
- Web languages, APIs, and tools
- (X)HTML, CSS, Javascript (including jQuery), PHP, mySQL, XML, XSL, RSS, JSON, some JScript and ASP
- IGX CMS development/administration
- Drupal dev/theming/administation
- Facebook app API
- Google custom search API, other Google APIs
- Operating Systems
- Comfortable with Windows and Mac OS X
- Linux (Ubuntu, Mint, RedHat)
- Working knowledge of Unix
- Applications, Languages and Miscellaneous
- Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign
- Final Cut Pro, Motion, Audacity
- GIMP, Inkscape
- Pascal, C/C++, MIPS, some Lisp
Other Skills
- Experienced character animator
- Comfortable with many traditional art mediums, including pencil, ink wash, watercolor, acrylic, clay techniques, collage, etc.
Education
- Graduated June 2004 from Denison University with BS in Computer Science/Studio Art.
- Participated in OSU-N's Academy program, completing CIS 102; Intro to Pascal, Fall Quarter 1998.
- Graduated from Newark Catholic High School in Newark, Ohio on June 4, 2000.
Honors
- Jeanne Vail Scholarship from Denison Art Department, 2003
- Valedictory Medal from Newark Catholic, June 4, 2000
- All-Ohio Academic Scholar Team 2000
- Heritage Scholarship from Denison University 2000
Other Interests
- Writing
- Writes from time to time for the award-winning Kenyon College Alumni Bulletin.
- Desktop published Coming Home for Wolf fundraiser
- Conventional animation, drawing, painting, and sculpture.
- Major concentration in sculpture and drawing.
- Invited to participate in Vail scholarship competition in the Fine Arts at Denison, 2001, 2002, 2003
- Involved in the Wolf project with SilverSky Animation, a full-length feature animated film being created completely by volunteers.
- Sustainable home food production.
- Raises laying/meat chickens
- Helps maintain 10,000+ sq feet of gardens, and two acres of orchard/berries.
- Enjoys home cheesemaking and would like to expand to dairy goats in the near future.