Stephen A. Hopkins

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OBJECTIVE

To plan and execute world-class web sites.

SKILLS

Expertise in interaction design and web production: Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash, Final Cut, HTML, CSS, PHP, JavaScript, experience with CMS driven sites: velocity, smarty, JSP and ASP templates.

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY - Web

Brand New World, Interaction Designer and Developer, Nov - Dec 2007, Re-designed then wrote the HTML and CSS for the website of the Johnson & Johnson drug TOPAMAX.

Rainbow Media, Senior Designer, Aug 2005 - Oct 2007, Designed and planned web properties including amctv.com, ifc.com, we.tv, and fuse.tv. Designed site layout, email newsletters, flash content, and animated promotions, including video player for The Sauce.

thenest.com, Associate Designer, Aug - Sep 2004, Managed the consistent application of design standards at all levels of site structure. Graphics production. Acted as a liason between the design and code teams.

Gartner Inc., Designer/developer, Sep 2001 - Jun 2004, Part of a design/development team that built a ground-up redesign of Gartner's corporate web presence, tranforming a flat brochure-ware site into targeted dynamic content delivery.

OTHER EXPERIENCE

The Public Theater, Associate Projection Designer, Sep - Nov 2004, Computer synchronized video projections for the play Dirty Tricks.

Nam Jun Paik, Assistant, Feb 2000 - May 2001, Developed and constructed laser artworks for Guggenheim Museum retrospective.

David Judelson, Sole Assistant, Mar 1998 - Dec 1999, All aspects of production of Cubic Mambo; a 100' long, suspended robotic sculpture for the School of Technology at North Carolina A&T University.

Hallow'd Ground, The Private Thoughts of Abraham Lincoln, Projection Designer, Sept - Dec 1998, Designed computer synchronized projections for this play directed by Gene Frankel.

William Wegman & Children's Television Workshop, Set designer, Aug 1997, Designed and built "model kitchen" for Sesame Street videos.

Neiman Marcus/Vogue Magazine, Prop designer, Jun 1997, Designed and fabricatied a 15 ft. tall aluminum-skinned rocket, prop master on location.

Mom's Idea Hut, Projection designer, Jun 1995 - May 1996, Designed large format projections for such Broadway Musicals as The Who's Tommy and Having Our Say.

EDUCATION

An Event Apart: Chicago, Participated in this interactive design conference, 2007

Hampshire College, B.A. in Filmmaking and Sculpture, 1995

Industrial Light & Magic, Internship, model building and creature shop, 1994


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