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Public Policy and Other Experience | Education | Skills
Awards and honors | Co-curriculars | Community service
Camera/jib assistant, utility for film and TV
- Rob Child and Associates: Gettysburg: Three Days of Destiny (7-8/03)
- TV Land's Game Time (2005)
- John Thomas Kelly Productions: Throw it Down (8/06)
- The 62nd Annual Tony Awards (6/08)
- Inside the NFL tease promos (7/08)
- Rescue Me (7/08)
- National Geographic TV Specials: Genographic Project (7/08)
- 2008 Thanksgiving Day Parade on CBS (11/08)
- The Celebrity Apprentice season finale (5/09)
- ESPN College Football (9/09)
CitrusTV, Syracuse, N.Y. (9/07 to present)
The nation's oldest and largest entirely student-run TV station - CitrusTV.net
- General manager (2010)
- Web media director (2008-09)
- Director, co-producer, technical director CitrusTV News Live at 6 p.m.; Juice & Java out-of-studio morning talk show
- Winner, CitrusTV News Tech award 2008
- Audio, camera, editor, floor director, VTR various
- Technical director, co-producer CitrusTV News Live 2008 Election Special
- Technical director 'Cuse Countdown; Orange Press Pass Syracuse's only live postgame show
- Sports videographer Orange football, basketball, lacrosse, field hockey, ice hockey, soccer, volleyball
- Operations department Computer, network and TV equipment maintenance
MTV Networks / Viacom, New York, N.Y. (summer 2009)
Intern: Spike Digital
- Digital show support for Spike TV programming; content management, graphic design, photo editing
Orange Television Network, Syracuse, N.Y. (8/09 to present)
Remote sports productions Engineer in Charge
OTN Web site
- Coordinating and supervising remote multicam play-by-play sports broadcasts for "SUper Sports"
- Setup, supervise and strike flypack control room
RyanBalton.com (2004 to present)
- Freelance video/DVD production, Web design, photography, tech support
- Brooklyn Heights Wine Bar (brooklynheightswinebar.com)
- Bruce Balton Camera (brucebalton.com)
- Cheer Ltd.
- Cranberry's (cranberrysbrooklynheights.com)
- Myer the Florist (myertheflorist.com)
- Reliable Paper Recycling and Wood Products
- Washburn Construction
- Misc. weddings and events
- Director/producer Controversy on the Delaware, Documentary honored by the Black Bear Film Festival, History Channel, Int'l Cinematographers Guild, National Academy of TV Arts & Sciences (RyanBalton.com/Tocks)
The Daily Orange, Syracuse, N.Y. (9/07 to 12/08)
Staff writer, contributing photographer
Asst. copy editor - fall 2008
View some clips | DailyOrange.com
The Gazette (Times Herald-Record), Port Jervis, N.Y. (3/06 to present)
Correspondent
View some clips | Gazette Web site
- Community news and high school sports photographer/writer for the weekly Dow Jones newspaper
Pike County Press , Milford, Pa. (summer 2009)
Freelance photographer, videographer, writer
View some clips | PikeCountyPress.com
Public Policy and Other Experience
NYC Public Schools, New York, N.Y. (spring 2009)
Intern: Government teacher and English teaching aide
- Teacher at the High School for Leadership and Public Service in the Financial District, a special competitive internship program through the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University
Syracuse University Library Information and Technology, Syracuse, N.Y.
User Technology Support consultant (9/07 to present)
- Multimedia tech support
- “Valuable student employee” in April 2008
Delaware Valley High School, Milford, Pa.
Graduated June 2007
GPA: 4.025
Class Rank: 25 of 460
Syracuse University, Syracuse, N.Y.
Expected graduation Dec. 2010
S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications
Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs
Dual major: Television, radio, film / policy studies (specialization in education)
GPA: 3.1
Computer Software
Operating systems: thorough experience with Mac OS X and Windows 95-Vista; some with Windows Server
Proficient with
- Adobe Dreamweaver, InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop
- Apple Final Cut Pro and Express, iLife suite
- AP ENPS
- Audacity
- Avid Media Composer, Unity
- Chyron Lyric
- Microsoft Excel, FrontPage, PowerPoint, Word
Basic experience with
- Apple Compressor, DVD Studio Pro, LiveType, Motion
- Celtx
- Soundslides
Web: basic experience with ASP, CSS, HTML, JavaScript, PHP, WordPress
Equipment
- 360 Systems Image Server 2000
- Grass Valley Group 200 production switcher
- Nikon dSLR bodies, flashes, lenses
- Sony Anycast station
- Stanton Jimmy Jib Triangle, set up and basic operation to 40 feet, interior and exterior
- Various audio mixers, microphones
- Canon, JVC, Panasonic, Sony DVCAM and MiniDV cameras, standard and high definition
- Lighting boards
- Tape decks, teleprompters, video monitors
- Tripods, c-stands, over-undering cable
- Advanced Placement (AP) Scholar '07
- AXA Achievement Community Scholarship '07
- Int'l Cinematographers Guild Scholarship '07
- Kodak Young Leaders Award '06
- National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences- John Canon Scholarship '07
- National Honor Society of Delaware Valley '06-07
- Pencor Telecommunications Scholarship '07
- Pike Co. Public Library volunteer of the year '08
- President's Council on Service and Civic Participation- Gold Volunteer Award '07
- Rotary Club of Milford, Pa. - Junior Rotarian '06-07
- Syracuse University Founders Scholarship
- Who's Who Among High School Students '04-07
- Xerox Award for Innovation and Information Technology '06
Syracuse University
- Chamber string ensemble - cellist
- Newhouse School Peer Adviser
- Odyssey of the Mind - 2nd at world finals '08
Delaware Valley Middle and High School
- Broadcast Del Val, video news director, 10-12
- DV World, Web site - 9, 10; editor 11, 12
- Newspaper - 6-12; editor in chief 7, 8, 11, 12
- Odyssey of the Mind - states 4, 5, 8; worlds 9-12
- Orchestra, chamber orch., pit band - 3-12
- Peer Mediation - 7-12
- Podcast Del Val - founder, co-host, editor 11, 12
- PTA Reflections/Arts in Education program K-12; 1st place in state for photography '05
- PTSA - student officer 9-12
- Student Council - school enhancement chair 10-12
- Relay for Life of Delaware Valley- Public relations chair '04-07
- Delaware River Cleanup '05-09
- Delaware Valley School Board - candidate for vacancy '08 (in the news)
- John Dau Sudan Foundation - promotional video production '08 (johndaufoundation.org)
- The Media Unit, public access teen TV in Syracuse - volunteer '08
- Northeast PA Odyssey of the Mind - Public relations director, tournament judge '06-09 (nepaootm.com)
- Pike Co. Public Library volunteer '01-09 (pcpl.org)
- Syracuse City School District - mentor/tutor '08
References available upon request.
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