Sarah Lynn Kiley

SUMMARY

• Experienced higher education administrator with a history of successful creative and educational program establishment
• Creative, innovative, and highly organized achiever
• Multi-skilled manager with superb communications and interpersonal skills
• Extremely computer-literate professional with a focus on multimedia and new media applications

WORK HISTORY

• Senior Academic Technology Specialist - Digital Arts, Goucher College
  Work Period: 9/03-Present
  Job Duties:
  • Develop and promote the Digital Arts Program at Goucher College. Work collaboratively with students and faculty to develop training and programming for the Goucher community
  • Supervise and train a team of 8-15 student Digital Arts Specialists. Perform hiring functions, develop team-building strategies and a motivational system, coordinate scheduling efforts and provide training opportunities.
  • Conduct training classes and one-on-one tutoring sessions on software applications such as Photoshop, Final Cut Pro, Dreamweaver and Flash. Teach best practices for multimedia-related projects.
  • Manage annual Digital Arts Showcase and Digital Arts Contest. Coordinate all aspects of the event, including on and off-campus advertising, submission and selection processes, guest speakers, and technology considerations.
  • Develop and promote Digital Storytelling Initiative. Conduct Digital Storytelling Workshop. Teach story creation, multimedia development, and production skills.
  • Classroom and computer lab audio/visual design, support, training and instruction.
  • Website and graphics design and creation for select projects, including the Hampton National Historic Site's Mansion Tour.

• Webmaster/Writer, Plutonian Shore Productions (www.plutonianshore.com)
  Work Period: 6/00-9/03
  Job Duties:
  • Maintain company’s main website. Ensure that information is timely and accurate. Re-design site on a semi-regular basis to keep look contemporary.
  • Write content for company's main website and select clients' websites. Ensure that information is timely and accurate. Design new ways of integrating text with images to emphasize certain information.
  • Design, create and maintain websites, content, and graphics for select clients. Work collaboratively with clients to produce materials that reflect the client's wishes and best practices for web site design and content.

• Associate Producer, Theatre Department, Goucher College
  Work Period: 11/99-5/03
  Job Duties:
  • Conduct dramaturgical research for historical and contemporary plays. Work with actors, directors, and designers to ensure understanding and accuracy of factual details and maintain author intent.
  • Develop scripts with new playwrights. Coach and collaborate with playwrights to create engaging, meaningful works.
  • Organize productions. Select plays for production. Meet with directors, stage managers, and designers to ensure that production is proceeding according to schedule. Create and distribute promotional materials for auditions, callbacks, and performances. Design and produce programs.
  • Publicize select shows. Design, produce, and distribute advertisements.
    
    
• Student Technology Assistant (STA) Supervisor, Thormann International Center, Goucher College
  Work Period: From 9/99-5/03
  Job Duties:
  • Manage and train 30+ part-time employees. Develop training program for new employees, make recommendations for hiring, evaluate employee performance.
  • Create training programs and training manuals for students and faculty. Tutor students working with advanced technology. Teach web page design for undergraduate courses.
  • Design and create web pages for Thormann International Center. Develop web-based Spanish language comprehension exercises.
    
    
• Photography & Video Editing Intern, WBFF FOX-45 / WNUV WB-54
  Work Period: 5/01-8/01
  Job Duties:
  • Edit video and sound for the nightly news.

COMPUTER SKILLS

• Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), some Javascript, CSS, & Perl experience.
• Windows, Mac OS. Some UNIX experience.
• Dreamweaver, Flash, Photoshop, Blender, Sound Forge, Sound Studio, PEAK, Final Cut Pro, Motion, Soundtrack Pro, DVD Studio Pro, Publisher, Quark, ULead Video Studio, iLife, Microsoft Office, including Word, Access, Excel, Powerpoint, FrontPage, ComicLife, Celtx.
• Blackboard, HorizonWimba, Ingeniux CMS.

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Arts in Communications and Theatre at Goucher College, Baltimore, Maryland, 2003.
GPA: 3.75. Degree with Honors and Distinction.

Master of Arts in Writing at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland.
Expected Graduation Date: May, 2008.
GPA: 3.9.

AWARDS AND CERTIFICATIONS

• Rowan Braun Creative Achievement Award, 2003
• George Brendan Dowell Award in Theatre, 2003
• Administrative Employee Association’s Employee of the Year, 2004
• Member, Phi Beta Kappa of Maryland
• CTS (Certified Technology Specialist) by International Communications Industries Association (www.infocomm.org), 2005