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Erik's InformationLocation: Santa Monica, CATitle: Lead CopywriterStatus: EmployedExperience: 12+ yearsWork Types:

Willing to Relocate: YesWilling to Travel: Few times a monthCareer Level: ManagerWork Status: U.S. CitizenInterests:

Defense & SpaceMember Since: 2009-01-22 Erik's Social Networks

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Erik David Even

www.kunochan.com

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Experience

Zoic Studios Culver City, CA

Internal Brand Manager 9/09 – Present

Design, create, edit and maintain a daily news and features blog covering the VFX and CGI industries

Provide editorial services for public relations and marketing projects

JDJournal.com Pasadena, CA

Lead Copywriter 8/08 – 9/09

Researching, editing and writing news and blog posts for professional legal blog and employment blog; create editorial graphics

Write weekly scripts for online video content; work with video production team

Professional Interactive Entertainment, Inc.Santa Monica, CA

Head Writer / Senior Editor 9/05 – 3/08

Wrote and edited news & features for network of video game sites

Managed permanent staff of three off-site writers and numerous freelancers

Liveblogging and photo coverage of gaming events, including BlizzCon and the WWI; gaming and fan conventions; professional gaming competitions

Created and managed blog properties; led company-wide initiative to create GGLWire, a network of gaming-related blogs

Created editorial graphics in Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator.

Produced marketing email and PR blasts

Contributed content to daily video show www.epilepticgaming.com

Self-Employed Northridge, CA

Assistant Editor / Copy Editor 11/01 – 9/03

Copy editing, basic research and test bank writing for various publishing projects. Clients were The McGraw-Hill Companies and ETC Inc.

Norm Marshall & Associates Sun Valley, CA

Web Producer 10/98 – 11/01

Designed and maintained web presence for entertainment marketing agency

Developed internet-related entertainment marketing initiatives

Managed Graphics Arts department; produced print materials and promotional gift packages for clients

RealSelect, Inc. Thousand Oaks, CA

Web Designer, Copywriter 6/97 – 10/98

Wrote content, created graphical elements for realtor.com, the nation’s largest realty web site; team member for $2 million site redesign launched in 1998.

United Education Institute Van Nuys, CA

Multimedia Instructor 1996-1997

Instructed adult students in multimedia vocational program; Adobe Photoshop & Illustrator, Macromedia Director, HTML. Also taught MS Office.

Commercial Programming Systems Pasadena, CA

User Interface Designer/Icon Artist 1995, 1997

Employed as contractor by Kaiser Permanente / Deloitte & Touche, to design and implement user interface elements.

Writing Samples

Writing samples available at http://www.kunochan.com.

Web design examples available upon request.

Recent appearance on G4’s “Attack of the Show:”

http://wire.ggl.com/2007/08/29/ggls-erik-kunochan-even-on-attack-of-the-show/

Skills

Windows and Mac OSX proficient; Microsoft Office

Writing Adobe Photoshop HTML

Copyediting Adobe Illustrator Adobe Dreamweaver

Editorial Management Adobe InDesign WordPress

Graphic Design Adobe ImageReady Blogger

Page Layout QuarkXPress Forum/Community Management

Research

Professional Certifications

ETP Multimedia AuthoringUniversity of Southern California

Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere, Director

HTML, Web Design

Flash AuthoringMoviola Digital Education Services

Web Server AdministrationLearning Tree University

Macromedia Director Multimedia Workshop

Education

University of California, Los AngelesWestwood, CA

B.A. Anthropology 1994

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