Project Manager Design

Thomas Gordon

*** ***** ***** ****** ****** Street Pittsburgh, PA 15206

412-***-**** ****************@*****.*** http://www.thgordon.com

Web Designer Multimedia Designer Videographer

** ***** *****ing media fueling exponential growth

Work History

thgordon design 1/2015 to present: Design Consultant

Advise, design and develop media with and for various clients, especially Edge Robotics

See thgordon design at http://www.thgordon.com

Carnegie Mellon / NREC / Robotics Academy 1998 - 2015

Senior Multimedia Designer

Led all digital and print media design efforts, including design and programming of the NREC and Robotics Academy web sites. Script-

ed, produced and edited most NREC and many RA videos. Designed and produced many print materials.

• Created a new design for (all 1000 + pages of) NREC site, and transitioned instantly from old to new site without a single identifed

error or moment of downtime.

• Web Developer and SEO specialist for the RA web site, which acheived a #1 Google ranking for 2/3 targeted key phrases.

• A video I scripted, produced and edited was nominated for Best Video by AAAI (Association for the Advancement of Artificial

Intelligence).

• Brainstormed and led the effort to introduce CMU Human Computer Interaction Institute students, and user-centered design

iterative process, to Robotics Academy product development.

• Helped create partnership of RA with LEGO, the world’s largest educational manufacturer.

• Project manager for two products featured in LEGO Education catalog.

• Managed the project of translating a piece of the RA/LEGO Robotics Curriculum into 9 languages.

• Edited the photograph used as Time magazine’s two page centerfold in Time’s robotics issue.

• CNN among others featured my graphic design on their site.

• Created a video that was the principal part of the proposal which eventually resulted in NREC’s first multimillion dollar award.

• Principal multimedia producer for NREC as it grew from <30 to ~200 employees.

• Robotics Academy webmaster, project manager, UX designer and videographer in a period when it grew from 3 to 10 employees.

Archaeologist 1983 - 1998

Excavated and field managed for various archaeological companies.

• Excavated on the African Cemetary site on Broadway in Manhattan, now a national historic monument.

Selected Sites

http://www.thgordon.com, http://www.kanienkeha.org, www.linkedin.com/in/thomashalegordon,

http://www.nrec.ri.cmu.edu, https://www.youtube.com/user/nationalrobotics, http://www.tartanrescue.org, https://www.youtube.

com/user/tartanrescue, http://www.education.nrec.ri.cmu.edu, http://www.robotc.net/, http://education.rec.ri.cmu.edu/

Education

Harvard University, B.A. in Anthropology, magna cum laude

Melissa Martin, CMU, Scriptwriting. Melissa Martin is the director of Bella’s Wedding, available on Netflix.

Pittsburgh Filmmakers, Video Productions I

Service: Endangered Languages

I built and maintain the largest Kanien’kéha (Mohawk) vocabulary on the internet at

http://www.kanienkeha.org

Languages

English: first tongue. Spanish, German: fluent. Old Norse, Portuguese: literate. Kanien’kéha: intermediate.

References

Steve DiAntonio, CMU/NREC Director of Strategic Development ***@****.**.***.*** 412-***-****

Dr. Herman Herman, President, Edge Robotics ******@****.**.***.*** 412-***-****

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